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The fatal consequences of believing misinformation on the Internet: [bbc.com] #Covid19

anglophone 9 Aug 24
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This virus is real!!!

Funny how the virus, the Financial crisis, the mandatory stay at home isolation all happened at the same time!!!

Over 50 million unemployed and the stock market at record highs, the Fed printing money like it is water!!!

Does anyone wonder why none of this adds up???

Why are those so few in charge censoring fellow doctors and scientists that are able to show the numbers and facts do not add or are factual!!!

One must ask why now???

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And when it takes less than a minute to Google anything....

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It’s the flu with media buzz

Many of the symptoms are the same.

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Ever noticed how many confused, angry, misinformed people there are? confusion, misinformation, and chaos are a page straight from the playbook of one of our political parties that are trying to stay in power, this happens every election cycle and this year we are well into a election cycle and civil unrest is definitely the order of the day . . .

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This selfish, irresponsible idiot worked as a taxi driver without wearing a mask, spreading the pandemic like wildfire.

Sad he infected his wife who died from COVID-19. Hope he learns from his mistakes.

He has learned far too little far too late.,

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Darwinist thinning of the herd. We already have too many stupid people, we're better off as a society without them.

I’d rather have a kind fool than a smart ass.

@indirect76 On an interpersonal level, you are right. But the problem is too many fools vote and that's bad for us overall.

@TomMcGiverin True, but whatcha gonna do?

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God rest her soul. (That's a figure of speech by the way.) If there's any justice in this world people like Rush "It's just a cold folks!" Limbaugh and all the others who spread deadly misinformation about Covid-19 would suffer the consequences for their crimes.

Of the stupid were the only to suffer, fine. But idiots take down others.

@Beowulfsfriend Most peoples' world view is acquired from their friends and family, stupid has little to do with it. So yes, I fault the leaders who spread the misinformation, not their followers. As Lincoln famously said, paraphrased: "You can't fault an Indian for joining an uprising if his chief told him to join."

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