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FDA VRBPAC covid vaccine public comment, date extended

2024-05-11

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Image is a screenshot of a youtube video called Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson April 7, 2024 — COVID Concerns, the transcript is to the right of the screen and some of the text is highlighted with marker in yellow that says quote “Together, Doctors Vaughn and Kory” and there’s a red marker arrow pointing from their names to two people on the video being interviewed by Attkisson in a room with lights on a boom, and a lamp on an end table lit in the corner. Jordan Vaughn is seated at the left with his hands folded, wearing a sport coat and light color pants and he’s watching Pierre Kory’s face as Kory is speaking. Kory is dressed in a dark black suit jacket with prominent shoulders, and black pants.

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Vaughn, what team is he actually on?

2024-05-08

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Image is purple with images of fold-flat KN95 masks, the text reads INFECTION IS NOT INEVITABLE - Gathering with precautions saves lives and extends community care to all. #SeeYouSafer seeyousafer.org

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I don’t trust my safety to science hype in the pop culture press.

2024-04-28

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Yes, those are Care Bears sunglasses.

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I don’t feel left behind, I feel disrespected.

2024-04-25

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Many references to “climate engineering” are actually a part of climate denial & disinfo narratives.

2024-04-19

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Screenshot with a big X in red marker over the image of a youtube video at the point in the video 36 seconds in, and on the screen is the word colloidal silver in big letters and a screenshot of a PLOS ONE article or study titled “Evaluation of silver nanoparticles for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in health workers: in vitro and in viv” the video title is Nasal Sprays and Reducing the Risk of COVID Reinfection posted on the channel RTHM Health 787 subscribers 820 views Sep 18, 2023 RTHM’s Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jennifer Curtin talks about nasal sprays and their impact on preventing or treating SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Curtin recommends colloidal silver in both nasal sprays and oral rinses and uses them for her own COVID risk reduction.

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Lefty zine promoting right-wing pseudoscience protocols of an expensive concierge clinic?

2024-04-10

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You know, I'm something of a scientist myself Meme with Willem Defoe with a confident smile and the caption reads at the top You know, I’m something of a scientist myself, and the text underneath says here’s a buncha quote science unquote that’s actually vendor marketing material

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The need to slow down, review, and engage critical thinking when making purchases or investments.

2024-04-10

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Antiviral Injustice

2024-04-08

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Screenshot of direct message conversation. text reads #OSHAhearing bit.ly/OSHAhearing Nicolas Smit @PPEtohe Jan 19, 2023 Replying to @PPEtoheros @nb_covid_info and 31 others — Here’s evidence @COVIDOversight knew about the widespread negligence in July. I was asked by their top investigators how they should investigate & they confirm I gave them info that helped -Show more- QUOTE — NYT Science @NYTScience “It’s frustrating and frightening because a mask like this can make the difference between life and death, but no one knows about them.” nytimes.com A Clunky Mask May Be the Answer to Airborne Disease and N95 Waste 11:54 AM 2022–07–09 — Nicolas Smit Jan 19, 2023, 3:46 PM

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The shadowbanning of the pandemic.

2024-04-05

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Screenshot of tweet, Joe Friday @justthefacts85 1:49 AM · Jun 24, 2022 These are just a few recent ones as I didn’t go back that far. I’m sure most posts, if not all, are lifted from others. (Last row reversed, sorry.) I don’t know if this is some kind of bot or what. Image attached to tweet are a series of screenshots showing Sammy4723 tweets verbatim copied from the original tweets as follows, TalkerTeacher don’t know who needs to hear this right now but it is perfectly normal to want to avoid catching a potentially debilitating disease during a world- altering pandemic anyone telling you different has an agenda that does not have your health and well-being in mind 8:55 AM 6/19/22 LaurentForan: In the future, students will read in their history book the chapter on the 2020s with shock and anger. “How can a ruling class consciously let a virus kill millions?” When they’ll learn that it was the logic of the profit system, they’ll understand the subsequent revolution. 6:20 PM 6/19/22, and AmySpiro: Israel confirmed more than 10,000 new COVID cases yesterday for the first time since early April. The positivity rate of all those tested yesterday is close to 40%. 2:11 AM 6/20/22

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Sammy4723, anonymous pandemic influencer sock puppet account.

2024-04-04

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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Journalist thinks covid is no longer political — just “trusts” right-wing covid denial.

2024-04-03

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Covid denial, the musical

2024-04-01

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign. Mar 28th, 2024 wat3rm370n on tumblr Image Alt Text: The disinformation didn’t just happen, it was deliberate. Teams Human. State Government Leadership Foundation openly bragged on social media about an advertising campaign that specifically targeted liberals to persuade them of the lie that masks supposedly do more harm than good.16 There is evidence that mask requirements are beneficial. But the State Government Leadership Foundation appears to have used old school advertising and simple repetition that uses the mere exposure effect, where people come to believe something simply because it seems familiar after hearing it a lot.17 teamshuman.substack.com/p/anti-mask-woke-washing Dark money from big corporations funded a right-wing think tank to do a deliberate advertising propaganda campaign to convince liberal Democrats that masks are bad. ProPublica headline: Buying Your Vote Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group. by Justin Elliott Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST Tweet from State Government Leadership Foundation brags about an anti-mask advertising campaign targeting liberals.

