Several classic logical blunders were made in the making of his post.
Paralysis of Analysis coupled with a peppering of Argumentum ad Ignorantiam:
-"Since we don't have ALL of the data and don't understand EVERYTHING about covid, we cannot make informed decisions"
Appeals to Closure
-"There are several strategies to mitigate and manage the risks of COVID, but instead of implementing these strategies, we need to JUST OPEN UP THE ECONOMY ALREADY!!"
Argument from Consequences
-"The public health crisis that is this pandemic couldn't have been caused by our own mismanagement, because if it were, an effective response would destroy the entire economy!!"
- Big Lie Technique/Effect
- "If I repeat, without evidence, the assertion that this pandemic was planned.....people will eventually believe it"
The Half-Truth/Cherry Picking
"I'm going to present you with COVID data that fits my pre-conceived conclusion and ignore several other factors. Taken together, these facts prove that COVID poses not significant threat to the population"
Lying with Statistics coupled with
Non Sequitur
-"I'm going to make the assertion that the 'plandemic' will end after the election but I'm not going to offer any mathematical modeling or evidence. Instead I'm going to post a few graphs that have nothing to do with the assertion I'm making"
- Doesn't address the fact that the pandemic is a global phenomenon (hence the name pandemic) that shows no signs of abating, especially inside our own borders. Will the "plandemic" cease to exist for the rest of the world too?
Is this
Circular Reasoning or some other type of faulty logic? Maybe it's an
Argument from Ignorance, maybe another
Non-Sequitur
-"We don't have control of COVID in the United States therefore the virus will go away at an exact date that corresponds with a national election"
-"The plandemic was planned by the Democrats to make Trumby look bad".
If the pandemic was planned, wouldn't someone (ostensibly the Chinese) have also made a vaccine BEFORE releasing the virus to save their economy but to wreck only some parts of the world economy?
Conversely, if countries wanted to make Trumby look bad, wouldn't they have found a way by now to stop the spread of the virus in their own countries?
I copied them directly from the NJ state health department website yesterday morning. Here is the link to tons of great data from one of the worst hit regions in the country:
https://covid19.nj.gov/
Which brings me to my favorite logical fallacy, the
Snow Job and the
Gish Gallop (see Kellyanne Conway)
-"Here's a whole bunch of data and different assertions that have nothing do with any of my assertions or conclusions"
@Random Guy
