Posted on 08/30/2021 5:26:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Anyone who has been to college will recognize that course number. Freshman courses start at 100, and the numbers get larger as you progress. Numbers below 100 mean that you need to make up for what you didn’t learn in high school. A lot of Americans simply can’t get to the starting blocks. They know they don’t trust the government and they don’t trust the media, but then they watch PMSNBC and take the CDC at its word. It’s clear that their cognitive isn’t connected, so they can’t even develop cognitive dissonance. Their brains are off and their transmission is stuck in Park. Let’s see if we can at least turn the key.
There is one absolute truth that must be understood as we begin. As Ayn Rand famously said, something cannot be both “A” and “not-A” at the same time. This is the Law of Non-Contradiction. A proposition cannot be both true and false at once. Another fallacy is simply presenting the word of another as gospel. This “Appeal to Authority” is a way for the person making the assertion to avoid confronting any information that might contradict the “authority’s” statements.
With Anthony Fauci as the face of the CDC (He’s at NIAID, but few notice the distinction.), we must ask a simple question. Has Anthony Fauci been consistent in his advice and practices? Many on the Left simply take his latest pronouncement at face value, never remembering that he has been all over the map on masks. In the beginning he said, in concert with CDC recommendations, that public masking was of no benefit. Then he flipped back and forth, making excuses for his earlier positions.” Once we get the vaccine, we won’t need masks.” Now CDC Director Walensky says the vax doesn’t matter. You have to wear a mask. Critical Thinking tells us that Fauci and the CDC are not to be trusted because they can’t keep their story straight. Were they wrong before, or are they wrong now? Were they lying? Heaven forbid! All we need to do is check the data. Masks in public don’t help. The CDC is stuck on stupid.
One example isn’t enough for this crew. Fauci told us that we needed 60% of people to get vaccinated for us to have “herd immunity.” Wikipedia notes that this is “indirect protection” that everyone gets when enough people become immune. It’s a concept, not a number, and it doesn’t say how that immunity arrives. But as more people got jabbed, suddenly the number crept up to 70%, 80%, and now everyone has to get the shot to get a “vaccine passport.” Critical analysis tells us that, since the goalposts are changing, this diktat from a government agency is suspect. But there’s more.
We’ve been lectured that the best immunity comes from the shot. Now CDC Director Walensky tells us that it’s not that good. Fully vaccinated people can readily spread the Delta Variant. The immunity it confers is waning, and we’ll need a booster. So the critical thinker has to ask if there’s another way to become immune. What if I have already had COVID? Believe it or not, Wikipedia, provides an answer. The concept of herd immunity was developed from naturally acquired measles immunity in the 1930s. Is it possible that the same is true for COVID?
A large Israeli study shows that getting the Wuhan Flu and recovering confers “durable immunity,” thirteen times better than the vaccine. The National Institutes of Health leans on a modeling study to say that the vaccine is better. But both can’t be true. So the critical thinker must ask why the results conflict. The NIH funded study looked at mechanisms, but the Israeli study looked at people. Mechanisms don’t get sick, people do. So the NIH proclamation doesn’t fit with the facts on the ground. Another government agency has lied to us. How long have they been lying? And about what subjects?
Every night for about a year, the Drive-by Media ran chirons with COVID case and death tickers. These stopped when Joe Biden occupied the White House. That alone should raise our antennae. Now with the Delta Variant, we’re getting panic porn about huge case increases. “Hospitals are being overcrowded” is the line, and the message is “Delta will kill you, get the shot!”
By now, the critical thinker will ask why hospitals are being overcrowded. This time, the answer is a bit harder to find, in that the MSM has simply not reported it. They have instead followed the CDC line that Hydroxychloroquine is hocus-pocus. They trumpeted a study that Lancet had to withdraw supposedly proving that doctors who prescribe HCQ are quacks. And a number of states prohibited the use of this safe and effective drug. The same thing is happening with Ivermectin. On August 26, ABC News trumpeted the fact that some people were getting problems from veterinary doses of Ivermectin. They didn’t report the fact that people had to resort to veterinary medications because of roadblocks thrown up by the powers that be.
Tracing this a bit farther, we have to ask why those roadblocks exist. At the risk of being a conspiracy theorist, we have to note that Anthony Fauci has been on the inside of coronavirus vaccine development for decades. He also helped develop remdesivir for AIDS, only to discover it was no help. The only treatment protocols Fauci and CDC have approved are for after people are so sick they have to come to the hospital. But there are at least thirteen effective protocols for at-home therapy.
