A British funeral director who has previously spread misinformation online has made multiple false claims about COVID-19 vaccines and their side effects in a video shared widely on social media.
The footage has attracted hundreds of thousands of views on Twitter (here), and tens of thousands of views on Facebook and Bitchute (here, here, here, here, here and here , here, here, here and here).
It features Milton Keynes-based John O’Looney, who claims COVID-19 vaccines stop immune systems from fighting off the Omicron variant, which he says is another name for the common cold.
O’Looney also compares this alleged effect to chemotherapy, a treatment for cancer that can hinder immunity due to reducing white blood cells produced by the bone marrow (here and here).
“So, they’ve had the jabs maybe six to eight months ago and it’s been eating away at their immune system – and now they’re struggling to fight off things like the common cold,” O’Looney says in the clip.
“The government are very quick to label it the Omicron… they’re sick with the common cold. Their immune system is decimated.
“If you think about it logically much like, for example, a cancer patient. So, when you get a cancer patient and they’re on chemotherapy, it decimates their immune system and one of the things that they have to be extremely careful of, is - because they’ve got no immune system - a basic common cold or flu can kill them. And this is what we’re seeing now in these jab recipients up and down the...
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