Media hype written to panic the viewing audience into accepting a certain view point is a not-so-subtle game.
Here's an example: There were 658 new infections today. 458 of them were of the unvaccinated or single-dose category.
They could have said: 200 of the 658 new infections recorded today were people who were fully-vaccinated.
Of course, the second example would deliver the wrong perspective on their campaign to panic everyone, even the unwilling, to get jabbed.
An item in the social media is letting it be known that Elon Musk has joined Justin Trudeau in a financial project that will be of great benefit to Canadians.
It's no surprise that someone tries to link Musk with a political campaign. He's the driving force behind Tesla electric cars, space vehicles and a basketful of scientific initiatives. It's easy to see him as a hero, especially so to the voting segment that as yet hasn't the time to tell science apart from science fiction.
The new initiative the article attributes to Musk's genius is a quick and easy way to become a millionaire. It has to do with the bitcoin and crypto currency craze. It promises untold riches for a paltry investment of $250.
These get-rich-quick schemes surface once about every 15 years. That's about how long it takes for a fresh generation of gamblers to emerge upon the financial scene.
While Musk can safely be classified as a genius in the engineering and technology field, what is being attributed to him in the article sounds very much like an ordinary pyramid (Ponzi)scheme. That's what put careless investment brokers in the cooler a few years ago.
It appears to work as follows: Early investors ($250) get rich on the investment of following investors as the scheme grows. The more investors, the more millions for earlier ivestors. It works until they run out of investors.
There is nothing to back the currency except the currency contributed by an ever-widening circle of investors. It is not a medium of exchange, which is what currency is for. It is simply a transfer of money from one account to another.
Several such schemes have grown and crashed within my recollection. There was the one directed at business women (exclusively) about 30 years ago. Another one started as an investment firm which developed into a pyramid scheme in the hands of a reckless investment broker named Bernie Madoff. There were others, too numerous to mention.
Musk should be warned to exercise care in who he allows his name to be associated with. Or, maybe he thinks people who voted for legalized dope would be good customers for his investment business. Maybe he sees potential in it. Who knows?
Money is a medium of exchange. When neither goods nor services are being exchanged, the law ought to have a look.
When we read about the number of deaths caused by Cholera, the Black Death, the Bubonic Plague, Smallpox, the Spanish Flu, etc., it's the number of casualties that are the main concern, right?.
Covid 19? We're bombarded daily in the mainstream media by huge numbers of infections, numbers hospitalized, ventilated, intensive care, etc. Number of deaths, if and when mentioned, are embarrasingly small.
How small? So small that mainstream media have taken to combining actual daily death count with confusing statements like .."Seven, including six recorded in the past five months."
Should we take that to mean one death, added to six others over the past six months? So...were the past deaths recorded, or went unrecorded?
Of course, one death does not carry the impact needed to promote the herd panic required by media determined to keep the viewers glued to their commercials as long as possible.
Now they've stampeded politicians into promoting vaccination IDs, whether they be by cell phone, card, or maybe, eventually, even bar code tattoos. Bar codes and cell phones would have been a wet dream for guys like Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin, had the technology been available at the time.
Poor old Dr. Mengele took the trouble to tattoo IDs on the arms of prisoners at concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dauchau during WWII. Think what he could have done with bar codes and cell phones.
Now, here we are in the year 2021 in allegedly democratic Canada, with the Media calmly floating the idea of mandatory IDs to see if the sheep in the electorate will accept it. It seems there's no end to the wonders of those neat cell phones.
It could be that they may be right in toying with what influence they might exert on the public mind. Look who the human herd keeps electing to govern the country..
