‘Censorship actually killed people’: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on the consequences of government suppression of honest discussion of Covid on Twitter

[Markle]

We have a lot of my far-left friends here on USMB that STILL refuse to admit that what they were being told were lies and cost lives.

This highly respected doctor was shadow banned, censored, ridiculed, and pushed to resign because of what he was posting on Twitter. Thousands of people died, and kids were put back at least a year in education and more in their social development.

‘Censorship actually killed people’: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on the consequences of government suppression of honest discussion of Covid on Twitter​

December 31, 2022
By Thomas Lifson
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If ever there were a case of villains with power harming the public with censorship, this is it. The First Amendment alone should have made the censorship by government using Twitter as a proxy unthinkable, but as we know, it didn’t. The invented categories of “misinformation” and “disinformation” have been proclaimed as not subject to it. That’s why the proof that censorship harmed, indeed killed, people is so important to ratify the importance of the First Amendment in practical terms.

'Censorship actually killed people': Dr. Jay Battacharya on the consequences of government suppression of honest discussion of COVID on Twitter

Dr. Jay Battacharya of Stanford is one of the great heroes of the COVID epidemic, a fearless truth-teller in the face of overwhelming pressure to parrot the party line emanating from the Faucists in control of the governmental, academic, and pharmace...

www.americanthinker.com

Now that the FACTS are out there for all to see, how do my far-left friends here justify not changing their viewpoints? Stubborness, ignorance, what?

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Just Stop. Please.

Misinformation. Disinformation. Outright lies. Those are what killed people.

Two Years of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Millions of Hospitalizations and Deaths

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www.commonwealthfund.org

For the love of all that's holy, you knuckleheads actually give credence to RUSSELL BRAND!!

 

[Orangecat]

Misinformation. Disinformation. Outright lies. Those are what killed people.

None of those things killed a single person. Think better.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

None of those things killed a single person. Think better.

Over one million people in this country alone would beg to differ with you.

 

[Orangecat]

Over one million people in this country alone would beg to differ with you.

That is a lie.
How would "disinformation" kill a person?

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

That is a lie.
How would "disinformation" kill a person?

Prevent them from getting vaccinated, taking precautionary measures, or even routine health checkups....after all, it's only the common cold.

 

[Orangecat]

Prevent them from getting vaccinated, taking precautionary measures, or even routine health checkups....after all, it's only the common cold.

Misinformation didn't prevent people from doing anything. Think better.

 

[MarathonMike]

We have a lot of my far-left friends here on USMB that STILL refuse to admit that what they were being told were lies and cost lives.

This highly respected doctor was shadow banned, censored, ridiculed, and pushed to resign because of what he was posting on Twitter. Thousands of people died, and kids were put back at least a year in education and more in their social development.

‘Censorship actually killed people’: Dr. Jay Battacharya on the consequences of government suppression of honest discussion of Covid on Twitter​

December 31, 2022
By Thomas Lifson
[...]
If ever there were a case of villains with power harming the public with censorship, this is it. The First Amendment alone should have made the censorship by government using Twitter as a proxy unthinkable, but as we know, it didn’t. The invented categories of “misinformation” and “disinformation” have been proclaimed as not subject to it. That’s why the proof that censorship harmed, indeed killed, people is so important to ratify the importance of the First Amendment in practical terms.

'Censorship actually killed people': Dr. Jay Battacharya on the consequences of government suppression of honest discussion of COVID on Twitter

Dr. Jay Battacharya of Stanford is one of the great heroes of the COVID epidemic, a fearless truth-teller in the face of overwhelming pressure to parrot the party line emanating from the Faucists in control of the governmental, academic, and pharmace...

www.americanthinker.com

Now that the FACTS are out there for all to see, how do my far-left friends here justify not changing their viewpoints? Stubborness, ignorance, what?

Censorship and outright ridiculing of effective drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin sealed the fate of countless thousands of people.

 

[Rambunctious]

Its at least Manslaughter... but to expect justice in this nation... well you can forget it... we aren't even holding China responsible and it came from China...

 

[Darkwind]

Over one million people in this country alone would beg to differ with you.

Over 1 million people in this country would have died regardless.

Think better.

 

[Darkwind]

Prevent them from getting vaccinated, taking precautionary measures, or even routine health checkups....after all, it's only the common cold.

That is THEIR decision to make, NOT YOURS or the government's.

 

[Donald H]

Denial of Covid and refusal to accept the vaccines, resulted in a million or more deaths in America.

And now Covid is coming back, more deadly than ever.

I feel that as a Canadian I have a moral duty to speak up against the denialists.

 

[Darkwind]

Denial of Covid and refusal to accept the vaccines, resulted in a million or more deaths in America.

And now Covid is coming back, more deadly than ever.

I feel that as a Canadian I have a moral duty to speak up against the denialists.

This is just an outright lie. No one died because they refused to take a drug that did nothing to stop them from getting a virus.

