the narrative that is spoonfed to you by the sage and government mouthpieces of the MSM
......Its amazing how many conspiracy theorists/mask/lockdown sceptics trot this out, all while swallowing the narrative spoonfed to them by the lesser regulated media sources, clickbait shock jock radio stations, basically unregulated YouTube and Facebook shared videos, and a whole host of grifters on Twitter who monetise controversy for their own personal financial gain.
Those people often have history, generally. They sometimes have links to the same organisations that are behind stuff like climate change denial.
These people are not out there looking to expose the truth.
They are not looking to help the little guy.
They are looking to generate clicks and publicity by selling controversy, conning and manipulating the little guy. They are the Toby Youngs and Julia Hartley Brewers, the Ivor Cummins, Joel Smalleys, David Patons, HART, PCR claims etc of the world. They are leaches, milking you and all others who propagate their lies. Laughing as they stay relevant and earn money from you, sewing division and stirring up anger.
Most of us know the MSM is corrupt and does not push an agenda that is in the best interests of the majority of the general public. This isn’t news to us.
But the scientific consensus IS there in the best interests of us all, and a few dubiously credentialed (and now generally discounted by their peers) fringe scientists repeatedly trotted out by a few well known, lesser regulated, click bait media outlets, both on air and online, should not be the ones people are listening to.
And if you do, then if you do any level of research at all, you should be able to discount them fairly sharpish, as you will quickly see the real scientists destroying their arguments and data misrepresentation with the real facts, studies and evidence.
blah blah blah etc etc Fed up of seeing the Facebook and Twitter crowd spouting this ‘SAGE AND MSM are the baddies’ guff while seemingly being completely unaware that they are getting their data and information from sources even less credible, less honest and way more corrupted than even our dishonest MSM. As somebody who did a deep dive down the rabbit hole, with open mind, I feel like I can now talk from the perspective of both sides. Some stuff in the MSM is wrong and remains so. Fear and overstating downside scenarios in the media was sometimes used as a tool by Government to encourage compliance. Sometimes models were just wrong. Because that’s the nature of models!
But most stuff in the alternative media and antivax, anti-lockdown etc crowd on social media is downright lies or clever data misrepresentation. They rely on the fact the average social media user isn’t going to the right places to check the sources or context of the (supposed) data they show.
Ignore the media. Fine. The real world stuff is there for all to see.
There is a deadly global pandemic.
It is worse than the flu.
It doesn’t only impact old people.
Governments and societies throughout the world have really struggled to deal with it.
Lockdowns do work.
Masks are effective (at least when used correctly in some settings, to some degree.)
Health systems throughout the world have been at very real risk of being overwhelmed.
Viruses do mutate.
Delta has set us back.
VACCINES DO WORK.
Vaccines are still the way out of this.