Tuesday's Terrific Absurdities: Yet Another Media-Defined 'Conspiracy Theory" Confirmed as Fact

As I’ve written so many times in recent years, the only real difference between a media-defined “conspiracy theory” and an eventual media-confirmed “fact” is roughly 3-6 months. This has been an incredibly accurate rule of thumb to follow since the day Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency in mid-2015.

There are basically no real exceptions to this rule, other than in the timing, as official confirmation of a handful of these “conspiracy theories” has lingered on for more than 6 months. This was the case on Monday related to something we’ve all known to be a fact for three years now: That the “death count” from COVID-19 was being massively and intentionally overstated by government officials and the media throughout 2020 and 2021 as a means of increasing fear and hysteria.

Corrupt propaganda outlets like the New York Times, which relentlessly pushed the government’s narrative on a daily basis and worked to cancel anyone who tried to tell the truth about it, have been loath to admit to that truth. But on Monday, 3 years too late to do any good, the Times itself finally gave up the ghost, at least in part.