From hereon in, this thread'll be a hit-job on every Fifth Columnist ever to walk the streets of London, and Edinburgh, and Cardiff, and... oh. Forgot. We sold NI down the river a long time ago...
Note 1: The BBC Disease has Gone Ozzo. (It's catching.)
'Rich and powerful people will tell you anything to help them stay rich and powerful; and their armies of media stooges, PR companies, and social media influencers are no better than Vichy puppets.'
The BBC is not on your side regarding C-19: on the radio, on your TV, or on its website.
It really isn't.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Even The Clangers were made up.
'Carefully-cultivated learned helplessness.'
The steady infusion of deliberate media smog, a sick global economy and increasingly desperate capitalist politicians makes for a toxic drip-bag.
#MediaLiesAndVideotape
Mis- and disinformation go way back.
washingtonpost.com/history/2021/1…
215 years ago, 'fiery pamphlets, lectures and caricatures' fear-mongered against the vaccine for smallpox - a disease killing 400k people annually across Europe. Hmm.
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The Brownstone Institute: a model of intertwined misinformation, disinfo & pseudo-fact.
Funded & rich.
Poking around in their hole is like putting your face up against a cobra lair to see if mummy and the kids are at home.
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Who told you that you were tired of masking? Or couldn't take another lockdown?
Or that offices in Central Urbia were finding it extremely difficult to justify exhorbitant rents to their accountants?
#Oh
Life was far, far too comfortable and predictable in the rich North for most to want to give it up. They had begun to rely on self-centredness as central to that Me First feel. Try to spin a generational change around on a 2p piece, and see what you get.
'The whole thing [is] a hatchet job.'
The Big Media have done this before.
"The news machine was our bludgeon; the newsletter and our unorthodox operations" - today's Twitter, Fvckbook, IG and TikTok - "our stiletto."
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It was a playbook. After the big four decided to close ranks and let it rip, all of the other wannabe capitalist countries closed up shop and threw out their quarantines and chucked their mask mandates. Nobody wanted to be the odd one out.
#StockMarket
Tell me this isn't a colour-by-numbers playschool book.
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Tell me Nick Triggle, 'Health Correspondent' for the BBC, isn't a stooge.
Tell me again why Nick Triggle, 'Health Correspondent' for the BBC, isn't a stooge.
He's a paid-for-clickbait shill: pro-spread, anti-mask - and anti-NHS.
In a banana republic, he'd be a government spokesman.
Oh, wait.
This (de-pay-walled for the poors) Washington Post article hits Gaslight Mark 9 on the Bullshitometer.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"I began trying to think of the coronavirus as I do other everyday risks, such as falls, car accidents or drowning."
What a mundane life she leads.
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Short story in three acts.
The Washington Post both-sides it (after its nonsense Dr. 'No Mask' Wen number) and publishes a piece about Twitter mislabelling fact as misinformation. Twitter censors the link.
Media behemoths fighting for C-19 spread.
'Don't ever doubt the degree to which disinformation is being deployed in this pandemic, and being deployed by people with lots of letters after their names.'
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'People expressing surprise and revulsion at this kind of practice - but it's been a thing all along.'
Why does a virologist need to employ a media PR company?
'PPR is the direct conduit for clients with press that they want and need to attract.'
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The Telegraph confounds culture with science, branding evidence-based C-19 scientists as 'hardline' in the ongoing political and economic battle for the UK's hearts and minds.
What The Telegraph misses, The Daily Mail hits. It's like an Idiot Sandwich.
'I think people know, deep down, that Covid-19 is not the 'flu. They know it can cause harm. They're seeing it happen to friends and family.
But they think it's inevitable; that there's no point fighting it.
People aren't tired of trying; they've been conned into giving up.'
“…children in the UK were weaponised, exploited in an ideological battle...”
bmj.com/content/378/BM…
'The disgusting, deliberate infection of children, using outrageous propaganda equating SARS-Cov2 with colds and 'flu, and nonsense about mental health & educational outcomes.'
