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Collected Item: “I Stand With Pfizer”

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I Stand With Pfizer

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Instagram post

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This is an Instagram post by covid_parent. This is a parody of "I Stand with Ukraine" posts that have become popular over social media since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Instead of saying that they stand with Ukraine, it is saying they stand with Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company. It is mocking the type of people that just follow any trend, whether it is vaccines, or which side to support in a war. The hashtags call the pandemic a "scamdemic" and references the "New World Order." These tags indicate the overall feeling that the pandemic is partly, or completely planned, in order to exert more control over people and limit their freedoms.

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conspiracy theory, pandemic skepticism, vaccine skepticism, Ukraine, Russia, war, vaccine, HST580, ASU

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

covid_parent

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2022-04-15
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