Ok.
Well, let's see, how DO I know?
Well, in a very narrow way, I can't tell you for sure the precise number of people who have died.
But I know PERSONALLY of people who have contracted, been sick with, or died of COVID. I have watched my mother, an RN, lose it over months due to https://twitter.com/GalacticCamaro/status/1335737506982211585
her ever growing patient load and watching what the disease does to people.
So you will say, this is anecdotal, but I am getting at a point here- the world around me matches what I would expect to have happen IF this were true, and not what I would expect to happen if it weren't
But that is obviously just a start.
However I can do better than that, because I can start asking myself some questions.
Like- what would have to be true for the conspiracy theory that these twits are pushing to be plausible?
How many people would have to be in on it?
The more people, the more likely it would be to fail, as people don't actually do secrecy all that well.
And in this case the numbers of people involved, in sustaining a conspiracy of this size for this long, would be genuinely unprecedented.
"The media"- and I mean we're talking about a whole lot of people just there- is just the start.
The government- including all the people in power who have been doing everything they possibly could to downplay the seriousness of the threat- all in on it.
And we're talking all over the globe, not just the US.
Next, ofc, the health industry- the whole thing- from the CDC to my mom. And lots of other moms too.
FOR STARTERS. We could go on all day- coroners, people online talking about the deaths of family members and friends,
scientists and lab techs and etc etc.
Nothing in all of history could begin to match this.
And in a world where everyone has a camera phone? Access to global information systems at the touch of a couple buttons?
Good FUCKING luck.
So, how do I KNOW that the chances of a global conspiracy that has grounded so many huge industries, caused the governments of most every country to have to turn themselves inside out to address, and caused a whole lot of people to be much less alive than they used to be- how
so I KNOW that this is bullshit?
Because, well, I have the most basic of thinking skills.
Global pandemics are not unprecedented. Ones that last a long time, cause people to have to self-isolate, cause massive death- these happen, unfortunately.
Multiple times. Honestly, epidemiologists have been worried about this for a long time, this was fore-warned, we had been LOOKING for this to happen.
But we've never had a conspiracy like this happen. The very idea is kind of ridiculous as soon as you think it through seriously.
In order to believe that it is even possible for it to be true, I would need to see a LOT of evidence.
And guess what?
There's nothing. Smoke, conjecture, and other assorted bullshit.
SO PLEASE. PLEASE.
STOP listening to Captain CrotchRot or whoever else is trying to tell you
this garbage. Its bananas on stilts.
There's an actual death toll to this malarkey. Its cruel beyond reason.
Stop. Just stop.
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