[grc] Grc statement on covid?

[Frieda Werden]

My uncle died of pneumonia after being diagnosed with covid, but his death
was declared due to pneumonia and not the covid.  I think the number of
deaths from covid is as likely to be underreported as overreported.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:13 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,
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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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