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originally posted by: nonspecific
I am concerned that such numbers of people are manipulated and led so easily.
The things they believe are very easily shown to be false and when asked for evidence to back up their claims they show YouTube videos or give links to doctors that are not doctors or scientific evidence that has been misrepresented.
If you ask them for proof they tell you the mainstream media are hiding it and claim you are a sheeple.
It's legitimately concerning.
originally posted by: carewemust
Last month the CDC made Corona 19 more deadly than ever.
www.cdc.gov...
Beware!!
Adults of any age with the following conditions are at increased risk of severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19:
Cancer
Chronic kidney disease
COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Down Syndrome
Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies
Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant
Obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30 kg/m2 or higher but < 40 kg/m2)
Severe Obesity (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m2)
Pregnancy
Sickle cell disease
Smoking
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
originally posted by: Nothin
originally posted by: nonspecific
I am concerned that such numbers of people are manipulated and led so easily.
The things they believe are very easily shown to be false and when asked for evidence to back up their claims they show YouTube videos or give links to doctors that are not doctors or scientific evidence that has been misrepresented.
If you ask them for proof they tell you the mainstream media are hiding it and claim you are a sheeple.
It's legitimately concerning.
Whom would you have us trust ?
Mass-Media™ ?
Big-Pharma™ ?
Government™ ?
Bill-Gates™ ?
The WHO™ ?
originally posted by: carewemust
Last month the CDC made Corona 19 more deadly than ever.
www.cdc.gov...
Beware!!
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
a reply to: djz3ro
A Covid Conspiracy you say?
Who is conspiring with who? What are they conspiring to do?
Do you have any evidence that would hold up in court to support your claims, or are you just pushing another baseless conspiracy theory?
originally posted by: nonspecific
These people claim that there is no covid-19. They claim it's just seasonal flu and not even any worse than other years.
According to them it's just a way to impose Draconian restrictions on the population to pave the way for a one world government totality.
There's enough of them to make me genuinely concerned.
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: nonspecific
Sadly I know lots of people that are convinced that it's not a real virus and it's just seasonal flu but being made out to be something different for all kinds of varied nefarious reasons, most invoking the neo and such.
Covid denial is very real here in the UK.
originally posted by: network dude
A denier. Is that like a climate denier? Do these deniers deny that the virus is a virus? Or perhaps that it's a sickness? What exactly do the deniers deny?
I don't know anyone who denies the virus is real, but most of the people I know feel that the response to the virus was severely overblown and mismanaged on the global level. Which is completely different then what your OP is about. Having never met a "denier", I'm curios to learn more about them.
I suppose a virus denier would fit in with a "climate denier", where as, anyone with any sense knows the climate changes, and the only argument would be to what extent man's ability to influence it exists, I've just never come across one.
But it would seem even if they considered it more like the flu, they acknowledge it's a real virus, just arguing about the severity. (which is different in many cases, so the entire argument there is pointless)
I feel like the only actual argument that could be had, is how well the global world had dealt with the totality of it. But maybe I'm over simplifying it.
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: djz3ro
a reply to: Nyiah
I'm not saying that they are handling this correctly. I'm saying there is a virus, it is killing people and folk need to stop denying that.
The virus isn't killing anyone.
What it is doing is causing pre-existing serious conditions to kill them.
Those who are reasonably healthy have no symptoms, or very mild symptoms.
What a disturbed narrative. Authoritarianism with applause. Hitler would take notes.
originally posted by: djz3ro
We have all seen it, especially around ATS.
I'm talking about Covid-deniers or Covidiots.
I authored a thread the other day,, pointing out that British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson (or BawJaws as I prefer to call him) has said the new strain of Covid that is prevalent in the UK is more deadly than the original. The very first comment on the thread was stating that I was the problem, (not part of the problem, I was the problem. In fact this overexaggeration only served to highlight the desperation with which the poster attacked my post), though that poster got it wrong, they are, in fact, the true problem.
This is the story of Gary Matthew.
"Hard up and completely unknown", Gary came from a liberal background, he once made a living selling "Socialist Worker", not the sort of person who is part of London's anti-scientific Right.
He could never have been a Toby Young or Julia Hartley-Brewer. The Telegraph would never have let him write columns declaring with no evidence whatsoever that the common cold could provide “natural immunity” to Covid-19. Talkradio would never have paid him to shout that the “virus isn’t causing excess deaths any more” even as the corpses piled up in mortuaries. No local Conservative association would have thought of adopting Matthews in the hope he would become the next Steve Baker. None of them would have given him the time of day.
Charlie Parker, founder of the “Shropshire Corona Resilience Network” claims that Gary Matthew cofounded the group with him, though it seems there is no trace of him in their online footprint.
One of his friends had this to say about him...
