In his original post he said:
4: Related, breaking news: A popular Substack claims that COVID didn’t happen at all, and that both “lab leak” and “natural origins” are part of the higher-level conspiracy to distract people from the fact that there was never a virus in the first place.
He later edited the post to add:
I wonder if I could even more Substack likes if I one-upped them with a theory that lockdowns never even happened, and it was just one of those Berenstein Bear or Mandela Effect things where everyone has a false memory.
So now it’s ironic, and therefore not harmful to spread the conspiracy theory to his large audience.
“Berenstein Bear”, but not “Mandala Effect”?
Good try but his own disclaimer at the top ends up telling on him
[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links post are wrong or misleading. I correct these as I see them, and will highlight important corrections later, but I can’t guarantee I will have caught them all by the time you read this.]
That’s nice Scott.
And right under there you’ve got
I’ll never tire of analogies putting the US / Europe gap into perspective - for example, did you know that the median black American household earns more ($48,297) than the median UK household (£35,000 = $44,450)?
Assuming these numbers are real, it’s meaningless to compare gross salary, and not take into account the social contribution and whatever other taxes and contributions paid by the employer. I don’t have good enough knowledge about how US and UK salaries break down to elaborate much, but a heuristic I’ve been applying is to just slash US salaries in two to get a better impression of the living conditions.
(And as the page Scott links to specifies, “According to the Census Bureau in 2021, the average non-Hispanic black median household income was $48,297 in comparison to $77,999 for non-Hispanic white households”, so there you go)
Help someone who’s out of the loop: who the fuck is Scott Alexander?
An overly wordy misogynistic racist, who seeks to covertly transmit ideas from neo-fascist and race realist groups such as the Occidental Review to his primarily ‘liberal’ audience, and a major leader within a techno-utopian/apocalyptic sex cult, which for some reason is actually influential within tech policy.
Also don’t forget this.
Also note this rationalwiki page (rationalwiki is not the same as the Lesswrong Rationalists, in fact rationalwiki is more on the side of awful.systems. Wait, Lesswrong Rationalists? You say, yeah see this rationalwiki page on them that is basically Scotts ‘grey tribe’)
truly envy your ignorance on this individual