The Devil is in the Detail.
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"People are tired."
"We cannot continue to treat this as an emergency. [People] will just stop listening."
'Disingenuous politicians, complicit scientists, vested interests and ideological groups' are driving the 'post-pandemic' delusion.
#NumbersGame
'Client journalists.'
Nudge units. Social media influencers.
Neurolinguistic programming.
Clear Blue Water.
Career boosters. Financial incentives. Vanity boosters.
And you wonder how you were conned that repeated C-19 infections are inconsequential?
How the C-19 Con was Won.
(It's easy when you know how.)
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A glossary of Covidspeak bullshitto terms that all good, self-sacrificing citizens should familiarise themselves with before the 3rd or 4th chamber goes off, thereby saving said govt. a ton of money on your no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel non-recovery.
Imagine being so cold-blooded as to run a bunch of Twitter bots to counteract the factual narrative that UK cases are rising steeply.
New politician-in-chief; official recession; the NHS in tatters.
A new C-19 wave is breaking at an inconvenient time.
Misinfo and disinfo - media bullshitspeak - carries on apace on both sides of the pond.
We're back to the 'flu play.
The claim that 'flu kills more people than C-19 - in the US, or Canada, or the UK - is simply, and wildly, wrong.
It's a colossal lie.
The Mail, man.
dailymail.co.uk/health/article…
Imagine being this inventive to be able to convince the thicker slices of the British public that lockdown, and not a virus that crosses the blood-brain barrier, is responsible for their worsening brain damage.
This is just sinful now.
How to deal with an online fool, Lesson 101.
Humiliate them for a bit of recreational sport, or block. Either's good. Depends what frame of mind you're in.
#LiesDisinfoAndMediatakes
One illustration of how disinformation, misinformation and the witholding of information helps kill or debilitates the unintentionally misinformed.
It's a sad circle.
#LiesMisinfoAndVideotape
How 'immunity debt' - cooked up by a kook scientist and foghorned by the press - became a thing, despite never having been a thing before 2021.
How odd.
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/immunity-deb…
Not the best-written article, but it shows all of the receipts.
#MediaShillsAndScientificBull
Propaganda surrounding Covid-19 has form: anything that hurts the deepest pockets will be attacked. Before Covid-19 it was climate change; before climate change, it was tobacco.
It doesn't matter if humans die en masse, or the world breaks.
#DollaKing
On the fifth column inside the fourth estate.
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On love-bombing and indoctrination.
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On paid-for blue-check Twitter, hate speech and the propagation of disinformation.
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On the Covid Deniers Club, and the traits of a cult.
A long, unwinding thread.
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Repetition, repetition, repetition: one mainstay of a raft of advertising techniques.
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Also see:
🐒 bandwagon-pressuring
🐒 dazzling with [anti-]science
🐒 fear
🐒 shock
🐒 celebrity/influencer endorsements
Add to mix: 'nonsensical terminology'.
Playing with media outlets - to sow distrust in the good, to pay for the bad and to amplify the ugly - is a fine art among morally bereft politicians who are only interested in their own self-preservation and self-advancement.
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#MediaLiesAndVideotape
Know your enemy.
'This vision is that of the Enlightenment that elevated learning, science, progress & universal rights to the forefront of public life, and is newly threatened by ideologies & systems that would take the world back before the triumph of the ideal of freedom.'
The mis- and disinformation front has, for me, been the most spectacularly shocking part of this pandemic story.
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It's so cold-blooded; so deliberate; so orchestrated; so... unbelievable.
But the astounding part of the trick is that most fall for it.
A 'coalition of groups'.
A 'coalition of groups with special interests'.
A 'coalition of groups with special interests, with one common belief: that people are expendable'.
Large, influential groups need financing; and they need soap-boxing.
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It's the same story in Australia, Canada, the USA, the UK.
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Control the media, and you control how people behave: even if all of the science indicates an endpoint of quick-slow mass suicide.
It's so pathologically brazen.
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