I dont think millions are dead, I do think everyone on a very big list had their devices switched to scrutinized accounts, this was to keep Chinese hush hush. You could not hide 21 million, let alone 1 million dead without seeing evidence from space. I am not joking. But, are 100K dead in China, very probable, are there a million plus infected in China, almost impossible it would not be at least this. China is in thir 4th month of this, and NO, they do not have it under control. Its not a manufactured crisis.
Flawed test kits set off a panic in China. The millions of disabled cell phone accounts are more likely due to censorship. We were getting all these videos at first, which then dropped to zero.
When China realized the virus wasn’t super dangerous, they decided to use the panic to their advantage, with the help of a complicit WHO. Western economies are in shambles while China goes back to work and buys up all these failing businesses for pennies.
Why can't it be both. China promised to close their wet markets back in 2003 after the SARS outbreak. Scientists said it was just a matter of when, not if, if they kept them open and kept eating things like bats. China didn't do shit. Then the outbreak happens and China covers it up. It comes to the US back in January largely thanks to Chinese immigrants in places like San Francisco returning from China- this was mentioned in a NY Times article about how the CA health department releases very little info in part because they fear a backlash towards Chinese Americans. Anyway, once it takes hold Dems see an opportunity to use it against Trump and get their agenda passed and have tried to weaponize it politically with help from the propagandists in the mainstream media, most of whom have TDS and are portraying it as the end of the world.
It doesn't have to be either. The fact of the matter is, viral outbreaks are a fairly common occurrence with particularly bad ones happening every three or four years.
So opportunists and sensationalists don't need to manufacture anything, they just need to shift everyone's focus to whatever the crisis of the day is and report everything out of context as though it's unprecedented.
Once something gets into the news cycle, anyone with any kind of agenda jumps on the band wagon and starts trying to leverage the situation to their own benefit. That doesn't require conspiracy per se. They don't have to coordinate and receive orders from "the top" because it's what they always do. I mean, try and find a publicly reported disaster or crisis from the last forty years that some communist DIDN'T try to use as a reason to push communism.
As more and more people jump on the band wagon, it becomes a public relations issue that organizations and public individuals feel like they HAVE to say something about. That in turn gives the sensationalist "reporters" even more to report. Next thing you know, even online video game companies have a "COVID-19 statement of action".
As a result, the crisis du jour becomes the number one thing people see and hear about, so naturally it becomes the only thing anyone is talking about. A psychological short-cut known as the "Availability Heuristic" tricks us into thinking that it MUST be super important or we wouldn't be hearing so much about it.
What you have then is essentially a feedback loop. People think it's the most important thing, so media personalities keep talking about it. Someone says something like "what if we run out of toilet paper" and the magnifying effect of social media actually CAUSES a run on toilet paper. The concern trolls use that as PROOF that they were "right all along".
Suddenly, people who have ALWAYS been going on about nonsensical worst case scenarios gain a false sense of relevance. Two years ago the guy saying China was going to unleash an engineered super virus was instantly written off as a quack by most people, but now it's, "My God, what if he's right?!" Again the lack of context or historical perspective leads people to confuse this new attention with special knowledge because they don't know that same guy has wrongly been predicting various end of the world scenarios for decades. Of course that new attention eggs on more doomsayers and causes more panic.
Also, we do have real political enemies who jump on the opportunity to cause discord among us. Mass disinformation campaigns aren't just about getting people to believe a lie. Sometimes they're about spreading so much disinformation, some obviously wrong, that individuals feel it's hopeless to try and get ANY real information. The point is to sow distrust and paranoia, and it's working great right now.
The fact that novel viral outbreaks in general are more common than you think, and this viral outbreak in particular probably isn't going to make a big difference in the all-cause mortality rate over all doesn't mean that there is zero cause to take some reasonable precautions like you would for any viral outbreak. But that ALSO doesn't mean that just because there really is a virus and it really will kill some number of people all the chicken littles running around like their hair is on fire are right either.
Yeah, you may mean well, but advising everyone to take baking soda every day is not necessarily a good thing. There can be side effects, especially depending on someone's existing health issues. I think consultation with one's doctor first would be prudent.
"So, what brings you to the ER today?"
"Well, I took medical advice from some poster on the internet and...."
"Oh."
Why not both?
