Re:On Experiencing Joe Rogan
by noduerme on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:28AM
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I think that's a fair summary. I don't think it's anyone's job to say "no one should be allowed to listen to this guy." But that Malone interview and the one I heard tonight... there's just so many things that a rational person would want to stop and say hey, that sounds like bullshit. Malone said if you die of a gunshot wound and have covid, it's counted as a covid death. He also said a bunch of times that doctors get paid every time they declare a covid death. That can't possibly be true. But Rogan just let it fly and was like "no way!" This is what I mean, the woke make it worse because they get angry over the identity politics of it and make it seem like people like Malone might have some real points that are just being suppressed. But actually without the woke twitter backlash, those people would have nothing to ride on... they wouldn't be able to claim anyone was trying to silence them. And Rogan's leaning more into it now, since the woke brigade came after him. But I think he's actually damaging himself if he goes too far into loony-bin territory.
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Re:On Experiencing Joe Rogan
by grandpoobah on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:27AM
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"That can't possibly be true"
Read this and tell me that it couldn't possibly be true -
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...
I'm not saying there's a bunch of greedy doctors rubbing their hands together thinking about all the sweet sweet covid money they could make, but there are definitely perverse incentives there.
Is it so difficult to imagine that a hospital would err on the side of declaring a death as caused by covid if there is a financial incentive for doing so? And if you're willing to accept that as a possibility, then perhaps you might be willing to entertain the possibility that a small percentage of them might be willing to outright fabricate covid deaths.