Critics of the United States COVID-19 policy have raised numerous concerns regarding the effectiveness of lockdowns, school closures, epidemiological modeling, masks, and COVID-19 vaccines, all of which were promoted by public health authorities with an almost religious fervor.
Yet, despite the concerns raised by dissident voices, the doubts expressed by individuals such as Offit and Fauci, and the flagrantly unethical conduct of the CDC, there remains a strong contingent of those who still hold that the greatest sin of the COVID era was committed by the heretics who questioned the encyclicals of public health authorities, thus potentially encouraging others to do the same.
A group of public health scholars from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for example, recently published andocumenting the characteristics of dissident doctors and the “COVID-19 misinformation” they spread during the pandemic. These researchers define the concept of “COVID-19 misinformation” as “assertions unsupported by or contradicting US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on COVID-19 prevention and treatment during the period assessed or contradicting the existing state of scientific evidence for any topics not covered by the CDC.
Specific examples of COVID misinformation included by the scholars were claims that COVID vaccines, masks, or social distancing were either ineffective or potentially harmful. Other examples, which seemed less about CDC policy and more about maintaining faith in public health institutions, included claims that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from a lab, assertions that the U.S. government engaged in the censorship of dissidents, and accusations that the CDC acted in a dishonest manner.
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