The stupidity of the anti-vaxx nutcases

[killer b]

my kids conspiracy theorist gran just had a link she shared deleted by facebook, and has advised us to Go to Brighteon and search 'the covid con game and end game'

I would not recommend going to Brighteon

 

[cupid_stunt]

I would not recommend going to Brighteon

I read that as 'Brighton', and thought, it's not bad, I like the lanes in particular.

 

[keybored]

advised us to Go to Brighteon and search 'the covid con game and end game'

Easier to just type "twats on zoom" into YouTube.

 

[mauvais]

Queuing at Croydon dump. Weird synchrosity. If you don't hear from me again, check thay container. View attachment 264866

Just how bad does your car stink?

 

[BigMoaner]

Just how bad does your car stink?

Just lazy and leave the old ones in.

 

[cupid_stunt]

my kids conspiracy theorist gran just had a link she shared deleted by facebook, and has advised us to Go to Brighteon and search 'the covid con game and end game'

I would not recommend going to Brighteon

Needless to say, when someone recommends not checking something out, I can't resist the urge to do so.

This video is an interview with Dr. Lee Merritt, who I first became aware of last year, and I discovered she's a complete nutter when it comes to covid.

Not a day goes by without a video being forwarded to me accompanied by the question, “Is this true?” Invariably the answer is “um..no..there is no evidence,” and that usually ends the discussion. Sometimes, though, I can discern that a video has legs because I get the “Is this true?” query several times a day. An example of this is a recent epic, dripping with pseudoscience, produced by Dr. Lee Merritt an American orthopedic surgeon. Dr. Merritt may be a fine orthopedic surgeon, but when it comes to the science of COVID-19, she is a bumbling neophyte.

Suspicion is immediately aroused when Merritt is identified as a member of “America’s Frontline Doctors,” a handful of conspiracy-minded physicians that include luminaries such as Dr. Stella Immanuel who alleges that alien DNA is being used in medical treatments and that researchers are working on a vaccine to prevent people from becoming religious. She also believes in a conspiracy by the “Illuminati” to destroy the world with abortion, gay marriage, and of all things, children’s toys. As far as gynecological diseases go, they can be caused by having sex with witches and demons that appear in dreams.

Worth reading the whole article -

Back Away From “America’s Frontline Doctors”

Not a day goes by without a video being forwarded to me accompanied by the question, “Is this true?” Invariably the answer is “um..no..there is no evidence,” and that usually ends the discussion. Sometimes, though, I can discern that a video has legs because I get the “Is this true?” query...

www.mcgill.ca

 

[killer b]

It was more the hellsite of Brighteon I was recommending not visiting rather than the specific video tbh. Though I won't be bothering checking that out either.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

London today, fucking dangerous loons. I hope they die slowly and take their loved ones with them.



FFS

Don't know if it's just me, but isn't it kinda meaningless to hold an anti-lockdown demo when we're basically out of lockdown now?

Mind you, I have actually heard people say stuff like "well let's hope theres no more lockdowns." Which strikes me as hopelessly unrealistic and very unlikely to the point of seeming to be deluded really.

 

[xenon]

It was more the hellsite of Brighteon I was recommending not visiting rather than the specific video tbh. Though I won't be bothering checking that out either.

Well naturally, I went to have a look. The first few on the list of new videos was a mix of keto diet / warrior diet advice, women's menstral cycles disturbed by being around "prime" (what) people and ufos in Texas.

 

[xenon]

Loads of Qanon shit in popular videos too.

 

[killer b]

I always check what they think of the holocaust on the sites she recommends. it often isn't great.

 

[xenon]

it looks like a cesspool for sure.

 

[SpookyFrank]

What was notable to me was that they didn't really say anything concrete about what they actually thought. Some vague thing about not trusting 'MSM' (using that is a red flag imo) and 'doing your own research' but not what they really thought and why they were on the demo. They could have been slightly lockdown skeptical with some reasonable arguments, or full-on NWO/Bill Gates 5G/death camps/covid deniers/QAnon loons.

I just wish I could submit an academic paper that was just conclusions; with the literature review, methods and findings sections all just reading 'do your own fucking research, idiot'.

 

[glitch hiker]

London today, fucking dangerous loons. I hope they die slowly and take their loved ones with them.



FFS

Who is Anna Brees other than an apologist for cranks?

