Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "CNBC International Live" channel.

In a shocking turn of events, the Chinese Communist Party will not condemn the actions of ex-KGB agent and proud "former" Soviet, Vladimir Putin.
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This guy is getting paid a big sum from a pharmaceutical company to push this message. I can all but guarantee it.
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@polarpenguin3 5 years ago? Are you not aware that there are near-constant protests in Portland, including a recent one in which six people were shot?
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@jamesoneil1388 That's an appeal to authority. I hope you copy/pasted that. I'd hate to think you wasted that many keystrokes on a logical fallacy.
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Really? Then where are all the Omicron deaths? They haven't even been able to find one, so they grabbed someone from the UK who died with Omicron and claimed it was from Omicron. It has been around long enough for there to be deaths. There aren't any. Omicron is milder and you're lying - likely to get a payoff from a pharmaceutical company. P.S. There are 19,806 views, 563 comments, 123 likes, and 623 DISLIKES on this video as of this comment. Screw YouTube censorship. Install Return YouTube Dislike extension on Chrome or their add-on on Firefox.
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@jamesoneil1388 Except in both of your "examples" those you mention are not, in fact, authorities. The appeal to authority fallacy is based on the idea that a person of authority in a particular field must be right, simply die to the fact that they work in that field. That is, of course, nonsense. Biologists can be wrong about biology. Plumbers can be wrong about plumbing. Invoke case studies, or even raw data. Don't invoke titles. People with titles are wrong every day. That is why the appeal to authority is always a logical fallacy.
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@bellsTheorem1138 No, no it's not. Appeal to authority is the logical fallacy that someone who specializes in a field must be right, simply by virtue of specializing in said field. If that were true, plumbing would never leak, doctors would never get sued, and rockets would never fall out of the sky.
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@hejiranyc Sure he did. Now, ask him for the hard numbers that were used to show that determination and he'll do an about face and spout the ever-popular line about not having heard numbers to releases at this time. It's conjecture at best. At worst, it's corruption.
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@chrismagnussen4304 Okay, so where are all of the Omicron deaths and severe cases? We've been told how fast this variant moves. There should be deaths by now. South Africa should be swimming in bodies, having had their hospitals overrun by Omicron patients that they can't keep up with. Where are they? The media is so desperate to show us that Omicron is lethal, that they grabbed the first death of someone with Omicron in the UK and claimed they died from Omicron. Of course, when people tried to follow up, that got swept under the rug really quickly. Omicron is "so dangerous" that nobody is dying and almost nobody is getting severely ill from it. As for any talk about vaccines helping: 60% of the US is vaccinated. 80% of Omicron cases in the US are vaccinated. There has been no correlation between vaccine status and severity of symptoms from Omicron in the US. Some quick math will tell you that A) Getting the vaccine won't help you survive or have reduced symptoms from Omicron and B) Getting vaccinated won't help you keep from getting Omicron. In fact, by the numbers, the vaccine seems to be making people more susceptible to Omicron - not that it matters, since it's most likely not going to kill you or do any lasting damage. Omicron is our way out of this. The pharmaceutical companies - that have been working really hard to get us on a regimen of taking their vaccine every fiscal quarter - are nervous about this. Show me a doctor and I'll show you someone who loves money. Pharmaceutical companies have lots of money. If this guy doesn't have a severely inflated bank account after this interview, I'll eat my hat.
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