Epidemic Misinformation
September 29, 2020
A GROUP of Very Important Scholars from Harvard, Northeastern University and Rutgers has delved into the topic of “misinformation” and Covid-19.
As part of the “COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States,” the Very Important (and Very Well-Funded) Scholars, in the midst of a shattering global pandemic that has left bodies in the streets of every American city and town, not to mention cities and towns across the world, have risen above the catastrophic chaos and the all-pervasive fog of virus particles to examine surveys of the public to ascertain acceptance of supposedly common myths about “Covid-19:”
Scholars and public health officials have expressed growing alarm over what some have termed a “misinfodemic” − a parallel epidemic of misinformation − around COVID-19. Indeed, conspiracy theories, from the Plandemic pseudo-documentary to QAnon, fuel rising skepticism about scientific facts across many areas of public life, and in recent months especially with respect to COVID-19. Misperceptions, which can rapidly spread from obscurity to mass exposure via social media, may have the capacity to hinder the efficacy of public health efforts aimed at slowing the spread of the pandemic. Especially concerning, encountering false claims online may ultimately reduce the willingness of some Americans to get a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available. In this report, we assess respondents’ acceptance of 11 false claims that have circulated online since the beginning of the pandemic.
Here are the false claims that our Very Important Scholars studied:
Zoom in and look at the topics.
Not one is a serious challenge to the official narrative.
Not one is a really serious bit of “misinformation” that exposes the forced lockdowns for the breathtaking, global social engineering project they were — and still are.
Nowhere do we find the public’s reaction to “The Covid-19 death statistics are highly inflated” or “Hospitals received kickbacks for every Covid-19 diagnosis” or “Those who challenged the government were censored on the Internet” or “Masks cause physical harm” or “Less than 10,000 people have died of Covid-19 alone.”
Plandemic and QAnon — both examples of real misinformation projects — are mentioned but not what the mainstream media would falsely consider misinformation, such as the Bakersfield doctors or Dr. Annie Bukacek or Doctors for Truth.
Nice job, Very Important Scholars!
A report on misinformation and Covid-19 is a transparent exercise in misinformation.