On Wednesday, November 24, 2021, at 5:57 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: > I don't think that causation is clear. For instance (as a random example I happen to be involved with due to having business and family in Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar) there are low COVID rates throughout Ethiopia, which is mostly mountainous with no malaria and no use of antimalarials...
Perhaps the measurements were more accurate in Africa. What was happening here and other places was, and these are pieces of the puzzle, the PCR tests are adjustable and they were made more sensitive for false positives. Why? Hospitals were essentially turning into kill factories. The government would award them financially to put people into ICU and onto ventilators. Once you’re on the ventilator your chance of surviving is low. It doesn’t take scientific analysis to show that a skewedness exists. Everyone knew it was happening, people would go to the hospital with a heart attack or auto accident and get labeled as Covid for profit. And there are other reasons for the false positives... ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tfc4d42f7fb128a4f-M722e7301fb811dadc7864596 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
