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Over the course of my life, I’ve worked for a number of startup companies. The thing about startups is that they’re almost always looking for money. After an especially brutal investor pitch, we were told that the reason we didn’t get the money was that one of our spreadsheets had an error. It was a small error but an error nonetheless. The potential investors believed that if they see one error, there are probably more they didn’t see. So, that one mistake cast doubt on everything else we said.
I don’t normally read or listen to CNN but it popped up on my feed with the headline: “Colin Powel Dies of Complications From COVID”. I decided to take a look. After all, how bad can they screw this up.
Turns out it was quite a bit.
After a few paragraphs about General Powel the article mentioned that there have been 7,00 breakthrough cases in the U.S. that have resulted in deaths. WTF? There is no such thing as 7,00. Now, in some countries, they use a comma to separate dollars and cents. But 7 dollars of breakthrough cases doesn’t make any sense either.
Maybe whoever wrote the story accidentally included a comma and it’s supposed to be 700. Or, maybe they left off a zero and it’s supposed to be 7,000. How are we supposed to know?
Whatever the number is, it doesn’t matter. Because there’s a very strong probability that there are other mistakes in the article. The article was supposed to be about Colin Powel. The headline made the article about COVID deaths. Don’t you think that getting the number of deaths right would be sort of important? Bungling the number of COVID deaths, in an article about COVID deaths, means that every other “fact” stated in the article is also called into question.
If a person dies with COVID listed as a cause, it’s important to also know if they had any other medical conditions. But it hardly ever gets reported. Preexisting conditions used to routinely be included in articles but not so much anymore. I wondered about the headline and how big of a part COVID really played in his death. A couple of hours later I had my answer. The headline had changed to “Colin Powell Dies of COVID Amid Cancer Battle.
Colin Powell was 84. With cancer. And fully vacksinated. Sooo, what exactly killed him?
As I read the article, I came across the phrase we’ve all seen and heard a thousand times before, “the vaccines have proven to be safe and effective.” To me, that’s a huge warning sign. When I seen an article that contains the phrase “the vaccines have proven to be safe and effective”, I immediately discount the entire thing. Because if they’re going to state data that is so obviously false as a fact, then how can I possibly give credence to anything else they have to say?
The vackseens are not safe. But try telling that to the hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed or maimed by the drugs. At best you could call them safe-ish. The vackseens are not effective. Well, they’re effective-ish. If they’re truly effective, then Fauci and his band of very powerful misfits wouldn’t already be conditioning people to line up again for another dose of their wonder drugs.
Everyone has an agenda. So every bit of information you receive, regardless of the source, should be questioned. You need to be especially careful when what you hear is something you happen to agree with. Because while it’s difficult to convince someone of something new, it’s much easier to reinforce something they already believe.
Here’s an example. Lately, there’s been a lot of talk of about 50,000 elderly people who died after being vacksinated. The data comes from a Medicare database and is being used to demonstrate how dangerous the drugs really are.
The data is real. The numbers are real. But alone they don’t tell the whole story.
Remember when you kept hearing about the number of people who have died “from” COVID when they really died “with” COVID? Didn’t that piss you off? Saying that 50,000 elderly people died after receiving the vackseen is the exact same type of misuse of information.
It’s true they died and it’s even true that they died after being vacksinated. But clearly some of those people in the Medicare data would have died anyway, even if they hadn’t been vacksinated. Having died “with” the vackseen isn’t the same as having died “from” the vackseen. Sound familiar?
Yet so many people are forwarding this misinformation as if it’s the gospel when it uses the same faulty logic that they’ve been complaining about for over a year. And because those people already believe that vackseens are dangerous, they gladly spread these “facts” without a second thought. Because it reinforces what they already believe.
The only way the 50,000 number becomes relevant is if they adjust for the people who would have died anyway, with or without the vackseen. It still might be close to 50,000. Or, maybe not. But, unless you take into account that many of these people were already sick and/or dying, it’s easy for someone to poke holes in your argument. And once they find one thing that doesn’t make sense, your credibility has been undermined.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I believe there are plenty of people dying from the vackseen. Probably even a lot of those 50,000 Medicare people. So, we don’t need to make shit up. Let’s use the facts, logic and reason to our advantage.
If you misstate “facts” or spread misleading information, it hurts the argument against vackseens and any of the other COVID-related horseshit. Because if we’re right, and I believe we are, then we don’t have to rely on misinformation to make our point.
The people who believe in masks and mandates might be idiots, but they’re not stupid. All it takes is one error to cast doubt on everything you say. And then nobody is going to buy what you’re selling.
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