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[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

You really think your "research" is better than people who do this for a living? People with doctorates and years of experience and study of that exact thing, people who have dove deep into a specialty?

So it's just Dunning-Kruger to the extreme? Is that what this is?

"Guys I changed my own oil so now I'm a certified mechanic. Take your car to me, not that shop down the street"

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Classic Appeal To Authority fallacy.

An appeal to authority is an argument that something is true because an authoritative institution or individual says its true. This is a common source of propaganda, fallacy and cognitive bias.

History has shown that authority is always right and has our best interests in mind?

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Is there an "appeal to a consensus of a multitude of authorities" as well?

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

This doesn't advance your premise. Has history demonstrated collusion of authority?

Has history demonstrated authority suppressing opposing viewpoints?

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

To this degree? Not that I'm aware.

And researchers and scientists welcome new ideas and challenges; I'm sure there have been instances otherwise, but again, you'd be arguing they're all doing it at the same time.

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

researchers and scientists welcome new ideas and challenges

Not if it threatens the status quo. Funding friend, funding.

To this degree

The scale of the collusion is not the question..

you'd be arguing they're all doing it at the same time.

Nor, does synchronization detract from the premise of mutual cooperation.

Because something could be beyond your current scope of understanding, does not infer that it is an impossibility.

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

A possibility sure, but you're treating a highly, highly improbable occurance as fact.

And yes the scale and synchronization do matter. You're not asserting "Researchers from 3 different universities are colluding", which would be fairly plausible; you're asserting "Researchers from everywhere in the entire world are colluding." Sure, it's possible, and so is winning the lottery.

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What is the approximate survival rate for people with Covid under the age of 65 with no existing conditions?

[–]AcceleratedWallops 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If you've got a good source feel free to share.

As far as I can tell, no one is really sure, because the data sucks. Example: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03132-4

I will say "no existing conditions" seems like a red herring, though. If a guy with a heart condition gets in a car accident and dies of a heart attack, do you not blame the car accident? Sure, he wouldn't have died if not for his condition, but he would have lived if not for the accident.

[–]Zahn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I feel it's very important that people become more keenly aware of what the constant media-gov hype is doing to them psychologically.

Because that is the crux of all this, seeing that fear is among the most powerful motivators to serve as a catalyst for a desired outcome: that is to project this fear on us, create apprehension, and ultimately compliance to them. The amount of hubris, cooperation, and fear mongering surrounding this is unprecedented.

On a quasi spiritual level, it is imperative that we as individuals stop feeding their fear machine. Stop cooperating. Starve it.

This is not about a virus.

Obligatory wall of text quote, because perspective always helps.

Dr. Roger Hodkinson, Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons committee in Ottawa, CEO of a large private medical laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta and Chairman of a Medical Biotechnology company SELLING THE COVID-19 TEST: "There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. This is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspected public. There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus. This is nothing more than a bad flu season. It's politics playing medicine and that's a very dangerous game. There is no action needed....Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence whatsoever they are even effective. It is utterly ridiculous seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people walking around like lemmings obeying without any evidence. Social distancing is also useless.....Positive testing results do NOT indicate clinical infection. It is simply driving public hysteria and ALL testing should STOP immediately.... using the province's own statistics the risk of death under 65 is 1 in 300,000. The scale of the response is utterly ridiculous...all kinds of business closures, suicides .... you're being led down the garden path."