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I think a lot of patterns exist at different levels of abstraction. The process of natural selection happens constantly in our own consciousness. We have thoughts bouncing around in our head all the time, apparently randomly, and a selection process happens somehow. Memetics is a social example.

D, I can see this in some contexts, but in general, at least from what I have studied, there is a lot more to it. Starting with human nature. For instance, the idea of a superorganism as Howard Bloom goes into. Also, crowd behavior working like hypnotic induction might have evolved as a survival mechanism during a phase of human evolution. This would go hand-in-hand with the idea that once something evolves in the human brain, it never goes away, even if it loses its usefulness or becomes detrimental. Other things just pile on top of it--modules so to speak. Then the brain works out how the modules interact. Rather than make individual morality an either-or proposition with crowd morality, it's reasonable to wonder whether both can be present at the same time, especially seeing how human beings are both individuals and members of a species at the same time. Michael Yeah, I mashed together two separate thoughts there... The first observation is valuable, I think, while the other thought was a throwaway and about individual morality rather than the perceived morality of the majority. On the perceived morality of majorities, I think it is a sort of intellectual bystander effect. I think people expect that surely there must be someone else policing the ideas and morality of popular culture. Surely the News wouldn't just lie, because there is a system in place to prevent that, or at least minimize it. Curtis Yarvin has really hammered the point that to the Left, politics is purely performative. I think this is a good point. You see it everywhere, and, while some people here don't like me bringing gender into things, this again correlates with the transition to a more feminine society.

Mass Formation Psychosis was the main topic in the video I posted here. The following clip in the quoted post connects to it as well, in a way. The assumption that the "journalist" had that if Dr. Malone is speaking out, as a virologist, he must have some financial incentive. The assumption really is that the majority must always be in the moral right. It's like a crossing of signals... somehow feeling safely in the crowd translates to being virtuous in their brains.

If this is true you would see flu cases directly correlate to COVID cases, on the basis that they spread the same way. When COVID cases rise, flu cases would also rise, and the inverse. Lets compare the hospitalizations: ... and from FluWatch report: January 3, 2021 to January 9, 2021 (week 1) - Canada.ca WWW.CANADA.CA Influenza surveillance report from January 3, 2021 to January 9, 2021, published by the Public Health Agency of Canada. ... couldn't find a graph anywhere. But here's a quote! That's the first week of 2021. Here's just cases, opposed to hospitalizations: Wow! Looks like masks worked! (too bad they didn't for COVID during this same time period).

When you sacrifice your Queen, that may be good for you (lead to victory), but it's not good for the Queen...

This is so good, but not for Trump. Anyone who thinks this is good for Trump is crazy. The "supposed to take five to 12 years" part is my favorite, because the left seeing that must be salivating at the opportunity to call Trump out on his typical hubris and self-aggrandizing. It was supposed to take at least five years, this idiot tried to make a vaccine in less than 9 months!? Then there's the part about him losing favor with his base. Again, the left have to love that. But the part the left would not like, is if someone is smart enough to rub their face in the fact that the anti-left (not necessarily right) are not too attached to Trump... rather it is they who are obsessed. If people are willing to denounce Trump because of his negligence concerning the vaccine (and better still, invasive procedures in general), that puts the left in a very awkward position. Is it really their love of vaccines and Science that got them in this position to begin with? Is that their foundation? Or were the people elevating the authority of certain institutions and groups exploiting something else? People don't cling to authority for no reason... And the reason recently has been that Trump supporters/the Right are irrational and dangerous. A public display of rationality, reason and integrity (in dumping Trump, but not for the reasons they want) would really damage the narrative that incensed the left at the core of the issue (the ultimate would still be if they could reconcile with their fathers, but that won't happen).

I actually love this, because it would confuse the hell out of the left. I don't care if Trump is being truthful or not, whether he's smart or not... but this would make those pushing mandates to question what they believe.

Yes. Thank God doctors are so reliable! Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. - 05/03/2016 WWW.HOPKINSMEDICINE.ORG Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than...

This is a quote from that article: It almost sounds like a joke it's so stupid.

The coronavirus infects fat cells, study suggests | Live Science WWW.LIVESCIENCE.COM A new study hints that the coronavirus infects fat cells and certain immune cells in fat.

Deaths were obviously inflated. That's been said many times, but I don't remember hearing anything about hospitalizations.

Question (not sure if this has been answered here yet): Does anyone know if hospital patience who tested positive for COVID while in hospital, but not being originally admitted for COVID, were counted towards COVID hospitalizations? I have heard many times that hospitalizations are the best metric for measuring the effect of the virus on an area... but I can't believe that people who just happened to test positive while already in the hospital (especially considering there has been a higher chance of contracting the virus while in hospital), would be tracked differently than those who were admitted for COVID. I don't know for sure, but if my feeling is correct, then even hospitalizations may be way over represented...

I saw this posted on social media when Trump originally made the suggestions: I found it again here: What Is The Use Of Ultraviolet Light? UVPOD.NET Ultraviolet light, also known as UV light, is a kind of electromagnetic radiation that makes dark light banners shine, and is liable for tans...

