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The Leftist establishment is waging all-out war against the freedom of speech under the guise of combating what it claims is “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton warned us against the supposedly rapidly spreading scourge of “disinformation,” and just days later, Biden’s Homeland Security Department unveiled its sinister Disinformation Governance Board, with an ill-defined and shifting scope of responsibilities. The Board, however, could be just the beginning. On Sirius XM’s Doctor Radio Reports Friday, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf said, “I have been telling Congress that misinformation is the leading cause of death.” Well then, by all means, we must outlaw it immediately!
Califf explained: “We’re in the negative spiral right now due to mostly chronic disease, drug overdose, and gun violence.” So where does “misinformation” come in? Well, you see, we’re not listening to our moral superiors when they tell us how to deal with these things:
Mental health being a very important part of the problem. If you think about the common chronic diseases we’re talking about good ol’ fashioned heart disease, diabetes, obesity. This is driven by day-to-day habits that people have. Driven largely by the information they’re ingesting and not driven by the information they should be getting about the measures that are affective. One that we have a lot of control over is we now have generic medicines for most of those that are pretty inexpensive and a lot of people aren’t taking them. We got to reach people with secondary prevention but also make sure we flood the airwaves and our personal interactions with positive, reliable, useful information.
On CNN Saturday, Califf doubled down, again warning against “misinformation” in such apocalyptic terms that he appeared to be signaling that Biden’s handlers are working on still more speech restrictions. Asked to explain why he thought “misinformation” was the leading cause of death in America today, Califf immediately retreated, admitting that he had no data to establish his claim and tacitly admitting that it was just a Leftist talking point:
Uh, I have to acknowledge there’s no way to quantify this. So I can’t say, you know, the numbers come out just like they would, uh, heart disease or cancer. But let’s look at it. You know, we’re in a country now which is seeing an erosion in our life expectancy, so that we’re now living on average five years shorter than the average of other high-income countries. Now, of course, this– these are all based on estimates, but this is quite disturbing. And as you correctly pointed out, let’s look at the causes of death. Uh, as you correctly said, heart disease, cancer, COVID, uh, much of this is common chronic disease that we know a lot about how to treat.
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Pierre Delecto says
New Hope for the Dead!!
Go down to the mortuary, give them a rousing speech, and simply convince’em to get up and walk out. They’ve simple been misinformed.
mortimer says
There were 40% more deaths during the covid pandemic from ALL CAUSES than in previous years. This is a mystery that is puzzling doctors and epidemiologists.
Pierre Delecto says
I’ll trust the actuaries. They are playing with their own money.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, there were 2,854,838 deaths in the US from all causes in 2019. 40% more than this would be 3,996,773. There were 3,358,814 deaths in the US in 2020, and 3,417,925 in 2021.
Here are numbers between 2010 and 2021:
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/stories/2022/03/united-states-deaths-spiked-as-covid-19-continued-table-1.jpg
Not exactly a 40% jump, but still very concerning.
Joe1 says
Yeah, the 40% was the increase in working age males (or something along those lines).
gravenimage says
I found the 40% claim:
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/588738-huge-huge-numbers-death-rates-up-40-percent-over-pre/
Not sure how this squares with actual numbers, though.
wpm says
I do not think they will get up and walk out ,but I am sure they will be all voting for democrats in the 2022 election cycle! Those mules will keep stuffing those remote ballot boxes that is how we got a mail order president in 2020.
Pierre Delecto says
LOL.
Who needs voters? The ballots are enough to get the job done.
mortimer says
In 1633, Galileo was brought before the Roman Inquisition, a judicial system established by the papacy in 1542. The new Disinformation Board is suspiciously similar to the Inquistion.
Galileo was tried and declared ‘VEHEMENTLY SUSPECT OF HERESY’.
The Dems have created a copy of the Inquisition … their new secular, godless cardinals and Jesuits will try and convict FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTISTS of desiring to have the constitution’s First Amendment enforced.
The Dems SHOULD be enforcing freedom of expression, rather than suppressing it for their own political gain.
somehistory says
“good ol’ fashioned heart disease, diabetes, obesity. This is driven by day-to-day habits that people have. Driven largely by the information they’re ingesting and not driven by the information they should be getting about the measures that are affective”
Since when is heart disease, diabetes and obesity looked upon as “good”? Well, of course it is looked at that way by the pharmaceutical companies and the pols who get some big donations from them, and fauci who has made a killing…off them, in more ways than one. They don’t want people to actually get well because well people don’t go to doctors, get scripts and pay big bucks for things that cause a lot of the health problems.
affective: relating to mood effective: producing a desired effect
the way this guy sees it, some of us don’t believe him and his three letter agency. Some of us look at the facts…the Truth…and see that people have been lied to and defrauded by these corrupt agencies and we haven’t kept quiet about it.
and that hurts their bottom line…which is the old fashioned one, $$ and more power.
gravenimage says
Besides, most people know that overweight and sedentary habits are bad, especially if accompanied by diabetes and heart disease. It is more doing something about it–which can be very difficult–than knowing it is bad that is the problem.
James Lincoln says
Well put, gravenimage.
Nearly all of the thousands of patients that I have treated over the years agree that things like smoking, overeating, excess alcohol, lack of exercise, etc., can lead to bad health outcomes.
The hard part is actually making the appropriate lifestyle changes.
Some can – some can’t. And some can only partially comply.
The ones who “can’t” are typically treated with medications for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, etc., with their associated costs and side effects.
gravenimage says
Thanks, James.
nicholas tesdorf says
Official Government and Democrat Misinformation Is now certainly one of the leading causes of death in America, these days.
gravenimage says
FDA Commissioner Claims ‘Misinformation’ Is Now America’s Leading Cause Of Death
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Good grief. This just keeps getting more politicized.
Walter Sieruk says
This new Biden regine institute left-wing, Red /Green alliance propaganda machine,with Nina Jankowicz is its head bitch may be seen as a bad omen for the future of America.
How I hope I’m wrong in this observation.
Still in the tragic case that this top sentence true, then I’m glad that I’m not a young man and likewise I am very sorry for the children of this nation