Sorry, I should’ve said “So we’re to the point where expressing your disagreement with our leaders is criminal?”
Because you doubled down on the idea that you can think whatever you want, as long as you dont tell anyone what you are thinking - expressing anything that contradict the official narrative is “undermining national security”. It is what you’ve said twice now…
Yes that’s the way I took Bendr’s comment.
Going right along with “think what you want, but don’t say it out loud”.
One of the juror’s on recent trial, said she knew if the verdict was not the desired result, she would worry about her safety, Wrong for our country!
Maxine waters or La Bron James told us the same thing. Disgraceful!
What is the Biden policy turning our country into?? Terrible results are in store for all of us.
No, you can tell them what you’re thinking. I said you can.
But the government shouldn’t be compelling other individuals and companies to repeat and relay what you sayif it undermines national security.
And for a third time, you once again say that disagreeing with those in power is a threat to national security.
No, but working against national security policy to protect public health and secure the economy is. The Covidiots extended (and continue to extend) the duration and extent of the economic pain and death in the country.
The (demand for) government compelling third parties to be required to relay such misinformation is not freedom, it’s totalitarianism.
Some people on here may have said YouTube should be compelled to host content, but I haven’t. I have simply pointed out how their Covid misinformation policy is impossible to follow and impossible to enforce objectively. I have also pointed out that their policy is one sided and geared towards punishing only those on the right, not actually protecting people from harm. I have also pointed out how their policy removed speech from our ongoing public discourse that is actively shaping our laws. I have pointed these things out, not to justify restrictions on YouTube, but only to make the point that what they did was wrong and they shouldn’t be doing it. I have yet to hear an argument to rebut the things I have pointed out or how the benefit of removing the content (there is none - its virtue signaling) outweighs the negatives I have pointed out. Keep in mind, the comment that YouTube considered blasphemy was that kids don’t need to wear masks in school. To date, there has not been a SINGLE documented case of a teacher catching COVID and dying after contracting it from a kid they were teaching in school. Every kid that has died of COVID has had underlying conditions. The number of kids that have caught it at school and died can’t fill a room. To date, there is no correlation between high covid positivity rates or increased cases in places where schools are open OR low covid positivity rates or decreased cases in places where schools are closed. To date, there has been no research published that proves that kids need to wear masks in school to keep a covid outbreak from happening. Oh, and don’t forget, 6ft was an arbitrary number that was made up with no scientific basis.
And you do it yet again. “Get on my bandwagon because voicing your contradicting opinions is criminal.”
“Covidiots”? The idiocy is labeling anything that disagrees with you own guesses as “misinformation”, and insisting that everyone should do the same, and dismissing anyone who doesnt as being lunatics. That is totalitarianism. Why worry about your policy being right or wrong, when you can instead simply berate and insult anyone who opposes it.
The only threat here is the threat that open discussion may result in policies being proven misguided. And that’s a threat to individual security, not national security.
Some might suspect that youtube has already been compelled to do as they have…
I’m not going to express an opinion on this case or the verdict - contrary to popular belief, you can agree with the conclusion but disagree with the process used to arrive at that conclusion.
This was the definition of a rigged trial, no matter how you feel about the outcome. Just like Covid policy - of course it’s going to appear “right”, when you’ve actively quashed all alternative viewpoints.
Nah, Silicon Valley is essentially calling the shots these days. After Obama won, they realized how much influence their platforms had. After Trump won, they realized that the right could use their platforms more effectively than the left, especially if the left is incompetent (which it is has been since Obama). They vowed to never let that happen again, so they pull out all the stops when it comes to “misinformation” from the right. The democrats in washington aren’t competent enough to pull off anything that the leftists in Silicon Valley are doing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigans-covid-wards-filling-younger-165132047.html
"At Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, in one of America’s worst coronavirus hot spots, entire units are still filled with COVID-19 patients. People weak with the virus still struggle to sit up in bed. And the phone still rings with pleas to transfer patients on the verge of death to units with higher-tech equipment.
