[ExI] conspiracy theories, was: RE: Satoshi

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 15 August, 2026 12:05 PM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] conspiracy theories, was: RE: Satoshi

 

On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 11:49 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> I didn’t claim the vaccine didn’t work. 

 

Yes you did! On  Aug 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM you wrote

 

"that argument presumes the vaccine was effective in stopping the virus.  I see little evidence it did much."

 

> It didn’t work as well as the enthusiastic promoters (such as Rachel Maddow) claimed it would. 

 

OK, so copy paste what I wrote rather than what you wrote.

 

 

>…I don't watch Rachel Meadow much so I don't know what she predicted…

 

That video has become very difficult to find.  It was the one where she claimed getting the vaccine prevents spreading the virus.  It has been squelched, for good reason.

 

In Maddow’s defense, I will offer that it was the prevailing belief at the time, spring of 2021.  Fortune and plenty of other mainstream media carried it:

 



 

I will note the date is 1 April 2021, so perhaps the editors of Fortune meant it as an April fool joke, but… that belief had lethal consequences.  We soon learned that vaccinated people both catch and transmit covid.

 

In a sense, the vaccination might have made the transmitter more dangerous, if it reduced symptoms enough for the carrier to go back to work.  We now know that plenty of people carried and transmitted covid with little or no indication they had the malady or had anything wrong.  The person I think I caught it from appeared healthy.

 

>…Meanwhile just five days ago our Luddite King issued an executive order scaling back childhood vaccinations … John K Clark

 

Easy solution: don’t vote for him.  Your residence in Florida is a (very small) contribution to the state’s population which determines how many electoral votes a state gets.  Florida voted for a candidate (I vaguely sense) you do not approve of (do correct me if I incorreclty inferred that preference) in all three elections of the past 10 years.  

 

To fully avoid having (in an indirect sense) voted for him, you should move to one of the reliably blue states, such as California.  Come on John, there is plenty of homes available from Californians relocating to Florida seeking your state’s advantageous tax structure, particularly for the retired and well off.  Furthermore… we have great tech-geek gatherings around here.  It’s fun!  It generally isn’t necessary to travel in order to meet interesting people, for they come here.  Cool!

 

spike

 

 

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