Thank you for your comments, Pomeroy.
I prefer not to watch the news because it often presents a lopsided narrative driven by fear. If 90% of mainstream media outlets weren’t owned by the same six conglomerates (that often rotate the same officers and board members on pharmaceutical companies), I might be persuaded to take the information they dispense more seriously. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. (Notice Jim Smith’s connections to both Reuters, a preeminent “fact checking” organization, and Pfizer):
If doctors and scientists (like Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered the technology to transfer mRNA protected into cultured cells in the production of vaccines) were not censored and silenced for sharing opinions that run counter to the narrative presented in the news, I might be compelled to take the information dispensed on the news more seriously. But that’s not the case:
“Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of mRNA vaccines (and DNA vaccines) used in coronavirus vaccines manufactured by pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna. Dr. Malone invented mRNA vaccines while he was at the Salk Institute in 1987 and 1988.
During his time at the Institute, Dr. Malone pioneered in-vitro RNA transfection and also in-vivo RNA transfection (in frog embryos, as well as mice). So, if there is one single most qualified mRNA expert to speak about the covid-19 vaccine, it’s Dr. Malone.
“Now, Dr. Malone said he has been banned and censored by YouTube and LinkedIn for sharing his concerns on the vaccines in a podcast.”
If medical professionals were not threatened with losing their license if they share opinions that run counter to the mainstream media narrative, I might be persuaded to take the information that mainstream media dispense more seriously. But again, that is not the case:
“Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license.”
https://www.fsmb.org/advocacy/news-releases/fsmb-spreading-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-may-put-medical-license-at-risk/
Much like the Middle Ages, the scientific method is now being driven by propaganda, not the search for the truth. Dissenting opinions — about a novel virus in a landscape that is constantly shifting — are deemed disinformation. By the standard applied today, Galileo would be banned and driven underground for suggesting that the earth is not the center of the universe. Galileo’s scientific opinion would be deemed disinformation and his work would be purged.
This is how far we’ve fallen, and this is why I do not base my opinions on what I see on the news.
As for hospitalizations, I have spoken with several doctors at my local hospitals, and while they do have slightly more COVD-19 cases than they had a few months ago, the number is significantly lower than it was last spring and winter.
Granted, I live in a relatively unpopulated state. So let’s look at a region at “high risk”: Los Angeles, California.
If we watch the news, we might imagine that patients are languishing in hospital corridors and ICU wards are overflowing.
By the Los Angeles Times own data, provided by the local hospitals, this is the current status of hospital capacity:
I invite you to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page at this link to see the percentage of total patients that COVID-19 patients represent at each hospital. Here is the biggest takeaway: less than 10% of patients in California hospitals are COVID+.
Is this alarming and catastrophic in the midst of the Delta variant that is raging? I don’t think so.
I refuse to be driven into a state of fear by watching the news. I prefer to dig deeper to determine whether what I am watching reflects the reality in the ground. As far as I can tell, there is seriously distortion of our reality at play.
Again, thank you very much for your comments.
