Coronavirus: Thread

[grarpamp]

Arrogant cruel discriminatory abusive cult of non-voluntary force
of anti-anti-vaxxers and power grabbers get proven wrong every
day about who's dying. They and their pals can kiss the ass of
freedom.



And The Prize For "Worst Journalism Of The Year" Goes To...

Media Lies & the Sacred Rites of the Vaccine Cult

https://off-guardian.org/2022/01/26/media-lies-the-sacred-rites-of-the-vaccine-cult/
https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/06/covid19-are-ventilators-killing-people/
https://off-guardian.org/2022/01/25/cdc-pivoting-its-language-on-vaccination-status/

The coverage of Szilveszter Csollany’s death shows you being called an
“anti-vaxxer” is more about what you think, than what you do.

The Independent has put out an early (and strong) entry for “Worst
Journalism of the Year” award, reporting yesterday the death of
Hungarian gymnastics coach Szilveszter Csollany under the headline:

    Anti-vax Olympic gold medalist Szilveszter Csollany dies of Covid, aged 51

The glaring issue with this headline becomes clear just three
paragraphs into the article [our emphasis]:

    While Csollany had, according to [Hungarian newspaper Blikk],
expressed anti-vaccination views on social media, the six-time World
Championship medallist had been vaccinated to allow him to continue to
work as a gymnastics coach.

The journalism is terrible, criminally bad.

The evidence supplied for Csollany’s supposed “anti-vaccination views”
is non-existent. Second-hand hearsay, at best. No direct quotations,
no sources provided.

OffGuardian would be ashamed to publish something so flimsy. Any outlet should.

But, of course, that isn’t the most egregious part – as you can tell
from our emphasised quote – the supposed “anti-vaxxer” had been
vaccinated.

To bury that in the body, under that headline, is deliberate
deception. They know many people will read the title and assume he
hadn’t had the vaccine without ever reading the body of the text, and
they are relying on that to spread an intentionally false impression.

The very definition of disinformation.

After deliberately misrepresenting the man’s life, they proceed to do
the same to his death. Not even granting him the respect of an honest
appraisal of his last weeks alive, they totally ignore all the
relevant questions pertaining to the man’s health.

They never question why a previously healthy 51-year-old would ever
need to be put on a ventilator, or consider how ventilator-associated
pneumonia or ventilator-induced trauma may have contributed to his
death.

The article readily admits he died “of Covid” despite being
vaccinated, but never even attempts to explain that, sparing a
throwaway sentence suggesting “he contracted the virus soon after
receiving his jab, and thus had not built sufficient levels of
antibodies”, which is not supported by any medical opinion or sources.

Having admitted he WAS vaccinated, and only a short time before he
died, the article never considers even for a second the obvious
logical conclusion: That the vaccine may have played some part in his
death, or killed him outright.

It doesn’t even refute the idea, it simply refuses to acknowledge its existence.

But really, the worst aspect of this black-hole of integrity is not
the deliberately misleading headline, or the lack of even the most
basic journalistic ethics, it is deeper than that. There is an
unspoken message concealed within the tone of the writing, and a
shifting of linguistic definitions that comes with it.

The implied thought buried in the text is that, even though he was
vaccinated, his alleged doubts mean he was still an “anti-vaxxer” and
therefore deserved to die. That he brought the Covid curse down upon
his head through his expressing “anti-vaccination views”.

As if he called down God’s wrath through speaking heresy.

This is not the first time we have seen the narrative try and separate
the meaning of “anti-vaxxer” from a person’s vaccination status.

In Australia the Northern Territories Premier Michael Gunner recently
told the media :

    If you support or give comfort to anybody who argues against the
vaccine, you are an anti-vaxxer, I don’t care what your personal
vaccination status is.

Yes, in Australia an anti-vaxxer can be a vaccinated person who “gives
comfort” to someone who argues against the vaccine, they don’t have to
agree with the anti-vaxxer they simply have to tolerate them.

It’s a dark age belief system, where to even hear heresy spoken is to
be tainted by it.

This is all part of the redefining, really the broadening, of what
people even mean by “anti-vaxxer” in the first place. Yet more
“pivoting of our language”.

Szilveszter Csollany is accused of “expressing anti-vaccination views”
on social media, but in our current climate that can mean almost
anything.

Opposing vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, or the giving of
untested vaccines to children. All have been described as “anti-vax”
positions.

You could have every vaccine you’ve ever been offered, but decline the
Covid “vaccine” to wait for long-term safety data, and still find
yourself branded an “anti-vaxxer”.

And now, finally, you can actually be vaccinated, but be labelled an
“anti-vaxxer” because you may have previously expressed doubts or
asked questions.

The injection has become the quite literal equivalent of a religious
rite, where your beliefs are just as important as your actions, maybe
even more so.

The vaccines are “safe and effective”, that’s the mantra for the
modern age, chanted in televised chapels.

In the beginning, people were told that if you were anti-vaxxer you
would die, for the vaccines are the new blood of Christ, and by
accepting them into your heart you are promised life eternal.

This conditioning has gone so deep people are inverting it and
spitting it back out: Now, if you die, you must have been an
anti-vaxxer.

Being vaccinated, but not believing in the vaccine, is just as bad as
rejecting the vaccine, and you will remain unvaccinated in spirit.

And like a modern-day ducking stool, if – like poor Szilveszter
Csollany – you get the vaccine and die anyway, it shows only that your
faith was not strong enough, you were secretly an anti-vaxxer at
heart, and the press will say as much in your obituary.

The media all talk this way.

I can’t tell if they do it dishonestly to create this bizarre
atmosphere of religious fervour, or they don’t even realise they’re
doing it because they’re so caught up in zealotry. And I’m not sure
which is worse.

Either way, the endpoint is clear: A world where being
“anti-vaccination” is no longer defined by what you do, but by what
you say and think or even what you allow others to think.

An all-purpose label, so vague as to be functionally meaningless, but
universally applied to anyone who diverts as much as one degree from
the mainstream course, turning them into an outsider who must be
shunned.

It really is a cult. There’s no other way to describe it.