2600 bro wrote:
COVID hospitalizations have always tracked tightly with positive tests and deaths.
There’s zero evidence of manipulation… just a fantastical hypothesis you’re praying is true as your worldview continues to unwind.
Firstly - full disclaimer: "vaxxed", covid-believer here who would like to see as many people vaccinated as possible but also respects those who don't choose too.
But you can't be serious with that statement - there is a pretty well known case of manipulation with respect to covid numbers very recently and there is no way it's the only case of this happening this entire time.
https://www.wect.com/2021/09/10/novant-health-issues-statement-leaked-internal-discussion-covid-19-patient-numbers/Now of course when I first saw this clip I had to remain open to the possibility that this was a fake "recorded conversation" but the hospital officially addressed it so it's not, it's real and in it the doctors and admin talk openly about counting recovered patients as part of their active cases in order to "scare" people into getting vaccines.
If you can possibly explain how this doesn't fit "zero evidence of manipulation" then please, the floor is yours.
The issue with the above situation isn't the desired outcome (more people getting vaccinated), the issue is that the one thing holding people back is trust and when you actively lie to people, typically the first thing that dissolves into thin air is, well, trust.
So I hate to say this but if you think there is no manipulation of data, numbers, tracking, whatever then it is you that lives in the fantastical hypothesis and maybe it's your worldview that should be unwinding.