One particularly interesting one I found was an oft-repeated story about Australia "forcing kids to get the vaccine without their parents present". This claim is repeated in almost every anti-vax comment section -- is it based on anything?

The answer is, there's a program where parents can sign a permission slip for kids at school to get the vaccine. So, it's taking a kernel of truth "kids are getting the vaccine without their parents present", adding a bit of completely false info (the "forcing" part), and then repackaging it into a highly repostable nugget of scary misinformation.

>One particularly interesting one I found was an oft-repeated story about Australia "forcing kids to get the vaccine without their parents present". This claim is repeated in almost every anti-vax comment section -- is it based on anything?

Yes, it is. Australia did a jab campaign inviting 24K children inside a stadium, and not permitting parents to enter with their child. https://twitter.com/unhealthytruth/status/142739608697777766...

Specifically, students in their final year of high school, ahead of end-of-school exams.

It was an entirely voluntary operation you had to sign up for...

https://apnews.com/article/health-australia-coronavirus-pand...

I appreciate how that person evidently just...stopped reading my comment halfway through to repeat the exact same piece of misinformation. Like clockwork!

I appreciate how they answered your question and everything they said in their post was factually correct.

>Yes, it is. Australia did a jab campaign inviting 24K children inside a stadium, and not permitting parents to enter with their child

This is what the misinformation story was based on, the gov invited 24k children inside, it did not allow parents.