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"Cases" & Trusting the Government

Cases.

All we hear every day is cases. 

Cases, cases, cases, cases, cases, cases. 

Every time I hear that word I wonder how many of these cases were:

  1. Asymptomatic
  2. False positives later shown to be negative
  3. Presumptive cases
  4. Cases diagnosed virtually
  5. Repeat positives while trying to obtain a negative.

At this point there are only two things of which I am confident.  Firstly, I am confident that there is no way to know what the real numbers are.  Secondly, I am confident that government bureaucracies are screwing everything up, per usual. 

None of this is to say that COVID isn't real or that it isn't a big deal.  My point is simply that there is a perfectly valid reason that some of us are skeptical of the the cases count the minister of propaganda posts every day.  

We aren't heartless or unscientific.  We're cynical.

We're not crazy conspiracy theorists.  We just don't trust the numbers.

We don't trust anything they tell us anymore.

You can thank Uncle Sam for that.  Years of corruption, to say nothing of government inefficiency and incompetence, have divested us of any faith we may have had in government agencies.  Career bureaucrats are reaping what they have sown.  Their power grabs, backdoor deals, and flagrant hypocrisy have created a culture of mistrust and conspiracy theory.

Don't blame the skeptic.

Don't blame the cynic.  

Blame the politicians who have consistently proven themselves to be untrustworthy and power-hungry.

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