This is the irony of the information age that you can be totally convinced that you're rational and correct just by curating what information you look at. The information he saw was covid had R=10, 5% fatality, the vaccines reduced deaths by 50x and only problems were mild heart disease in 1 in a million. It's totally rational to take the vaccine with that information and crazy not to.
Of course the reality was about R=2, the % fatality was case fatality of those who went to the hospital when the vast majority of didn't need to, the vaccines only helped much in a brief window after injection, and side-effects were way higher.
He's right that we're facing a social emergency. That emergency is not covid or anti-vax, it's censorship and information bubbles. It's Sam Harris and his ilk that's the social emergency.
People like him were just picking "studies" off the internet that proved what they were saying and dismissing the rest.
I was basing my decisions off population-level data from public health. Even though it was flawed (over-counting cases, etc), so long as the methods were consistent, you can still see patterns over time and demographics.
I knew (as much as is possible) that Covid wasn't dangerous to kids or adults by about July 2020 based on population data. I knew that Covid deaths were not outpacing the flu deaths they replaced. I knew that Covid was seasonal, well before they were even discussing a "vaccine". I didn't need some pharma-backed study, or a degree in statistical analysis or virology; it was as plain as the nose on my face.
Maybe I was just "lucky" but there was absolutely a reason that I (and many others) came to the correct conclusion independently while mid-wits such as Harris and Scott Adams were completely wrong; they put faith in "The Science" while we looked at reality.
This is the irony of the information age that you can be totally convinced that you're rational and correct just by curating what information you look at. The information he saw was covid had R=10, 5% fatality, the vaccines reduced deaths by 50x and only problems were mild heart disease in 1 in a million. It's totally rational to take the vaccine with that information and crazy not to.
Of course the reality was about R=2, the % fatality was case fatality of those who went to the hospital when the vast majority of didn't need to, the vaccines only helped much in a brief window after injection, and side-effects were way higher.
He's right that we're facing a social emergency. That emergency is not covid or anti-vax, it's censorship and information bubbles. It's Sam Harris and his ilk that's the social emergency.
And Scientism.
People like him were just picking "studies" off the internet that proved what they were saying and dismissing the rest.
I was basing my decisions off population-level data from public health. Even though it was flawed (over-counting cases, etc), so long as the methods were consistent, you can still see patterns over time and demographics.
I knew (as much as is possible) that Covid wasn't dangerous to kids or adults by about July 2020 based on population data. I knew that Covid deaths were not outpacing the flu deaths they replaced. I knew that Covid was seasonal, well before they were even discussing a "vaccine". I didn't need some pharma-backed study, or a degree in statistical analysis or virology; it was as plain as the nose on my face.
Maybe I was just "lucky" but there was absolutely a reason that I (and many others) came to the correct conclusion independently while mid-wits such as Harris and Scott Adams were completely wrong; they put faith in "The Science" while we looked at reality.