Write about COVID, Get Harassed.

I must confess that I'm a little bit discombobulated these days.

It's no big deal, it's just that my bike is in the shop because I've once again worn the teeth down to the nub, on the cassette which is that little cluster of gears stuck right up against the back wheel.

My bike guy, S, says I've got to stop stomping down on the pedals in the higher gears, especially when I've got the chain on the big sprocket up front.

I told him I would try, but it was going to be difficult to stop myself from trying to keep up with the elderly hordes that go zooming past me on their eBikes every day.

Anyway, not having my bike means that I'm not getting the daily exercise that helps to tamp down my autonomic nervous system, especially on the sympathetic side of the ledger.

It also means that I've been taking the bus to and from the lab this week.

And, I've got to say, riding crowded buses always reminds me of how, in the great majority of instances, complete strangers manage to get along and are really very civil towards each other.

Of course, in the digital world, this isn't always the case, especially when it comes to all things COVID.

Take, for example, the case of local Lotuslandian broadcaster Jody Vance:

Vancouver broadcaster Jody Vance says she wants to see "something good" come from the years she spent fearing for her family's safety because of one man's relentless online harassment campaign.

Earlier this month, 53-year-old Richard Oliver pleaded guilty to criminal harassment for the violent and sexualized messages he sent to Vance, her colleagues and guests on her show...

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...The harassment charge concerned messages sent between March 2020 and September 2021, which were largely focused on Oliver's displeasure with Vance's reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The communications went beyond simply views and became aggressive and threatening in nature. They refer to things such as a 'day of reckoning,'" (Provincial Court Judge Peter) La Prairie wrote...

And then there is the case of Florence Debarre, the French evolutionary biologist who discovered that there were racoon dog sequences in the original Wuhan wet market DNA swabs, a finding which may turn out to support the zoonotic spillover hypothesis of how the SARS-CoV-2 originally infected people.

Now, to be very clear, Dr. Debarre was not offering the kind of opinions that a commercial broadcaster might that could upset some folks. In addition, Dr. Debarre was not out out there draping a zoonotic flag over a laboratory origin tombstone on social media. However, she was clear about the implication of her findings:

...Débarre stresses that other animal DNA was also found in the swabs, and that there is still no conclusive proof that raccoon dogs in the market were carrying the virus, or were the vehicle for its first spillover into humankind. “But now it cannot be denied that they were there,” she says...

And, for that she has been subject to a viscious onslaught online:

...Since the publication of her findings (on a pre-print server), Débarre has been set upon by online mobs and received threats to her safety. “Last night, I was crying over the horrible things I’m reading about myself on social media,” she says...

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Now.

I obviously cannot possibly know how truly bad things got for Ms. Vance and Dr. Debarre.

And the examples you will see below are undoubtedly orders of magnitude milder than the the kind of crap Ms. Vance and Dr. Debarre had to deal with, if only because they are women.

However, I did have the temerity to write about the various COVID vaccines as they were being developed, starting back in the early 2021 when I wrote about that rare blood clotting disorder that was associated with the AZ virus-based vaccine. Not long after I started to write, carefully, about the risk/reward ratios of the RNA-based vaccines and soon thereafter the codswallop began to land on the doorstop of this blog in the form of nasty comments with some regularity.

At first I just deleted these missives from the comment threads and threw them in the trash. But it wasn't long before the volume was so overwhelming, and the narratives so unhinged, that I was forced to turn on the comment moderation feature for the first time since I started up this little F-troop listed blog way back in internet ancient times (i.e. 2004).

And with the moderation on, I also decided to archive things just in case something untoward happened down the road in the non-digital world. So far nothing like that has occurred, but now seems to be an opportune time to show you all some of this stuff so that you can see specific examples of what even a very small fish in a very, very small pond has to deal with:

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I run a holistic medical private practice, and have a background in Molecular & Cell Biology, you NEVER EVER diagnose people of pathologies using a PCR test. EVER. It’s almost Biology 101, but science was thrown under the bus from the very beginning. I presume “it had to be this way” for us to see how corrupt the ENTIRE establishment really is. The swamp runs deep and wide indeed.

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So-called authorities have disgraced themselves behind a new theology of degenerate “science” that veers back into superstition and necromancy. Proof that they don’t believe their own story shows in their desperate efforts to hide the data, confabulate numbers, ignore true facts, and lash out viciously at anyone who discloses their zealous deceits...

Be a real shame if something highly predictable were to happen to you because you are too compromised to do the right thing.

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Keep yourself firmly in the box, champ, or you might just suffer the loss of your cozy little sinecure doing nothing.

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Large numbers of injectees will see their health decline in coming weeks, and no amount of "variant" disinformation is going to change the obvious pattern.

Anybody hawking syringes under these circumstances should reasonably fear for their own safety.

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A viral out-break with a minuscule death rate is not a pandemic, no matter how many times the w.h.o.Re$ change the definition.

Injuring and killing people who were at no risk is, however, a crime and justice will be meted out.

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Just keep boostin'...You'll eventually get what you deserve.

The above is just a small, but representative, sample of the more than 2,000 messages I archived through 2021 and 2022 (leaving aside some of the more personal stuff about my day job work and my cognitive abilities, not to mention the voluminous levels of lunatic fringe 'proof' demonstrating the existence of the 'plandemic').

The point is, do you see how unhinged and relentless these folks can be?

And do you see why, particularly because her harasser included a member of her family in his threat messages to her, Ms. Vance is, in my opinion at least, completely justified in initiating her civil suit now that that the criminal case is over?

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