[grc] Grc statement on covid?

[Adrienne]

This misinformation seems life-threatening to me.  It is a Pacifica
issue but, if I were an affiliate, I would not air this program again.  
Ann, if there is a credible source that the WHO does the bidding of Bill
Gates in this area, please send it to me. 

Adrienne

On 2021-04-20 9:50 am, Ann Garrison via grc wrote:

> I think there's a danger to censoring this.  As Glen Greenwald said,
> "There's of course a danger to spreading misinformation, but the danger of
> censoring it is worse." Also, I know Pacifica listeners who believe what
> Gary Null said and they're not crackpots on other subjects, so I wouldn't
> just assume that they are on this or at least some of it. And I'm speaking
> as someone who's been vaccinated.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:06 AM Rajesh Barnabas via grc <
> grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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