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Neuroscientist and committed atheist Sam Harris launched into a series of hypotheticals in a recent appearance on John Wood Jr.'s "Uniting America" podcast, detailing the sorts of circumstances that would have justified the kind of blind acceptance of new vaccines and coercive pandemic protocols he apparently would otherwise have favored.
Harris — who previously suggested that evidence of "corpses of children in [Hunter Biden's] basement" on the first son's controversial laptop would not have warranted his concern — noted on the Thursday podcast that vaccine skepticism would not have been permissible "if kids were dying by the hundreds of thousands from COVID."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 634 COVID-19 deaths in the 0-4 age group and 986 COVID-19 deaths in the 5-18 age group between January 2020 and January 2023, out of a total 1,095,149 reported COVID-19 deaths.
In June 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported on a British study that found that 99.995% of 469,982 children in England who had been infected with the virus survived.
The fact that this virus claimed so few kids' lives meant that despite governments' best efforts to control the narrative around vaccinations and to stress the importance of adherence to pandemic customs, they lacked the needed emotional leverage to ensure conformity.
What is it with Sam Harris and dead children?
In his new interview with John Wood Jr, Sam Harris claims that "in some sense we were unlucky" that covid didn't kill hundreds of thousands of children.
What *happened* to him?
despite governments' best efforts to control the narrative around vaccinations and to stress the importance of adherence to pandemic customs, they lacked the needed emotional leverage to ensure conformity.
originally posted by: ColeYounger
a reply to: infolurker
IMHO, Harris is a high- IQ asshole.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the same way. These guys always talk condescendingly, and they always have to let everyone know they're the smartest ones in the room.
That said, it's still interesting to hear them speak.
originally posted by: Maxmars
For goodness sake... his zeal for the experimental vaccine tech is such that he would rather people died to "promote" its' acceptance? Man, I had to read that more than once.
These people are truly operating within a different reality from mine. Or at least that's how they'll remember it when the piper comes calling.
originally posted by: M5xaz
originally posted by: Maxmars
For goodness sake... his zeal for the experimental vaccine tech is such that he would rather people died to "promote" its' acceptance? Man, I had to read that more than once.
These people are truly operating within a different reality from mine. Or at least that's how they'll remember it when the piper comes calling.
When the very lives of people, children, matters less than ego and cherished vaccine and being proven "right" about it
Sociopath comes to mind...
The fact that this virus claimed so few kids' lives meant that despite governments' best efforts to control the narrative around vaccinations and to stress the importance of adherence to pandemic customs, they lacked the needed emotional leverage to ensure conformity.
originally posted by: infolurker
originally posted by: M5xaz
originally posted by: Maxmars
For goodness sake... his zeal for the experimental vaccine tech is such that he would rather people died to "promote" its' acceptance? Man, I had to read that more than once.
These people are truly operating within a different reality from mine. Or at least that's how they'll remember it when the piper comes calling.
When the very lives of people, children, matters less than ego and cherished vaccine and being proven "right" about it
Sociopath comes to mind...
Why he said "Sadly" instead of "Thankfully" is anyone's guess.