But unlike previous surges, it now is younger and middle-aged adults — not their parents and grandparents — who are taking up many of Michigan’s hospital beds. A 37-year-old woman on a ventilator after giving birth. A 41-year-old father. A 55-year-old autoworker who has been sick for weeks.
“We’re getting to the point where we’re just so beat down,” said Alexandra Budnik, an intensive care nurse who works in a unit with lifesaving machines, or circuits, that are in short supply. “Every time we get a call or every time we hear that there’s another 40-year-old that we don’t have a circuit for, it’s just like, you know, we can’t save them all.”"
India oxygen shortages and various responses to address them
https://www.yahoo.com/news/next-wave-pandemic-long-covid-090036499.html
" Two studies released last week emphasized how common it is for COVID survivors to require care months after their infection.
One study, published Thursday in Nature, found that, between one and six months post-infection, people whose coronavirus cases didn’t require hospitalization had a 60% higher risk of death than people who hadn’t been infected with the virus, per the New York Times.
These non-hospitalized COVID patients also had a 20% greater chance of needing outpatient medical care over those six months post-infection. Their symptoms spanned across organ systems and also included mental health issues.
Some could become chronic health conditions requiring lifelong treatment.
“We found it all,” Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of the research and development service at the VA St. Louis Health Care System and an author of the study, told the NYT. “What was shocking about this when you put it all together was like ‘Oh my God,’ you see the scale."
The control group isn’t much of a control group, since it’s quite likely that a significant number of them had been infected as well, it just wasn’t confirmed with a test. Isnt the isolating factor not being infected or not, but rather getting a q-tip jammed up your nose while infected?
How about we compare these people’s need for medical care in the 6months after being infected, with their medical care the 6 months prior to the pandemic? Both these studies talk about “needing outpatient care” as the criteria - some people are more inclined to visit the doctor, and presumably those are also the same people who would’ve been more inclined to pursue a covid test as well. And, not being a blind study, the fact you know you’ve had covid could in itself prompt you to go to a doctor for something you normally would not feel needs attention (especially given the wide-spread dire warnings of long term effects).
Myself, I havent been to the doctor for years prior to the pandemic, havent been since the pandemic, and have no clue if I’ve ever been infected with covid because I’ve never been tested. But based on how I’ve felt over just the past couple years, there has been at least a half dozen times that I know would’ve prompted a doctor visit for a lot of people.
Not mention, once you’ve been infected, the subsequent immunity gives you less reason to avoid doctors/hospitals than someone who hasnt been infected. How many people would normally see a doctor about a given issue, but havent due to the fear of exposure?
I’m not saying these studies are a farce. But based on what’s been reported, it seems like a significant part of the conclusion that covid patients have elevated health issues post-infection is derrived from my refusal to go to a doctor. I think it’s just as likely that these results show that non-covid patients have pursued 20% less treatments than they otherwise would have in normal times.
A study like this is pretty much useless when it throws in the whole kitchen sink like above. COVID does things to the human body. It’s a respiratory disease. Until there is actual evidence that COVID effects your kidneys, for instance, calling a visit to the doctor for outpatient medical care for your kidney somehow COVID related flies in the face of medical causation. COVID is still new, so I am being open minded about this and willing to change my stance when it becomes clear that COVID, in addition to being a respiratory disease, also does ABC to your XYZ. But until that evidence is solid, studies and articles like this are just panic porn muddying the waters.
India’s government on Sunday said it ordered Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to take down dozens of social media posts critical of its handling of the pandemic.
Facebook, tool for evil?
I’m glad the CDC has finally decided that I can go for a walk outside by myself… 
Israel only lifted outdoor mask requirement after passing 80% vaccination rates. Those darn Jews are so… what… totalitarian?
“But but but everyone else was doing it!”
Very sound reasoning…
Or maybe it means that all those people who you berated for selfishly trying to kill everyone should now get an appology…