FB Doesn't Want You to Know that Susan is Still Alive!

...are the fact checkers right?

Yesterday, I posted about “Susan’s Still Alive Day”, which happens tomorrow, Monday, August 22nd.

Today, Susan told me that Facebook has removed the post, citing “…false information about Covid-19 that could contribute to physical harm.” As per usual, FB does not tell Susan what in her post was false or might contribute to physical harm, so we are left to guess.

So here’s me guessing: Everything Susan says in her post about the “miracle treatment” (except the name. Do you think that’s it?) is backed up by piles of studies and data that many of us have been posting on FB and elsewhere for months. So that can’t be it. And the NYT article she mentions - I have to believe that was a real article, so I doubt that was it.

That doesn’t leave us a whole lot. Other than Susan’s own observations that she is in “…a state of amusement”, that she is “(s)ending love to all who are watching this and just scratching their heads,” etc. I can’t imagine that’s what the FB “fact checkers” are referring to.

All that’s left really are two things: 1) Susan’s statement that “…someone who was triggered by my post implied there was a chance - a good chance even?? - that I would be dead in a year”, and 2) her implicit assertion (by virtue of writing all of this, and of celebrating “Susan’s Still Alive Day” with her family) that she is indeed alive. The first assertion is supported by the screenshot Susan shared in the original post. But the second…?

So maybe that’s it. No, that has to be it. I mean, that’s all that’s left. Poor Susan may think that she is still alive, but really, who is she to make this kind of pronouncement? Is she a biologist? An epidemiologist? A scientist of any kind at all? No. She’s just Susan.

Thankfully, we have an army of experts and fact checkers to rein in this kind of nonsense. Nice try, Susan - but you’ll have to try harder next time.