“Let’s be honest. The docile, supine, pusillanimous way in which many Australians are meekly accepting being ordered into their homes, having their jobs deemed ‘inessential’ and seeing the quality of their kids’ lives seriously compromised hardly qualifies us for a shot at winning any ‘greatest generation’ competitions. The Spanish Flu was more lethal by far, comparatively deadly to the young not old, and came right after a horrific world war. Yet our great-grandparents just got on with life, taking as much individual care as they could. They did not spend billions burdening their kids and grandkids with untold debt. The police did not act as agents of the nanny- state, nor brag about dragging people from cars for breaching virus regulations.”– Quote from Bill Muehlenberg.
Facenanny knows best
Rebecca Weisser
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The Spectator Australia 22 August 2020
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‘Your post goes against our Community Standards on misinformation’ warns the Facebook censor when your article vanishes from its site. ‘We encourage free expression,’ it claims bizarrely, ‘but don’t allow false information about Covid-19 that could contribute to physical harm.’ The ‘false information’ in this case was my article last week on this page, ‘No Guts, No Glory,’ which reported internationally renowned Professor Thomas Borody’s opinion that a simple head lice drug, combined with an antibiotic and zinc can cure Covid-19 if administered as soon as symptoms appear. Borody is not only famous for his ground-breaking work curing peptic ulcers but is a peer reviewer for half a dozen leading medical journals. That didn’t daunt Facebook’s millennial fact-checkers. Nanny knows best. They purged seven million posts about Covid between April and June and put warnings on another 98 million.
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Facebook only allows people to share information about Covid-19 from what it deems to be ‘credible sources’ such as the WHO, whose ‘credibility’ with the international scientific community has been somewhat tarnished by it support for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The journal Nature warned that TCM is ‘fraught with pseudoscience’ and that the inclusion last year of traditional therapies in the WHO’s global diagnostic compendium came with risks, especially for tigers, rhinoceros, sea horses and pangolins, which are being poached into extinction to boost the flagging virility of Chinese communists and cure other ailments. That hasn’t deterred the tech titans who defer to the organisation as the unsullied font of medical wisdom.
