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Dr. John's avatar

Are "9 people dying a day dying from COVID"?

Or, are "9 people dying a day who tested positive for COVID"?

Or, are "9 Covid positive patients dying a day due to medical negligence"?

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When Newsom was interviewed recently, he refused to state what criteria we need to be met for the emergency state to be lifted. I was I'm sure you know, there is a rule that states politicians and government officials will never let go of "emergency powers "once they have gotten a hold of them, and a major purpose of the constitution was for the constitution to hold true including in cases of emergencies. Regarding Newsom specifically, one of my friends was invited to the same private parties that Newsom was invited to in college where she observed a lot of very bad actions on his part (including some of questionable legality), that led my friend to suspect that Newsom would eventually become one of those extremely slimy politicians. who was willing to do anything to lie and get ahead for his own person power. I would told about this when he first was elected to be mayor of san francisco, and I have continually been surprised at how accurate my friend was.

In general, when evaluating public policy, the focus almost always is on what provides a relative political benefit rather than provides an absolute benefit (such as for mortality). This has been made abundantly clear with COVID where the interventions we use save a very small number of lives but at the same time create much larger harms.

Also from a historical standpoint, what we are witnessing is very similar to what happened with measles where a small number of cases that did not result in any fatalities was used to create hysteria that shape public policy for years. To some extent, the measles hysteria was also the initial move in the campaign that eventually led to mandatory vaccinations on adults.

For those interested, I did my best to summarize the history of what led up to the mandatory vaccine campaigns as I watched all of this unfold in real time step by step:

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-medical-gaslighting?s=w

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