The Isle of Man? Good grief, that’s the penal colony of Liverpool! No-one deserves to be sent to that corrupt hole. Once described as comprising of 80,000 alcoholics clinging to a rock - and not far from the truth.
Yep. Most adverts which have small print at the bottom of them which include numbers rely on it.
The trick is to use a large number of samples, chuck out the ones that don’t show what you want them to, and use the ones that do.
Have a look at this, most interesting…
Let’s face it. You’re just scared. Well I’m scared too but much more scared of The Whoo Hoo Flue.
GOING VIRAL Two thirds of anti-vaccine fake news and conspiracy theories ‘come from the same 12 people’
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
17 May 2021, 15:33Updated: 17 May 2021, 15:50
THE majority of anti-jab propaganda spread on social media can apparently be traced back to just a handful of people.
Researchers found that just 12 fake news factories are responsible for two-thirds of false claims made about Covid-19 vaccinations.
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They’ve been branded the “disinformation dozen” by experts at the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which identified the accounts.
Once posted, the dangerous lies they create proliferate on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
Overcoming the pandemic can only be achieved with a high vaccine uptake, a challenge that may be impeded by online misinformation.
According to the CCDH, the disinformation dozen are responsible for 65 per cent of shares of anti-vaccine posts on social media.
Overcoming the pandemic can only be achieved with a high vaccine uptake, a challenge that may be impeded by online misinformation
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Overcoming the pandemic can only be achieved with a high vaccine uptake, a challenge that may be impeded by online misinformationCredit: AFP
“A tiny group of determined anti-vaxxers is responsible for a tidal wave of disinformation,” the non-profit’s chief executive Imran Ahmed said.
They are “abusing social media platforms to misrepresent the threat of Covid and spread misinformation about the safety of vaccines,” he added.
Researchers analysed more than 812,000 posts on Facebook and Twitter published between February 1 and March 16, 2021.
Of the 689,000 anti-vaxx Facebook posts extracted by the team, 73 per cent originated from the disinformation dozen.
Of 120,000 tweets spreading misinformation about vaccines, 17 per cent featured one of the leading anti-jab personalities.
The influential accounts boast large numbers of followers and produce high volumes of anti-vaccine content.
And while they aren’t responsible for every anti-vaxx post, the majority of the false rumours within them are said to have begun with one of the 12 people.
Originally released in March, the research was published to urge leaders at social media platforms to take action against the offending accounts.
Facebook has banned anti-vaxx content from its platform, while Twitter blocks users who repeatedly tweet misinformation about Covid vaccines.
“Social media is enabling anti-vaxxers to recruit millions of Americans and indoctrinate them with fear and doubt,” Ahmed said.
“If Big Tech companies don’t act now, the pandemic will be prolonged, and more lives will be lost.”
Since then, a follow up study from the CCDH found that 10 of the group were still on Facebook and Twitter as of April 25.
Nine of them remained on Instagram.
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have since taken down more of the accounts run by these 12 individuals.
According to the CCDH, it’s a failure of Big Tech that the accounts are not being taken down more aggressively despite breaching their platforms’ terms of service.
Many of the individuals operate highly-organised teams chasing a quick buck at the expense of people’s health and safety.
“The key protagonists in the ‘anti-vaxx industry’ are a coherent group of professional propagandists,” Ahmed wrote in an article in Nature Medicine earlier this year.
"These are people running multi-million-dollar organizations, incorporated mainly in the USA, with as many as 60 staff each.
“They produce training manuals for activists, tailor their messages for different audiences, and arrange meetings akin to annual trades conferences, like any other industry.”
I will take issue with this assertion, though:
#18: I ALREADY HAD COVID
I didn’t enjoy it. But I survived.
Now it appears (as it always has) that I have beautiful, natural, life-long immunity…
That assertion is totally unfounded - COVID-10 can be caught several times and within a short time-frame. There are many recorded cases of multiple infection and, even in my small world, I know several people who have been infected twice and one who has been infected three times.
Too American in tone for me to even finish reading let alone believing a word but luckily someone else has made more of an effort:
Christian Elliot is a self-proclaimed “natural health nerd” and entrepreneur who recently published 18 reasons why he wouldn’t take the COVID-19 vaccine. Unfortunately, it’s viral disinformation based on conspiracy theories, bad science, pseudoscience, and nonsense.
David Gorski
His review and responses are extensive and detailed.
it’s a bigger agenda than Anti vaxx May. At least that’s what i’ve seen from my anti Vaxx friends. Overlaps with climate change denial, distrust of all mainstream medicine including cancer treatments. A general hatred of Bill Gates is there too, together with pro life for some. Vaccination is just one strand. It’s good to question things but also good to question the alternative to main stream media. A lot of the messages look feasible until you scratch the surface and find facts don’t have sound sources.
Here is an article deconstructing the deconstruction point by point.
Aye You’re right of course Annie…The scaremongering will go on and on and nothing will change Folks minds…I’m glad I’m not a Person who feels the need to be right about everything and will go to any length to prove it…even if it means scaring nice little old Ladies like Me :shock: 
Here’s a nice little quote from an Edgar Allen Poe novel, which could be posted on many threads:
“To me, this article appears conclusive of little beyond the zeal of its inditer. We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation — to make a point — than to further the cause of truth. The latter end is only pursued when it seems coincident with the former.”
Could it be that Lloyd Webber’s intervention is a cynical attempt to manipulate events into a shape suitable for what will at sometime in the future become, “Covid, The Musical”? 
“Codiv 19,
Super Sars,
Where on earth do you think you are?”
After his success with face masks in Phantom of the Opera, it would hardly be surprising to see him sticking with a winning formula. 
Thanks May, Omah and Dex, I think you know the reasons for my refusal of the covid vaccine at this time, or at least I hope you do by now. You should also know that my decision was purely based on my personal circumstance and not on any propaganda found on social media or the MSM, both of which I take with a pinch of salt.
It was interesting reading your replies to the article I posted, and thank you for taking the time to research alternative views, they sound very plausible. As I have mentioned previously though I will wait at least two years before I review my decision whether to accept the vaccine. By this time all the tests will be completed to my satisfaction, and hopefully all the gremlins eliminated. Until then I will continue to limit my interaction with the rest of the human race, and take all the usual precautions.
In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That virus which calls to me and speaks my name
And do I dream again? For now I find
The Covid of the Wuhan is there
Inside my lungs
Fair enough OGF.
Don’t suppose you’d be willing to wear a badge such as a yellow star so that people could make an informed decision as to whether to come within a couple of metres of you?;-)
A virus with one’s name on it; what a chilling thought, Dex. :shock:
LOL!
That was good!
Now where have I seen that before…
Yes! I remember, do you see the connection Dex?
They’ll be burning books next…Oh! wait a minute, censorship on social media?
I chose the badge with the connection in mind.
Hope it’s not too in too bad taste to write…Vaccine Macht Frei:shock: