The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.

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  • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    What an unbelievably stupid thing to do.

    They get that viruses and new variants don’t respect geopolitical borders right?

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    6 months ago

    These stupid motherfuckers.

    It’s immoral, it’s anti human, so that’s problem number one. And what’s worse, they did such a shit job at it that the social media companies identified the accounts quickly, so surely our adversaries could do the same.

    And there was this bit in the article: “The senior Defense Department official said that those complaints led to an internal review in late 2021, which uncovered the anti-vaccine operation. The probe also turned up other social and political messaging that was “many, many leagues away” from any acceptable military objective. The official would not elaborate.

    So I expect we’ll see reports of other shithead operations before long.