Cate Plys on Mike Pesca

Agree with Mike's basic thesis, that we can't embrace a "misinformation made him do it" mindset. Besides not necessarily being true, it's also just another reason for every partisan side to try censoring everyone who disagrees with them. Also, it troubles me that when various pundits and anonymous CDC officials blame misinformation for the CDC shooter, they don't specify *what* misinformation they mean. I don't think they just mean the idea that mRNA vaccines had microchips in them. These are precisely the people who previously called "misinformation" on anyone who questioned claims which, as Mike points out, were later proved wrong. Most prominently, these are the people who previously claimed natural Covid immunity didn't exist and that vaccines protected people from catching or spreading Covid. And they didn't want any discussion on the issue. Their unsubstantiated beliefs translated into public health policy calling for Covid mandates and shutdowns. That translated into a progressive attitude that anyone who didn't follow vaccine mandates and shutdowns was immoral. Talk about a corrosive belief, and all based on misinformation endorsed by people complaining that anyone who disagreed with them was spreading misinformation. So when I hear the blame going to "Covid misinformation," it sounds a lot like the blame being placed on anyone who wanted to discuss and debate actual scientific evidence about Covid and Covid vaccines, and what policies would then work best.