Covid Denier Dies

[bobbinwales]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10169315/Covid-denier-dead-days-video-saying-illness-isnt-Covid-doesnt-exist.html?ito=video_player_click

Canadian Covid denier who was being prosecuted for breaching lockdown to attend a flat-earth convention is found dead days after posting video saying he had cough and chills ‘but it isn’t Covid, because that doesn’t exist’

//He had claimed to be taking ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug, to treat his illness.

Ivermectin is popular among anti-vaxxer communities as a treatment to Covid but health officials in the US and Canada have repeatedly warned people against using.//

[Mamyalynne]

Me having a go at Mak Parhar won't change a thing, if his death makes a few others change their views then some good has come from his choices in how he dealt with his life.

[Togo]

Same as it ever was. Obviously ill.

[jno]

the posts removed (indluding one of mine, I think) were all totally off-topic and some of them randomly abusive. The thread is much better and more informative now that they've gone. People are too easily sidetracked into personal squabbles.

[Togo]

//moderator takes umbrage and wields the big eraser.//

Didn't you know? That is what rubbers on the end of a pencil are for.

[andy-hughes]

vulcan - Posts that refer to deleted threads or posts, or are off the topic of the thread - or both, are removed, that is standard practice.

Far from 'reducing the thread to a shambles' - it stops the thread from being derailed into pointless arguments about deleted posts, which are nothing to do with the OP, and are against AB policy.

[andy-hughes]

jno - // the posts removed (indluding one of mine, I think) were all totally off-topic and some of them randomly abusive. The thread is much better and more informative now that they've gone. People are too easily sidetracked into personal squabbles.//

We cross-posted, but thank you for your support of the moderation process.

The Moderator in question is no doubt trying to stop the thread degenerating and being closed or pulled altogehter.

[vulcan42]

How do we know it's more informative with so many statements gone?

[andy-hughes]

Mamya - // Me having a go at Mak Parhar won't change a thing, if his death makes a few others change their views then some good has come from his choices in how he dealt with his life.//

Can't argue with that.

My point is that I find it really unpleasant that people are willing to rejoice over the death of a stranger simply because he elected to make different choices, and paid that price for them.

[jno]

you'll have to take my word for it, vulcan. But may I suggest that sidetracking the thread yet again into a discussing about mods isn't helping matters?

[andy-hughes]

vulcan - // How do we know it's more informative with so many statements gone? //

As I pointed out, off-thread posts, or those discussing deletions are removed - so I would suggest that they added nothing to the discussion, and that is probably why they were removed.

[Mamyalynne]

Quite right Andy, rejoicing in someone's death is not my style - I find it all very sad.

[pixie374]

I have every sympathy for him. Nobody deserves to die, from covid, or the countless allowed to, because covid is the only priority now.
I disagree with him, in that covid obviously exists. But he didn't invent it. And who knows, he may have been killed by the vaccine. Different choices don't make someone evil- particularly when it can only affect themselves.

[naomi24]

Killed by the vaccine? I doubt he’d have had the vaccine if he thought covid didn’t exist. The link indicates that he was a member of the anti-vax community.