[grc] Grc statement on covid?

[Rajesh Barnabas]

Yes just like black men are dying at the hands of police from
co-morbidities...

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:32 AM generalrokoyura via grc <
grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:

> I just caught the first few minutes of Gary Null's show on WBAI while
> driving away from the signal area. It made me so mad and disgusted that I
> wanted to crash the car in to a pole just to destroy the radio.In the first
> 5 minutes of the show, Null recited the usual litany of pandemic-denial
> conspiracy garbage talking.points, claiming that Covid deaths are
> "negligible", and that people are dying, instead, from "co-morbidities",
> that the World Health Organization is doing the bidding of Bill Gates, "the
> most powerful man in the world", that "tens of thousands of doctors" have
> signed on to a letter calling Covid a hoax, and that preventative
> treatments (including Hydroxichloroquin) are being denied or discouraged.He
> stopped short of recommending bleach injections, but he sounded like an
> artificially calm and articulate Alex Jones.Would there, perhaps, be value
> in the GRC issuing a collective editorial statement indicating that we take
> our collective public health responsibilitie
>  s seriously and expressing a commitment to broadcasting accurate,
> verified information?My concern is that community radio stations be seen as
> beacons of sanity, not as magnets for fact-and-analysis-averse
> slepticism-junkies who might, on another day, be theatening public
> health.officials, or storming their places of employment.Sent from my
> Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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