One way politicians and the media manipulate low-IQ voters, the gullible, and liberals is by tossing HUGE NUMBERS about.

 

ZOMG, the B-2 bomber costs $1.2 billion each.

 

Well, sort of, if you include R&D, program development, ongoing maintenance and upgrades, and consider that they produced 21 units.  Per aircraft billed cost was about $600 million.

 

Whereas, 1662 units into the Boeing 777 fleet, those cost about $400 million.  They aren’t radar invisible and they don’t carry 50,000 lbs of bombs.

 

But boy does that number sound HUGE.  You should be offended!

The below article points out an F35 costs about the same as new executive jet.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2013/11/22/what-planes-cost-and-why-550-million-is-cheap-for-a-new-bomber/?sh=6f641f5155b2

 

We can step back to the 90s with the Clinton’s push for national health care.

 

The marketing was that “40 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured.”

 

That was 15% of the population.  Or, on par with most of Europe.

 

Now: Define “underinsured.”  I was 24, and my logic was this:  If I get hurt at school, the school is probably paying.  If I get hurt in my car, I have car insurance.  If I get hurt on duty with the Guard, the military is paying.  I’m 24, in top physical condition, with no family history of cancer or heart disease, and we typically live into our 90s or better. If I did something stupid and broke an arm, out of pocket would be pricey, but cheaper than a year’s worth of insurance. Was I going to break an arm every year?

 

I didn’t feel “underinsured.”  They defined it for me, against my wishes, and used me for their marketing.

 

It was also an instantaneous statistic, not a floating average. They included anyone between jobs, just entering the market, or rich enough not to need it. They included people in the VA and Medicare systems, since many of them don’t actually carry insurance. The actual number of people who had no access to any form of care was under 3%.  IOW, BETTER than most nations in Europe.

 

 (Remember when Bill held up a blue card and said that would solve everyone’s problems?  And the Democrats cheered? And we never saw the card again?)

 

Sure was a big number, though.

 

Remember 0bamacare was pimped because Americans were paying 18% of their GDP toward medical care?

 

Guess what the Dutch were paying in a much smaller nation with smaller infrastructure? 16%.

 

Guess what the US is paying now, WITH 0bamacare? 

About 18%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184968/us-health-expenditure-as-percent-of-gdp-since-1960/

 

There have been 615,000 Covids deaths in the US. What a huge number!

Assuming a steady state population of 331 million, that’s .18% of the population. Or, an entire order of magnitude lower than that charlatan Neil Ferguson panic-predicted.

 

But it’s not a steady state population. It’s slowly growing, and there’s ongoing replacement. And of course, several jurisdictions have finally gone through all the tags and have started reducing that number by about 25%. Expect more to follow. At the end of the day, plain old Influenza A kills 20,000-100,000 people per year.  So, this is about 2-3 times as bad as a bad flu year (since the earliest assigned Covids cases in the US are now in October of 2019).

 

That’s what the numbers show.  Pardon my language, but you shit your pants, panicked, and trashed the economy over a fucking cold, because you heard a REALLY BIG NUMBER!

When someone throws a big number out there:

 

Stop.

 

Think.

 

Think about what the number represents.

 

Realize that it is almost certainly adjusted to their most favorable position.  “Up to 40 million Americans are underinsured.” Meaning, it’s probably fewer, and again, define “underinsured.” What criteria are being used?

But the number in context with something else.

Don’t panic.

Key quote:

The trial was seeking 630 participants, but trial enrollment was stopped in August at 231 participants due to very few people having progressive COVID-19.

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August. This overhyped cold was over in August. The only people still panicking about it are complete tools.

https://newsroom.uw.edu/postscript/end-hydroxychloroquine-treatment-covid-19

But let's look at it anyway.

Hydroxychloroquine showed promise in studies done in test tubes rather than in animals or humans.  LIE

A year after the treatment trial launched in five cities, Johnston can say hydroxychloroquine had no effect in treating people with COVID-19.   LIE
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The primary clinical outcome of the study was progression of COVID-19 to pneumonia or hospitalization, and time to symptom resolution was a secondary outcome.

“There was no faster resolution of symptoms among people receiving hydroxychloroquine or hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin compared to placebo.” Johnston said.  INACCURATE AND MISLEADING 

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Smaller trials and observational studies were having mixed results. EVASION
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THE REAL STUDY conducted simultaneously:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/Health/healthnews/study-finds-hydroxychloroquine-helped-coronavirus-patients-survive-better/ar-BB16hifu

A team at Henry Ford Health System in Southeast Michigan said Thursday its study of 2,541 hospitalized patients found that those given hydroxychloroquine were much less likely to die.

Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of infectious disease for Henry Ford Health System, said 26% of those not given hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 13% of those who got the drug. The team looked back at everyone treated in the hospital system since the first patient in March.

"Overall crude mortality rates were 18.1% in the entire cohort, 13.5% in the hydroxychloroquine alone group, 20.1% among those receiving hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin, 22.4% among the azithromycin alone group, and 26.4% for neither drug," the team wrote in a report published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.See the phrasing?  The "Study" claiming no effect talks about treating people who are already progressing and severe.

The honest study is based on prophylactic use as soon as symptoms appear.

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This is like claiming that a fire extinguisher can't stop your house from burning down, which is true.  But, if you put out the stove fire within the first minute, there's a significantly better chance your house won't burn down in the first place.

So the question remains:  Who's profiting from ongoing panic, hysteria, and refusal to treat?

 

 

 



https://www.facebook.com/AnnaAkana/posts/337596657730594

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https://open.lbry.com/@jdfreivald:e/Anna-akana-when-your-friend-is-kinda-racist:0?r=5fA1qdNZNMybua1LGgUXhFjUSSnyK51M

This lady is trying to so hard to SPREAD AWARENESS and FIGHT RACISM that she completely misses how utterly racist she is herself.

First, she manages to stereotype a billion people in the first ten seconds.

So, when you say "White" people, do you mean Brits, Hibernians, Gaels, Gauls, Finn-Ugrics, Scandis, Balts, Slavs, Balkans, Germanics, Iberians, Italics, Turkics, Caucasians, Berbers, Arabs, Hellenes, or Persians?  Or do we all look the same to you?

And when you say "People of Color," do you mean 7 billion people have no identifying distinction other than not being light-skinned?

She's literally categorized the entire world into "White" and "not white."  As if either one of those is a monoculture.

She categorically denies that "white" people can have any culture other than being "white."  By which she means "Middle class American" and apparently midwest.

After that she gets onto the "using our cultural features" like hairstyles and such.

First of all, a great many of those are pan-cultural and have been for millennia.

Second...you're using MY language (Well, my mother's. I don't know any Scots or Gaelic from my father's side. The English took care of that).  You're using the internet, electricity, clothing, furniture that are European, a building with architecture of a European style.  You probably have a car, and use fuel and roads, all invented by Europeans.  She probably uses tampons.  Literally everything in your video is European, other than yourself.  But we can't copy anything you claim is yours, for reasons?

After that it just gets painful, awkward, and ridiculous.

Watching this ignorant little twit try to offload her own provincialism and racism on everyone else is just sad.

 

In case you missed it, Chinese state media, a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP, like the Chinese military, Chinese government, and Dr Anthony Fauscist, is telling people to prepare for nuclear war if the Bidet administration follows through on a probe of the Wuhan lab.

The way this should play out is a series of phone calls.

"Hey, Mr Putin. Great to talk to you. Listen, we've been competitors but not actually enemies for almost 30 years now, but I believe we have a way to help you with one of your issues.  Great.  Details to follow."

"Hello, Mr Kovind?  How's India handling this virus?  Sorry to hear that, good luck. Can we offer some help? Hey, you know this came out of China, right?  And they're a real pain in your ass, yes?  Cool, stand by."

"Mr Alvi. Hey, I know you and India are at odds over Kashmir for water and arable land. But what if I told you a quick favor to them and us could make that much less of an issue? Interested?  Excellent, wait one."

"Supreme Leader Kim. Hey, I know things are kinda iffy, but would you like a chunk of land to expand into? No strings attached, minimal cost.  Yes, a real bargain. Hold on."

"Monsieur Macron.  Remember how China fucked over your entire Indochina colonial project?  Well, it's time to fix that.  Okay, give me a sec."

"Boris, doing well?  Hey, we've backed each other up a long time now. We need a solid. Well, more accurately, a plasma.  Yeah, I figured you'd like that one. Ready?"

"Mr Netanyahu, sorry about the money to Hamas. Look, we know you can't get involved, but we know where you stand. If we pull some of those funds back from Hamassholes, can you just keep cool and quiet?  Glad to hear it."

"Okay, this is working?  Damn, Zoom is great. Or as we can rename it now...

BOOM!"