Two Memes - and we can see the obvious and flawed bias: The First image is more interesting because the numbers are real. Flu numbers did significantly drop in 2020-21. The CDC figures check out. That's a genuine anomaly worth thinking about. Here's the thing though - it's not actually mysterious. Masks, school closures, reduced travel and social distancing hammer influenza transmission hard. Flu is less infectious than COVID was and more sensitive to those interventions. The collapse happened in the southern hemisphere too, in countries with no conceivable motive to suppress flu data and limited COVID testing capacity at the time. The obvious implication being pushed is that flu cases got relabelled as COVID. That requires ignoring one inconvenient fact: PCR tests don't work that way. Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 are detected by completely different assays targeting different genetic sequences. A flu swab doesn't become a COVID case. The tests are specific. The actually defensible skeptical point from that data is different - aggressive COVID testing caught vast amounts of mild illness that would never have shown up in previous surveillance. That inflates case counts compared to historical flu numbers, which were themselves estimates extrapolated from sentinel surveillance, not mass testing. That's just a real methodological comparison problem. It's just fraud. The Second meme / image is just antisemitism with a spreadsheet. The format hasn't changed in a hundred years. Find Jewish people across unrelated institutions, highlight their ethnicity, add a Star of David, and let the reader draw the conclusion you've already planted. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion did the same thing with worse typography. The list can't even get its own facts right. Klaus Schwab isn't Jewish - his father was Protestant, but that doesn't stop this getting copy-pasted across every conspiracist forum on the internet. Rachel Levine isn't Jewish. BlackRock doesn't make vaccines, fund vaccines, or distribute vaccines. Some of the job titles are out of date. So the thing fails on its own terms before you even get to the logic. And that logic is also very broken. Jewish people are roughly 2% of the US population and significantly overrepresented in medicine, academia and finance. That's been true for generations and the reasons are well understood. Finding Jewish surnames at the CDC is about as remarkable as finding Irish surnames in a Boston courtroom. You could do the same exercise with any ethnic group that clusters in a particular profession and make it look sinister. It means nothing. So, putting the them together and its easier to see what's actually happening here. Image one: the pandemic was manufactured. Image two: Jewish people ran the vaccine programme. Combined conclusion: coordinated Jewish conspiracy to fake a pandemic and inject the global population. One image is factually wrong in multiple places and draws on a conspiracy tradition that has historically preceded mass violence. The other uses genuine data to support a conclusion the data doesn't reach. Neither is the brave heterodox truth-telling they're cosplaying as - it's simple misinformation - more facebook style memeology and not even remotely intelligent - readily picked apart by anyone prepared to think about what the are actually looking at.
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