How to Talk to Truthers,
Deniers and Assorted Covidiots
Inside Hook,
by
Reuben Brody
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
5/26/2020 1:49:42 PM
Crisis affects people in different ways. Among the more unsettling ones, you could point to images of armed civilians storming state capitals from Lansing to Raleigh, or perhaps that video that leaked over the weekend of a poolside bacchanal in the Ozarks. Trace these reactions to the COVID-19 epidemic out to their source, and you’ll find a legion of truthers, deniers and downplayers. Among them is defrocked virologist Judy Mikovits, the voice behind Plandemic, a controversial documentary that makes unfounded claims regarding COVID-19 as well as some patently discredited ones about vaccines. It was taken down from YouTube because it violated the streaming service’s standards,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 5/26/2020 2:02:28 PM (No. 422536)
I’ve never seen such a clueless dolt try so hard to sound smart and nuanced. He pretends to work towards the middle of the debate, but fails to relinquish the underlying bias premise that divides. It’s one giant insult against people who choose not to follow to the letter the recommendations of the scientists that advised the shutdown and politicians that continue it. We all quarantined. All of us. Even the people this imbecile is spending thousands of words insulting. The virus is real and every one of us knows it. We also know that these same scientists have moved the goal posts over and over again and are clearly flying but the seats of their pants because they have no idea all of the facts behind this virus. This guys pretends that there is no debate about what is going on and it’s all about carefully explaining to his lessers why they are stupid. Any discussion of protestors is insufficient unless you can reflect completely on their rights to do so and how there is no pandemic exception to these rights. Any discussion about how some believe this is a hoax is incomplete if you don’t at least mention how the media has been caught lying to us time and time again only to beg us to listen to them this time (just like they begged us the last time). If you don’t at least mention how well Georgia and Florida are doing in comparison to New York, then you are the indoctrinated dogmatic fool. Don’t bother with this drivel.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/26/2020 2:06:47 PM (No. 422540)
Seems The Ozarks show on Netflix has propelled the place into the super resort destination. I saw a sign for Marty Byrd's Place and it has to be one of the hot party spots on the water. I think it was great seeing people out there enjoying life and taking a chance on catching the virus. Party on!!! Get your "I survived COVID-19 Ozarks" t-shirts at the gift shop.
12 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 5/26/2020 2:06:58 PM (No. 422541)
The medicalizing of dissent continues, and this from some stupid "lifestyle" website. It's not a conspiracy theory when the data shows that the mortality rate has been vastly overblown. It's not a conspiracy theory to say that the lockdown is no longer justified and violates constitutional rights. It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Democrats have increased their megalomania. It's the Democrats that fear death and think they can live forever if they do politically correct things.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 5/26/2020 2:12:34 PM (No. 422547)
This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Thegranddanny 5/26/2020 2:14:28 PM (No. 422550)
This is satire right?
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Reuben is off his meds again
Covidiot?
What are you, twelve?
Grow up, fool!
Leave the radical left plantation!
It’s a PLANDEMIC!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 5/26/2020 2:29:09 PM (No. 422563)
Didn't know where this guy was coming from, but the article wasn't interesting enough for me to stick around and find out.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/26/2020 2:35:05 PM (No. 422568)
Check the CDC numbers, Reuben. Who is the "Covidiot" now?
It's only going to get worse for you blind sheep.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Laotzu 5/26/2020 2:39:03 PM (No. 422573)
Wow, a lengthy rejection of virus truthers that doesn't address a single piece of data, but provides the second hand medical opinion they must be crazy. The Soviets used to send dissenters to psychiatric hospitals too, didn't they?
17 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
mathman 5/26/2020 2:43:04 PM (No. 422576)
Despite what anyone says, there is still a fog of ignorance concerning CO-19. Where did it come from, how long has it been around, how is it spread, how contagious is it, what is the risk if you are infected, what is the probability of death if you are infected, and so on.
I have slithered all over the internet looking for answers to these questions. There are no answers. Perhaps we will find out, a century from now. Meanwhile we are being trashed as a culture.
