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e's a little bit of a definitional problem. Here's one definition of caring: would you act differently because of it? How about that? Because caring is not defined as how it affects your body. That's just how you interpret it. I would say caring means you would act on it. To me that's the whole definition. If it's irrelevant then you won't act on it. If it matters you'll act on it and that means y…
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All right now would you allow me — here Dustin says no something for big Pharma that it sound like I was doing that. The clappers are active today. All right so I'll say what I've always said which is you can't trust big Pharma and I certainly did not trust big Pharma at any point and I did not trust the vaccinations. Does that confuse you? How many people can't understand the point? I didn't trust the vaccinations and I took them. Does that sound inconsistent to any of the Club Birds? Well on Locals you know the answer but I want to see if on YouTube any of the Club Birds believes that that's inconsistent. I didn't trust it and I took it anyway. Tim says that's inconsistent. Tim's a binary. You can't handle the nuance Tim.
Here's how I saw it. I didn't trust the COVID. I didn't trust the vaccination. I didn't trust the government. I didn't trust Fauci. I didn't trust any of my peers. I didn't trust the mainstream doctors. I didn't trust the rogue doctors. I didn't trust the data that agreed with me. I didn't trust the data that disagreed with me. I didn't trust any official. I trusted nothing. Now if you trusted any of it I do not explain that but I didn't trust anything. And so I'm often accused of being gullible because I distrusted everything. And so the Club Birds call me gullible because I distrusted all information and all statements from everybody. That's called gullible. Now I would say gullible is if you trusted one side but not the other. To me that would look gullible. So in my opinion I'm twice as distrustful as the people calling me gullible and I think the math proves it right. Like here are all the things you could trust. I distrusted all of them. You trusted half of them and called me gullible for distrusting all of them. I think that's what happened.
And Will says I'm just opportunistic. Now am I opportunistic for taking the worst path for my own benefit? Let me test your assumption. Was I operating under self-benefit to do the single most offensive thing I could say to my audience? I don't think so. Clearly that was not for self-benefit.
All right so here's — and one of the NPCs who actually his name is NPC he says I'm backpedaling. Do you know that the backpedaling people are all — that's a tell for a cognitive dissonance, right? The people who say you're backpedaling or you're fence sitting those are both cognitive dissonance. You're having some kind of false memory situation.
All right so here's my question to you. Suppose you believed data coming out early in the pandemic that said wow this vaccination is really awesome and it's stopping 100 percent of the spread and all that. Let's say you did. But now there's more information coming out about cardio problems. So if you didn't believe the early information why would you believe the new information? Or vice versa. Let's say when all the information was coming out from Pfizer and the government and you said to yourself quite wisely, quite wisely, you said to yourself I can't trust that information. It comes from sources we cannot trust. Big Pharma, Fauci, can't trust them. But now the new information comes out and you see something from Dr. McCullough who's on your side let's say and he says the new information says that there are these issues with cardio problems and it's worse than we thought. Why do you believe that? What caused you to not believe science but then within the course of two years something came out that was very close to what you already believed was true and suddenly science looks pretty credible now?
Now I asked that question and people tried hard. They tried hard to explain it. Here's some of the explanations. And again none of this is about COVID. None of this is about vaccinations. If you're still thinking I'm talking about vaccinations and COVID you're missing the whole story. The whole story is only about how well we process information. No interest in the COVID part. No interest. Okay so you don't have to worry about that.
So according to an August 22 study from Dr. McCullough the relative risk for myocarditis was more than seven times higher in the infection group than in the vaccination group. In other words if you were vaccinated — oh sometimes higher in the infection group than — oh so let me get you a different point. I skipped points here. The first point is that you have to ask yourself why you didn't trust science in the past but now you do. Or vice versa. Why you did trust it in the past but suddenly when it shows there's some problems now you don't. I mean you have to explain the inconsistency.
Here's my take. I didn't believe it before when it said the vaccine was amazing and I don't believe it now when they say there's problems. Now let me be clear it could be true. Either of those stories could be true. I'm not talking about what's true because I don't know. I'm just saying that I don't trust either story. So I'm the most distrusting person that I'm aware of because I don't know anybody else who distrusted both sides.
All right so I asked this question. If you were to Google what Dr. McCullough says about the risk of myocarditis being many times higher blah blah could you just go to Google and then Google the claim and would Google say oh yeah here's that study, here's some ones that back it up, here are the studies that used to say the opposite but now they've been debunked, right? That's what Google is for. So I tried that. I tried Googling it to see if he's right. Do my own research. Can't tell because the Google results look so gamed and the sources look so unreliable. The top sources are all from entities I've never heard of. Yeah if the top five sources are from entities I've never heard of or maybe one of them is Reuters but it's pointing to entities I never heard of and then also there's opposite information at about the same level of result. So there's some that says the sky is up, some that says the sky is down. How in the world would I know what's real? How do you look at that and say oh that's real?
Now let's say you go to another search engine it will be all different. I didn't do that but you know it well right? You know if you go to another search engine you'll get different results. Which one do you trust? How about non
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e of them? How about none of them is the right answer, right? None of them. So that's where I'm at. And I saw somebody was comparing the risk of the vaccination with the risk of COVID itself. So a study of people who were vaccinated and then had myocarditis and there are people who had the infection and had myocarditis. And this one study said one group — I forget it doesn't even matter which gro…
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