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign.

2024-03-28

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Anti-vax & health misinfo is just part of right-wing orthodoxy now.

2024-03-26

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Screenshot of direct message conversation. Sooo something weird is going on here… when I search @PPEtoheros I don’t get results in the People tab — Image is the Twitter 404 rubber chicken, text reads No results for @ppetoheros Try searching for something else, or check your Search settings to see if they’re protecting you from potentially sensitive content.

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The Shadowbanning of Nicolas Smit

2024-03-26

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Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreyatucker Do people know how insulting it is to put on a mask when you come near? It's like saying: I suspect that you are diseased and I don't want your filth near my body. Never mind that it doesn't work. It's ruinous to friendship. 5:09 PM · Jan 13, 2024 · 81.7K Views 386 replies 184 retweets 712 hearts 10 bookmarks

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Jeffrey Tucker, covid contrarian and right-wing propagandist

2024-03-23

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twitter post @LifeAfterMyPhD 3:01 AM · Mar 18, 2024 - It gets worse. Apparently if you search "as of my last knowledge update" or "i don't have access to real-time data" on Google Scholar, tons of AI generated papers pop up. This is truly the worst timeline. 897.7K Views 95 replies 2.4k retweets 78k hearts 1.7k bookmarks [The tweet contains screenshots of the google scholar search results containing those search term sentences.]

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Lying AI should not be doing the people’s business or science.

2024-03-22

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SLURRING TRUMP Gives Confusing Speech to Christian Broadcasters - No One Tries to Help! Feb 23, 2024 Jesse Dollemore (Youtube) The image is a screenshot of timestamp 2:12 in the video. On screen is Donald Trump speaking at a microphone at a podium labeled National Religious Broadcasters. Taking up nearly a quarter of the screen is a big ad that says IVERMECTIN question mark, in all caps. There’s a save with code message under make care great again website. The chyron reads RSBN 1120 PM ET Live Coverage Trump, Vows to grow GOP majority in 2024, Trump’s latest sneaker venture, and above the chiron, below Trump, is another ad chiron that says get your contagion emergency kit today and be prepared and more codes for discount offers. The Youtube description box reads 220,235 views, some hashtags, and the description: Jesse talks about a few moments from yesterday’s Trump speech before the National Christian Broadcasters group, where Trump rambled incoherently about a number of topics even though he was supposed to be reading prepared remarks from a prompter.

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Trump still promoting covid pseudoscience quack products.

2024-03-20

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Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich zu. 1789. Ueber Den Schachspieler Des Herrn Von Kempelen Und Dessen Nachbildung. Leipzig [u.a.]: Breitkopf.

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I had a dream of soylent chatbots made out of people.

2024-03-15

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The Economy First Model. Manufacturing consent to normalized harm. Chloe Humbert. The real damaging and disturbing propaganda is characterizing avoiding illness as “fear of covid” when nobody would say that about cancer, second hand smoke, or about allowing a toddler to run loose near the edge of a cliff. If someone was pointing a gun you wouldn’t say you’re “dealing with fear of guns” after all. Ironically, if the disabled person has a mental health issue, that is also expected to take a back seat to the able-bodied person’s discomfort. Minimizing the real threat as mere “fear of covid” that “truncates” going to concerts and restaurants, while simultaneously raising up the value of “mourning” of travel and big parties. It has internal logic when you realize it’s all just oriented toward prioritizing economic engagement. This cognitive tactic has a name, and it’s called woke-washing, and it’s a favourite of climate contrarians and covid deniers.

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The Economy First Model.

2024-03-12

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View of the Keystone Landfill garbage dump mountain in Dunmore seen from across the Lackawanna River valley to the west in a field off the Leggetts Creek Greenway Trail in the Marvine neighborhood of north Scranton Pennsylvania. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. June 9, 2017. It’s a bright day with low puffy cumulous clouds in the sky. The dump is seen as a bare earth set of hills set against the tree covered mountains behind it, and trees and tall grass is in the foreground, with the steeple peaking up from the valley among the trees from the church on University Drive in Dunmore, and the Dawson Building at Penn State Scranton Campus in Dunmore Pennsylvania, on the left.

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The Dump Stink.

2024-03-08

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry - Image is the letter from Delta Airlines to the CDC Director asking for shortened guidelines because of the impact on their business caused by 10 day isolation.

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The CDC, Media and PR: a public health disinformation campaign.

2024-03-04

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