A Horseradish
Friday 10th April 2020 12:12pm [Edited]
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Quote: Billy Bunter @ 10th April 2020, 9:55 AM
Well it's better than naively believing everything we're fed by the media without question. Where would science be today without theories? As long as it remains just a theory and there's no urge to rush out and set fire to things.
London Live has been severely criticised for its piece on Icke's comments about 5G and Covid-19. (People were very quick to drag in the irrelevant fact that it is owned by a Russian as if that had any bearing on it). Furthermore, it has been referred to Ofcom. This follows action taken against tiny community station Radio Uckfield for similar reasons.
The unthinking natural reaction - I found myself doing it - is to feel "oh well, if some 5G masts are being set alight then this is understandable action". Mention that arrests have been made for the physical damage and it all sits together well.
Except that if you take any historical example of protests, eg against fracking or nuclear weapons or vivisection or hunting or a hundred other things, arrests were made for any physical damage, yes, and even for obstruction. But generally speaking the media outlets were free to broadcast arguments against such things, whether sensible or wacky.
So there is a difference here and it can only be one of two things. One, that 5G IS different or two, that the broadcasts encourage disruptive crowds to gather at a time when any gathering is unwise. I would be happy enough to accept the second but to accept it is rationally also to be obliged to accept too that it would have some heavier implications.
For example, it would mean that any broadcast by anyone on climate change which could stir up any three or more members of Extinction Rebellion back into direct action would similarly need clamping down on and referring to Ofcom.
TRULY AWFUL MEDIA
There is conspiracy broadcasting and then there is truly awful media.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52241221
This load of tripe from the BBC which really should know better is titled "Coronavirus: New York using mass graves amid outbreak" and it includes depressing, lurid pictures. We have had similar in the UK from many media outlets about land clearance for mass graves at Milton Keynes and near the London Nightingale. The facts : New York State's Covid-19 death toll at 7,000 is horrid. BUT, it is approximately the death toll in New York State in less than an average fortnight.
Notwithstanding that huge numbers are in any case cremated - and one might think that cremation would be favoured in Covid-19 cases, why on earth would anyone be thinking of using mass graves to a level beyond the norm for what currently is less than an average fortnight's number of deaths in New York State? Answer : They are not necessarily.
Read through the frankly twisted article carefully and you will find the following:
"The drone footage is from Hart Island, off the Bronx in Long Island Sound, which has been used for more than 150 years by city officials as a mass burial site for those with no next-of-kin, or families who cannot afford funerals.It is probable that many of the coffins are for coronavirus victims, but it is not clear whether they fall into the above categories".
So it has been used for decades and they don't actually know if it is being used for Covid-19. It is purely dispiriting Lord Haw-Haw like sensationalism. The truth of it is this. Homeless people get Covid-19 too, homeless people are buried there, so homeless people with Covid-19 would in some cases probably be buried there. What is the difference between that situation and the homeless being buried following death from the weather or any other reason? Absolutely none.