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Big Media controls our reality

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If you never had access to the internet, or never owned a television, chances are that you would never have believed a unique Doomsday virus was ravaging the globe. You also wouldn’t believe that the United States was bordering on civil war. You’d live your life, talk with your neighbors, engage in small talk at the store or work, and go home. Life, and reality, is what you’d see with your own eyes, not images or voices or sounds from a screen and speakers.

Contrast what you see and hear on television with what you see and hear throughout your day. They aren’t exactly similar, are they? Think about the power that Big Media hold over your worldview. They effectively control your reality, warping it, and compelling you to act against what you see with your own eyes. It’s unbelievable, really.

What will be the consequences of Big Tech’s censorship blitzkrieg?

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Sam Harris has always appeared to me to be an unprincipled thug, the kind of guy who can spin a convincing, pseudo-intellectual rationale for just about anything, and even worse, convince himself of his own bullsh*t. One of the all-too-many high-IQ idiots who are paradoxically incapable of approaching social problems with any semblance of principle. A generous helping of intellect combined with an utter absence of character. What a dangerous combination. These people, who continuously proclaim their rejection of fundamentalist ideology, backpedal into fundamentalism on a regular basis. You could set your watch by it. And it always ends up being a fundamentalism of the authoritarian variety. No coincidence. They see problems in the world, and they are convinced that only with enough force could these problems be solved. They gravitate towards authoritarian control. They see censorship of the “bad man”, and praise it, rather than understanding the horror of the act of censorship itself. They are willfully blind to the place that censorship leads. They make the mistake of every person since the dawn of our species: that power can be controlled. That it can be wielded for good. What fools.

 

Something horrific has happened to young adults in 2020

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For months now, I’ve had a hunch that we could discover whether we were living in the midst of a true pandemic by comparing the total number of deaths from at-risk age groups this year with those of previous years. Ideally, we would compare mortality numbers from nursing homes this year with previous years, but accurate numbers from long-term care facilities are hard to come by.

Since COVID-19 disproportionately kills those older than 65, we should see a significant spike between this year and previous years. That’s not what I found. Compare both charts below.

In 2020, total mortality for the age group 75-84 is 4,627.8 deaths per 100,000 population. In 2019, it’s 4,308.3. In 2018, it’s 4,386.1.

Mortality for this age group is up 7.4% from 2019.

For the 65-74 age group: 1,905.8 per 100,000 in 2020. In 2019, it’s 1,764.6. In 2018, it’s 1,783.3. For this age group, an 8% increase in mortality.

But now let’s look at the age groups not at risk of COVID. First, the 15-24 age group. In 2020, there are 77.95 deaths per 100,000 population. In 2019, it’s 69.7. In 2018, it’s 70.2.

This is an 11.8% increase in mortality. Again, this age group is not at risk of COVID.

Something else is killing them.

For the 25-34 age group, the same phenomenon occurs. In 2020, we have 146.7 deaths per 100,000. In both 2019 and 2018, it’s only 128.

A 13.8% increase in mortality. Again, this age group experiences extremely low risk of COVID complications.

This year has seen an enormous, horrific increase in deaths among young adults.

For 35-44, it’s the same story: 228.8 per 100,000 in 2020. 199.2 in 2019, 194 in 2018.

A 14.9% increase in mortality.

Something bad happened here in 2020, and it wasn’t a virus. This is man-made. These are lockdown deaths.

To the question: did we really experience a pandemic in 2020? 80% of COVID deaths have occurred in the 65-and-up age categories, and yet death rates have increased at a far higher rate among age groups not at risk of COVID.

What happened? What did we do to ourselves? Through lockdown, have young people been sacrificed to alleviate the unfounded fears of the old? This is grim.

US deaths, January 4, 2020 to January 2, 2021: