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[nepalnt21]

doesn't penetrate the skin, doesn't transmit beyond like a thousand feet, doesn't have full worldwide coverage yet (not even close) and yet it is causing covid-19?

literal insanity.

covid-19 is absolutely caused by the sars-cov-2 virus, they have isolated this virus, you can request a culture of this virus and institutions have been studying its effects on mini lab organs.

you guys are posting literal insanity.

 

[nepalnt21]

Bump for nepads...lol

thanks for thinking of me. i don't get on the tokers' den often, aside from the speakers' corner. imagine my surprise to see that the tokers den got so political. (sad to see that a worldwide pandemic is so political, but we are stupid monkeys, only a few tens of thousands of years of society apparently hasn't truly civilized us yet)

also, nice nickname. is that cause i have a job and you correctly assumed that job might be hard in my knees from all the heavy lifting and from entering and exiting heavy machinery all day? how astute. my knees are killing me. glad to have a day off.

 

[aridbud]

Conspiracy theories around COVID-19 continue to spread. Experts weigh in on why peopl

Conspiracy theories around COVID-19 continue to spread. Experts weigh in on why peopl

Conspiracy theories around COVID-19 continue to spread. Experts weigh in....
Korin Miller
July 31, 2020, 11:09 AM

“Conspiracy theories are rooted in distrust and uncertainty, and there are two major areas in which people have long been distrustful: the medical community and politics. Unfortunately, with the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a merger of both,” says Dr. Anthony Tobia, a psychiatrist at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. “If ever there was a perfect storm where people were going to conjure conspiracy theories, it would be this.”

Education is a factor, psychologist John Mayer, author of Family Fit: Find Your Balance in Life; “Conspiracy theories are most widely held by those who have not been successful educationally,” he says. “The educated individual trusts facts, history, science, logic, proofs [and] investigation. Conspiracy theories propagate by feeding off the opposite of all those intellectual pursuits.”
Conspiracy theories also “feed into already accepted views or philosophies of life that someone has adopted for many years,” Mayer says. “In the case of COVID-19, an example would be that the USA is so strong and powerful, that we are impervious to any illness causing so much havoc, so this has to be a hoax,” Mayer says.

Social media plays a role too, Tobia says. It can breed a sense of familiarity, even among people who have never interacted before and, for some, that can be a “reliable” source of new information. “The problem is, anybody can tweet anything they want,” Tobia says. “The individual who feels more comfortable getting their news from social media platforms is more likely to be at risk for adopting a conspiracy theory.”

There is a mental health phenomenon known as cognitive bias, in which people think about information from their own personal perspective, and that can come into play here, she says.
“There are several well-known cognitive biases that can prevent people from seeking out and correctly interpreting new information,” Jennifer Trueblood says. One form of cognitive bias is called confirmation bias, and it involves the tendency of people to seek out and interpret information in a way that’s consistent with their beliefs, Trueblood says. This isn’t just a conspiracy theory thing — everyone is susceptible to it — but it can help explain why some people not only believe certain conspiracy theories when they first read them, but continue to hold fast to those beliefs even when evidence proves otherwise.

Jessica Fishman, a behavioral scientist with a joint appointment at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, agrees. “Factual arguments can actually have the opposite of the intended effect,” she says. “For example, in vaccination research, vaccine skeptics can grow defensive and more strongly opposed to inoculation when confronted with a presentation of the scientific facts.”

Overall, Tobia says, there’s only so much you can do to convince people who buy into conspiracy theories that they’re wrong — just the same as it’s unlikely they can get you to change your mind too.

 

[mexcurandero420]

Scientists: vaccine probably does not work in overweight people

A corona vaccine is likely to be less or ineffective in obese people, scientists say. Other vaccines such as influenza, tetanus, rabies and hepatitis B have also been shown to be (much) less effective in obese people. That pattern will probably repeat itself with the corona vaccine. Certainly, because the disease is extra persistent and serious in overweight people.

“Will we get a Covid vaccine tailored to the obese next year? Absolutely not, ”said Raz Shaikh, associate professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. “Does it work for obesity? Our prediction is no. ” The issue is especially concerning in the United States, where more than 107 million residents are (far) too fat. People with a body mass index over 30 are at the highest risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms.

Source (s): Daily Beast

 

[bigpeter]

A "Novel" Breakthrough? New Studies Show Memory T-Cells Offer Long Term And Pre-Existing COVID Immunity

 

[Brother Nature]

This video is being remover from social media, because it disputes the media lie.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/HeC0tHZDX7dk/

This country cannot start to heal until the media is purged of the liars.

Here is an article about the censorship.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political...ess-conference-pro-hydroxychloroquine-doctors

You can bet the media liars and foochie have their own supply of these cures, if they are not already on them.

People are falling for a big lie. Tee vee news is lying, internet is being censored. Why?

https://youtu.be/ijY2R4SQRgM

"The media is full of liars and here's some more media to prove this..."