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As someone over in /r/stupidpol pointed out the media headlines say "attacks" when in reality it's "muggings against the elderly"

The first headline gets outrage clicks, the second doesn't.



Err, out of all these incidents, half of them were not muggings and just elderly just being pushed and shoved to the ground.


Muggings are attacks. Am I missing something?


Dec 24 2020: Fauci says

> "we really don't know what the number is"

and

> "In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...


Could the NY Times please post their list of "slurs" for us?

I want to know which words I'm not allowed to use.

Thanks.


I'm sorry to hear that, John.

I wish the best for your father.


Submissions marked as "dead" are done so by HN moderators.

Submissions and comments that are "flagged" are done so by HN readers.


It looks like that it was both flagged and dead. I just vouched for it and it restored it from both!


Minnesota lawmakers say coronavirus deaths could be inflated by 40% after reviewing death certificates

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/coronavirus-death-ce...

The Grand County coroner is calling attention to the way the state health department is classifying some deaths. The coroner, Brenda Bock, says two of their five deaths related to COVID-19 were people who died of gunshot wounds.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/12/15/grand-county-covid-de...

I could post more but take a look at these.


Meanwhile, this reporting suggests that the Covid death figure is actually underreported: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...


Meanwhile, multiple sources suggest that they are vastly inflated ;

" ... That, of course, can mean anything from having had a recent positive COVID-19 test (which may or may not have been accurate) to having tested positive months earlier to simply having been declared positive based on symptoms (with hospitals facing strong financial incentives to claim COVID-19 deaths).

For the sake of argument, however, let us assume that the CDC’s numbers are valid. Out of those 164,280 deaths, the CDC calculates that just six percent of them, or 9,857, were caused solely by COVID-19. “For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death,” the agency says. In other words, 94 percent of those who died with COVID-19 already had two or more other serious health issues such as hypertension or diabetes." [0]

[0] ; https://thenewamerican.com/cdc-fewer-than-10-000-americans-h...


Yes, death by pneumonia caused by COVID means it’s not “solely COVID”.

This line of reasoning is specious at best, disinformation at worst.


> (...) simply having been declared positive based on symptoms

Also known as a positive diagnosis.


Are you claiming that we may find out soon that 136,000 people (40% of total Covid deaths) are not actually dead? Maybe hiding? Maybe all died of gunshot wounds? Have gun deaths spiked by 350% this year? Has any other major cause of death spiked by an exorbitant amount in 2020? If so we should really be looking into this.


'Brain fog' following COVID-19 recovery may indicate PTSD

https://www.uclahealth.org/brain-fog-following-covid-19-reco...


Direct link to before and after

https://i.redd.it/hx3eyixxsy661.jpg

"The existence of the human immune system is now a conspiracy theory."

Note how almost none of the posts here on HN can refute the claims directly but instead they attack the source, make jokes about 5G and so on.


If the human immune system could effectively fight this virus than maybe there would not be goddamn 79 million infected??

As I’ve written in my other post - yes of course exponential growth will once ceize. But it is absolutely insane to think with the current trends that the outcome of waiting and doing nothing or infecting young people or every other stupid thing regarding natural immunity will effectively counter this virus - not until a significant percentage of humanity have already died.

(Also, you do realize that vaccines work by “teaching” the immune system, right?)


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> Stupid cunts

This is uncalled for. In my experience _any_ skepticism about lockdowns get met with name calling, labelling, jokes about 5g. All this is doing is pushing the skeptics further away. I am yet to see a healthy discussion between a pro-lockdowner and and anti-lockdowner. More often than not its the pro-lockdowner that stoops to a low level of name calling etc


Murder + Suicide counted as Covid 19

https://www.skyhinews.com/news/coroner-state-included-a-murd...

Man with 0.55 blood alcohol level (not a typo) counted as a Covid death

https://durangoherald.com/articles/324539


Ever wonder why it's so hard to have rational conversations about the lockdowns?

China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid...

> Initially, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also opted for herd immunity. But on March 13, suspicious accounts began storming his Twitter feed and likening his plan to genocide. This language almost never appears in Johnson’s feed before March 12, and several of the accounts were hardly active before then. Britain locked down on March 23.


UK March "lockdown" was a farce, with multiple people traveling by air from Asia reporting being told at the airport to take off their masks because _masks_ create panic.

And this was the result https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/#graph-...


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