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Re:YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute by mixmastamyk on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:40PM (#28709610)
Yeah, I've been a fan of Paul for a long time. But his group has lost the plot since Covid happened. Perhaps an echo chamber effect.

Early on I was happy someone was fighting back against government overreach. This was around the time they were closing beaches in California, and showing photos in the news carefully taken at a 15 degree angle to make it look like people fifteen feet apart were on top of each other. It doesn't take a tremendous amount of science education to know folks don't get respiratory infections outdoors at a sunny, windy beach.

But that era is long over, govt has mostly stepped back.

Their channel however has since degenerated into sloppy, constant tone-deaf vaccination, CDC, and card bashing. We don't know everything, but one thing we do is that the major covid vaccines are orders of magnitude safer than getting it. We've had vax cards for school, etc for a long time as well. It's just an odd stance for someone with a medical background to take.

That said I wish the government would dial back its spending. Something Paul would do better to focus on. Not sure what to make of Youtube, but it's their network.

Re:YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute by dragonwriter on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:48PM (#28709720)
> It doesn't take a tremendous amount of science studies to know folks don't get respiratory infections outdoors at a sunny, windy beach.

They do at the crowded indoor public restrooms at the beach which are kind of essential to keeping the beach open.

Re:YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute by gowld on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:36PM (#28710380)
What crowded indoor restrooms?
Re:YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute by mixmastamyk on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:42PM (#28710433)
I don't know of any offhand, they are all separate. Closing exceptions would have been much easier than thousands of miles of coastline.