None of these people seem to come from the working poor? Train trip from Cornwall? Custom attire? "self employed" (whtaver that means", "sound therapist"? Give me a break

 

[tim]

Clearly someone that does that is too far gone to get through to, other than maybe by those closest to them.

But that’s an entirely different thing to the widespread mockery and insult that is thrown at ordinary people that are just misguided.

There's nobody extraordinary on here, is there? What's wrong with ordinary people mocking other ordinary people?

 

[Shechemite]

Sometimes it takes being mocked to make us stop and think how utterly fucking bonkers our beliefs are.

 

[Combustible]

Oh yeah, I imagine a lot of these people are probably beyond reasonable engagement, but for the ones who aren't that might be a good way to go about it? And agreed about how "big pharma" isn't necessarily a helpful term, I was sort of thinking about how to phrase pro-vaccine arguments using language that anti-vaxxers might be less likely to dismiss out of hand?

Maybe not quite what you want but Ben Goldacre's book 'Big Pharma' is an accessible critique of the pharmaceutical industry from a rational perspective.

The thing that makes 'Big Pharma' such a pernicious force is precisely due to the effectiveness of vaccines and the rest of modern medicine. Otherwise they would be on the level of Goop, homeopathy, or Gillian McKeith, nuisances who rip a few people off, but insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Cloo]

Don't know if it's just me, but isn't it kinda meaningless to hold an anti-lockdown demo when we're basically out of lockdown now?

Yes, I mean the government has stated its commitment to ending lockdown it has, so far, stuck to that, so this kind of goes against any idea that the government are going to keep us locked down FOREVER so they can revel in all that POWER of uhm, NOTHING HAPPENING AND LOW TAX REVENUE!

So I can only guess they want a total end to restrictions of any kind Right This Minute.

 

[emanymton]

There's nobody extraordinary on here

Speak for yourself.

 

[maomao]

You’ve no idea what my priorities are, or what my beliefs are.

That's because you never tell us what you actually believe or offer any solutions. You only ever come on here to sneer.

 

[xenon]

Yes, I mean the government has stated its commitment to ending lockdown it has, so far, stuck to that, so this kind of goes against any idea that the government are going to keep us locked down FOREVER so they can revel in all that POWER of uhm, NOTHING HAPPENING AND LOW TAX REVENUE!

So I can only guess they want a total end to restrictions of any kind Right This Minute.

no no we’re all under house arrest. According to that wanker in the video above. Maybe it was on the other thread.

 

[NoXion]

"Critically Acclaimed Comedian, Playwright & Filmmaker | Blacklisted 'Potential Subversive' Revisionist Historian | Recalcitrant Philosopher Bankster-Busting Nemesis of the Rigged System"

This means "Holocaust Denier". He's scum.

 

[cupid_stunt]

So, according to the loons, an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,0000 were on the march yesterday.

 

[Supine]

So, according to the loons, an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,0000 were on the march yesterday.

Brain cells between them?

 

[Doodler]

And a sound therapist ffs, is that even real?

It's like a sound artist who's been unlucky with their grant funding proposals.

 

[two sheds]

And from Mallorca:

Mallorca man arrested for infecting 22 people with Covid

Police arrest man on suspicion of assault for going to work and the gym despite signs he had the virus

www.theguardian.com

Days before the outbreak was detected, he began to show symptoms causing his colleagues concern but did not want to go home.

At the end of the day, he went for a PCR test but did not wait for the result, returning the next day to his job and also going to his local gym.

At work, both the manager and staff insisted he go home because he could be infecting everyone, later telling police he had a temperature of over 40C (104F).

But he ignored them and spent the day walking around his workplace, deliberately lowering his mask when he coughed and taunting them by saying: “I’m going to infect you all with coronavirus,” police said.

When his PCR result came through at the end of the day, it was positive, causing alarm among his colleagues who were also tested. Five of them tested positive, and they in turn infected several of their family members, including three one-year-old babies.

At the gym, three people who had been in direct contact with him were also infected and passed on the virus to family members.

Not sure 'assault' covers it - more like attempted murder even though nobody had to be hospitalized.

 

[Shechemite]

What a absolute cunt

 

[BigMoaner]

Fucking hell

 

[BigMoaner]

Be interesting to do some modelling on deaths caused by misinformation. It's pretty causal, isn't it - you read something and believe it, you ignore restrictions, you get covid and die. Or you infect someone else, and they die.

 

[BigMoaner]

I guess you would have to isolate prior belief in covid and then being swayed.