MIA SAV Personalities

And the person scared of little circles

He is on right now, there are 2 peeps with close to the same name, they both come one at odd times

I wondered if Schadenfreude Here was still around. He does a lot of good detective work so I'm glad to here he is still around.

He vanished without a word. He was brutal and even his avatar looked kind of menacing as far as I remember.

@Spike Protein "If you want to change minds go to where the misinformation is and get involved commenting there."

I had been doing that for quite awhile by posting on on of the biggest sources of misinformation around: Facebook. In recent weeks, I've spent far less time on Facebook because I've had it with their absurd and meaningless "community standards". Satirical memes and sarcastic comments often get misinterpreted and result in account suspensions. I created a meme which said "Idiots think that the pandemic is a hoax". The Facebook cops apparently failed to see the first two words, and penalized me for "posting covid misinformation".

I've also had my account suspended for posts that were anti-nazi and anti-KKK. Just MENTIONING Nazis or the KKK can result in a Facebook suspension, regardless of context.

It doesn't always, however. There is no way to predict what sort of post can get you in trouble at Facebook. No matter how careful you are, you never can tell when a post will be misconstrued and flagged.

Here on SorryAntiVaxxer, I'm aware that I'm "preaching to the choir", but at least I don't have to deal with crazy robot-run censorship here. And I hope that the memes I post here are copied by other users and sent to people who need to see the meme's messages.

@perlinator I agree with everything you say. I've never been a Facebook user (apart from using a FB account to research entrants on this site). From the cases here on SAV you can see what a huge role Facebook played as a platform for misinformation. Makes sense that'd be a place to try to inject some sanity but sounds like it's impossible from what you say. Using counter-memes is a good approach. I get that it's more a case of like-minded people building a sense of community that an outreach site. I think there's two aspects of SAV. The posts themselves that present the cases - this is probably the changing minds part of the site. And the comments section which is more of a community of like minded people.

I've decided there's no point engaging with anti-vaxxers in places like youtube comments. There's such a strong anti-intellectual thing going on that if you mention a science journal article or virologist or whatever you'll be shouted down for being gullible enough to believe people like this who are part of the "narrative". I think part of the appeal of the anti-vaxx movement is people who previously spent their time watching reality TV and the like can now use clever words like "narrative" and outsmart scientists (so they think) with their arguments.

But there's a lot of people who are undecided and want more information. I usually just mention another video on the topic that's from a reliable source without too much comment. If they follow the link they'll get some reliable information and there will be a much higher ratio of informed comments for them to read.

I've seen Amy predict mid 2024 as an end date for the pandemic when she gets asked in Q&A live-stream sessions on Vincent Racaniello's youtube channel. This was the last session they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ns3DNjyPP4

I'm pretty busy at the moment but figure there will be opportunities to spend a bit of time here now and then over the next year or so. No matter what people think this pandemic will be with us for a while yet.

@WolfenBane 🐺 SAV Werewolf it’s your brand. Go for it. ;)