But to be quite honest I'm at a loss on this one, and starting to come round to their anti-BBC point of view, albeit for slightly different reasons...
The BBC have pulled a comment that I posted at the bottom of one of their articles ... here's the comment I posted in it's entirety just as I posted it...
"@"If the virus is mutating to become more transmissible and able to evade the vaccine antibodies it's good evidence that the vaccines are effective."
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Not really.
If you need a new vaccine every few months, it's not much of a useful vaccine, is it!"
Here's the reason the BBC have given for removing it...
"Your comment was considered to have broken the following House Rule:
"We reserve the right to fail comments which...
Are considered likely to disrupt, provoke, attack or offend others
Are racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable
Contain swear words or other language likely to offend""
I know I'm not the most diplomatic of people, but I really struggle to see that there is anything even remotely provocative or offensive about my comment.
It's just commenting - in response to another commenter's argument - that if a virus can easily get around a vaccine, it wouldn't appear to be such a useful vaccine. I mean, look at it this way, a door lock, no matter how 'good' it is, isn't really any use if a burglar can just go through the open window next to the door. Or looking at it a different way, a door lock isn't really much use if it just forces the burglar to use a different lock pick to get through it.
Am I missing something?
Is there something offensive about what I posted?
To me it just feels like it's been removed because it doesn't fit the narrative the BBC wants to pump out in relation coronavirus and vaccines.
Is it any wonder that so many people are suspicious of the government and media messaging around coronavirus?
It doesn't really help reassure or win over anti-vaxxers, when the media powers seem to be silencing anyone sincerely just 'having their say' on the "Have your say" comments section that they provide for that purpose.
It seems like - Have your say as long as it fits in with the agenda we the BBC want to pump out.
The irony is, I'm not even an anti-vaxxer. I've had both jabs and will be getting the booster as soon as offered. My comment which they removed, was just questioning the basis for the comment that I was responding to.
But it's beginning to feel more and more like questioning what we're being told isn't allowed.
We've just got to shut up and do what we're told like good little sheep - or should that be Peppa the Piglets - whether we agree with it or not.
