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1984 and Censorship, in full swing against your Freedom


Musk Says COVID Shot "Almost Sent Me To Hospital", Says He'd Go To
Prison Before Firing Workers For Refusing Jab

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/musk-says-covid-shot-almost-sent-me-to-hospital-says-hed-go-to-prison-before-firing-workers-for-refusing-jab-5498832
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1706681999035928994?s=20
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1706676593261785178?s=20
https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1706677610049052715?s=20

https://x.com/joebldenpress/status/1706682287591735301?s=20
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_23_4645


Elon Musk on Tuesday revealed that he took multiple COVID-19 vaccines
so that he could travel during the period of intense pandemic
restrictions and that after taking his third shot, he nearly ended up
hospitalized.
Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX, speaks at the 2020
Satellite Conference and Exhibition in Washington on March 9, 2020.
(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Mr. Musk made the remarks in a post on X that was part of a thread he
started as a response to a warning by European Union (EU) officials
that X has fallen squarely into the bloc's censorship crosshairs for
being found to be the top purveyor of so-called misinformation and
disinformation.

"Have you heard dis information?" Mr. Musk captioned his original
post, in a play on words that accompanied a video compilation of
COVID-19 vaccine news headlines that began with bold initial claims
early in the pandemic that the vaccines are "100 percent effective"
before steadily dropping lower and lower.

    My concern was more the outrageous demand that people *must* take
the vaccine and multiple boosters to do anything at all. That was
messed up.

    Until the Supreme Court invalidated Biden’s exec order, SpaceX and
many other companies would have been forced to fire anyone who…
    — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2023

"The mRNA COVID-19 vaccine was only 47% effective after 5 months?"
reads one of the later headlines, followed by even more negative
headlines like "Sweden, Denmark Halt Moderna's Covid Shot for Younger
People" and, finally, ones highlighting vaccine-maker profitability
amid calls for seemingly endless boosters.
'Messed Up'

Mr. Musk's meme on waning vaccine efficacy drew a number of comments,
including one by political journalist Ed Krassenstein, who raised
objections.

"I think efficacy changes are a result of new strains and the vaccine
immunity wearing off. It’s stupid anyone ever claimed it was 100%
effective. No vaccine is 100% full-proof," he wrote.

Mr. Musk replied by saying that he's not against vaccines in
principle, but that he opposes mandates forcing people to get the
shot.

"My concern was more the outrageous demand that people *must* take the
vaccine and multiple boosters to do anything at all. That was messed
up," Mr. Musk wrote.

He added that, until the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated President Joe
Biden's executive order imposing a vaccine-or-test mandate for large
companies, his company SpaceX "and many other other companies would
have been forced to fire anyone who refused to get vaccinated!"

"We would not have done so. I would rather go to prison than fire good
people who didn’t want to be jabbed," Mr. Musk continued.

Mr. Musk also revealed that he got COVID-19 and experienced "mild cold
symptoms" but took vaccines repeatedly for travel.

"The third shot almost sent me to hospital," Mr. Musk said.

"How many other people out there have symptoms that are actually from
the vaccine or Covid treatment, rather than Covid itself?" he asked.

There's a growing body of data suggesting that COVID-19 vaccine side
effects are more serious than previously claimed.

Mr. Musk qualified his remarks by saying he's not against vaccines as
a matter of principle.

"It’s not like I don’t believe in vaccines—I do. However, the cure
cannot be potentially worse than the disease," he said.

"Public debate over efficacy should not be shut down," Mr. Musk continued.

Mr. Musk added that he believes "there is also great potential for
curing many diseases using synthetic mRNA, so let’s not throw the baby
out with the bath water."

The X chief's post garnered a series of reactions, including a
humorous one by the Joe Biden Press Release (Parody) account, which
features a photo of a smiling President Joe Biden saying: "I promise
you'll be safe after the 42nd booster."

"Just be sure to triple mask, Elon," the account added.

Meanwhile, in Brussels, EU officials took Mr. Musk and X into their
censorship crosshairs.
'We Will Be Watching'

A senior European Union official on Sept. 26 accused X of being the
top purveyor of disinformation and issued a veiled threat, prompting
Mr. Musk to push back by posting the meme highlighting waning vaccine
effectiveness and sparking online debate.

At a press conference on Tuesday, the EU’s top commissar on
disinformation—European Commission (EC) Vice President Vera
Jourova—singled out X as being “the platform with the largest ratio of
mis- or disinformation posts.”

Unlike competitors like Facebook and Google, Mr. Musk’s X has refused
to participate in the European Union’s (EU) voluntary
anti-disinformation effort called the 2022 Code of Practice on
Disinformation.

While the code is supposedly nonbinding, companies that take part can
ease some of their compliance requirements under the EU’s Digital
Services Act, which kicked in at the end of August and is mandatory
for the biggest tech platforms with over 45 million users in the
EU—including X.

After earlier reprimanding Mr. Musk and X for lacking the appetite to
self-censor and not taking the EU’s fight against “disinformation”
seriously, the EU ramped up its rhetoric on Sept. 26, the day that
social media companies like Facebook and Google—but not X—published
reports on compliance with the bloc’s new “disinformation” code.

"Mr. Musk knows that he is not off the hook by leaving the code of
practice because now we have the Digital Services Act fully enforced,"
Ms. Jourova said. "So my message for Twitter is you have to comply
with the hard law and we will be watching what you are doing."

While X quite the voluntary code in May, it counts as a "very large
online platform" under the mandatory Digital Services Act (DSA) and so
is subject to stricter content rules.

Ms. Jourova reminded Mr. Musk of the fact that the EU has enforcement
tools to pressure the platform into compliance with its content laws.

She made the remarks while providing an update on the 27-nation EU's
2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation, which companies like Google,
TikTok, and Facebook parent Meta signed up for—but which Mr. Musk's X
has snubbed.

Some examples from the reports include Google indicating that it
prevented around $33 million in advertising dollars from going to
"disinformation actors" and Meta slapped over 40 million pieces of
content with factchecking labels.

The new Digital Services Act rules apply to 19 "very large" digital
platforms (such as social media networks, websites, and online
retailers) with at least 45 million active users in the EU.

The 19 platforms that fall under the umbrella of the new rules are:
Alibaba AliExpress, Amazon Store, Apple AppStore, Bing, Booking.com,
Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Google
Shopping, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, X, Wikipedia,
YouTube, and Zalando.