Voices for Freedom (again!)

I've been watching the Facebook page of Voices For Freedom. To me it's staggering the output of their page, with their frequent posts. often several a day. They have over 7,000 people following the page.

At the moment it's all about discouraging people to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Their latest post is complaining about the joint statement issued by the New Zealand Medical Council and the Dental Council concerning the professional obligation of practitioners to responsibly promote the COVID vaccine to their patients, and not to promote and encourage vaccine hesitancy (which we applaud).

Given social media's efforts (half-hearted, it seems) to shut down COVID conspiracy theories, VFF appear to be anticipating their own demise, and are encouraging people to sign up to their mailing list, which would be much more difficult to shut down (or monitor, unless there's some sneaky skeptics signed up to it!).

This weekend they've been promoting the online summit “Truth over Fear” - subtitled “COVID-19 and The Great Reset”. Here they claim that “big tech” is trying to shut them down, though I'm not sure I understand why that would be the case. That page is truly astounding! They claim that you'll get “unbiased answers to your questions”, that you'll have “will have access to 100% unbiased information”.

The presenters at the summit should be very familiar to anybody who's been following the conspiracy theory/vaccine denial industry - people such as Robert F Kennedy, Jr, Barbara Loe Fisher, Dr. Bob Sears, Dr. Judy Mikovits, and V4F's own Claire Deeks (also social media influencer and doTERRA multi-level marketer). I think their claim that you'd be hearing 100% unbiased information is pretty laughable, if it weren't so scary.