Simulacra and Simulation
21st July 2020
ZMan keeps asking inconvenient questions.
For example, the odds of knowing someone who has died from the corona virus is very low, unless you work in a nursing home. For the typical person, you are more likely to know someone who was murdered. In fact, in most of the country, you are four times more likely to know a murder victim than a corona victim. Yet, many people on the Left will tell you they know many people who have died from corona. They really believe this is true and display the appropriate emotions to prove it.
Adding to the intrigue is the fact that these people have had the math explained to them many times by the more skeptical. The same is true about the stories of overwhelmed hospitals everyone hears about, but no one has seen. The nurses and doctors posting TikTok videos of themselves dancing in empty hospitals had no effect on the believers in these claims. Even now, they are sure the “first responders” are nearing exhaustion as they heroically fight the virus.
July 21st, 2020 at 11:10
If people were really interested in people dying needlessly – or if they understood any of the stuff going on right now – they might have to face the fact that the number of people dying each month from suicide in this county is about 6 times the number dying from COVID-19.