With a rushed Covid vaccination, politicians around the world are concerned that people may be worried that the vaccine may not be completely ‘safe’. Who to blame? Those peddling ‘misinformation’ of course. ReclaimTheNet explains:
[…] However, some people, particularly in Europe, for obvious reasons, clearly still feel uncomfortable about advocating any kind of book burning. But can’t we at least add warning tags, mainstream media and opposition politicians in the UK are now pleading with censors.
Covid, vaccines, and (mis)information are some of the issues around which censorship could be expanded, say reports who looked at how books dedicated to these topics perform on Amazon, but also on UK’s large retailer, Waterstones, and another local bookseller chain, Foyles.
[…] A population’s right to information via books (whatever they may be) is linked to the vaccination drive in the UK – apparently, people like shadow Health Minister Alex Norris are not convinced enough people will accept to be inoculated unless they are completely cut off from different points of view, and isolated in a hermetic pro-vaccine bubble.
“Getting our population vaccinated is a massive priority and it is very sad to see these things so freely available,” Norris told Sky News, apparently very sceptical of people’s ability to engage in critical thinking. Is everyone purchasing these books necessarily a “Covid misinformation advocate” – or simply a person who wants to learn more, from different points of view, before making a decision before getting that “jab”?
In other words, Covid vaccination, being a matter of ‘life and death’, is too important a matter to let you, yes you, decide for yourself. After all, by refusing to be vaccinated you’re putting the whole world at risk, or something like that. Just like by refusing to go vegan, cycle everywhere and swap your dirty petrol car for a nice clean electric, you’re dooming the planet and all future generations.
I mean it’s not like governments have ever got anything wrong before.
[…] Last, but not least, the report says that Waterstones and Foyles said selling books “does not mean the company approves of its content” while Amazon was a bit more sinister-sounding in its response, saying that it encourages customers to read official sources of information – “and will remove any products that breach its guidelines.”