All Covid-19 measures are permanent, don't be a boiling frog!

"CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WONT ANSWER QUESTIONS"

Do you believe man has walked on the moon? Do you believe man has left earth and orbited the planet?

If you ignore these questions and refuse to answer then you are proving us right, your little rant above will prove that you are posting dishonestly because you refuse to debate fairly.

Let's see what his response is shall we?

The only permanent thing that I think can be permanent about the covid 19 pandemic is mandatory vaccines. Its dragging on too long now and some European countries are talking about making vaccines mandatory next year.

There also needs to be a vaccine passport to prove authentication of protection from the virus.

Even then I think it's limited to countries with low vaccine uptakes.

No they leave because they become upset that no one is indulging them in their fantasy of being a rebel researcher and they expose the fact that their beliefs are wrong and ultimately dishonest.

It's why they ignore questions and points and why they have manic little freak outs like this.

Now you day "toodles" as if you're leaving the forum for good. But I think this is the second or third time you've announced your departure with a similar attempt at being clever.

Again dramatic exits lose their effectiveness when you do them more than once.

I'm betting you'll be back for another fly by snarky post about how mean we all are in a week or two.

But sorry, no. That's simply not what happens.

In the thread you refer to the particular poster decided to drop into the thread and demanded answers to a ton of questions about the "official story". Those questions were then answered in full, directly and concisely.

He was asked one thing and one thing only: What did he believe? He refused to answer in any way, trolled the forum and then ended up making a fake image as part of a ploy to trick people somehow.

We've been asking conspiracy theorists in this thread to explain what the conspiracy theory is.

We're asking them to explain how they have come to the conclusion that the conspiracy theory is true or likely.

For some reason, none of them seem willing or capable of doing any of that.

And this is besides all the demonstrably false claims that are being made in support of conspiracy theories.

You seem to be saying that conspiracy theories aren't any different from just making stuff up and writing fiction.

I think most conspiracy theorists would object to that description.

Why would conspiracy theorists want to have their fictional writing be protected and kept in a safe space where no one can ask something offensive like "why do you believe that?" or "why are you making this false claim."

If people don't want those questions asked, it's not the people asking them that's killing discussion.

Anyone who spend a day or two in here will know quite fast who the self-appointed guardians of truth are. They provide most of the entertainment in here.

Made up conspiracies can be dangerous as we've seen. Medical disinformation during a pandemic, political conspiracies in the US, parents of slain children being harassed, anti-semitic conspiracies, etc.

It's not all just harmless fluff from moon landing hoaxers. It's so chronic that major tech companies have had to change their algorithms, it's impacted elections, it's having an effect on global vaccination during a pandemic.

It's a public discussion forum, if people want to revise history, spread medical disinfo, etc as a hobby, what's wrong with other people being able to challenge that? Basic free speech.

Alternately, they WANT to believe something and get very angry when you point out the facts simply don't support (or more usually, contradict) what they want to believe.

These sorts of beliefs are usually something you leave behind in childhood (believing in Santa, or fairies, or whatever), but there is a decent percentage of people who never leave this childhood state and simply transfer what they want to believe into flat earths, or global Jewish conspiracies, or whatever. And this is what we see here.

Deep breaths Mob, deep breaths

In the beginning we were unsure whether masks would actually be effective or not, we thought the pathogens might be small enough to simply pass through them. However once we had more information (that this new virus spread more on the larger aerosols and droplets from the nose/mouth) we were able to determine the effectiveness of masks. Not deliberate "disinformation" as such, the world is a big place, it takes time for information to coagulate, be processed, be disseminated by health bodies, then go to national decisions. It's not instantaneous or homogenous.

Likewise we were unsure how much transmission occurred through touch, studies showed that Covid could live for weeks on certain surfaces, so as a precaution the advice given was to constantly disinfect.

Much of your post reads like a mishmash of misunderstandings about the whole thing.

People pointing this out? People sit and point only where they were right, none point out the countless claims and posts by them which were wrong. It was a epidemic of false information about the pandemic on this forum, I don't recall a single conspiracy prediction or claim by any "tinfoiler" that turned out to be remotely correct. Unless it was something banal like "there will be another lockdown".

As for your comment on being "shouted down". I've presented conspiracy theories here previously, never been shouted down. I simply gave the details, and answered what I could.