Pastor Greg Locke #dunning-kruger #quack

Pastor Greg Locke #dunning-kruger #quack google.com

Greg Locke: I’m saying the sickness is real. I’m saying the pandemic is not.

Elle Reeve: I don’t understand what you mean when you say “pandemic’s not real.”

Locke: ...The pandemic is not real.

Reeve: But what do you think a pandemic is?

Locke: Not… Not COVID-19.

Reeve: But what do you think a pandemic is?

Locke: It is no pandemic.

Publicist (offscreen): I think we’ve stuck on the pandemic question too many times.

Reeve: Well, why can’t you answer it?

Locke: It’s ridiculous… I did. There’s no pandemic! COVID-19 is not a pandemic.

Reeve: But what would a pandemic… But what is a pandemic then?

Locke: Not what we’re experiencing. I’m 44 years old. We’ve not had one in my lifetime, so I don’t know. And this is not it.

12 comments

I guess he was in a coma during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic.

"Trees are real, but forests aren't."

. We’ve not had one in my lifetime, so I don’t know.

If only there were things for the purpose of looking up words one does not know. like, say, “Google”, “Wikipedia”. “encyclopedias and dictionaries”…

We’ve not had one in my lifetime, so I don’t know. And this is not it.

Just… how the hell does tbat make sense to you?

Greg Locke: I’m saying the sickness is real. I’m saying the pandemic is not.

Greg Locke: I’m saying the internet is real. I’m saying modems are not.

If you admit the disease then you could admit this disease could occur in clusters, and if these clusters are widespread enough around the world then it is a pandemic.

Reminds me of when people say they believe in adaptation, but not evolution–they just get hung up on the word rather than what it actually means. Then, a couple of probing questions later, they say they don’t believe birds hatch from reptile eggs in one generation. You gotta define your terms if you’re going to deny them!

Clearly he does not know what a pandemic is and refuses to admit it.

Ah the old "I know it when I see it" argument. Most famously used by the US Supreme Court in one of the most blatant cases of dodging the issue ever.

I'm sure Herman Cain would agree with you, OP.

Oh, wait...!

I’m going to ask this question of anyone who actually watched the whole interview. I’m probably going to regret asking.

Does this get any more intelligent?

Now, to be fair, some people imagine a “real” pandemic to be a bit more dramatic. For example, if it involved some sort of highly visible pox-like or gangrene-like symptoms - pustules, papules, lesions, rashes, blisters, or necroticized skin, then no one would deny there was a pandemic. Instead we get 50% nothing significant happens, 40% just a bad flu with sometimes the odd side effect of temporarily losing your sense of taste, and 10% a bad flu where you also die of pneumonia. Any long term effects will barely register until later. Though if it were more visible we’d have a different issue than denialism, instead there would probably be a rise in murder levels, as if there was a low-key zombie apocalypse going on. Chalk it up to another case of entertainment media leaving some people with an unrealistic idea of how things usually work.

@KzadBhat: There isn’t much more to it, so no, it does not. The video in question mostly focuses on “Trump Country” folk talking about the vaccine, and there are other interviews which the speakers are cautious but at least willing to consider taking it.

…How does that even compute to you!?

Pastor Greg Locke #dunning-kruger #quack google.com

12 comments

Confused?