It would be possible to go on into the wee hours with examples of how our “betters” at government agencies tell us to do things that are opposite to what the data shows. The very best face we can put on this is that there is disagreement. But the government insists that it is right, and all dissent must be suppressed. This should again suggest that the government is incorrect. After all, if the best argument that can be made is to shout us down, they the people shouting are almost certainly wrong.
Vigorous scientific dissent and discussion are excellent ways to reach truthful answers. Dictatorial responses only demonstrate a desire for power. Careful thinkers should rise up in firm opposition to petty dictators. For every complicated question, there’s a simple answer that’s wrong. Diktat’s are those simple answers. We must be free to make our own decisions.
Solid, reasoned article.
Thanks. Forwarded this article to my son, whom I have not seen in almost two years due to the hysteria surrounding the Chinese Virus. Come, Lord Jesus.
“Solid, reasoned article.”
Agreed - I’ve used some of these points during confrontations with true believers in the Book of Fauci and Wallensky. Most recently was a couple of days ago where I pointed out to an individual claiming to “follow the science” that she clearly didn’t believe in her KN95 mask protecting her because she felt the need to be rude by stepping away from me because I was not masked. When I pointed out that contradiction, I was called an a$$hole.
Best line in the article was Ayn Rand observation on “A/not A can’t both be true” because it is the nugget that is central to the current divisions.
The author is a doctor. That's all I need to know.
“Best line in the article was Ayn Rand observation on “A/not A can’t both be true” because it is the nugget that is central to the current divisions.”
It reminds me of my studies in Digital Logic and Boolean Algebra.
I’ve found many types like this (including in my own family) are completely impervious to facts, data, logic or reasoning. They take CNN and MSNBC as if they’re The Word from God himself, and there will be no changing their minds.
They don’t wish to change their minds.
All I keep hearing from them is “I never heard that” - well, no, if you depend on the likes of the NY Times, CNN or MSNBC - or worse The View - to get your news.
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A question I would like to raise is that Fauci knows very well the same basic point of logic: A cannot equal nonA. So why continually speak in these terms if you are giving scientific advice in a pandemic?
One answer I am considering:
A Belgium psychologist at the University of Ghent, Mattias Desmet, believes it is a purposeful tactic in order to create mass psychosis. His research has been on the psychology of totalitarianism and he believes creating mass psychosis is one of the means of basic control in these types of regimes. The continual contradictions wear people down and cause depression, a lack of sense of purpose and create an extremely painful psychological state (free floating anxiety and mental discontent) in which people get to the point they will give up everything to relieve it - even if it is a lie - so long as it takes away the anxiety. He believes the vaccinations have been put forward as this remedy.
I think this is the level of intellectual sophistication of our millennials and generation z types.
A word salad substitute for a single word concept we’ve had since the 1940s: gaslighting.
Dr. Noel singlehandedly demolished the mask myth last year (using a vape). He speaks truth.
"A large Israeli study shows that getting the Wuhan Flu and recovering confers “durable immunity,” thirteen times better than the vaccine."
I looked at the link to the study on Townhall, where it says, "the researchers compared more than 14,000 people who had a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and were still unvaccinated with an equivalent number of previously infected people who received one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine." The Pfizer vaccine is a two-part vaccine, so to get an accurate measure of the immunity conferred by the vaccine you would need to compare infection rates between the unvaccinated with prior exposure and those who received their SECOND dose at least 2 weeks ago. This study is flawed.
I understand the concerns about possible side effects, but when the majority of those hospitalized for COVID are unvaccinated I think it is disingenuous to say the vaccine does not work.
FOX 13: Delta Variant Surges in Utah
Health Risks for Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated People
Delta Variant in Unvaccinated
There is also the fact that the rate of vaccine-related myocarditis is 0.001% compared to the 2% death rate from COVID in this country.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3985007/posts
Worldometers
SAVE
Three of the most fundamental and practical elements of ‘truth’ are:
1. Coherence
2. Consistency
3. Clarity
From the very start, none one of those things are IN Fauci’s narrative/s or recommendations.
I am pretty sure that those elements are (and HAVE BEEN) deliberately omitted and/or manipulated in all the dialogue and debate over COVID.
The last thing that our ‘politicians’ and ‘scientists’ want is for Americans to have a clear and complete grasp of the facts about COVID.
If that happened, the politicians' and experts' power (both formal and criminally informal) could be openly and forcefully challenged.
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