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Another fake fact check from Facebook's "Science Feedback": this one about Amish Covid-19 immunity
SHARYL ATTKISSON.COM ^ | OCTOBER 13, 2021 | BY SHARYL ATTKISSON

Posted on 10/13/2021 4:07:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The Amish claim of herd immunity was previously reported by Associated Press and other news organizations, but didn't get wide circulation. The propagandists and fake fact checkers didn't challenge the topic at the time.

But my report on the same, which aired last Sunday on Full Measure, must be having an impact.

In response, Facebook's Health Feedback propagandists have made several false and unsupported claims in an attempt to discredit The Amish approach and the reporting about it.

The fake fact-checkers falsely claim that "natural immunity post-infection is variable, while vaccination provides safer and more reliable immunity." The bulk of the scientific studies show the opposite. (You can find them here and decide for yourself.)

Additionally, they misleadingly imply that those who have had Covid-19 have even better protection if they go ahead and get vaccinated, anyway. (Refer to the same study list for the actual scientific findings to date.)

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) got caught making the same false claim, that Moderna and Pfizer studies showed people who have had Covid still are benefitted from getting vaccinated anyway, earlier this year. The studies did not show that.

Additionally Science magazine repeated the same false claim in an article that later had to be corrected. (See Media Mistake #23 here.)

Facebook's fake health fact-checkers repeating this same false information indicates they are in line with the interests putting out the disinformation through the government and scientific sources.

Facebook's fake health fact-checkers previously were exposed in an embarrassing episode when they falsely claimed the Covid-19 lab theory had been debunked and that an Epoch Times documentary was untrue

Sadly, the government, public health officials and Big Tech's fake fact checkers have damaged their own credibility

As always: Do your own research, make up your own mind, think for yourself.

(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...


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KEYWORDS: amish; covid; herd; immunity

1 posted on 10/13/2021 4:07:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4003389/posts


2 posted on 10/13/2021 4:14:02 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: Hojczyk

Of course they lie.....they’re leftists.

God bless Sharyl.


3 posted on 10/13/2021 4:16:19 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Hojczyk

they don’t get it, because they don’t have TV!!!


4 posted on 10/13/2021 5:33:04 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Jane Long

In the very beginning Fauci said this is nothing more than a bad flu and masks don’t work.

That’s when he was telling the truth.


5 posted on 10/13/2021 5:33:58 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Hojczyk

I personally know a man who was raised Amish who lost his still Amish father to COVID in January, In Holmes county Ohio.


6 posted on 10/13/2021 6:42:13 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Hojczyk

The Branch Covidians here on FR are going to be upset with you!


7 posted on 10/13/2021 6:48:21 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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BBC has aired first of what will apparently be four programs by BBC’s The Compass with Sue Nelson.
opens with acknowledgement vaccines were ready in just 9 months - a triumph - but no reference to Trump. however, everything about the program suggests it’s Trump people (conspiracy theorists/climate deniers etc) who are the anti-science mob. first episode merely sets the scene for the remaining programs.
Nelson chooses a REUTERS’ hack and a LeadStories (FACEBOOK Fact-checking mob) to advance her case.

19m40s to 23m: Reuters’ Rasmus Nielsen, professor of political communication and Director at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, followed by Maarten Schenk, Editor & Chief Technologist, Lead Stories (FACEBOOK FACT-CHECKERS):

AUDIO: 26m29s: 13 Oct: BBC World Service: The Compass: The Public Misunderstanding Of Science
Trust: What is the best way to communicate public health messages?
Presenter: Sue Nelson
Anti-vaxxers, flat Earthers, 5G arsonists and climate change deniers – why have so many people given up on science and where are governments, scientists and the media going wrong?

As Covid-19 continues to affect us all, what is the best way to communicate public health messages, when the bottom line is saving lives? Umaru Fofana reports from Sierra Leone on the Ebola prevention and vaccine campaigns and former BBC science correspondent, Sue Nelson, speaks to public health experts and fact checkers about efforts to combat misinformation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2wpd

behind paywall, but could be an interesting read:

Updated 30 March 2020: WSJ: Facebook’s Fact Checkers Fight Surge in Fake Coronavirus Claims
Contractors battle bogus assertions about canine vaccines and free baby formula; ‘We’ve maxxed out’
by Jeff Horwitz
Lead Stories, founded by former CNN producer Alan Duke, has had its hands full recently working to debunk the rising tide of coronavirus ...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-fact-checkers-fight-surge-in-fake-coronavirus-claims-11585580400

Rand Organizaton: Lead Stories FactChecker
Founder/primary contact: Maarten Schenk, ***Alan Duke
Is there a connection with tech platforms?
Yes. Lead Stories partners with Facebook.
https://www.rand.org/research/projects/truth-decay/fighting-disinformation/search/items/lead-stories-factchecker.html


8 posted on 10/13/2021 7:31:56 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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9 posted on 10/13/2021 7:43:01 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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This is the Farcebook Is Evil ping list.


h/t pookie18's cartoons

Facebook is a perfect example of socialism:
You get it for free but the quality sucks.
You have no say in how it works.
The guy who runs it gets rich.
There's no real competition.
You have no privacy.
And if you say one thing they don't like
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10 posted on 10/13/2021 7:43:59 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: Wiser now

I don’t think that they claimed herd immunity in January. And even with herd immunity, there will be some small number of infections and deaths that occur.

The term should be herd resistance, because there will never be total immunity.


11 posted on 10/13/2021 8:45:34 PM PDT by Go_Raiders (The fact is, we really don't know anything. It's all guesswork and rationalization.)
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