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Where is evidence that the government suppressed discussion about aerosols? The article you linked about speaks only about believing. Yes they didn't believe

Where is evidence that the government suppressed discussion about aerosols? The article you linked about speaks only about believing. Yes they didn't believe it but that is a very different situation. Also I will point out that a huge portion of people believe the lockdowns were ineffective which is the only solve for aerosols. EDIT: I will agree that the origin story was suppressed too much, given the uncertainty and some questions without disinformation in them were removed in the cross fire. But I hadn't heard heavy handed responses to aerosol theories.

GeekyBear 3y ago
The government issued categorical statements that Covid was NOT airborne. The government instructed social media platforms to suppress "misinformation" that went against the official party line. The government used extreme threats against platforms that did not comply. > In an interview with MSNBC about anti-vaccine misinformation, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield responded to a question asking if Biden would change Section 230 to make companies “liable for publishing that information, and then open to lawsuits.” Bedingfield responded that “we’re reviewing that, and certainly they should be held accountable.” https://www.theverge.com/22585152/biden-white-house-facebook-vaccine-misinformation-section-230-first-amendment https://www.theverge.com/22585152/biden-white-house-facebook... I personally had a one decade old account banned on one social platform for asserting that Covid was airborne and many posts on other platforms deleted for sharing links that supported the airborne Covid theory as "misinformation". We literally had platforms deleting links to information provided by sites like the New England Journal of Medicine or Nature if they didn't toe the official party line.
- acdha 3y ago
  > The government instructed social media platforms to suppress "misinformation" that went against the official party line. Do you have any evidence? It certainly is not true for the major platforms like Facebook or Twitter where the aerosol reality was widely discussed - in fact that was an increasingly vocal source of criticism of the WHO and CDC after the scientific evidence consolidated on airborne transmission (say roughly March 2020).
- Guvante 3y ago
  Given your phrasing of "Coronavirus is political" my guess is the aerosol anecdote isn't the whole story. Feel free to give actual examples as I said originally.
  - spookthesunset 3y ago
    All you have to do is ask anybody who dared to question the narrative. I had several accounts banned for stating "misinformation" on what would later become fact. It is easy to dismiss everything you hear from folks like me if you went right along with the government / media narrative. The actual truth is they lied their fucking heads off and worked tirelessly to suppress valid dissent by painting people who went against as alt-right grandma killing conspiracy kooks. It will happen to you someday too. And you will never be able to let go of the deep sense of betrayal.
    - 15457345234 3y ago
      Well said. And lots of 'commenters' here popping up with the usual 'please give precise examples, also it would be lovely if you could dox yourself too?' Like, we all watched it happen. It wasn't 1945, it was two years ago. And these things pop up in every comment section and try and make you seem insane.
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      - ryandrake 3y ago
        Not really well said. More conspiratorial thinking that relies on this vague narrative boogeyman. Oooohhh, The Narrative! So scary... around every corner, waiting in the shadows to pounce! Beware of the dastardly narrative. When there's a deadly virus spreading around, I'm not worried about The Narrative. I'm worried about dying. If the consensus is that rubbing my belly and tapping my head at the same time is going to keep me healthy, that's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to automatically reach for the "Well, that's just the narrative that the Belly Rubbing Head Tapping Illuminati WANTS you to think!" line of reasoning.

GeekyBear 3y ago

The government issued categorical statements that Covid was NOT airborne. The government instructed social media platforms to suppress "misinformation" that went against the official party line. The government used extreme threats against platforms that did not comply. > In an interview with MSNBC about anti-vaccine misinformation, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield responded to a question asking if Biden would change Section 230 to make companies “liable for publishing that information, and then open to lawsuits.” Bedingfield responded that “we’re reviewing that, and certainly they should be held accountable.” https://www.theverge.com/22585152/biden-white-house-facebook-vaccine-misinformation-section-230-first-amendment https://www.theverge.com/22585152/biden-white-house-facebook... I personally had a one decade old account banned on one social platform for asserting that Covid was airborne and many posts on other platforms deleted for sharing links that supported the airborne Covid theory as "misinformation". We literally had platforms deleting links to information provided by sites like the New England Journal of Medicine or Nature if they didn't toe the official party line.

acdha 3y ago
> The government instructed social media platforms to suppress "misinformation" that went against the official party line. Do you have any evidence? It certainly is not true for the major platforms like Facebook or Twitter where the aerosol reality was widely discussed - in fact that was an increasingly vocal source of criticism of the WHO and CDC after the scientific evidence consolidated on airborne transmission (say roughly March 2020).
Guvante 3y ago
Given your phrasing of "Coronavirus is political" my guess is the aerosol anecdote isn't the whole story. Feel free to give actual examples as I said originally.
- spookthesunset 3y ago
  All you have to do is ask anybody who dared to question the narrative. I had several accounts banned for stating "misinformation" on what would later become fact. It is easy to dismiss everything you hear from folks like me if you went right along with the government / media narrative. The actual truth is they lied their fucking heads off and worked tirelessly to suppress valid dissent by painting people who went against as alt-right grandma killing conspiracy kooks. It will happen to you someday too. And you will never be able to let go of the deep sense of betrayal.
  - 15457345234 3y ago
    Well said. And lots of 'commenters' here popping up with the usual 'please give precise examples, also it would be lovely if you could dox yourself too?' Like, we all watched it happen. It wasn't 1945, it was two years ago. And these things pop up in every comment section and try and make you seem insane.
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    - ryandrake 3y ago
      Not really well said. More conspiratorial thinking that relies on this vague narrative boogeyman. Oooohhh, The Narrative! So scary... around every corner, waiting in the shadows to pounce! Beware of the dastardly narrative. When there's a deadly virus spreading around, I'm not worried about The Narrative. I'm worried about dying. If the consensus is that rubbing my belly and tapping my head at the same time is going to keep me healthy, that's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to automatically reach for the "Well, that's just the narrative that the Belly Rubbing Head Tapping Illuminati WANTS you to think!" line of reasoning.