Let's Try Critical Thinking to Save America - The Simon Black Post (Pfizer Vaccine + COVID Severity)

Critical Thinking: (0:00)
tl;dr: (10:16)
Medical Science Overview: (11:48)
Pfizer Vaccine Important Questions & How it Works (18:24)
Long-Term Side-Effects of COVID (24:15)
Simon's Misunderstanding or Misrepresentation of the Data: (26:18)
Is COVID Serious? (33:24)
How to effectively implement mitigations and Simon's flawed reasoning (39:02)
The Government's Failure - a Lack of Critical Thinking and Nuance: (1:15:33)
We're all in this together, we need to learn to be critical thinkers (1:18:12)


FDA Vaccine Presentation (Main Source for Simon's Post):
https://www.fda.gov/media/144325/download

Simon Black's Post:
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/why-the-number-3-may-make-you-rethink-covid-hysteria-29697/

Evidence of Mask Effectivenesss:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-science-sars-cov2.html

Best Video I've Seen on the Pfizer Vaccine (MedCram YouTube Channel):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0C5tFHze8

COVID Long-Haulers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02598-6

COVID Heart Damage:
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/09/03/what-covid-19-is-doing-to-the-heart-even-after-recovery

ICU Delirium:
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2020/05/icu-delirium/611155/

Italy in March (overwhelmed healthcare system):
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/europe/12italy-coronavirus-health-care.html

Joe Biden on National Lockdowns:
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-national-shutdown-lockdown-says-he-wont-shut-down-2020-11

Bill Gates on when we will be back to normal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCt23D8VXpc

Is Quarantine / Isolation legal (or against the constitution)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF8MswEQS7w

Potholer54 - Master Class in Critical Thinking
https://www.youtube.com/user/potholer54/videos

8 Step Program to break your Echo Chamber Addiction & Save America

(1) Acknowledge your beliefs have been manipulated by bad incentives that prioritize profit over the truth.
(Watch "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix if you haven't so you understand just how serious this manipulation is)
(2) Recognize that critical thinking is a LEARNED SKILL and takes work. Admit that you don't know everything, have some humility and LESS certainty, and recognize that you are inherently loaded with a long list of powerful experimentally proven cognitive biases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
(3) When presented with information, identify the actual claims they are trying to make and whether or not they are likely factual. Beware of emotionally charged language that pushes your buttons, focus on the facts and evidence provided. Does the evidence provided actually support the claim? Can you find evidence that refutes the claim?
(4) Try to construct the best argument for AND against any factual claims and opinions (this is called "strong-manning", the opposite of "straw-manning") - this will help you recognize that in fact most issues involve trade-offs and a single solution that has no negative side-effects is VERY RARE. This is how you achieve a NUANCED perspective as opposed to a DOGMATIC one.
(5) Never call an entire media outlet "Fake News". This is the antithesis of critical thinking and skepticism. Follow (3) and (4) to derive what facts and meaning they have to offer and integrate that into your NUANCED view rather than isolating yourself from the information they present. Recognize that most mainstream media outlets very rarely publish fake news but their bias is to be found in (a) which facts they choose to present and which facts they don't present and (b) which people they interview for their opinions (which are NOT factual but MAY have merit based on the associated facts and evidence)
(6) Either ignore your Facebook/Twitter/etc. feed's cesspool of terrible reasoning and bad arguments OR use it to practice steps 1-5.
(7) Become a critical thinking advocate by sharing this 8 step program in social media comments, ideally combined with a personalized, well-reasoned and researched NUANCED response to the specific issue being discussed.
(8) Repeat Steps 1-7 every day until America's Constitutional Republic is saved from its current trajectory of collapsing under the weight of foreign adversaries' misinformation campaigns and widespread conspiratorial delusions.

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