I live in a state that is currently surging in new cases, with local hospitals daily giving press conferences saying "We're at 90% capacity, wear a damn mask!"
I know people who have had Covid, as well as I know people who have had family members die from it.
Do governments lie to people? Yes, on the daily. Has the government ever returned any freedoms that they suspended due to 'security concerns', no.. not in my lifetime.
But to sit back and claim "Its all a Hoax", as in "There is no such thing as Covid" is ignorant, irresponsible, and small minded. Anyone who feels this way simply should take the initiative to meet with someone who has lost a loved one to Covid, look them deeply into their grief stricken eyes, and tell them to their face that their tears are "fake" and "its all a hoax". I doubt anyone making these claims has the character to do so.
Apparently you have not investigated this very far.
You are afraid of False positives, Lies.
You are spreading that fear to those that are far more knowledgeable, and not riddled with media induced Fear.
The facts actually matter. If you are Afraid, like they really, really want you to be, then you are immune to Facts.
"Press Conferences" are for Sheep. If you don't know that yet, you are still in the Pen. Sure it is ok to watch one, but if you think you are watching reality, and truth, then you are going to say Baa, Baa...and regurgitate the Lies, and the bullshit Narrative.
"Wear a damn Mask, Sheep. Nevermind the Science. " "Nevermind the Facts". "Just WEAR A DAMN MASK SLAVE".
...as if that helps......
The Living don't fall for such ridiculous, moronic drivel of banker Narratives.
Except that 'Died OF Covid' != 'Died WITH Covid'.
We've all been lied to haven't we.
You are welcome to step out of your Fear bubble at any time. All you need to do is, look around. Shed that cognitive dissonance and that confirmation bias.
Facts/Truth matter. Stick to those, and you will See.
I've gotten it. But the waves of humans that survived?
And people die of the cold all the time.
Keep being respectful of others who don't believe the way you do.
People, who claim that it's a hoax usually do not sit back, to the contrary, they are eager to give flesh to this statement. It's an exaggeration in order to shake the field.
The exaggeration is a direct reflection of what is perceived as exaggeration on the opposite bank. These were slogans and headlines like "Killer Virus!" "Millions to die!" " Haunting!"
It's as if one had been sitting comfortably in one's residential street, in the kitchen, having breakfast, and suddenly someone storms the door and shouts: "All are to die!"
You jump up and shout: "Where?" One runs into the street, into the stores, into the hospitals and shouts: "Where, where are they, the dead?"
One is already expecting to see the corpses in the alleys, the stacks of the killed, a plague spreading through the country. But then, when you look around and two weeks have passed, you know: "Oh. That was a false alarm."
And then, when you think about it more deeply, you know that a plague never comes alone. It has nasty siblings like recession, depression, poverty, hunger, neglect, cruelty, despair. People have to drink polluted water, freeze because they cannot heat, and suddenly themselves are the worst enemy. Darkness seizes the souls of those who feel helplessly at the mercy of this tribulation of multiple events, which, through their common occurrence, make life hell. The most disturbing thing right now is, that we act as if this is the case, but isn't...
Hence, common sense, which made the exaggerators even more stunned and answered with a kind of unwilling laughter that this could not possibly be, was mocked by the other, because although the roofs were full of sparrows, all singing the same song, they had nothing to point to in the alleys. For there were no corpses floating there.
It is only too understandable that one feels compelled to use one exaggeration for another exaggeration. Virus or not, that is not what one means by the term "hoax". What is meant is that there can be no such thing as an irrefutable proof of mono-causalities. Causes come with great multiplicity, non linear, and they may even not being taken into account. Because you can't count them all.