Do you notice all the propaganda out there? I was just talking to a person who works in the school system. Not to categorize anyone, but is it fair to say that many teachers and those in the school system are more liberal leaning? And it’s the liberal leaning folks (of which I am a former member I suppose) that seem to say that anything against the CDC guidelines is ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation” and ‘anti-science (remember Fauci IS science) ? It’s all very disconcerting to me. I clearly hold me tongue many times because I pick my ‘battles’, but it’s alarming to me that the propaganda pushed in schools leads people to believe that:
Masks work
Vaccines are safe and effective
Lockdowns work
Anything else is anti-science. My head is going to explode with this. Now, I don’t want to make false arguments here since I don’t know specifically what she was referring to, but my point is that coming out and saying people are spewing ‘misinformation’ as apposed to saying ‘a differing opinion’, or a ton of other ways it could be framed, leads me to believe my assumption: the messaging from our government has melded the minds of very intelligent, articulate, and lovely people.
How did we get here? How is it no one can have a differing opinion?! As I write this the propaganda machine is again at it with again Roe v Wade. The punches keep coming. The liberals are ready to riot (antifa anyone?), and the conservatives happier then pigs in shit. I again find myself in a very neutral place - a place which I was not in only a few years ago. I would be triggered of course, since my former liberal self is very much about choice. I find that liberal and conservative ideologies do a huge disservice to people in general and only serve to subjugate, minimize, and divide a population. It’s there by design, of course. It’s part of our programming. Ugh. I have no idea what to call myself, so I won’t ‘call’ myself anything and I hope you do the same.
The FDA has announced a new governing body: The Misinformation/Disinformation Bureau. (or something like that) They are also citing the election issues too. Clearly the last two years of messaging (and issues around the last Presidential election) will likely bring about cheers from the left and protesting from the right. By design? And by the way, a bureau to police peoples opinions is HORRIFYING I don’t care where you stand on this topic. It’s insane.
Misinformation: false or inaccurate information especially that which is meant to deceive.
Disinformation: false information that is intended to mislead especially propaganda issued by a governmental organization to a rival power or the media.
So tell me, who is spreading misinformation? Who is spreading disinformation?
I can think of several advertisements that spread misinformation. Will the FDA call that out? What about when our governmental does it? Who REALLY gets to decide what information is real and truthful? I have seen blatant attempts at censorship against people LITERALLY sharing a peer-reviewed paper from PubMed. I have also seen censorship when people share actual CDC science. Seems to me misinformation/disinformation is about keeping one narrative going and controlling what people think which results in a very washed out and sanitized version of truth riddled with NO SCIENCE to back it up and a whole lot of emotional triggers wrapped inside. Science is unbiased and has no emotion and information is not dangerous. People who want to control information are dangerous.
It’s all relative.
Disinformation & Misinformation
Couldn't agree with you more Sara. Don't know if you follow AIER but there have been a couple of excellent posts recently, https://www.aier.org/article/transcending-covid-tribalism-will-the-best-science-please-stand-up/, and https://www.aier.org/article/how-threat-free-are-americans-from-covid-19-late-april-2022-update/. Glen Greenwald also posted on his Substack about Homeland Security's "Disinformation Board," https://greenwald.substack.com/p/homeland-securitys-disinformation?s=r. The fact that Homeland Security is getting into the act tells me the keepers of the official narrative are getting desperate because large numbers of people are waking up. Covid was my red pill in early 2020, and the catalyst was an excellent article by Kelly Brogan, "Why We Stay Asleep When Covid-19 is Trying to Wake Us Up." I think it's been taken down from her website but you can still find it in the archives on GreenMedInfo. Check out also Naomi Wolf's post on her Substack, "It's Over. Oh, Ok."
Many thanks for your post, very good. Re "I have no idea what to call myself". Sara will do as it means 'Princess' or more literally I understand 'Woman of high rank'!
As regards the misinformation and control it is appalling. The left wing activists seem to applaud totalitarian rule and expose themselves for what they are. Ultimately of course the far left and far right meet together at the bottom of the political circle adjoining one another.
Things have moved on apace since you wrote your article but I have done this and a whole lot more if you are interested.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/what-is-the-flu-a-k-a-covid-19-and-why-vaccines-are-pointless-at-best/