So just because someone comes on here with the numbers they fixate on doesn’t mean it’s “misinformation” or a conspiracy theory. It’s data all the same.
Except these threads have found a welcome home to misinformation and conspiracies.
There were persistent claims that the new illness was just a flu, or that it’s a novel flu virus or that coronaviruses cause the flu well after the novel coronavirus had been identified as the cause of what is now named COVID-19.
Using people who are not ill to intentionally dilute statistics beyond comparing prevalence in a population is not a different conclusion.
Rewriting the timelines of events to blame Newsom for the closure of the parks is not a different conclusion.
Claiming restrictions were only supposed to last two weeks max are a misunderstanding of what was being said.
The whole issue of “flip flopping” on masks is a misunderstanding that those who were thought to be contagious were always advised to wear masks, a recommendation that has existed for years with other respiratory diseases.
Constant comparisons to big box stores and their having been deemed “safe” is a misunderstanding of the reasoning behind why certain businesses were allowed to stay open.
Claims that persons who are not doctors and are not authorized to determine cause of death are illegally doing so and listing COVID-19 without cause is a conspiracy.
Claims that doctors are systemically and widely listing COVID-19 as a cause of death without any clinical justification is a conspiracy.
The whole issue of cause of death is rife with misunderstandings that have been repeated, mostly missing that having other conditions is not unusual and that it does not negate the role of an infection.
Claims that almost all of the people who have died would have died this year is an exaggeration of a conclusion pushed by a conspiracy theorist that does not align to how any other disease is considered (that comorbidities do not actually count and that things like high blood pressure are a death sentence).
Claims that the virus is more widespread than any data supports is baseless speculation.
Claims that concern for the virus will drop off in November are a conspiracy.
Claims that hundreds of thousands of additional suicides are occurring and not being reported is a conspiracy.
The whole issue now of just picking a date when to open the parks is a misunderstanding, that dates are just picked whenever or that there is some sort of set timeline.
These are all bits of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have been posted here and if not found a receptive audience, have been tolerated because they point to the desired conclusion that the parks should reopen. This is the dangerous process of normalization that undermines expertises and promotes ideas without a sound foundation. This is the worst sort of means justifying the end, as here is a microcosm of a far bigger problem that is playing out around the world.
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. This previous games of is he or is he not matters not at all to me. You're fun to interact with on the Boards. That's the point of these forums, right- enjoying our common interests?
