[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <r4r9a5$g9b$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> What about the report about fake testing kits?  It just goes to 
> demonstrate, once again, how little care some have for other people.

And people buying up toilet paper and selling it on eBay.

> Maybe this is a bit too much, but, there may be some justification for 
> tar, feathers, and lynching.  People could die from such activities, and 
> the culprits will get off with a fine and slap on wrist.

There is a lot of fake news on this topic, spreading much faster than
the virus itself.  Today I heard that such fake news is 142 times as
likely to be shared on social media.  (It pretty much conforms to the
definition of a virus itself.)  This is not just something that got
garbled, but deliberate fraud, such as inventing quotes and attaching
them to respected institutions.