I can’t stop thinking of a recent analysis that estimated over 300,000 Americans might be alive today had all adults been vaccinated. How did we get here?
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My previous articles have examined several techniques these COVID minimizers use to mislead their readers. These include:
- A salesman’s trick: Using a number that is larger than the COVID death toll to minimize that death toll.
- Ignoring R0: Focusing on the infection fatality rate of COVID while ignoring how contagious it is.
- Shaming: Shaming people who try not to get COVID or who are bothered by its death toll.
- Conspiracy: Claiming the COVID death toll can’t be trusted.
- Premature declaration: Acting as if the pandemic is over.
- Strategic omission: Omitting key facts that are needed to understand some aspect of the pandemic.
- Fanciful fiction: Just making stuff up.
A Salesman’s Trick, Ignoring R0, Shaming, Conspiracy, Premature Declaration, Strategic Omission, and Fanciful Fiction
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The origin of SARS-CoV-2, revisited
31 May 2021 by Leave a Comment
Since early in the pandemic, scientists have overwhelmingly concluded that the evidence makes a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, a far more likely explanation for the pandemic than a laboratory origin. Over the last three weeks or so, however, there has been considerable chatter about the “lab leak” hypothesis, and President Biden even ordered US intelligence agencies to…
