I admire JK Rowling enormously. Why? Because having attained professional success and wealth beyond the imagination of most of us, she could have taken the easy option and kept her head down. Instead, she put herself on the frontline to defend her fellow women, knowing that she would become a hate figure in the eyes of many. That takes guts and principles. Give her the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
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I love this article. I have several virus deniers on my substack. While I do not agree with them, they are my valued readers with interesting thoughts on various matters. I do challenge them gently from time to time.
While I do think that virus denial is a mistaken belief, I am pretty certain that I unknowingly hold some other mistaken beliefs, so I just let them say whatever they want and I sometimes make comments to express why I do not agree with them.
Hi Igor. I too appreciate this article, while I might have decided for myself that Viruses do not exist, at least in a contagious manner, I am still open to this debate as I'm just a bloke that hits a keyboard for a living. I appreciate that your engagements with your readers that might not go along with the full germ theory are respectful. I too agree that, right now, the fighting mandates is the more important fight. But I also think that until contagion can be unequivocally proven and that A…
Yeah, we are people and we can agree to disagree. I was infected by a covid infected person, had covid, lost smell for a month, and had other covid symptoms such as diarrhea and lowered blood oxygen. It was not a cold and it was contagious.