[grc] Grc statement on covid?

Tue Apr 20 10:30:55 PDT 2021

The letter Null was referring to is explained here;
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/89204

Note that the sponsor of the issuing organization ( which, BTW, does NOT
have "tens of thousands" of co-signers) is funded by the Kochs. This is, in
part, what I am talking about. We don't want to inadvertently parrot this
kind of right-wing propaganda and attract the kinds of people who are
addicted to it.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 1:20 PM David Goodman <ibisradio at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Tens of thousands of doctors signed on..."?  How many of them belong to
> to this discredited European group:
>
> https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/doctors-in-video-falsely-equate-covid-19-with-a-normal-flu-virus/
>
> paz, dg
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 1:13 PM riva enteen via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Worth looking at:
>>
>> https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/4-19-21defender?wvpId=a4c7cc45-33af-438e-b4e7-0270a1273e0e
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:09 AM Doug McVay <dougmcvay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Could you send a link for those articles? I'd be interested in reading
>> > them.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:07 AM Ann Garrison via grc <
>> > grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I read a news report that someone with gunshot wounds died of COVID,
>> and
>> >> another about someone who had Stage 4 cancer and then had a heart
>> attack.
>> >> But again, I'm speaking as someone who's been vaccinated.  I don't
>> doubt
>> >> that COVID is real but I think the numbers may be inflated for whatever
>> >> reason. And I think that the censorship is dangerous.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:56 AM riva enteen <rivaenteen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I agree with Ann.
>> >> >
>> >> > And this is true:   "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
>> >> >
>> >> > Frankly, there is significant data that Hydroxichloroquin works,
>> which
>> >> is
>> >> > NOT bleach.
>> >> >
>> >> > They count covid deaths as covid only, not related to comorbidities,
>> but
>> >> > deaths from vaccines are deaths from comorbidities, not the vax.
>> >> >
>> >> > But I'm a crackpot.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> https://blackagendareport.com/reality-police-erase-lesbians-covid-skeptics-and-democracy
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:50 AM Ann Garrison via grc <
>> >> > grc at maillist.peak.org> 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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>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Sincerely,
>> >> >> @AnnGarrison <https://twitter.com/AnnGarrison?lang=en>
>> >> >> Independent Journalist,
>> >> >> SKYPE: Ann Garrison, Oakland
>> >> >> 415-503-7487
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>> >> @AnnGarrison <https://twitter.com/AnnGarrison?lang=en>
>> >> Independent Journalist,
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