[ExI] conspiracy theories, was: RE: Satoshi

[John Clark]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *>…Did you look at my thread "Political ideology, vaccine hesitancy, and
>> death"? I think Claude found a way of comparing Democratic and Republican
>> death rates during the pandemic, both before and after the vaccine became
>> available, that was just a teeny tiny bit better than TV ratings.*
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> *> I did view that thread and found it highly questionable.  I don’t
> recall anyone at the hospital asking about my political orientation when I
> was sick with covid. *
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*GPT didn't get the information from Twitter/X or Breitbart, it got it from
peer reviewed studies that were published in Science and Nature, the two
most respected scientific journals in the world; although the methodology
wasn't really that complicated. To protect privacy you strip off the names
from death certificates and voter registration rolls, and then just look at
the dates and cause of death on one and the party affiliation on the other.
It sure beats the hell out of trying to deduce Covid death rates from TV
ratings! *

*The studies found that the death rate from Covid between Democrats and
Republicans was almost identical UNTIL the vaccine became available, then
almost immediately a dramatic change occurred; the death rate from Covid
for Democrats dropped like a rock, but the death rate from Covid for
Republicans continued to increase. It's a textbook example of Evolution in
action, survival of the smartest; refusing to get vaccinated in the middle
of a worldwide pandemic is just not smart. *

*By the way, just today I got a flu shot and a tetanus shot because I
hadn't had one of them since I was a kid, and I've been getting flu shots
for 30 years and haven't gotten the flu in 30 years.   *

*> That’s all you need really, urban vs rural.  Nothing more.  Covid
> traveled differently in the crowded city than in the open countryside.*


*All contagious diseases spread much more rapidly in cities than in rural
areas, and cities tend to be Democratic while rural areas tend to be
Republican, so you'd expect the death rate for Democrats to be higher than
Republicans, but thanks to the vaccine the opposite occurred.*

*John K Clark *
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