When numbers fib

[Bill Bonner’s Diary]( When Numbers Fib By Bill Bonner Monday, September 20, 2021 The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. – Tenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution [Bill Bonner] BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Today, we allow ourselves to get sidetracked… shunted off on a rail that goes nowhere. We were at a cocktail party on Saturday. Naturally, the conversation turned to COVID, masks, lockdowns, and shots. And while we were thus engaged, a little girl nearly drowned in the pool. Recommended Link [Tesla Issues Emergency “Rewrite”]( [image]( Elon Musk says he's “Never seen anything like it.” And Tesla is now scrambling to rewrite the code in its cars… [Click Here to See Why.]( -- Overheard Poolside “I’m just fed up,” said an older man. “I had the COVID. They put me in the hospital. And now, statistically, I’m 27 times less likely to get the disease again or pass it along than the person with the vaccine. “Or, to put it another way… if I hadn’t already gotten the disease, a fully vaccinated person would be 27 times more dangerous to me than a person who had recovered from it. “If they want to protect other people,” they should give people the disease, not the vaccination. Let them build up a natural resistance. A few old geezers like me will die, but the rest of the population will be really protected.” An important note to dear readers: This was the comment of someone at a cocktail party. It is the kind of message that might be blocked or censured by the mainstream media in order to avoid any “misinformation” circulating. Is it true that he is 27 times less of a threat than a vaccinated person? We have no way of knowing. Like all the many studies, findings, tests, arguments, “facts,” and figures used in the COVID discussion, it is probably partly true, partly false, and widely misinterpreted. But here at the Diary, we mistrust all statistics, even those we make up ourselves. [Featured: 2,000X Bigger than Bitcoin? Forbes calls THIS the Future]( Close Call Three little children had stripped down to their underwear and were playing in the pool. They were all under six, with the eldest of them able to dog-paddle around… and the two little ones sticking to the shallow area. We were listening to the COVID complaints when we glanced down and noticed that one of the little ones was under water. A young man stood between us and the pool, so we simply pointed to the water... “I think she needs help…” we said. The young man, a professional fisherman, deftly reached into the water and pulled her out, as if he were bringing in an Atlantic salmon. He gave her a slap on the back. As she began to gurgle and cry… her father came running over with a towel… and she was soon as good as new. Recommended Link [New Law Could Impact 330 Million Americans]( [ad_img]( Self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders called it… “The most consequential piece of legislation since the 1930s.” Unfortunately, according to the Wall Street Journal, most people are unprepared for what’s coming. By the time you see this message, this bill may already have become law. This means you don’t have much time to prepare. [Click here to get the details and see one simple move you can make now to protect yourself.]( -- Curious Facts Last week came news that 1 in 500 Americans have died of COVID-19. That, too, may sound like a “fact.” But there are few real facts in life… and fewer still in the COVID-19 story. It may seem indisputable that someone “died.” The corpse may be in the coffin… the smell of lilies in the air… and the check in the mail. But unless they get shot down in West Baltimore, we don’t always know what they died “of.” The medical industry has its own fads and fashions. And its own motivations. All we know for sure about these corpses is that they were reported to have had a COVID-19 infection when the spark of life went out of them. Curiously, the average age of someone dying from COVID-19 in the U.S. is about the same as someone dying from something else – around 78. Of course, we’re all going to die. The real question is when. But if there were little difference between the age you die from COVID-19 and the age you die from other causes… How does this rank as a major Plague-like emergency? Also, if the average person dies at 78, you’d expect that out of a group of 500 (assuming an even age spread), 6.4 (500 divided by 78) should be ready to pop off in any given year. If only one of them is taken out by COVID-19, what’s the big deal? Also, exceedingly odd for a Plague Year, the U.S. population actually rose by nearly one million people. There were 331 million people living in America in January 2020. By the end of the year, there were 332 million. [Featured: WARNING: Is Your Bank on this List?]( Freedom Works Let’s ask a simple question: Would the world be better off… or worse off… if governments completely ignored COVID-19? Of course, no one knows the answer. The question itself could only be posed, sensibly, to God Himself. Who else would know what “better” means? So, instead of worrying about it, the busybodies resort to numbers. The press is full of them – the number of new “cases,” the number of “exhausted” nurses, the number of those who resist vaxxing. (Another favorite of the mainstream press is the self-satisfied morality tale: “Anti-Vaxxer Dies of COVID,” along with a story that tells us how the person had been misled by “false information” and misguided by an irresponsible attachment to “freedom.”) The “numbers” substitute quantity for quality. We don’t know what is “better”… but we can count! The higher the number, the bigger the emergency… and the more the powers-that-be need to “do something.” And yet, there are plenty of other numbers. How many lives have been distorted or stunted by COVID-19 restrictions? How many people living on $2 a day will now die early, after being forced (by a locked-down world economy) to live on $1.90 a day? How much human happiness will be sacrificed? Nobody knows those numbers either. Which is why you can’t really depend on numbers. And why we have principles to guide us. We can’t predict the future… control the future… or even prepare for it. And we can’t count the bodies that haven’t died yet. So we each do the best we can. Recommended Link [IMF Set to Crash U.S. Dollar?]