Sunetra Gupta, May 21 2020, "the epidemic has largely come and is on its way out in UK" https://unherd.com/2020/05/oxford-doubles-down-sunetra-gupta-interview/
Death toll in the UK in May 2020: 36,000
Death toll in the UK today: 209,000
Jay Bhattacharya, May 24, 2020 "If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified. But there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high." https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464
Global death toll May 2020: 390,000
Global death toll today: 6,800,000
Martin Kulldorff, December 17, 2021 ...children's "Covid mortality risk is miniscule and less than the already low risk from the annual influenza." https://brownstone.org/articles/vaccines-save-lives/
Pediatric deaths from influenza 2020-21: 1
Pediatric deaths from covid 2020-21 >500
Is your cognitive dissonance just too great?
Folks, I am a fat disgusting boomer.
Folks the Pfizer CEO is a veterinarian. I take experimental injections from a horse doctor folks.
Where do you suspect cognitive dissonance?
Just like - I'm pretty sure he said what he meant. The predictions were made early on in the pandemic when noone thought it could really kill people and then now here we are 7 million later and murica doing way worse than the norm especially where preventative measures were weak aka republican leadership areas.
Cognitive dissonance came into my head because fox and friends or wherever your stream of media is from tries really really hard to distort reality so when someone's schema of the world is majorly altered I feel like some things just don't connect because there's purposeful cognitive training to keep you believing things a certain way and it clashes and predetermined conclusions win out even if it's factually inaccurate
This isn’t even what this post is about. This was a post about the Great Barrington Declaration, which claimed that lockdowns do more harm than good. I don’t deny that lockdowns prevented covid deaths. I guess your cognitive dissonance jab was just based on your stereotyping of me.
Ah I see I don't keep up with the readings - they definitely caused some harm but yeah it's hard to balance mental distress of social isolation vs the sickness prevented.
And mb not trying to stereotype you're actually willing to converse more than just being a knob so that's more reasonable than most lol. It felt like you were both reading the same sentence different ways