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[Continuation] Corona Virus Conspiracy Theories Part V

I have to agree here. When I see an un-explained link, I am reluctant to open it. At best it is impolite, and I see no reason other than deception or entrapment for purposely omitting a couple of words of explanation.

How hard is it, after all, to say "here's a funny song," or "here's a different take on X from Z."
 
From Wikipedia:
Gab is an American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service known for its far-right userbase.[2][3][4][5] Widely described as a haven for neo-Nazis, racists, white supremacists, white nationalists, antisemites, the alt-right, supporters of Donald Trump, conservatives, right-libertarians, and believers in conspiracy theories such as QAnon,[6][7] Gab has attracted users and groups who have been banned from other social media platforms and users seeking alternatives to mainstream social media platforms.
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Obviously a serious source that merits our undivided attention, "dues".
 
I got about 4 minutes into it, and it is just a presentation that appears to claim that since the first coronavirus was isolated in 1965, it has been the subject of weaponization research. Dramatic background music, inaccurate scientific inferences, and conjecture are their unsurprising tactics. Complete waste of time.
 
If the vaccine is supposed to have bluetooth capability,
why does my smart watch beep when I get too far from my phone?
Should it not use me as a hotspot?
 
I'm so full of vaccines now that whenever I go out on the bike trail I attract the nails, which unfortunately keep getting stuck in my tires. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Damn that Fauci!
 
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There is no rule here against posting "raw" links with no explanation, but in my opinion doing so is rude.
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Im sorry guys,I forgot to comment about it...

Its a good link that shows this is not something "NEW"
 
The latest Covid-19 nonsense apparently started with the Daily Mail. Here's a report from knewz breathlessly quoting the DM:

https://knewz.com/covid-death-not-primary-cause-cdc-stats-say/

99% Of 'COVID Deaths' Not Directly Caused By Virus, CDC Data Reveals

The correct statement is that 99% of all cause deaths in recent weeks were not from Covid-19.

A google search shows lots of places picked up the D. Mail's piece but few have bothered with the correction the Daily Mail made. The original piece has been updated here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12453329/Covid-blame-just-1-weekly-deaths-causes.html
 
bruto said:
I'm so full of vaccines now that whenever I go out on the bike trail I attract the nails, which unfortunately keep getting stuck in my tires. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Damn that Fauci!
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You should get a double shot of both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
The trick is to get so magnetic that the nails that would have punctured your tires even if you had been unvaccinated will end up in you instead.
Remember to bring iodine and band aid.
Always wear safety goggles!
 
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Good podcast from The Guardian (33:15 min):
For many people, yoga can be beneficial for mind and body. Meditation can relieve stress. Crystal healing sessions seem to provide some intangible benefits. But for a small minority, wellness – and the gurus who practice it – have provided a gateway to a much darker way of seeing the world.
What begins with meditating in a room with your mates, can end in an unhealthy obsession with population control, fears of world government and other popular conspiracy theories.

The author and journalist James Ball, whose book The Other Pandemic addresses the phenomenon, talks with Michael Safi about the connection between wellness and conspiracy theories. And considers what happens when a friend or family member has gone through the pipeline: how do you pull them back?
The wellness-to-conspiracy pipeline (TheGuardian, Aug 18, 2023)
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I'm hesitant in that the description claims crystal healing provides some sort of intangible benefit. No they don't. It's bunk.

Meditation and yoga? Sure, those have been shown to be at least potentially beneficial in some ways, but crystals? No.

Of course that doesn't mean the podcast isn't good or is wrong, I'm just wary of anything with an outright falsehood in the descriptor like that.
 
The Right-Wing social media goon squads are running wild with claims there will be new COVID-19 restrictions implemented by the Federal Gub'mint because reasons:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-covid-lockdown-masks-tsa-445214096334

I wish I was kidding, but Twitter/X is spreading this BS.

The irony is that there won't be restrictions because the majority of Americans have had at least one series of the vaccine, many more have stayed up to date. So from here on out, your health is your responsibility, just like with the Flu, herpes, Gonorrhea, tetanus, AIDS, and any other preventable health threat.
 
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Hopefully many will resist!!!!!!