You are an idiot.

PEOPLE have the right to make their own choices. ALWAYS.

 

[luiza]

Just a few names of Bilderberg attendees and members of the WEF who manipulated the Covid Planscamdemic
I could provide page after page after page after page . Many hundreds of key opinion formers
Underlined names are WEF steering committee members.

Big media​

The non reporting of Bilderberg by TV or newspapers reveals that the group has considerable control of big media, which was mobilised to support the official narrative.

• Juan Luis Cebrián - 2018-2001, 1993, 1990-1987, 1985, 1983- Billionaire, media mogul, one of the ten most influential Spaniards in Spain and Latin America for 44 years (from 1976 to 2019).
• Andrew Coyne - 2015 - Canadian columnist and aggressive pusher of the COVID official narrative. e.g. He dismissed the Great Reset as a "conspiracy theory"[citation needed], and in December 2021 headlined an article Is the case for vaccine mandates like the case for seatbelt laws? No, it’s much, much stronger[68]
• Mathias Döpfner - 2019-2014, 2007-2005 - Billionaire, Axel Springer Publishing House/CEO
• Felix Gutzwiller - 2013 - On Swiss TV in March 2020 answering public questions about COVID-19.[69]
• François Lenglet - 2017 - French editor who in March 2021 termed vaccine passports "the best recovery instrument available".[70]

In March 2020 Shiraz Maher wrote a first hand account of his mild case of COVID-19

Promoting panic​

Full article: COVID-19/Panic
Commercially-controlled media's coverage of COVID-19 was a more-or-less monotone echo of the fear-driven official narrative, while calmer, more scientific voices “were never invited to the expert table”, as the editor of Bild admitted in August 2021.

• Shiraz Maher - 2015 - A "Terror expert" who reportedly had a case of COVID-19 which was "classified as “mild” by British health authorities". Maher wrote a "horrifying account of his experience with COVID-19" which was picked up by the commercially-controlled media after it "went viral" on Twitter.
• John Micklethwait - 2019-2009, 2007 - Co-authored The Wake-Up Call with Adrian Wooldridge. A promotional article, How the West was lost, concluded "For all its awfulness, the Covid-19 pandemic is an alarm call... It’s not too late to wake up to the fact that the West is losing its pre-eminence. We still have time to repair the damage. But we don’t have that much time — and the Eastern world is forging ahead while we are still dithering. Whatever we do, we cannot afford to hit the snooze button."
• Kenneth Rogoff - 2012 - Former IMF economist whose dire predictions in early 2020 were widely reported in commercially-controlled media. Also predicted that COVID would speed the move away from cash[]

“Every time I open the obituary pages of the local newspaper, I find so many people that I know have died. A whole generation is being wiped out.”
Beppe Severgnini (25 April 2020) [76]

• Beppe Severgnini - 2017 - Italian editor/journalist who reported from north Italy in March 2020, stating in April 2020 that "a whole generation is being wiped out".

“There will be no recovery. There will be social unrest. There will be violence.”
Jacob Wallenberg (26 March 2020) [77]

From "business expert" Jacob Wallenberg, a third generation Bilderberger

• Jacob Wallenberg - 2016-2000, 1998 - Issued dire warnings of social unrest in March 2020 reported by commercially-controlled media[78][79]
• Adrian Wooldridge - 2012-2004, 2002-1998 - Co-authored The Wake-Up Call with John Micklethwait.

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[JackOfNoTrades]

Over 1 million people in this country would have died regardless.

Think better.

Sure. You just keep telling yourself that.

Some people...sheesh.

 

[Marener]

That is a lie.
How would "disinformation" kill a person?

If someone believes COVID is a hoax, they might get it, won’t test, won’t isolate, will spread it and may cause harm to themselves (for not seeking treatment) or those whom they infect.

 

[Orangecat]

If someone believes COVID is a hoax, they might get it, won’t test, won’t isolate, will spread it and may cause harm to themselves (for not seeking treatment) or those whom they infect.

In that scenario, COVID killed them, not "misinformation".

 

[Markle]

If someone believes COVID is a hoax, they might get it, won’t test, won’t isolate, will spread it and may cause harm to themselves (for not seeking treatment) or those whom they infect.

No one is saying that COVID was a hoax.

What Dr. Bhattacharya said, along with many other health professionals is that many of the protocols put in place were WRONG.

As we now know, Dr. Bhattacharya was 100% correct.

 

[Marener]

In that scenario, COVID killed them, not "misinformation".

Accountability seems like a foreign concept to some.

 

[Marener]

No one is saying that COVID was a hoax.

What Dr. Bhattacharya said, along with many other health professionals is that many of the protocols put in place were WRONG.

As we now know, Dr. Bhattacharya was 100% correct.

Yes, many people say that COVID is a hoax. If they refuse to believe it exists, they may choose to believe it’s lethality and transmissibility is not significant.

Protocols for treating COVID were and are based on best available evidence.