These are two very separate schools of corona contrarian that don't really overlap much, but what's notable to me is how much they both focus on being extremely mad at the same media outlets, rather than each other.https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1252673771799900160 …
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Here's a small example of this (and I'm a Balaji fan, this is not anti-Balaji content!) - someone from the "things weren't taken seriously seriously enough" faction quoting a loopy anti-vax truther, in service of hitting at their common enemy, the WHOpic.twitter.com/eYDVQ6miMo
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Replying to @tomgara
I had to quote the same guy, because I couldn't find another copy of that video.
Am looking though. If it had not been a video, I'd have screenshotted. Yeah, strang.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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Wasn't really going at anyone for RT'ing him, more just this strange position media and various institutions are in re incoming fire from both directions
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That's generally true, though, we just don't always notice them. There isn't that much public attention on them and they don't have a moment like this, because the traditional authorities screwed up in a visible way.
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But key here is antivaxxers shouldn't be the sole flagbearers of the basic, obvious truth that WHO isn't The Oracle That Must Never Be Contradicted; but especially since anti-vaccination clickbait is a genuine health hazard. Nihilism to the difference isn't sound epistemology.
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