But sadly most will do as they are told.....
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Will resist believing false claims and won't make a fuss and march where they're told by the disinformers?

Or will resist doing the things that they haven't been told to do in the first place?
 
Dude111 said:
Hopefully many will resist!!!!!!

But sadly most will do as they are told.....
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Just like all those idiots who wear their seatbelts, don't smoke in bed, keep clear of bison, avoid hornet nests, store flammable materials properly...
 
Just because -

Fox News calls COVID procedures ‘witchcraft and voodoo’

First up, the Fox host complains about Biden not wearing a mask at the podium after recent exposure to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 (that person being Dr. Jill Biden). The fact that Biden announced he had just passed a test showing that he’s not infected did nothing to cut Fox’s scorn.

Then Fox turned to right-wing newspaper The Washington Examiner, where an op-ed warned against the return of mask mandates, saying they have “no scientific justification” and are “an unwarranted intrusion on individual liberty.” The editorial called on legislators to act quickly to prevent schools from instituting mandates.

Then things were capped off by Fox contributor Steve Hilton, whose expertise on COVID-19 consists of having spent the past three years trying to tear down any protective measures, no matter how innocuous. Hilton reliably fumed that “we are now back to these absurd, preposterous kind of witchcraft and voodoo masquerading as public health from these tin-pot fascists and their authoritarianism.”
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These fools only feel the need to wear masks when they attempt a coup stroll around the Capitol, like tourists.
 
To poke at a couple bits of fake news apparently circulating -

A new study doesn’t show Pfizer’s COVID vaccine causes ‘VAIDS’

CLAIM: A new study by Australian researchers shows that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine caused vaccine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or “VAIDS.”

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. VAIDS is not a real condition, experts say. The co-authors of the study say their work is being misrepresented and doesn’t show that the vaccine is harmful to the immune system.
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There is no connection between rising COVID cases and elections, contrary to claims online

CLAIM: COVID-19 only spikes during election seasons.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There is no connection between rising COVID-19 cases and the electoral process, epidemiology experts confirm. Since the first U.S. case was confirmed in January 2020, the virus has spiked near the end of the year, but also during summer, nowhere near major elections.
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More detailed facts follow in the links, of course.
 
Given how well known it is that many, many people are so incredibly gullible... what kind of a feckin' troll do you have to be to start a "VAIDS" conspiracy? [emoji35]
 
Here we go again with yet another viral video fear mongering about COVID-19 vaccines. This one features someone of whom I don’t recall having heard before, a Dr. Phillip Buckhaults, a faculty member at the University of South Carolina, who testified before South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Ad-Hoc Committee on DHEC last week. Here’s the video that’s been all over the antivax crankosphere today:
Quoth Phillip Buckhaults: Oh, no! There’s DNA in COVID-19 vaccines! (RespecfulInsolence, Sep 21, 2023 - 34:33 min)
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University of South Carolina Professor Dr. Phillip Buckhaults testifies before South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Ad-Hoc Committee on DHEC.
SC Senate Hearing - USC Professor Dr. Phillip Buckhaults (SC 4 FREEDOM on YouTube, Sep 13, 2023)
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John Campbell's YT channel has just gone further down the rabbit hole. He has a video referring to this strange piece:

https://thenobodywhoknowseverybody.substack.com/p/england-annus-horribilis

The claim is that over 30% higher all cause deaths have occurred among those that got mRNA vaxxes.

The claim is that all cause deaths in England over a 1 year period were 490k but would have been only 335k had nobody been vaxxed.

The clown did a lot of work putting together a long diatribe but missed an obvious problem. The all cause (Red Bar) death rate during the June 2022-May 2023 span is only about 30k above the expected rate. How would everyone not getting vaxxed have cut the usual death rate (averaged over pre covid years) by such a large percentage. Magic.

John has some remarkable blind spots.
 
marting said:
John Campbell's YT channel has just gone further down the rabbit hole. He has a video referring to this strange piece:

https://thenobodywhoknowseverybody.substack.com/p/england-annus-horribilis

The claim is that over 30% higher all cause deaths have occurred among those that got mRNA vaxxes.

The claim is that all cause deaths in England over a 1 year period were 490k but would have been only 335k had nobody been vaxxed.

