Dealing with Hyperbole

Hyperbole is generally viewed as a bad thing because it's a distortion of the truth, intentionally made to cause alarm or some other strong emotional response. However, I find it often useful for myself in that it can provide a counterbalance to constant propaganda.

Vaccine Deaths dot Com is an example of this. At the height of the virus scare, it was refreshing to look through its headlines to find support for my skepticism. Hyperbole has in this way saved me from being swayed by propaganda and peer pressure. When my wife declared that she would take the vaccine, I put my foot down, and she changed her mind.

This goes to prove that good things sometimes come from hyperbole. But that doesn't mean that hyperbole must be considered true. The right way to look at it is as just another form of propaganda. In the case of anti-vaccine hyperbole, it serves as a counterweight to the official narrative. In the case of climate alarmism, it serves as a spearhead for draconian measures.

Hyperbole is something we seek for comfort. It's there to attract the believers and repel the disbelievers. However, it's not necessarily void of any truth. It's not always mere story telling. Some of the stories are based on truths that can be verified.

For instance, Vaccine Deaths dot Com has a headline making the claim that everyone who got vaccinated will be dead by 2025. That's hyperbole. But there's nevertheless some truth to the scare. We are seeing an uptick in deaths among relatively young people, and this started in 2021, the year of the vaccine rollout.

Checking notable deaths for the current month, we see that 25% of them are younger than 70 years of age. That's a four percentage point increase from 21% which was the stable average up until year 2021. That represents a 20% increase in mortality rate in the relatively young.

This shows that the hyperbole is not entirely without substance. We are seeing an increase in deaths among the young and healthy, and this will become a problem if it persists. That's not to say that every vaccinated person will be dead by 2025. But a substantial number will see their lives cut short.

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