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Lincoln Microphone LLC's avatar

The email from Francis is wild. What I find more impressive is that they let him retire in 2025, how was he not fired?

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

I guess I don't find it that wild sitting here in 2025 and think far too much has been made of it.

It's how people talk when they are competing. And it serves the political victory story very well at this point, does it not?

All press is good press

GBD authors (together and as individuals) were elevated and heard from the outset. They were not silenced or censored in the true sense of those words.

Adding on to respond to your edit/question:

What should he have been fired for?

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Lincoln Microphone LLC's avatar

I find the spirit of his email completely out of bounds in context of the time. They didn't know, I didn't know, so silence others who speak out of line. That's not science.

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Ollie's avatar

Agreed, more like an indictment. (Ss comments doesn't seem to register when i click 'like' on a comment;-)

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Who does the firing? Oh right, the same politicians that appointed him.

Also, being fired doesn't remove your pension unless it was a clearly criminal act. Did they ever charge and convict him with a crime? No.

I find it odd that he and others used official mail to discuss these things, knowing that they have back door methods.

It's like the Twitter files psyop where they exposed where there was intimidation by the government. Ok Cool.... Sure...

But they always had back door access to the establishment social media platforms.

Why do it in a traceable manner?

Perhaps Collins and other reveals are there to put the focus on a "few corrupt" in order to hide the fact that it's always been corrupt by the nature of the system.

But I'm not worried. People are not as gullible as they used to be. They can blame Fauci and Collins etc all they want, but people will ask as to why these things were allowed in the first place!

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Steven Johnston's avatar

Mostly, people who are highly qualified but are pretty stupid.

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Jen Young's avatar

I have a 12/20/21 email from 'Great Barrington Declaration' with a "belated thank you for signing". I replied to a 10/6/20 email from a friend who asked me to sign telling her that I had signed the day before. So more than 14 months later my signing was confirmed.

I vividly recall accidentally receiving a California school newsletter addressed to my apartment building neighbor (an active member of the teacher's union). The newsletter prominently featured the GBD and had a forward from Bhattacharya. I thought I had photographed it but cannot find it now. I was so excited at the time thinking maybe some sense would get through to her and her ilk (but there was no evidence of her being anything other than completely captured and fearful for years).

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Aladdin Sane's avatar

I guess I’m missing something. The GBD was created to express a point of view that was not in line with the government’s policy. Many people signed it in solidarity with their conscience and the information available to them at the time. Someone with power made it disappear from the public arena. I would call that censorship.

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

It wasn't in line with the mainstream narrative.

However, it did promote the fear of a "deadly virus" spreading.

How much of this was because they were brainwashed vs it was intended to be used later as proof?

I'm reminded of the lab leak theory, first censored only to be allowed to be talked about.

Why? Because when the first official narrative failed, this was the backup narrative.

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