As Covid Cases Plunge Nationwide, So Does Our Willingness to Trust the Media
People are out here fiending for dopamine
In his magisterial book “The Black Swan” (2007), philosopher Nassim Taleb noted that “People are almost always only convinced of what they already know.”
Sorry but it’s true. And it’s a fact that crossed my mind again tonight as I read about the latest plunge in Covid cases nationwide. Then it occurred to me for the six millionth time since the pandemic started that the only reason anyone ever even reads or asks about Covid is to hunt for dopamine—the kind that can only come from hearing your own point of view lovingly puffed up by your favorite wizard or potentate of received wisdom.
The number of new Covid-19 cases in the United States has dropped by nearly a quarter in the last two weeks, further signaling a downward trend in the country’s fourth wave of the pandemic.
The country has averaged about 70,000 new cases per day from Oct. 14 to Oct. 27, a decrease of 22 percent from the two weeks prior. The number of Covid-related deaths also dropped during that time by about 14 percent.
Overall, new cases have fallen 57 percent since Sept. 13, the peak of the fourth wave, which saw an average of more than 166,000 new cases daily, according to NBC News’ Covid tally.
If you were under the impression that we were only entering the third wave, it’s possible you overlooked the micro-wave which nuked America during the summer. That was the true third wave, and this new wave appears to be worse than the older ones.
Of course it only looks worse if you blindly accept the official definition of “cases”—something which extremely smart and intelligent people always do. Other people, such as myself and my fellow peasants, are confused how experts are allowed to glibly redefine the meaning of cases willy-nilly, and further wonder why they would want to do that.
The technique used to “test” for Covid infection (but it does no such thing) is the Polymerase Chain Reaction. The man who invented it, Kary Mullis, received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work.
Yet Mullis repeatedly said on record that the technique was expressly for research purposes, and could not be used for medical diagnosis. Sadly, and very notably, Mullis died a few months before the start of the global pandemic, so-called. (I wonder why?)
Anyway. There can be little doubt of what he would have said about the bizarre use to which his invention has been put the past two years. He was already notorious in his lifetime for having repeatedly challenged and contradicted Anthony Fauci for the latter man’s fake, phony and fallacious claims about HIV being the cause of AIDS.
Watch this video. Mullis believed the CDC is an agenda-driven institution using a public health campaign to cloak their power plays. He even called publicly for Fauci to debate him about the HIV hoax, but of course Fauci would never take him on because he would have gotten his clock cleaned.
Damn roasted!
Mullis was an extremely interesting and funny man, from what I can tell. He wrote fiction, was an avid baker, and dabbled all his life in a number of scientific pursuits. A renaissance man, and a throwback.
Anyway, the definition of positive cases during the plandemic the past two years has been totally pseudo-scientific. (To point out one funny example, Elon Musk reported getting multiple positive and negative test results for COVID on a single day.)
Shaun Truelove, an infectious diseases scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, attributes the drop in cases to a combination of immunity from vaccination and people who have already had a Covid infection.
It is kinda weird how immunity will drive cases down. I never thought of it before, but it’s similar to how as the sun goes down, the air outside cools off.
This is Shaun Truelove.
“We think that's happening because of the amount of immunity that's built up in the population,” he said. “That's really driving down the number of people who remain in the population that are susceptible.”
HAHHAHAHAHAHA. This man is some kind of a scientist? My 11-year old has more sense.
Nevada saw the biggest two-week drop in cases, down 55 percent. Cases have fallen significantly in Southern states: falling 48 percent in Georgia, 47 percent in South Carolina, and 46 percent in Tennessee.
Damn straight!
Cases have decreased 40 percent in Florida, where hospitals were stretched to the breaking point this summer.
There is actually zero way of confirming or refuting this perpetual narrative about the overwhelmed hospitals. We do know that many healthcare workers, nurses and patients around the world have openly contradicted the claim that hospitals everywhere are consistently (or even seasonally) being swamped by Covid patients.
What’s more, it’s plain that the legacy media have been making similar outlandish claims for years (literally years) about hospitals being full to bursting and running out of beds due to winter surges of the flu (which is all Covid is anyway).
But muh super-deadly Delta Variant is going to kill ‘em all!
Anyway, the media has a total lockdown monopoly on what can be reported and communicated, and people who contradict that narrative are quickly banned, fined or fired.
After vaccines were made available to most adults in April – and then teenagers in May – cases fell to their lowest levels.
Even granting that “cases” are a category of reality here, rather than an imposed media narrative—imagine thinking correlation proves causation. Whoopty-do about the rolling out of the Messenger RNA shots. Two things can coincide in a way that is causal, or a way that is random, and our ability to establish which is which depends on far too many factors to say with any honesty what’s happening.
Furthermore, it’s correlation-causation for the Narrative Masters, but never for the skeptics. When we point accurately to the horrific numbers of deaths and injuries suffered by people soon after getting one of the shots, suddenly the believers explain that those problems are caused by (checks notes) by underlying diseases and conditions!
Go ahead and read that picture closely. The exact thing we’ve been saying and reporting for well over a year—that the exaggerated Covid death tolls are actually laundered deaths from co-morbidities such as diabetes, heart conditions and cancer—is suddenly a valid explanation for the deaths happening to people who are vaccinated.
This story is from March 2020!
The Science does not lie. It simply transmits reality to the Faithful through its omniscient priests in the media and government. If the Science says that underlying conditions can only kill people who are also vaccinated, that is the Truth. If it conversely declares that people who are unvaccinated can only ever be slain by Covid, we must accept Fauci’s dog-ma. Anything less is anathema!
Currently, more than 57 percent of the country’s population is fully vaccinated, with Vermont having more than 70 percent of its population fully vaccinated. Puerto Rico and Guam have pushed that number slightly higher with about 73 percent of their populations fully vaccinated.
Again, there is no way to prove that any of these numbers are real. At best, the numbers are based on surveys with no method to control for whether people are telling the truth, and knowing that in many contexts there is a stigma around doubting or refusing the kill shots.
It is of course in the interests of the governmedia complex to do all in its power to foster a broad public belief that a majority of people are either already vaxxed or well on their way as the Science continually evolves its unswerving command of Truth and Justice. Otherwise the enormous number of people who know how deadly this thing is will become aware how many likeminded allies they have—and resist even harder!
But I think the percentage of people who have taken these fool shots is far, far lower than what’s being reported.
The point being: we have no way of looking into any of this, nor do we have a compelling reason to trust what we’re told by these trickledown media whores. The vast majority of journalists are failed novelists who equate reporting with some sort of vague link to power and prestige, like the courtiers of Louis XIV at Versailles.
As Taleb pointed out in his comment about what truly moves people, very few of us read or listen in order to deepen or widen our comprehension of issues, or to become truly familiar with other viewpoints. For most people, the only purpose of hearing anything is to confirm the biases we already cherish. This is literally edifying, in the sense of building up and fortifying oneself against the cruel onslaught of conflicting information assailing us today.
There’s nothing intrinsically bad about this human tendency to seek the familiar, stories and factoids that appear to bolster the narratives to which we all cling for life. But this habit absolutely must be born in mind when attempting to read and understand the daily propaganda which passes for news today. In fact, it would be sheer madness to try and read this febrile gibberish if one did not bear Taleb’s dictum firmly in mind as one read.
Here’s the thing: just do not believe anything the media says about anything, especially not the virus, the reasons for new measures and lockdowns, or their alleged desire to help you and keep you safe and healthy.
This whole thing has been the final phase of an old and long-established plan for you to own nothing and tolerate increasing amounts of poverty and anarchy all around you.