I wonder if other sceptics have noticed a puzzling phenomenon. Although I'm of a certain age and officially vulnerable I don't know anyone personally who has had the dreaded virus after all this time and I've been really fit. However quite a lot of friends and acquaintances are Guardian reading, BBC believing PC types. And when I ask them if they've heard of any cases personally they invariably come back with a litany of people who've either died or suffered from debilitating long Covid, often relatively young people with no pre-existing conditions. Recently, for example, I was challenging the local Music Society about the mask requirements at the recently revived concerts and both the Treasurer and Secretary independently told me that they had had a close neighbour who'd died and new other erstwhile healthy people being severely incapacitated. Then yesterday I got an email from another friend to whom I'd fed some sceptical stuff about testing. As well as a mini lecture about the terrible new strain of the virus it included the information that a healthy 39 year old friend of his daughter was in ITU with Covid. Now I don't think these people are all making it up. But it's got to the point that I can almost guess in advance who will have had friends and neighbours afflicted. And I'm seriously wondering if there's something like a law of attraction at work here. I'm generally fairly laid back about personal security, insurance etc. as I'm very aware of the fragility of human life. I've comforted myself with observations like that people who are terrified of insects tend to get stung whereas people like me that tend to stroke them don't! Or that people who are paranoid about double locking everything are the ones who get burgled. Or that hypochondriacs and people obsessed with allergies tend to get sick a lot more than most. Or am I missing something somewhere?!
I have found the same.. when asked it's my friends mothers dads aunts two sisters or something..usually it's from the bbc news..this morning when several ( predictable) people I know were talking excitedly about having the vaccine I asked them about it and was immediately shut off with ..yeah yeah so the government and beeb are lying are they.. I said yes and gave up as it was not worth my time or effort..
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Great post Michael and yes Miahoneybee l experienced a similar situation yesterday but from the other perspective, a BBC and MSM following colleague told me that l read the internet too much, which fuelled my scepticism.
I find this whole situation getting very scary now, l feel my work drying up as more and more, as people obey the rules and stay home. I was hoping not to take up the self-employed grant this time, which l just see as a 'hush money (bribe)' that my poor granddaughter will have to repay over many years and decades of her life. But now can't see how l can survive without it. Desperate times!
Or am I missing something somewhere?!
The people that you are referring to may well have been attracted to a voluntary test in the mass PCR testing programme and were possibly 90% false positives. Then, ipso facto, they become 'covid cases' and/or 'covid deaths'. We know that 96% of 'covid deaths' have an average of 1.75 pre-existing conditions.
Then there is the 'me too' response, just like conditioned starlings in their murmurations. Bird brains.
My dad took ill last week and was admitted to hospital. He had cold symptoms and gradually deteriorated so my mum called the Dr who said his oxygen levels were very low hence the hospitalisation. He was tested for covid and it came back positive but we all know how reliable the tests are. He has since been diagnosed with a clot on his lung but who knows if it was there already or caused by covid. He is still in hospital but gradually improving.
