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Thought this might fit in nicely here
You see, seriously for a moment…
My mind doesn’t accept anything blindly, on face value. The newspapers have an agenda. The politicians have an agenda. The news channels have an agenda. The man on the Clapham Omnibus has opinions.
I truly believe that non of the above tell, or know, the whole truth. Each has an agenda, and will only tell you that, which fits their agenda. The man on the Clapham Omnibus doesn’t know either, because he gets his knowledge from biased sources…
I don’t believe Covid is a hoax. Its real. Its serious. But how serious, we don’t know yet. Period. Many people died. But they do every year. We were fed a daily death march of how many people died “with Covid” , but seem to have completely forgotten about people dying “with cancer”, "with Pneumonia ", “with old age”, or even "with a car accident ".
A case in point, the recent India strain, “loverwhelming the Indian Health service”… I don’t have the statistics, but in a population of over a billion people, the percentage is low. What gets me, and this is where I loose the narrative, is that this is shown as the virus being a big problem, that is getting out of control. No, it is not. A third world country, with a vast majority of its population living in impoverished conditions, with ramparts racism affecting every day life, spending most of its money on a nuclear capable military, (because it has a minor dispute with a neighbour), and a space programme (yes, you couldn’t make it up…), is what is the problem there.
I, don’t know what is true. I do know that I did not see bodies pile up in the street. We did not see daily images of refrigerated lorries waiting outside crematoriums to dispose of the dead. We were told that the NHS was nearly collapsing, but the Nightingale hospitals were empty…
I know that something needed to be done. The first lock down, was a reaction to an unknown situation, and probably the right one, at the time. Should we have damaged the economy and peoples (mental) health even more with the subsequent lock downs? I don’t know, but I don’t think it saved more lives than it has ( and still will) cost.
I don’t believe the conspiracy theories. It is simply to far fetched. And if they are true, than its far bigger than the man on the Clapham Omnibus can ever hope to de with. Sometimes (informed) ignorance is bliss…
Good post.
“The newspapers have an agenda. The politicians have an agenda. The news channels have an agenda.”
Yes.
Some seek to intensify and sensationalize issues to sell papers or encourage clicks to sell ads.
Some seek to minimize any risk to workers, so they can keep the drones working, and travelling on buses, whilst the share holders sit in isolated villas.
Some do try to be accurate and balanced, but we all have prejudices, and no-one is ever fully independent of their own history.
All we can do is try to see all viewpoints and try to allow for bias whether deliberate or not.
"We were fed a daily death march of how many people died “with Covid” , but seem to have completely forgotten about people dying “with cancer”, "with Pneumonia ", “with old age”, or even "with a car accident “”
The interesting figures for me were the “Excess Mortality” figures. They dont get involved with whether or not any one death is due 100% or 90% or whatever due to C19, but looks at the big picture. Since we had about 70,000 extra deaths above what we would expect, I reckon that is real and significant. Its like smoking and cancer: some non smokers get cancer, some smokers live long without cancer, but we can see that populations who smoke more get more cases of cancer. We don`t need a detailed analysis of each and every cause of death to see that smoking is a significant cause of cancer.
bbc.com/news/uk-55631693
Or a very detailed source here
app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoi … IsImMiOjh9
Many tens of thousands more deaths than expected in 2020. And that is in spite of the lock down minimizing the spread of the virus.
…What else could have caused these excess deaths?
…Wouldn`t it have been worse without the measures taken?
“A case in point, the recent India strain, “loverwhelming the Indian Health service”… I don’t have the statistics, but in a population of over a billion people, the percentage is low. What gets me, and this is where I loose the narrative, is that this is shown as the virus being a big problem, that is getting out of control. No, it is not. A third world country, with a vast majority of its population living in impoverished conditions, with ramparts racism affecting every day life, spending most of its money on a nuclear capable military, (because it has a minor dispute with a neighbour), and a space programme (yes, you couldn’t make it up…), is what is the problem there.”
Im not going to argue at all about the appropriateness of a country spending on bombs when it has such poverty and is institutionally racist.........But that is irrelevant to C19. Lets keep to one subject.
The level of COVID in the country areas is likely under reported due to lack of infrastructure and health care. Why go to a Dr with COVID if you cant afford treatment? cant afford time off work? can`t isolate because you live in cramped conditions?
It is a confusing picture.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56934826
Not sure which is funniest, watching the sheeple fall off the cliff one by one or the ‘top table’ crew scrapping amongst themselves on the best/most efficient way to organize said cliff plunge 
