Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Bret Weinstein: I will be vindicated over Covid" video.

I strongly 3/4 agree. I think on the lab leak he was 100% right and way earlier than anyone else, but unfortunately he came up against an industry determined to protect its interests combined with a raft of truly idiotic claims about bio-weapons. Bret pointed out one fact that's never been refuted and made me change my mind on the whole subject. COVID suddenly appeared in Wuhan ALREADY ADAPTED to humans. I'm yet to see anyone refute that or explain it. He didn't get into silly arguments he just presented a fact. Is he dead right about big pharma and their insidious business practices. Yes and that was well known long before COVID. Over 25 years ago I saw a documentary about a Whistle blower who blew the lid on vitamin pills and how big pharma used trading between their own divisions to make insane profits. We've all seen what Purdue have did with Oxy and that should have put people in jail. On the "alternative treatments" he handled it poorly. He pushed too hard on things like Ivermectin in ways that did not help anyone. WAS HE RIGHT to push for considering alternatives and raise questions on strategy? YES, ABSOLUTLEY YES. In fast moving situations you need a dissenting voice or its too easy for the decision process to fall into a blind spot (tunnel vision) and make bad decisions. BUT (and this is my but with Bret) once an alternative has been proven ineffective MOVE ON. The Ivermectin question was answered and Bret help drag it on and on and on. By not letting go, Bret blew his own credibility right when we needed someone with his knowledge to question the vaccine strategy. Instead of doing right by everyone he was just blabbing about Ivermectin. Overall did he do good? YES, but he also made mistakes.
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@Dragonslairminis Yeah but I think he was right more than twice a day but on a couple of points he really messed up.
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@Dragonslairminis Actually hard to say on that because nobody knows for certain how many people took his alternative advice and then died. Certainly he messed up, and sadly he'll never admit it. But compared to other people's failures are his even close. A quick glance at Worldometers shows America is now past the million COVID deaths. I remember a certain President saying it would be 15 or something and then 50,000 and then 60,000. Now its over 1,000,000. I doubt we can put many of those on Bret Weinstein compared to some others. For instance the entire Fox team of deniers. Or Alex Jones and some of the Televangelists.
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