I am linking this because of the calibre of Curtis' readers, and even though they are generally big fans of his, this issue they cannot agree with him on. These are the comments from his latest blog post that contained this inflammatory passage in particular: And here is one of the illuminating comments: Omicron and governance theater - by Curtis Yarvin GRAYMIRROR.SUBSTACK.COM "In the 2020s, Science has killed more people than Hitler."

You are just assuming that COVID brought them there and that your original interpretation of the numbers is basically right. A lot of people could have been in hospital for other reasons and been infected there because that is a prime place for it to spread. And as you have already heard, I'm sure, the policies for qualifying a COVID case included instances when a patient tested negative, but still had been out of the country, or around someone else who may have been carrying the virus--in other words, it was up to the doctors discretion as to whether it was plausible that the person died with COVID. And of course the incentive being huge monetary benefits for the hospital ($50,000 per COVID case in some cases: HHS Announces Additional Distribution of Funds to Hospitals with High COVID-19 Admissions | AHA WWW.AHA.ORG The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced that it will distribute a second round of funding from the Public Health... The way you are using surface level, government/media/corporate approved statistics could be used against other things you believe, yet you still use them...

Hopefully this is true and people start to believe it before there's a civil war in Austria or Germany or Australia... Covid silver lining: 'Extremely mild' Omicron variant is rapidly exterminating much more deadly Delta coronavirus mutation WWW.CITYAM.COM Excitement is growing among Coronavirus experts in Southern Africa and around the world as it increasingly seems that the new Omicron...

If you don't want to get sick, why not try being healthy? Stop eating refined sugar and processed carbs/oils. Build/maintain a little bit of muscle. You will be fine...

No, it's not that. It's that the press will choose either to continue their vaccine worship, or they will bite on Trump being a failure (in making a failed vaccine). Without Trump admitting he failed, they won't acknowledge that it's his vaccine, but if they do acknowledge it was his vaccine, that puts them in the position to switch the narrative on the safety and efficacy.

I wasn't clear, because he is owning the vaxx, and I do think that is a good move regardless. But to say he owns it and it's good, that's not difficult for the media to deal with. They just have to act like he's claiming credit for things he didn't really do again. But to claim credit for developing the vaxx AND admitting it is not great... Well now the media are being pulled in two directions. Mostly in the direction of "Trump admits he messed up." That, to me, is more "throwing sand in the fuel tank of the machine", than what he is currently doing. And it's more honest. And as for my premise, that's not it. I don't think Trump is trying very hard to persuade anyone, but he is sending out a false message that does have health implications... especially for young people. My premise is that this is another example of Trump not allowing himself to be associated with anything negative, which is usually a good strategy for him. But this time the sand in the fuel tank would have been better.

It's insane. They are talking about mandatory boosters every 9 months in Germany and in all Europe for travel. It's amazing how people have this idea of a "slippery slope fallacy" that they have been trained to associate with actual slippery slopes. My question right now is how many vaccinated people who got it simply for the convenience, peer-pressure, threat of unemployment etc, are going to accept a booster? I can't imagine the numbers for a booster are as high as the original 2-doses, even if the same coercive actions are taken.

Exactly... I don't see why he can't say that while he doesn't admit to mistakes he didn't make, in this case the vaccine turned out to be less safe and effective than was the goal. Saying "MY vaccine" and admitting that it's flawed puts the media into a weird spot where they've been praising the vaccine relentlessly, but they cannot deny that it was developed under Trump.

The "quotes" in the article are all broken down into 5 word snippets. It's garbage journalism. It's essentially a journalist attacking a scientist on the basis of science. Anyone interested in that is just looking for validation of their own opinions in a really pathetic way. The left are giving medical advice through mediums like Bigbird, while criticizing celebrities who have shared their experiences and tried to frame that sharing as giving medical advice. When it is convenient they say listen to the experts, when it is convenient they allow non-experts to give medical advice. If you don't have an allergy to this bullshit it's going to be a tough time to think clearly.

Donald J Trump on Gab: '' - Gab Social GAB.COM Donald J Trump on Gab: 'America fell 340,000 jobs short of the very modest expectations set by economists. That’s because Joe Biden is...

...and? Dr. Malone was all over the Wikipedia page for mRNA vaccine technology before he spoke out against the current vaccines. We already know people don't like him. That article did admit he discovered the delivery system, being lipid particles, but it's just another journalist cowardly attacking someone with minimal facts and plenty of opinions and posturing. And what does any of the stuff about Dr. Karikó have to do with Malone? Nobody is trying to credit Malone with her work... I don't know what anyone could possibly take away from that article except feeling a connection with the author if they share the same enmity for Dr. Malone.

That's a bullet point, not significant data at all. Here's a comment from another article in reference to that study: But even if it was legitimately 95% effective, there are still many reasons to doubt its safety--or more precisely it's cost/benefit based on demographic. And the vaccine has been shown to illicit an antibody response; that is without question. However, antibodies alone are not how our immune system fights off pathogens. Again, there are reasons to question this vaccine in terms of how long that protection lasts in comparison to natural immunity which includes memory B cells.