The clown did a lot of work putting together a long diatribe but missed an obvious problem. The all cause (Red Bar) death rate during the June 2022-May 2023 span is only about 30k above the expected rate. How would everyone not getting vaxxed have cut the usual death rate (averaged over pre covid years) by such a large percentage. Magic.

John has some remarkable blind spots.
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He is grifting just like most conspiracy theorists it's not about truth just about promoting his truth.
 
Britain's lagging life expectancy

marting said:
John Campbell's YT channel has just gone further down the rabbit hole. He has a video referring to this strange piece:

https://thenobodywhoknowseverybody.substack.com/p/england-annus-horribilis

The claim is that over 30% higher all cause deaths have occurred among those that got mRNA vaxxes.

The claim is that all cause deaths in England over a 1 year period were 490k but would have been only 335k had nobody been vaxxed.

The clown did a lot of work putting together a long diatribe but missed an obvious problem. The all cause (Red Bar) death rate during the June 2022-May 2023 span is only about 30k above the expected rate. How would everyone not getting vaxxed have cut the usual death rate (averaged over pre covid years) by such a large percentage. Magic.

John has some remarkable blind spots.
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The Economist just had a piece on excess deaths in England, which exceeded those in comparable European countries over the last decade. "Had the long-run trend been maintained over the past decade, Britons' life expectancy at birth in 2022 would have been 83.2 years. In fact, it was just 81 years: a mere eight weeks longer than in 2011."

I wonder whether or not people are using this fact to further their own intellectual agendas. I hasten to add that I am just making a conjecture.
 
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, John Campbell's "figures" on "excessive" deaths over here "caused" by Covid vaccination have just taken (yet another) very big kicking from Radio 4's More Or Less (should be available on Sounds).

Someone from the programme contacted Campbell to tell him what they found and he tried to worm by saying he "isn't a statistician". Well numpty, in that case why were you making statistical claims...

FFS, as I keep saying, is it any wonder nurse education over here is nowhere near as good as it should be when this sort of idiot has been involved?
 
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And the MAGA/Anti-vax scum didn't even wait until the body was cold.

When Perry's death was announced, several MAGA influencers and right-wing vaccine skeptics blamed the COVID-19 inoculation as being somehow involved, despite no cause of death having been released.

Vaccine skeptics referred to Perry's previous endorsements of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a May 24 post on X, formerly Twitter where he promoted a T-shirt that paraphrased a popular line used by Perry's character Bing: "Could I be any more vaccinated."

Kandiss Taylor, a 2022 Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary candidate, said on X, formerly Twitter: "Not a conspiracy when it is truth. Correlation doesn't lie. That's what all research does to find significance. Stop being offended and get on your knees and pray for healing. Find Jesus. He paid for all sickness. Healing is in him."
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Kandiss needs to learn that correlation does not equal causation, and how to STFU.
 
r/conspiracy is filled with threads blaming the vaccine for Perry’s death. One post even called them out and the super defensiveness came out.
 
Just this afternoon we drove under a freeway overpass with half a dozen morons waving flags and holding up signs staying "Stop the mandate" and promoting some conspiracy film or other.
As I remarked to my wife, it's kind of sad. The rest of the world has moved on, get our boosters as available, and otherwise live our lives. These idiots were spending a nice Sunday afternoon on a bridge instead of watching football (or F1), walking the dog, or playing with their grandchildren. Because of obsession with a stupid conspiracy theory.
 
It's a hobby, and at least it gets them out in the fresh air and meeting people.
 
Summary & criticism. So thorough that the rest of us don't have to watch this most recent antivax 'documentary':
"She listened to the BS. She listened to the “safe and effective.” And it killed her."

The film is structured around three anecdotes, three children (actually one young woman and two children) whose deaths the parents believe to have been due to the COVID-19 vaccine. One isn’t even due to vaccination itself; the film attempts to blame the infant’s death on the mother’s having been vaccinated when she was pregnant. All of these anecdotes are designed to evoke maximal emotion and empathy, in order to shut down critical thinking preemptively.
Shot Dead: A particularly disgusting piece of antivax propaganda (RespectfulInsolence, Nov 17, 2023)
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