[grc] Grc statement on covid?

Tue Apr 20 10:59:58 PDT 2021

Know that childrens health defense is robert kennedy's antivaxer organization, source of many unverified and disproven claims about the dangers of vaccines.
> On 04/20/2021 10:13 AM 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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> >> --
> >> Sincerely,
> >> @AnnGarrison <https://twitter.com/AnnGarrison?lang=en>
> >> Independent Journalist,
> >> SKYPE: Ann Garrison, Oakland
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