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"you do not need vast conspiracies when you have widespread bad incentives. this is WHY incentives matter so much and why letting then be established with near universal reach by people seeking to serve personal and political ends is so dangerous.

there is no recruiting needed for these bad plans. the order emerges from the incentives."

Valuable truth, follow the money, there is no need for conspiracy planning when greed alone delivers predictable results.

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>> you do not need vast conspiracies when you have widespread bad incentives.

No, but you DO need the willingness to do wrong. While this is a good post, absolutely none of the information is new: we've known exactly what the incentives are for over a year and anyone who knows anyone in institutional healthcare is up to their elbows in anecdotes of blatantly false and heavily-massaged reporting of admitting conditions, diagnostic coding, and so on.

This isn't a revelation at all.

Fine if you don't want to believe a cabal of globalist sociopaths aren't using the COVID phantom menace to bring about an unprecedented consolidation of power and collapse of privacy, liberty, property rights, and independent state authorities.

It still mean huge numbers of people in everyday positions of authority chose to lie. Chose to cheat. Chose to steal. And chose to DOUBLE AND TRIPLE AND QUADRUPLE AND QUINTUPLE DOWN on their lies and denials of guilt to the point that, aided and abetted by the media, the very meaning of 'true' or 'real' or 'scientific' has become lost.

It doesn't have to be a conspiracy. Can we settle for judging it as plain old immoral and criminal behavior?

They're not agnostic incentives. They're incentives to do WRONG. Poor law enforcement increases the incentive to commit crime, as the risk assessment changes. That doesn't mean it stops being crime, or more "understandable" or "forgivable."

Watch the videos of brazen pieces of shit strolling through drug stores filling garbage bags with valuables and walking out the door unaccosted that have become viral now. Does anyone here think that's awesome? Does anyone love that businesses close in their towns and prices go up because there is literally no cost to committing crime?

The people chasing perverse incentives have destroyed your economy, your democracy, and your mental health so they personally can make more money and oppress you to conceal their guilt. They're not rats pressing a button to get cocaine. They're humans exercising the free will to defraud their countrymen and punish others to avoid punishment themselves.

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I saw a headline that the State of Illinois is "urging boosters" because over 50% of Covid hospitalizations are now breakthrough cases. So some states may break from the national incentives and present real data. At which point we'll have the state and national media telling two opposite stories.

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I brought this up at a recent eugyppius post, but the classification of the “unvaxxed” is highly dubious in the US. Not only may it exclude single-shotters and those not past the 14-day window post-injection, but I learned from nurses at our local hospital that anyone vaxxed outside the hospital’s computer system is tallied as unvaxxed. So all those zillions getting shot up at drugstores don’t count. The data is so manipulated as to be meaningless, just like all those numbers of people who died “with” COVID.

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The incentives were *deliberately* set up in this way. Fauci did the same thing with AIDS: (1) hogged the credit, (2) denigrated treatments in pursuit of a vaccine (costing lives as a result), (3) pursued a vaccine and (4) obfuscated and outright lied to get his way. The Public Health bureaucracy is, at best, untrustworthy.

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A few typos in need of correction, IMO. I share the hell out of these posts, and it's helpful for them to have as few typos as possible, for credibility's sake.

because we're [we've] created a system...

only 32% if [of] UK covid hospitalizations are unvaxxed

and why letting then [them] be established

because any free market would have ah [ah?] actual incentives

when looking at a system of trade offs and inceptives [incentives]

“why and to who’s [whose] benefit?”

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Yet another example of how centralization fails. The 'experts' don't have the knowledge possible to create the best rules for 350 million people, so instead they simply create the best rules for themselves.

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The "pandemic of the unvaccinated" articles were mostly during summer e.g. your snip is from July 16. My read is they've stopped this line of propaganda because they can't even pretend it's true anymore. I haven't seen it much lately - is that narrative still out there and I've been looking past it?

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"pretty much every stakeholder wins from doing this."

Except 90% people of the people who get treated with high-pressure ventilators, they gonna be dead.

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It matches Canadian data but there are serious and concerning problems with the way Canadian data is collected. Actually there are serious concerns with UK data too. But the incentives have certainly showed up in the US in strange ways... One thing I noticed early on in the US is the distribution of ages dying in the US does not match up and excess deaths were higher than anywhere else.

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With Margaret Anna Alice's comment below as a lead off, I don't think the financial incentives described in this essay explain the data conclusions being promulgated by "authorities". Where exactly is the financial incentive that makes the hospitals classify the vaccinated as unvaccinated? As described, the hospitals have an incentive to classify an in-patient illness as COVID, regardless of vaccination status, right? So the question as the patient is admitted is this- "Are you vaccinated or not?" I beginning to think that the hospitals are simply refusing to take the patients' word for this declaration, and if it isn't in their system already, they go with unvaccinated. The incentive isn't financial, but is coercion from above in the government to downplay the loss of vaccine efficacy by pretending to not know stuff.

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Again, you don't need a tinfoil hat. You just need a solid understanding of the motivating forces. Once you have that, the people who are naive enough to believe the government and the invested entities are the ones who need a supply of tinfoil.

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I remain a committed Gatofan. But I will kindly quibble this: Whether a conspiracy to undermine a nation such that unrestrained widespread chaos and fear convinces people to grab on tight to the status quo they know or knew....which enables ruling-class operatives to further cement their permanent power (electronic and mail-in balloting forever, border rush forever, medical tyranny forever, money-printing forever, gas prices forever, no cops forever)....OR it is a CONSPIRACY to set INCENTIVES to do the same, is a thin distinction my friend. Anorexic thin. They know what they were after when they got a hold of overt nominal Executive authority, and they ran with it.

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Who predicted a pandemic in 2015, and is heavily invested in the vaccine business? Who benefits most from the lockdowns? Who used it to eliminate a POTUS who was producing record good results? Follow the money - and the politics - and you will find the conspirators.

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Whoever controls the money printer, controls the incentive structure. Bitcoin's "rules, not rulers" system fixes this.

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