| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism 10:04 - Apr 8 with 1009 views | StokieBlue |
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/08/among-covid-sceptics-we-are-being-m
It's quite a depressing read and shows how "normal" people can be sucked into these things through circumstances which are out of their control. The majority of the points put forward by people are easily disproven with only a bit of basic research but nobody does that as they don't want their views disproven.
A couple of paragraphs I thought were key:
This kind of thing is difficult to factcheck, and besides, factchecking is of limited use in changing believers’ minds, because sources such as the BBC or the Office for National Statistics are seen as untrustworthy, part of the lie. “If you don’t want to be convinced, then it’s not going to happen,” says Jon Roozenbeek, a Cambridge academic who studies disinformation.
One said sadly that his grandparents wouldn’t see him any more. “They believe this whole thing, hook, line and sinker. They’ve been brainwashed by the BBC. To be honest, I don’t blame them. I put it on for 15 minutes the other day, and I could feel myself getting brainwashed, too, so I switched it off.”
I fear the battle is already lost when presenting factual and scientific information is seen as untrustworthy or brainwashing. I've seen this exact behaviour on here in PM's, even citing the same things about the media and brainwashing.
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| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism on 11:32 - Apr 8 with 929 views | J2BLUE |
Once you get into an echo chamber it's hard to get out of. Like he says, unless you're looking for the exit and run to it without looking back you're getting sucked back in. |  |
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| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism (n/t) on 11:46 - Apr 8 with 883 views | ipswich78 |
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| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism on 11:49 - Apr 8 with 864 views | lowhouseblue |
as an example of some of the real loons out there:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-very-convenient-pandemic/
it gets madder and madder - i made it as far as where he discusses plans to 'liquidate' the unvaccinated.
if only we still had cil. |  |
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| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism on 11:56 - Apr 8 with 839 views | DanTheMan |
"Is there a pandemic? Was there ever a pandemic? "
Imagine being this person. |  |
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| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism on 12:05 - Apr 8 with 807 views | Steve_M |
I think she goes by the name of Laura Perrin now and runs Conservative Woman. |  |
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| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism on 12:33 - Apr 8 with 773 views | BlueBadger |
| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism on 11:32 - Apr 8 by J2BLUE |
Once you get into an echo chamber it's hard to get out of. Like he says, unless you're looking for the exit and run to it without looking back you're getting sucked back in. |
Balls. |  |
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| Guardian long read on Covid scepticism on 12:46 - Apr 8 with 731 views | ElderGrizzly |
Sadly, it is quite 'profitable' for people to not believe and lead others in that direction too.
It is across social media, with people in industries that have no qualifications to comment on the efficacy of vaccines for example deciding it is all deep state etc.
And we see in Government to that the ERG morphs into the CRG and pushes the same idiotic theories.
It's depressing, but reflective of how desperate some of the population are I guess. |  | | |
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