This is the mechanism of truly effective disinformation at work. Reply to a false claim that you are your cronies have asserted ("jabs are actually *causing* infections") with a study which "proves" your point. Except it doesn't - at all... 1/
What the study *actually* says is - we've found that some people's immune systems are briefly attenuated after the vaccine, so that healthcare workers in daily contact with the virus *may* be more likely to catch it *for a couple of weeks*. 2/
Of course, what *actually* comes out the other end of this human centipede composed of semi-professional disinformers & Patreon-addicts is this: "jabs give you covid" 3/
Now I'm not a scientist, but I applied my mind and I could figure this out. But what about the other more subtle claims these guys are making? The ones I cannot "figure out"? How does a vaccine-hesitant person respond to those claims? They just don't get vaccinated.
This is going to lead *directly* to deaths. I have had dozens of people on Twitter tell me "I trust PANDATA, not you guys". Some of those people - or their loved ones - are going to die as a result of that misplaced trust. This isn't debatable. The only question is "how many"
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A lot of what end up being called skirmishes in the "culture war" are just a case of both sides being a bit silly, and then one (or both) sides escalating to the point of abuse or violence. Case in point is this foolishness: theguardian.com/books/2021/aug…
...which then resulted in this ugliness: badformreview.com/read/yo21 (although, not without significant ugliness from both sides, it must be said)
Now is it "a bit racist" to use the phrase "almond shaped eyes"? I say no, but I respect someone else's opinion that they might see it differently. But demanding that the publisher edit it out? Fuck off, honestly. Just don't buy the book, and bitch about the author online.
You know when you post about something for sale and you list the price, how to contact you, when it will be available & how it will be shipped or collected? Then the first 10 questions are "How much?" & "Can I email you?" - that's what arguing with anti-vaxx peeps is like.
"But it doesn't confer complete immunity!"
- We never said it would - it just helps enormously at scale
"Some people still go to hospital!"
- Yes, like we said they would, but far fewer of them die
"You can get side effects!"
- Yes, exactly like we said, but they are rare!
"But over 5,000 people have died from it"
- No, they haven't. And even if they had that's a drop in the ocean of hundreds of millions. You're *thousands* of time more likely to die in a car accident tomorrow.
"But it changes your DNA!"
- No it doesn't. You do not understand scien