I'm just — it's now just baseline government weaselness that I'm so freaking used to it, it didn't even register in my outrage orb. So I guess I need more. I need more to get me outraged. I mean it's an outrageous story. I just I'm just so used to it.

Here's a logic question. Let's say there — everybody knows there's some excess deaths that are continuing long after the pandemic peak and there's a lot of question about what is causing the excess deaths. If the COVID itself starts fizzling out or at least the most dangerous forms of COVID fizzle out, let's say the hospitalizations go to practically nothing. It looks like that could happen in the next, I don't know, six months or so. But let's say if the excess deaths still continued climbing after the COVID itself had gone away, what would be the logical theory? Somebody say vaccinations.

Now that was the theory I heard but I want to test the logic with you. At some point most adults are going to be vaccinated. Most, not you necessarily. They'll have at least two boosters. Most. And they will also have been exposed to COVID. So if you've got both the vaccination in you and the COVID, let's say one of those had a long-term effect. Let's say both of them stay in your body forever. I'm not saying that's true but let's say it did. Let's say the spike protein stays in your body forever and does bad stuff. And let's say that the COVID maybe stays in your body and does some bad stuff or maybe either one of them weaken some key system in your body so that you don't die right away but that excess death just stays up there because people are just generally weakened from one or the other or from some third or fourth effect.

Do you think that the decrease of COVID with the increase of excess deaths or even staying the same excess deaths — do you think that narrows it down to the vaccinations? Because that would only make sense to me if the only kind of harm was short-term harm. Now most harm is short-term I think but everything about this virus — well not everything, a lot about this virus has surprised us. So if you've got a surprising and engineered virus, is it possible that it could be eating at your systems in a slow way and then either the vaccination or the COVID, because both of them have some long-term at least hypothetical risk — is it possible that people could be dying at greater numbers in the future only because they had been so degraded by one or both of those things or three or four other things?

So you can't — because I think the math still works. I believe the math works to keep excess deaths even if COVID goes down. I think it does but I wouldn't bet my life on it because — and by the way the more likely explanation would be exactly the theory that it's the vaccinations. So that's just sort of a logic question whether there's any scenario in which you could not narrow it down but it would definitely be a strong signal that the vaccinations were a problem. We'll see. And apparently we won't know for sure for maybe until May.

All right. So I saw this from the Ethical Skeptic tweet: four Americans kidnapped by a cartel in Mexico. That's war. That's war. How many Americans need to be kidnapped by a cartel in Mexico before it's war? One cartel? Yeah, I think it was four people. Somebody says two are dead. Oh yeah, I figured. No surprise. And two are dead. That's war. Yep, that's war. You don't walk away from that. That's war.

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