Headlines From the Media, and Other Foolishness: Part I

As Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180 C.E.) once noted; "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

By Rich Kozlovich

Do you wonder how this country, and a lot of the world, got taken in by all this coronavirus madness?  Of course we now know the data was fudged, which naturally, I've been tracking from the beginning, ( and some duplication), and done deliberately, but there's another reason.  People are really gullible!  People are stunningly and easily manipulated, and that includes many well educated people.  Especially if it means they have to hold views different than their group, or a better description, from "their herd", deliberately ignoring facts, history, reality and even their own best interests, just to be a part of the "herd".  

And here you wondered how tyrants take over and control whole nations, and it's happening, right here in America, right here under our noses.   As the little kid in the Little Rascals said......Remarkable!

It's clear that prediction is really hard, especially about the future.  While it was clear to me from the beginning of this pandemic hysteria, the claims and data were sketchy. However, by March of 2020 it developed into hysteria.  By June it was clear the data and claims they were spewing out were fraudulent....but then....I knew that from the beginning.  How?  

Well, I know these outrageous claims about how many will be infected and die are based on computer models, not on actual data that's observable, recordable, provable and repeatable....aka... actual science, versus what I call Game Boy science.  You get out what you put in and they don't share their algorithms that show how they get their results, and they want results that predict doom.  How else to get everyone to comply?

This "Game Boy" science generates so many of these kind of outrageous claims, which have proven blatantly false in the past, just like all the outrageous claims about Global Warming, running out of fossil fuels, and every other bit of leftist scare mongering.   There was even an actual claim the Cleveland Browns were going to win the Super Bowl in 2021.  And there were those who believed it!  Imagine that!

So, if you doubt human gullibility, then perhaps you're not old enough to remember all the supermarket tabloids like the Sun, National Examiner, Globe, and the Weekly World News, which touted itself as the "World's Only Reliable News Source", with stories about the Bat Boy:

  "Bat Boy was first featured in a 1992 issue after being found in a cave in West Virginia (Lost World Caverns). He has since led police on a high-speed chase, fought in the war on terror, led the troops to capture Saddam Hussein, bitten Santa Claus, and traveled into outer space. In 2000, he gave his endorsement to Al Gore. It was foretold that Bat Boy would become president in 2028.  The story of Bat Boy was the basis for an acclaimed off-Broadway musical, Bat Boy: The Musical, in which Bat Boy meets a tragic end. In addition to articles, Bat Boy has been featured in a comic strip since 2004, though it is said that only the articles are the "true" story of Bat Boy."

That, and other really crazy stuff  appeared in all these "papers".  Stuff that apparently some, or maybe even most of their readers believed.  How do I know they believed it?  Why else would they kept buying it?  Some must have just enjoyed the silliness, but I have to wonder just how much of this stuff they were buying into, and it disturbs me to believe they believed a lot of it.