YouTube censors epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski for opposing lockdown

New York Post ^ | 05/16/2020 | Jon Levine

[SeekAndFind]

Big Tech companies are aggressively tamping down on COVID-19 “misinformation” — opinions and ideas contrary to official pronouncements.

Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, former head of biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University, says YouTube removed a video of him talking about the virus that had racked up more than 1.3 million views.

Wittkowski, 65, is a ferocious critic of the nation’s current steps to fight the coronavirus. He has derided social distancing, saying it only prolongs the virus’ existence, and has attacked the current lockdown as mostly unnecessary.

Wittkowski, who holds two doctorates in computer science and medical biometry, believes the coronavirus should be allowed to create “herd immunity,” and that short of a vaccine, the pandemic will only end after it has sufficiently spread through the population.

“With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected,” he says in the now-deleted video.

“I was just explaining what we had,” Wittkowski told The Post of the video, saying he had no idea why it was removed. The footage was produced by the British film company Journeyman Pictures.

“They don’t tell you. They just say it violates our community standards. There’s no explanation for what those standards are or what standards it violated.”

In articles and interviews across the web, he has likened COVID-19 to a “bad flu.” That likely made him a target for YouTube, which said in April it would be “removing information that is problematic” about the pandemic.

“Anything that goes against WHO recommendations would be a violation of our policy and so removal is another really important part of our policy,” CEO Susan Wojcicki told CNN.

[fella]

Just add bitchute.com to your favorites. That works for me.

With the tsunami of censorship that Big Tech Social Media is progressively unleashing on us alternatives must me found. MeWe is a fairly good replacement for FascistBook. Of course they don't work like what your addicted to and being uncensored you'll be exposed to things you won't like but a little learning smooths that out.

[minnesota_bound]

The Nextdoor app has partnered with Facebook. They censor posts. I posted a comment to someone about the virus and up popped a message. Forced to edit the following:
“You have a 98%+ chance of not contracting the c hinese virus.”

Cannot say chinese! They are the cause of all of this but cannot upset the communists! I had to space the c from the rest of the name to pass.

**From Nextdoor app: When posting about COVID-19, reference guidance from the CDC or WHO and include a link to your source. Please use the terms “coronavirus” or “COVID-19” when referring to the virus