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Investigative journalism is not dead. This includes COVID-specific information but as part of the larger topic.

PROLOGUE: THE INFORMATION WAR
In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57. Since he kept the list a secret, the inconsistencies were beside the point. The point was the power of the accusation, which made McCarthy’s name synonymous with the politics of the era.

For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues.

Until 2017, that is, when another list of alleged Russian agents roiled the American press and political class. A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian-affiliated accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election. Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms, the new centers of power, and using them to covertly direct events inside the United States.

 
Investigative journalism is not dead. This includes COVID-specific information but as part of the larger topic.

PROLOGUE: THE INFORMATION WAR
In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57. Since he kept the list a secret, the inconsistencies were beside the point. The point was the power of the accusation, which made McCarthy’s name synonymous with the politics of the era.

For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues.

Until 2017, that is, when another list of alleged Russian agents roiled the American press and political class. A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian-affiliated accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election. Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms, the new centers of power, and using them to covertly direct events inside the United States.

... If the underlying philosophy of the war against disinformation can be expressed in a single claim, it is this: You cannot be trusted with your own mind.
 
@crush - Got a new one for you. Maybe @Grace T. will appreciate it more.

Insane! My pal I debate with on all issues has gone insane and I say that with sadness. It's like a full circle of life and were back to "arrest Trump" again. Dude won't talk jabs, mask, impeach 1 or two or Ukraine war, it's just Trumps fault and the sooner that loser goes to jail the better for our country.
 
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Despite the fact that the ‘experts’ were recommending the experimental COVID jabs for kids, parents have been REFUSING to poison their healthy kids with them and as it turns out, THE PARENTS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG! No way man, I'm shocked.....

Now the World Health Organization (WHO) has finally caved and is admitting the kids don’t need the deadly injections after all. Can anyone let me know if you have to be fully jabbed to go to school? Play on YNT?

“Healthy children and teens likely don’t need COVID-19 vaccinations” reads the updated guidance posted on the WHO’s website.
 
Another one for @dad4

"Masks made 'no discernible difference' to Covid transmission rates in hospitals, new research suggests.

Infection rates didn’t soar when mask mandates were removed in NHS facilities during the middle of an Omicron surge."


The sad thing? We had decades of studies showing masks didnt work. And then goverments conveniently brushed aside that knowledge and mandated masks. Any many people became convinced of their benefits.

Researchers from St George's Hospital in south-west London analysed routinely collected infection control data over a 40-week period between December 4, 2021 and September 10, 2022.
It marked the time between the first week Omicron became the dominant Covid variant and the week universal PCR Covid screening tests were scrapped for patients being admitted.

During the first phase of the study - December 4, 2021 to 1 June 2022 - all staff and visitors were required to wear masks in both clinical and non-clinical areas.

By phase two, the mandate was removed.

Instead, decisions about mask policy were entrusted to individual hospitals.

High risk wards, including ones treating cancer patients and intensive care units, retained the mask obligation.

Researchers found removing the mask policy in phase two did not produce a 'statistically significant change' in the hospital-acquired Covid infection rate.

Equally, they 'did not observe a delayed effect' in the Covid infection rate once the policy was removed.



By the way was just reading about a private school in NY that still mandates masks for kids. Makes kids sit apart during lunch and allows no talking during lunch. Crazy stuff.
 
Another one for @dad4

"Masks made 'no discernible difference' to Covid transmission rates in hospitals, new research suggests.

Infection rates didn’t soar when mask mandates were removed in NHS facilities during the middle of an Omicron surge."


The sad thing? We had decades of studies showing masks didnt work. And then goverments conveniently brushed aside that knowledge and mandated masks. Any many people became convinced of their benefits.

Researchers from St George's Hospital in south-west London analysed routinely collected infection control data over a 40-week period between December 4, 2021 and September 10, 2022.
It marked the time between the first week Omicron became the dominant Covid variant and the week universal PCR Covid screening tests were scrapped for patients being admitted.

During the first phase of the study - December 4, 2021 to 1 June 2022 - all staff and visitors were required to wear masks in both clinical and non-clinical areas.

By phase two, the mandate was removed.

Instead, decisions about mask policy were entrusted to individual hospitals.

High risk wards, including ones treating cancer patients and intensive care units, retained the mask obligation.

Researchers found removing the mask policy in phase two did not produce a 'statistically significant change' in the hospital-acquired Covid infection rate.

Equally, they 'did not observe a delayed effect' in the Covid infection rate once the policy was removed.



By the way was just reading about a private school in NY that still mandates masks for kids. Makes kids sit apart during lunch and allows no talking during lunch. Crazy stuff.
Nothing stopped Omicron, it was wildly contagious based upon my experience. Fortunately, the symptoms were a cold to a mild flu.
 
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