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The Bad News About Immunity
Why that 99% immune statistic isn’t a reason to be optimistic.
After weeks of carefully collating and analyzing primary data generated by the current covid-19 pandemic, a team of scientists at the University of Oxbridge have determined that at least 99% of the global population is immune.
Unfortunately, that is very bad news indeed. That’s because the immunity in question is not resistance to the effects of covid-19 but rather to the influence of facts and reason.
Based on an exhaustive study of items appearing in both traditional and social media sources over the last 60 days, the Oxbridge team was able to demonstrate to p>99.9 that very few people ever succumb to intellectual improvement by means of acquiring reliable facts and reasoning coherently from them.
Instead, 99% of people are completely immune to facts and reason and therefore quickly become infected with simple-minded memes. They rapidly become symptomatic, further spreading pernicious nonsense throughout a population totally lacking the mental antibodies necessary to combat this cognitive epidemic.
Key symptoms include persistent irrational fear, incapacity to grasp context, inability to assess relative risk, constant consumption of sensationalist reportage, and of course the spreading of myths regarding “cures” that provide…
