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So we should all do more, and the first step is to stop discussing and disseminating information. And we should follow your example of doing more, by not actually doing anything of consequence, but by 'raising awareness' by suggesting people stop talking about it altogether ?

Are you Kamala's speechwriter ?

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I've been very clear.  My point is that preaching the same gospel to the same people for years is not accomplishing anything.  Everyone here has heard it already.

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A lot of people never really got to hear much about it actually.....because it was censored so heavily.....which is the entire point of this thread........

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They will obediently continue to comply and will call those who will not bend the knee mad.

<---- Type O pure blood


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I don't think your point is missed at all, it's just such a weak point.

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I'm against "educating" the same group of people for years now and doing nothing to actually solve the problem.  I am against jerking ourselves off every day and changing nothing.

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Maybe I should start 20 threads a day about it and accuse anyone who disagrees of being a fed.

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I've been very clear.  My point is that preaching the same gospel to the same people for years is not accomplishing anything.  Everyone here has heard it already.

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Holy Crap, this is some kind of mental illness to keep hand wringing over COVID.  Give it a f-ing rest.  

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For the TL;DR crowd....a few snippets.

For three years, pandemic public relations mocked nature, generating fear, illness, inflation and excess death beyond what the virus caused. -WSJ

Discovery in Missouri v. Biden exposed relationships among government agencies and social-media firms and revealed an additional layer of university centers and self-styled disinformation watchdogs and fact-checking outfits. -WSJ

Elon Musk's release of some of Twitter's internal files revealed that up to 80 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were embedded with social-media companies. The agents mostly weren't fighting terrorism but flagging wrongthink by American citizens, including eminent scientists who suggested different paths on Covid policy. -WSJ

For those who can still read a great article:

Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly
Government and social-media companies colluded to stifle dissenters who turned out to be right.


In the wake of the 1986 Chal-lenger space-shuttle explosion, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman knew that the truth would both fuel progress and soothe the nation's sorrow. "For a successful technology," he said, "reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

For three years, pandemic public relations mocked nature, generating fear, illness, inflation and excess death beyond what the virus caused. Digital censorship supercharged the effort to hide reality, but reality is getting its day in court.

On July 4, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty temporarily blocked numerous federal agencies and the White House from collaborating with social-media companies and third-party groups to censor speech.

Discovery in Missouri v. Biden exposed relationships among government agencies and social-media firms and revealed an additional layer of university centers and self-styled disinformation watchdogs and fact-checking outfits.

Elon Musk's release of some of Twitter's internal files revealed that up to 80 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were embedded with social-media companies. The agents mostly weren't fighting terrorism but flagging wrongthink by American citizens, including eminent scientists who suggested different paths on Covid policy.

The results of these relationships? Twitter blacklisted Stanford physician and economist Jay Bhattacharya for showing Covid almost exclusively threatened the elderly, severely reducing the visibility of his tweets. When Stanford health policy scholar Scott Atlas began advising the White House, YouTube erased his most prominent video opposing lockdowns. Twitter banned Robert Malone, a pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology, for calling attention to the vaccines' dangers. YouTube demonetized evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, who suggested the virus might be engineered and predicted vaccine-evading variants. And those are only a few examples.

Social-media platforms were powerful tools for full-spectrum censorship, but they didn't act alone. Medical schools, medical boards, science journals and legacy media sang from the same hymnal.

Legions of doctors stayed quiet after witnessing the demonization of their peers who challenged the Covid orthodoxy. A little censorship leads people to watch what they say. Millions of patients and citizens were deprived of important insights as a result.

Health authorities and TV doctors insisted young people were vulnerable, demanded toddlers wear masks, closed schools, beaches and parks, and were loath to contemplate crucial cost-benefit analysis. The economy? Mental health? Never heard of them.

These "experts" denied the protective effects of recovered immunity, a phenomenon we've known about since the Plague of Athens in 430 B.C. They effectively prohibited generic drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration, such as

azithromycin and ivermectin, which low-income nations around the world were deploying successfully. They failed to appreciate the evolutionary dynamics of mass vaccination during a pandemic.

The U.S. government spent $6 trillion to buoy its shuttered economy, and most people got Covid anyway. Worst of all, the lockdowns and mandates resulted in unprecedented bad health outcomes for young and middle-aged people in rich countries.

Excess mortality in most high-income nations was worse in 2021 and 2022 than in 2020, the initial pandemic year. Many poorer nations with less government control seemed to fare better. Sweden, which didn't have a lockdown, performed better than nearly every other advanced nation.

After navigating 2020 with relative success, young and middle-age healthy people in rich nations began dying in unprecedented numbers in 2021 and 2022. Health authorities haven't focused enough on this cataclysm of premature death from non-Covid heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, kidney failure and cancer.

Hiding these and other realities has become more difficult in the internet age. The information explosion has allowed more people to spot quickly the mistakes of officials and learn the truth. This has changed the relationship between the authorities and those they govern. Those in charge feel threatened.

Digital censorship is their response to this crisis of authority. True, misinformation is rampant online. But it was far worse before the internet, when myths could persist for centuries. New technologies allow us to compile data quickly, correct errors, find facts and dispel falsehoods. Science, supported by an open internet, is the process by which we reduce misinformation and approach the truth.

Artificial intelligence will improve our ability to sift, parse, edit, authenticate and organize information. When you hear calls to license or centralize control of AI, remember the hubris of Covid censorship.

"Attacks on me," Dr. Anthony Fauci famously insisted, "quite frankly, are attacks on science." Feynman would have been appalled. "Science," he wisely noted, "is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

Mr. Swanson is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enter-prise Institute. He writes the Infonomena newsletter on Substack.com.

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. is away.

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I will never forgive and never forget. Having some measure of "official" confirmation I was in fact right about everything from the beginning is nice, but I will never "let it go" without trials and executions.

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If social media "doesn't mean anything", then why do governments, corporations, special interests, global movements, and shadow orgs spend SO MUCH TIME AND MONEY on it? Including all of the rezident influencer accounts here?

I sure hope that this is satire posting, else it's literally the most ignorant thing you could post on the internet.

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Public knowledge is important.

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Holy Crap, this is some kind of mental illness to keep hand wringing over COVID.  Give it a f-ing rest.  

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I know right. Totally time to forgive those who threatened the livelihoods of vax/lockdown/mask dissidents, advocates for policies that harmed children, and censors of free speech. Can’t we all just be friends?

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This could.be proof those that got juiced wi continue to fall in line

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1 out of 5 republicans wanted unvaxxed concentration camps . Seems consistent with this forum.

Remember folks, republicans and democrats are both authoritarians, just a different flavor (mostly).

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Like I said at the bottom of page 3:

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Public knowledge is important.

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Holy Crap, this is some kind of mental illness to keep hand wringing over COVID.  Give it a f-ing rest.  

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Holy Crap, this is some kind of mental illness to keep hand wringing over COVID.  Give it a f-ing rest.  

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Holy Crap, this is some kind of mental illness to keep hand wringing over COVID.  Give it a f-ing rest.