he thin excuse the censors use to justify their dangerous, authoritarian measures is that the proles will spread misinformation amongst themselves if given the right to free speech, and they will end up voting for things and people the powerful don't like. Actually, the purpose of censorship is to cover up for government policy failure. A reminder about what the censors got wrong during the covid era: - the covid infection fatality rate is an order of magnitude lower than the case fatality rate - there is an enormous age gradient in hospitalization and mortality risk from infection, with miniscule risk to most children - covid is airborne, actually - the lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory, and is the likely explanation of the origin of covid - hunting for viruses in the wild, bringing them to biolabs in city centers, and genetically altering them to make them more transmissible and dangerous to humans is a dangerous idea that governments should no longer fund and should regulate vigorously - lockdowns are a luxury of the laptop class and do not ultimately protect against infection - school closures are an irrational response to covid, as proven by the Swedish experience - children are harmed in myriad ways by school closures and forced online 'learning' is not a substitute for real learning - many children are not resilient to the harms of school closures - the lockdowns and the financing of them with printed trillions caused tremendous economic damage, including severe disruption of supply chains, small businesses, and lingering inflation - the economic dislocation of the lockdowns led to the starvation of millions of the poorest people in the world - the covid vaccine's protection against disease transmission was never proved in a randomized trial - the covid vaccine mandates and the false assurances of near-perfect efficacy against infection and transmission undermined public trust in public health - there are people who were harmed by the covid vaccine, actually - there is substantial immunity against subsequent infection (at least until the next variant) provided by covid recovery - there is no good randomized evidence that mask mandates have any substantial impact on covid transmission - there is no evidence whatsoever that toddler masking reduces the risk of covid infection for anyone I could go on, but the point should be clear. The censorship machine suppressed criticism of the government getting all those important points wrong, and bad public health policy was the covid-era norm, with countless people harmed as a result. The purpose of censorship now is to protect the reputations of the powerful people who pushed all these policies so that governments protect their power to impose them again in the future.
It's cool how "you" wrote all that in a single paragraph. I bet if "you" put "your" mind to it, "you" could have written it all in one long sentence.
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