Oddbean new post about login | logout We need a plague
We just had one!
Do you actually think fauxvid was a plague? More people were killed by ventilators than the actual virus.
I think it was the first version of what some people want to be a genuine plague. BTW, I was probably the first non Chinese, non government person in the world to know about covid. In early spring of 2019 I was in China and a friend showed me a document saying they think the US was planning a biological attack on China.
It was and is a cold virus. Whatever you saw was nonsense and the Chinese covering up their release of an annoying pathogen.
It could be as you say. But knowing the timeline, when I saw that document, the abundance of research showing it had genetic components from different virusus, and the fact that the US was funding that lab in Wuhan, and Fauci and others in the administrative state tried to prevent that information from coming out... I don't think it was nonsense. It forces me to ask - how much circumstantial evidence equals direct evidence?
You’re not thinking clearly. It was a benign cold virus released by governments to control world populations. The Chinese used it to eliminate dissidents. The US used it to flood the world with paper cash which politicians could funnel to their corrupt associates.
Or midazolam
What’s this?
a drug used in the uk to basically put old people out of their misery. perhaps reasonable imo if they're definitley dying but during covid docs who were too scared to visit nursing homes just prescribed tons of midazolam remotely. no way to know how many old people were essentially euthanised this way but seems very unlikely to be zero.
Frightening. I didn’t know this one. Add it to the list.
Here's the debunking. When a fact checker has to admit the basics of the conspiracy theory correct, and rely on "but correlation isn't causation" then you know somethings up! https://fullfact.org/health/midazolam-video-matt-hancock/