( [image]( This is disturbing… A new IMF currency – already in circulation – could instantly bring the U.S. dollar’s 70-year reign to a screeching halt and bring sweeping changes to the American way of life. What’s worse is [this currency]( devalues the U.S. dollar by 31%. Why is practically no one talking about this alarming development in our monetary system? And how can you prepare? [Click here to see the full story]( -- Elite Overreach In America, this freedom to do what you want is supposed to be protected by the U.S. Constitution. The Tenth Amendment clearly limits the power of the government to things it is expressly allowed to do in the Constitution itself. This weekend, we found three major articles explaining why President Biden’s vaccine mandate is perfectly constitutional. Out of curiosity, we searched the founding document. We found no “COVID clause” giving the president such extraordinary power. Then again, the Supreme Court – along with the press, the military, Big Business, universities, and government itself – is part of the elite. Rarely has it shown much inclination to limit the power of the governing group. Today, the president goes to war without an act of Congress – expressly forbidden by the Constitution. The feds print paper money, though the Constitution insists on only gold and silver. And the government has proclaimed so many laws and regulations that it can send forth a swarm of agents, harass you, fine you, or put you in prison at almost any time… regardless of the many “constitutional” protections you are meant to enjoy. How do they get away with it, you might ask? What happened to the Tenth Amendment? How can they now insist on vaccinations? Oh, you silly goose… Back to business, tomorrow… Regards, [signature] Bill --------------------------------------------------------------- Like what you’re reading? Send your thoughts to [feedback@rogueeconomics.com](mailto:feedback@rogueeconomics.com?subject=When numbers fib). --------------------------------------------------------------- FEATURED READS [The Job Market Raises Concerns Over U.S. Economy]( U.S. is experiencing the biggest gap of its kind between available jobs and the unemployed since the Labor Department started keeping track of job openings in 2000… Without increasing employment, it will take longer for the economy to operate at a pre-pandemic normal. [Afghanistan Economy Worsens Under Taliban Rule]( U.S. and other western nations have frozen $9 billion in Afghan central bank assets and most foreign aid… While the United Nations pledged $1 billion in humanitarian aid, local Afghans are taking to selling their possessions to buy food. MAILBAG Dear readers continue the COVID-19 debate following [Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate]( and fellow dear reader Gary M.’s comment last week… “We are not free to hurt others by our liberties, in this case by spreading the virus or by filling hospitals to the extent that other life-saving procedures are delayed. This assertion of “freedom” did not occur to anywhere near this extent when the greatest generation, which had survived the Depression and fought tyranny in WWII, was vaccinated for polio or measles. They had a sense of responsibility and community that, in my mind, has given way to selfishness masquerading as liberty.” – Gary M. If your mask works, why do you care if I don’t wear one? If your vaccine works, why do you care if I don’t participate? If I have natural immunity, why should I be required to join the vaccine crowd? Simple questions that the folks worshipping at the altar of Fauci don’t seem to be able to answer. – Al D. In my family, I (age 77.5) refuse to get the unproven vaccine. I got COVID; I had fatigue and a cough for about two weeks. No aches, no pains, no headache, no fever, and no other problems afterward. I have had a worse case of the flu. Unfortunately, my son and daughter-in-law both had the Pfizer shots; they both have since contracted COVID... much worse case than I had. Now, their 2.5-year-old son has also contracted COVID; not nearly as severe as his parents. Roll the clock forward four days, and my middle daughter and her 9-year-old daughter have contracted COVID; the mother had the Pfizer shots and the daughter's case is not as bad as her mother. My point is: What good are the shots? Additionally, I hear a lot about the cost of the unvaccinated. I haven’t cost anyone anything, other than myself to be tested by my physician. My children who have had the shots have seen the doctors multiple times; their costs have been much greater than mine (and I am happy that they are all recovering nicely, but in a longer time frame than myself). Also, my health is my business, not Joe Biden’s or anyone else’s. And my health should be a confidential matter, according to law. Have we completely gone socialist in this country? If the vaccinated are so dead-set on the efficacy of the vaccine, they shouldn’t worry about me being unvaccinated. Of course, their devout devotion to Herr Fauci may be beginning to wane, with so many of the vaccinated comrades coming down with the Covid, regardless of their injection status. – Sam A. Gary M. needs to read the actual Supreme Court case decided in 1905 (Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11), which did not authorize imposing any vaccine upon an unwilling individual, but merely upheld the $5 fine for refusing! This ruling specifically states: “...we are not inclined to hold that the statute establishes the absolute rule that an adult must be vaccinated if it be apparent or can be shown with reasonable certainty that he is not at the time a fit subject of vaccination or that vaccination, by reason of his then condition, would seriously impair his health or probably cause his death.” This says nothing about the genuine religious objection exemption. Or the fact that if a “vaccine” works as advertised, there is nothing the “vaccinated” need fear from those not jabbed, else the whole thing is a sham, and a crock full of deceptions, with deceit and lies as its foundation. This form of socialism/fascism posing as selfless “responsibility and community” is precisely what we need less of, lest unproven and untested “therapies” become the death of us all! – Hank S. Can the U.S. government legally mandate vaccines for public safety? Or is mandating them violating Constitutional freedoms? 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