Covid lies cost lives – we have a duty to clamp down on them.

Why do we value lies more than lives? We know that certain falsehoods kill people. Some of those who believe such claims as “coronavirus doesn’t exist”, “it’s not the virus that makes people ill but 5G”, or “vaccines are used to inject us with microchips” fail to take precautions or refuse to be vaccinated, then contract and spread the virus. Yet we allow these lies to proliferate.

I’d add to that the lies “masks don’t work” and that the “vaccine is unsafe.”

I’ve been thinking about this problem of misinformation and related topics nearly constantly. As I’ve already noted, I have less and less sympathy for those who believe and then spread such distortions. It is not just a societal duty but an individual one to do better, to be better.

And to add my own bit of (what will probably sound like) conspiracism: I wonder how much of this is sponsored and promulgated by the Croesus class to ensure that lockdowns do continue, and that the conditions that made them vastly richer persist for as long as possible.