Well, it was only a matter of time before someone started blaming the Covid-19 vaccines for the current ongoing monkeypox outbreak. After all, since early 2021, seemingly every time a new health problem has reached the news, some politicians, TV personalities, and anonymous social media accounts have tried to link the new problem back to the Covid-19 vaccines.
So what Alex Jones tried to do on a recent episode of his InfoWars show shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Jones, who by the way is not medical doctor or other type of scientist yet has peddled supplements and other health products, tried to somehow connect the monkeypox outbreak with Astra-Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccines. If you’ve been Jonesing for a clip of this moment in Jones’s InfoWars show, Florida lawyer Ron Filipkowski provided one with the following tweet:
Alex Jones insanely claims certain covid vaccines are causing monkeypox: “What is AstraZeneca and J+J. They’re virus vectors that inject the genome of a chimpanzee into your cells.” Maybe Marge Greene can discuss this with him on her next appearance on the show. pic.twitter.com/xYKjd8kdid
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 21, 2022
As you can see, Jones’s primary argument was that the monkeypox outbreak has been affecting the same countries where people have been receiving the Astra-Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines. Of course, that ain’t too compelling an argument.