How did it come to pass that a single-strand RNA virus, partial to humans, began to spread so quickly? It does not spread this way among animals. Was it designed?
Is it biological warfare by Red China, seeking to dominate us all?
I don't know, but I suspect the worst.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/26/2020 2:51:00 PM (No. 422587)
Where is Sandman to drag this idiot off the stage? Bomb!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NancyD 5/26/2020 2:53:56 PM (No. 422593)
This dude is inept, If you don't agree with the "experts" you are an idiot.... Well, there are doctors who disagree with the experts and they are silenced, Youtube censors their videos, in Michigan the Gov threatened to take away the licenses of doctors who dared to prescribe hydroxychloroquine.
Its funny, because this article is another perfect example of the liberal mind. ha!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/26/2020 2:54:45 PM (No. 422597)
Shades of the USSR. If you didn't buy the government line they sent you to a mental facility to get you straightened out.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
worried 5/26/2020 3:06:19 PM (No. 422620)
YouTube has standards? Where are they, and who hid them?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/26/2020 3:16:40 PM (No. 422638)
I lack sufficient time to un-thread this needle, or to put the toothpaste pack into this particular tube. I have made a note to read all the Ldot comments later instead of trying to bash my head against the stone of this posting.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/26/2020 3:18:43 PM (No. 422642)
Facts don't matter to the Left. Once an narrative gets established it's not to be questioned. In this case the Left's narrative is that China virus is so deadly that it requires Draconian measures and anyone who denies that narrative is an idiot, or ignorant, or malicious, or stupid. It won't matter at all to them that Blue Lockdown states will fare no better (and in come cases, much worse) against the virus than Red open states, or that the open states will recover economically while the blue states sink deeper and deeper into bankrupt poverty. They ignore and deny the overwhelming evidence that Obama attempted a coup on Trump and they will ignore the fact that lockdowns are a massive, catastrophic mistake.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 5/26/2020 3:27:19 PM (No. 422661)
Some of the antivaxxers are completely unhinged, not worth trying to have much of a conversation with them. Lots and lots of tight tinfoil hats out there and lots of really nutball conspiracy theories flying around with no visible means of support.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
janjan 5/26/2020 3:28:12 PM (No. 422663)
My question for this dolt is who does he trust and why? The so-called experts contradict themselves daily and the mainstream media do lie. Every day. Fauci has lied and been caught doing it. The Democrats are openly fretting about the economy coming back strong. The circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy is pretty strong. Conspiracy or not I never bought the hype and have no intentions to play their game. So if you’re a liberal who thinks you can ‘educate’ me save yourself and keep your distance.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
red1066 5/26/2020 5:54:42 PM (No. 422795)
Go ahead. Try talking common sense to a Wuhan virus/Covid-19 pandemic devotee. Only brain dead socialists/liberals still believe the virus information handed out by Fauci and the MSM from over two months ago. The enlightened masses have heard enough BS from government, and are starting to get back to normal. The government numbskulls and their willing robots will have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to normal.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/26/2020 6:13:18 PM (No. 422825)
Author Reuben Brody, who worked as a staff writer for later-convicted felon and former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, could have said much about the hysterical rumors-turned-news-stories attributing the failure of the levies during Katrina to the alleged criminal negligence of President Bush. Following the 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center and Katrina, President Bush sustained endlessly absurd criticism from the national press, which also provided irresponsible coverage to the mad theories of "truthers" who posited that Bush was trying to kill first middle easterners and then blacks. Trying to engage such wingnuts in conversation is pointless, and suggesting that people suspicious of the origins of the current pandemic and its prescribed avoidance fall into the same category is offensive. I do think it is fair, however, for skeptics of the conventional explanations of the pandemic (of whom I am one) to be prepared to cite credible sources if challenged. I also think that mayors and governors who issue edicts as to social distancing and walking but not sitting on beaches should cite credible sources of the alleged data justifying their proclamations.
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