COVID-19 Skepticism Debate
Discussions center on distrust in COVID-19 experts and authorities, accusations of misinformation versus official narratives, vaccine skepticism, and censorship on Hacker News.
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Must have to do with Covid and trusting the "experts" who turned out to be a bunch of frauds and liars.
Why am I not surprised that Hacker News is a hotbed of COVID misinformation?
you are making basic factual errors about the actual science and medicine of COVID, using a throwaway account. Why?
Uncited fact?Anyways, I honestly can't blame "them". Less than a year ago, the mainstream media was full of "information" like, masks don't work, it's racist to think that hugging a Chinese could make you infected, and people questioning the origin of the virus were deemed conspiracy theorists. Now some of these are suddenly considered "misinformation" or "COVIDiots" and you have "conspiracy theory" on front page of Washington P
From skimming the article:* The CDC “errors” are from the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, when we didn’t know that much about COVID-19 and were still learning about the virus. As just one example, the author seems to have a short memory: It was pretty hard to wear a mask all of the time when masks were not available to buy, so initially saving masks for front line medical workers until they were widely available was a sensible idea.* The allegations of corruption on Hunter Biden
It's not nonsense. Hacker News is hardly a platform for science, facts or personal experience that might tarnish the image of the C19 vaccines in any way, so this will certainly not be platformed. I will be lucky if it is not flagged and censored. Why did I post this? So that those that have discernment and critical thinking skills might get something out of it.Lives saved? The evidence I've given you tells another story, but I see that you are not ready or willing to have that disc
I'm guessing misleading facts about covid or the election or something.
Really? Linking to taking down covid disinformation seems to be making the poster's exact point
People are downvoting this because something like 2-4 weeks ago The Science said this was disinformation. It takes time for the reverse in course to propagate.
I take issue with people presenting guesses without evidence as fact, don't know about you guys (ignoring the scaremongering "COVID is oing to get us") - I honestly thought hn was better than this.