Gary Matthews fell headlong into a subterranean world haunted by vicious fantasies. But he wasn’t vicious himself. “I knew him since he was 19,” his friend Peter Roscoe told me. “He was a gentle guy. He wanted a better world. I am so sorry in recent times he became convinced that Covid was some kind of hoax.”
The article doesn't specify exactly where Gary picked up on the idea that Covid is a hoax but one thing his family are sure of.
The “hoax” killed him, his relatives said. He had a positive Covid-19 test and went home to isolate. He died, aged 46, alone in his flat in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on 13 January.
Of course, his associate, Charlie Parker and his online clique (one assumes it is online since the only protest Parker has held was on the roof of a College, he was subsequently arrested, he was the only one there) have a different story to tell...
“The cause of death is currently listed as Covid-19,” Parker told his followers. “It is now the duty of those he has left behind to ensure that his name is not used to further this gargantuan fraud.” Parker hinted that Matthews had asthma and it might have killed him. (This is news to his family.) Others suggested he took his own life. I’ve seen screenshots of a WhatsApp conversation where a Shrewsbury conspiracist says he “could have been murdered” by shadowy figures – Bill Gates, maybe, or the head of an intensive care unit – because he was “part of the movement, one of us”.
Of course this is what you would expect. Tristan, Gary Matthews' Cousin tried, in vain to get him to obey the guidelines but Gary truly believed he had to carry on as normal.
It is worth remembering Matthews and not only because so many are dying around us without even a paragraph in their local paper to mark their passing.
And this is true. Gary is not the only case I've heard like this. I have a good friend who owns a piece of land I'm setting a workshop up on, we were discussing this 2 months ago and the night before he got a call from a childhood friend who was a Covid Denier.
His friend was calling from hospital, on video call, he looked deathly pale, the enormity of what was happening to him had just set in, after all he had just had to fill out a Do Not Resuscitate order. He had contracted Covid-19 and his organs were shutting down on him and he was finding breathing hard. He was 42.
(That was spooky, my friend who told me this story just called me for the 1st time in a week)
Whether this was accidently or deliberately released from a lab in Wuhan Provence or some mad bastid ate a raw bat Covid-19 is here and it's overwhelming Health Services around the world, hell, in London they've had to convert busses into ambulances to ease the strain on the NHS!
Last summer I was talking to a very good friend of mine who is a micro biologist, he's quite anti-establishment, not a fan of authority. He told me wear a mask, stick to the guidelines and you'll be fine. He got in touch last night to send me some photos he'd edited me into for a laugh and I asked him, "What's your opinion on Covid now dude?", he said "Man, just follow the rules an we be cool by nxt xmas. Its hard, but end in sight" I trust his take on it all.
I'll finish up with a quote from the article that I think is particularly true.
Stay safe folks and keep an eye on those around you!
On Gary Matthew's...
He deserved better than to have his life endangered by a flood of fake news – and so do millions of others.
If the msm reported facts not their opinions this wouldn’t be an issue. Instead we are given hyper propaganda and partisan politics from all “sources”. The narrative they all are selling is manufactured.
originally posted by: djz3ro
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
a reply to: djz3ro
A Covid Conspiracy you say?
Who is conspiring with who? What are they conspiring to do?
Do you have any evidence that would hold up in court to support your claims, or are you just pushing another baseless conspiracy theory?
I didn't say there's a conspiracy thats from the title of the source article but whether you believe it's a hoax or not you must agree that the big problem here is the spread of misinformation?
originally posted by: djz3ro
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
a reply to: djz3ro
A Covid Conspiracy you say?
Who is conspiring with who? What are they conspiring to do?
Do you have any evidence that would hold up in court to support your claims, or are you just pushing another baseless conspiracy theory?
I didn't say there's a conspiracy thats from the title of the source article but whether you believe it's a hoax or not you must agree that the big problem here is the spread of misinformation?
People who think this way are the most dangerous of all. These are the only people looking to assert their will over others.
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
originally posted by: djz3ro
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
a reply to: djz3ro
A Covid Conspiracy you say?
Who is conspiring with who? What are they conspiring to do?
Do you have any evidence that would hold up in court to support your claims, or are you just pushing another baseless conspiracy theory?
I didn't say there's a conspiracy thats from the title of the source article but whether you believe it's a hoax or not you must agree that the big problem here is the spread of misinformation?
I can't help but notice that no matter the cause du joir, the biggest threat to the world always seems to be people who don't believe what they are told.
Climate Change is a danger, but even more dangerous is people who don't believe in Climate Change.
Covid is dangerous, but even more dangerous are people who don't believe what they are told about Covid.
Election tampering is a danger (2016 - 2019), but people who don't believe elections are fair and honest are a danger (2020).
Misinformation is a danger, but people who don't believe what the government and MSM tell them are more dangerous.
There is a pattern, here. Wrong thinking is more dangerous than physical reality. The government may not be able to do anything about physical reality, but they can sure as heck punish people for wrong thinking.