COVID Is A SCAM

[icyfroth]

Hundreds of demonstrators across Australia have broken social distancing rules to protest against vaccinations, 5G and the coronavirus pandemic.   

Protesters gathered at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne on Saturday and claimed the global COVID-19 health crisis was a 'scam'.

There are more than five-million cases of coronavirus cases across the globe and at least 350,000 people have died. Australia has recorded more than 7,000 infections and the death toll sits at 103 following the successful implementation of social distancing restrictions. 

Brazen demonstrators also carried signs declaring they were against vaccines and 5G technology.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/coronavirus/covid-19-is-a-scam-no-mandatory-vaccines-and-5g-equals-co...

Lol @ the anti-virus shields on the horses

[ambercat16]

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@icyfroth wrote:

AMA calls for social media campaign to counter COVID conspiracy theories

In a statement on Tuesday, AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid said people are increasingly turning to social media to learn about healthy choices, but the internet has the potential to "significantly magnify health misinformation campaigns".

"The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) does its best to crack down on fraudulent claims about items of clothing or glorified lava lamps being able to repel COVID-19, but more action is needed.

"We need an Australian government-funded campaign to counter this misinformation and promote healthy choices, including information about vaccine safety."

The call comes as Liberal politician Craig Kelly was criticised for claiming on social media that mask mandates for COVID-19 "can only be defined as child abuse".

In an ABC interview on Tuesday, Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack was asked if members of the Liberal Party such as Mr Kelly should be censured for spreading misinformation.

"Facts sometimes are contentious, aren't they?" Mr McCormack responded. "And what you may think is right, somebody else might think is completely untrue. And that's part of living in a democratic country."

Mr McCormack earlier said he wouldn't want to be on a jury that decides what gets taken down from social media.

"I don't think we should have that sort of censorship in our society," he said. "But people also need to think very much about what they put up on Twitter and what they put up on social media."

AMA calls for social media campaign to counter COVID conspiracy theories (msn.com)

Well said, Mr McCormack!

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Ummm NO Mr McCormack,  facts are not contentious.  Not even 'sometimes'.  I know Mr Trump thinks he invented alternative facts but he really just tried to justify lies.

The definition of a fact is something that is true or something that has occurred or has been proven correct.

How then can a fact be contentious?

[myoclon1cjerk]

This government isn't really that much different to Trump's GOP.

[icyfroth]

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@ambercat16 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

AMA calls for social media campaign to counter COVID conspiracy theories

In a statement on Tuesday, AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid said people are increasingly turning to social media to learn about healthy choices, but the internet has the potential to "significantly magnify health misinformation campaigns".

"The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) does its best to crack down on fraudulent claims about items of clothing or glorified lava lamps being able to repel COVID-19, but more action is needed.

"We need an Australian government-funded campaign to counter this misinformation and promote healthy choices, including information about vaccine safety."

The call comes as Liberal politician Craig Kelly was criticised for claiming on social media that mask mandates for COVID-19 "can only be defined as child abuse".

In an ABC interview on Tuesday, Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack was asked if members of the Liberal Party such as Mr Kelly should be censured for spreading misinformation.

"Facts sometimes are contentious, aren't they?" Mr McCormack responded. "And what you may think is right, somebody else might think is completely untrue. And that's part of living in a democratic country."

Mr McCormack earlier said he wouldn't want to be on a jury that decides what gets taken down from social media.

"I don't think we should have that sort of censorship in our society," he said. "But people also need to think very much about what they put up on Twitter and what they put up on social media."

AMA calls for social media campaign to counter COVID conspiracy theories (msn.com)

Well said, Mr McCormack!

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Ummm NO Mr McCormack,  facts are not contentious.  Not even 'sometimes'.  I know Mr Trump thinks he invented alternative facts but he really just tried to justify lies.

The definition of a fact is something that is true or something that has occurred or has been proven correct.

How then can a fact be contentious?

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When it's presented as a fact, but later proven not to be a fact.

[myoclon1cjerk]

Democratic eh? Where's our ICAC?

[domino-710]

"Facts sometimes are contentious, aren't they?" Mr McCormack responded.

No they are not - a fact is not a supposition - a fact is proveable.

"And what you may think is right, somebody else might think is completely untrue. And that's part of living in a democratic country."

Has nothng to do with ' FACT. '

He actually said ' nothing '.

[icyfroth]

Fact is, that the US, Britain and the Coalition of the Willing invaded Iraq because they believed Iraq had Weapons Of Mass Destruction was a "fact"

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In fact, it was not, and no WMD's were ever found.

Just an example.

Facts are indeed, contentious.

[not_for_sale2025]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Fact is, that the US, Britain and the Coalition of the Willing invaded Iraq because they believed Iraq had Weapons Of Mass Destruction was a "fact"

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In fact, it was not, and no WMD's were ever found.

Just an example.

Facts are indeed, contentious.

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Not really. The fact is they suspected it or lied. The claim that Iraq had WOMD was never proven, so it wasn't a fact. You may have your facts wrong about what the facts actually were!

[myoclon1cjerk]

There was no suspicion. It was a bald-faced lie.

[domino-710]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Fact is, that the US, Britain and the Coalition of the Willing invaded Iraq because they believed Iraq had Weapons Of Mass Destruction was a "fact"

.

In fact, it was not, and no WMD's were ever found.

Just an example.

Facts are indeed, contentious.

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The US, Britain & the Coalition invaded Iraq because they believed Iraq had WOMD.

That is indeed FACT - they did invade.

That no WOMD were found is now - FACT.

FACT - came later.

Facts are not contencious.

[myoclon1cjerk]

No they didn't believe that Iraq had WMDs. Scott Ritter who led the search in Iraq before the invasion stated there were no WMD's as did Hans Blix of the U.N. In Australia, Andrew Wilkie who was working as an intelligence analyst for the O.N.A also stated the claims by the U.S, the U.K and Australia amounted to BS. Howard then painted Wilkie as some sort of loony.