Well they let Aseem Malhotra do a video for them, thats about the extent of it so far. I'll have to wait and see whether any sort of pattern emerges in future that would actually let me characterise them in that way, or whether this was just an opportunistic one off.
Theres a bunch of opportunistic angles that sections of the left could pick up on, few of them are really totally immune in theory to every possible variant of the 'weaponisation' of vaccine issues, especially when there are longstanding concerns about big pharma to fall back on. And longstanding narratives about the mainstream political game being rigged via narrow mainstream media angles on every topic that has a political component. I suppose it requires some discipline on the part of any entity or individual claiming to represent a sane alternative not to be tempted to make use of various pandemic stuff to spin their usual angles, and as time goes on more are failing in this respect. As the enormity of the acute pandemic phase fades, people can revert to type, revert to standard angles, standard propaganda, standard overly simplistic rallying cries.
The 'weaponisation' is especially unfortunate because it makes it hard to discuss nuanced details and all manner of future possibilities without getting associated with heavily polarised and recklessly oversimplified positions. In theory aspects of our immune system and the way the virus evolves could one day lead to a somewhat suboptimal situation, where some downsides to the nature of the vaccination programme and some detail of how it influenced the course of the pandemic and long term public health might become more apparent. If we ever have that sort of situation, it will be important to talk about it sensibly. But if we do ever end up there then every binary shit that positioned themselves to be 'anti' vaccine will try to claim that the situation is 'proof that they were right all along'. A stance that will be incompatible with the complex realities, a stance that requires them to have consistently overlooked all of the upsides of these vaccines, a pathetic cherrypicking exercise that ignores what the last few years would have been like without those vaccines.
I think I ID'd their van at one point but without any people in it I couldn't be sure. Paths may cross at some point in the future, if they're flyering I suppose they're committed enough to do it again.
