Do You Believe--In Magic?

NO BODIES? PERFECT!

In the 2006 Hollywood film, with Hugh Jackman, Christopher Bale and Michael Caine, viewers were, perhaps for the first time, introduced to the perfect magic trick, comprised of three elements: the pledge, the turn and the prestige, one of a series of films, and considering the fact that, just like the 65% who possessed some faith affiliation, importing a moral imperative, 71% believed they had had some paranormal experience, and as many as 68% believed in good and evil spirits, while 18% believed that they had actually seen a ghost. These are the scientists who voted for the science in 2020.

While today, according to Baptist News, "Americans today are more optimistic about the trajectory of the pandemic than they have been since those halcyon days after vaccines and before Delta and Omicron", while as many as 24% of atheists had turned to prayer in March 2020, 63% of adults are "now expressing positivity about the direction of the pandemic", which "is the highest since last June after the vaccine was rolled out and infections were down sharply, but it is well below the 89% recorded then", and "55% of U.S. adults are still worried about future variants, and two-thirds expect the pandemic will persist through the end of 2022 or beyond."

According to Pew Research Center, in 2020, when 319,000 Americans had already died, over 20% Negro, you may not be surprised to know that it had been found that , going all the way back to "the very beginning of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, Democrats have been far more likely than Republicans to see COVID-19 as a 'major threat' to public health", which probably had some impact upon their vote, in an election where Forbes Magazine found that the only mandate for Joe Biden was on the pandemic response.

Notwithstanding the rise by six points of nones, increasing their lead ahead of Roman Catholics, during two years of pandemic, of the 65% who had some faith, even "nondenominational", like a history making judge, before, for the scientists who demand evidence, and empirical, reason based analysis, it is at least intriguing that, according to Pew Research Center, "[a] large majority of U.S. adults (86%) say there is some kind of lesson or set of lessons for mankind to learn from the coronavirus outbreak, and about a third (35%) say these lessons were sent by God." And, by September 2020, most Americans believed that their lives had been changed indelibly in ways that will never go away, like the 20% of churches that voluntarily closed their doors that, by May 2020, will never return.

It is a fact, according to Pew Research Center that, based upon evidence or not, just like the 65% who believe, without evidence, there is not just life, but intelligent life on other planets, that almost "three-in-ten Americans believe COVID-19 was made in a lab", a claim that the President's top medical adviser, Dr. Tony Fauci, has consistently denied.

However, would it surprise you that prior to the pandemic, former Deputy CIA Director, working at the International Spy Museum, had admitted that in intelligence work--or national security--we actually use the techniques employed by stage illusionists to present the appearance in the minds of unwitting subjects that something is what it is not?

Would it surprise you that the Scientific American that had unprecedentedly endorsed Joe Biden, had also began publishing a series of articles on stage illusion and magic tricks as early as 2018, two years before the pandemic?

Did you know, regardless of how you had voted on the origins of a coronavirus in April 2020, on March 7, 2020, the Supreme Court, Justice Alito abstaining, decided not to proceed to oral arguments, on an application for prejudgment injunctive relief to compel the White House, which had asserted a presumptive executive privilege, to respond to a FOIA request, or explain why it had not yet replied, since March 23, 2021, as to whether the secondary attack rate and infectious dose for COVID-19 was classified information, information that could only be classified if the government owned the causative biological agent for a disease that has been attributed to more deaths than Adolph Hitler during the Holocaust, the subject of a formal complaint submitted to the International Criminal Court, alleging crimes against humanity and genocide.

So, since you look like an intelligent person, do you believe that you could be fooled into thinking that a novel coronavirus had been zoonotically evolved from an animal source that not even the National Laboratories, the amazing Dr. Fauci and the Intelligence Community (the ones hiding the aliens from you) could not find?

Do you prefer not to know that your "beliefs" without evidence were responsible for your pandemic?