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I dont think millions are dead, I do think everyone on a very big list had their devices switched to scrutinized accounts, this was to keep Chinese hush hush. You could not hide 21 million, let alone 1 million dead without seeing evidence from space. I am not joking. But, are 100K dead in China, very probable, are there a million plus infected in China, almost impossible it would not be at least this. China is in thir 4th month of this, and NO, they do not have it under control. Its not a manufactured crisis.
Flawed test kits set off a panic in China. The millions of disabled cell phone accounts are more likely due to censorship. We were getting all these videos at first, which then dropped to zero.
When China realized the virus wasn’t super dangerous, they decided to use the panic to their advantage, with the help of a complicit WHO. Western economies are in shambles while China goes back to work and buys up all these failing businesses for pennies.
BioChemical Warfare. You can't change my mind.
Why can't it be both. China promised to close their wet markets back in 2003 after the SARS outbreak. Scientists said it was just a matter of when, not if, if they kept them open and kept eating things like bats. China didn't do shit. Then the outbreak happens and China covers it up. It comes to the US back in January largely thanks to Chinese immigrants in places like San Francisco returning from China- this was mentioned in a NY Times article about how the CA health department releases very little info in part because they fear a backlash towards Chinese Americans. Anyway, once it takes hold Dems see an opportunity to use it against Trump and get their agenda passed and have tried to weaponize it politically with help from the propagandists in the mainstream media, most of whom have TDS and are portraying it as the end of the world.
It doesn't have to be either. The fact of the matter is, viral outbreaks are a fairly common occurrence with particularly bad ones happening every three or four years.
https://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/year/en/
So opportunists and sensationalists don't need to manufacture anything, they just need to shift everyone's focus to whatever the crisis of the day is and report everything out of context as though it's unprecedented.
Once something gets into the news cycle, anyone with any kind of agenda jumps on the band wagon and starts trying to leverage the situation to their own benefit. That doesn't require conspiracy per se. They don't have to coordinate and receive orders from "the top" because it's what they always do. I mean, try and find a publicly reported disaster or crisis from the last forty years that some communist DIDN'T try to use as a reason to push communism.
As more and more people jump on the band wagon, it becomes a public relations issue that organizations and public individuals feel like they HAVE to say something about. That in turn gives the sensationalist "reporters" even more to report. Next thing you know, even online video game companies have a "COVID-19 statement of action".
As a result, the crisis du jour becomes the number one thing people see and hear about, so naturally it becomes the only thing anyone is talking about. A psychological short-cut known as the "Availability Heuristic" tricks us into thinking that it MUST be super important or we wouldn't be hearing so much about it.
What you have then is essentially a feedback loop. People think it's the most important thing, so media personalities keep talking about it. Someone says something like "what if we run out of toilet paper" and the magnifying effect of social media actually CAUSES a run on toilet paper. The concern trolls use that as PROOF that they were "right all along".
Suddenly, people who have ALWAYS been going on about nonsensical worst case scenarios gain a false sense of relevance. Two years ago the guy saying China was going to unleash an engineered super virus was instantly written off as a quack by most people, but now it's, "My God, what if he's right?!" Again the lack of context or historical perspective leads people to confuse this new attention with special knowledge because they don't know that same guy has wrongly been predicting various end of the world scenarios for decades. Of course that new attention eggs on more doomsayers and causes more panic.
Also, we do have real political enemies who jump on the opportunity to cause discord among us. Mass disinformation campaigns aren't just about getting people to believe a lie. Sometimes they're about spreading so much disinformation, some obviously wrong, that individuals feel it's hopeless to try and get ANY real information. The point is to sow distrust and paranoia, and it's working great right now.
The fact that novel viral outbreaks in general are more common than you think, and this viral outbreak in particular probably isn't going to make a big difference in the all-cause mortality rate over all doesn't mean that there is zero cause to take some reasonable precautions like you would for any viral outbreak. But that ALSO doesn't mean that just because there really is a virus and it really will kill some number of people all the chicken littles running around like their hair is on fire are right either.
I am going to choose D, all of the above
Yeah, you may mean well, but advising everyone to take baking soda every day is not necessarily a good thing. There can be side effects, especially depending on someone's existing health issues. I think consultation with one's doctor first would be prudent.
"So, what brings you to the ER today?" "Well, I took medical advice from some poster on the internet and...." "Oh."
From baking soda? Really??? Lol come on
Well, it's not like it's a tide pod or anything. But there could be issues in some people is all I'm trying to say.