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Scarmoge posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago
… we simply must begin to ask the right questions for a wide variety of reasons … (see C.S. Peirce on the importance of questions and the predesignation of hypotheses.)
Following up on two recent quotes:
“The federal government does not have a database of who has been vaccinated. That is not our role,” press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington.
Q: Would you please name clearly and plainly what organizations (bureaucratic, extra-bureaucratic, or otherwise) or loose affiliations you are referring to when you say “federal government”?
Q: What do you mean by “database”? In your mind are “lists” and “databases” equivalent?
Q: When you say “our” do you mean that you are referring to and speaking for the entire “federal government” (whomever that may be), portions of the “federal government”, the “Bidenenko Administration, for the interests that Bidenenko represents, or for the interests that the Bidenenko Administration represents?
Q: What is “your” “role”?
Q: Is/are there a Federal Contractor(s) (or sub contractors or sub-sub contractors -you get the idea here [connected in any way either directly or indirectly]- all the way down to unpaid Federal Informants), or a private business(s), or any public/private cooperative(s), regardless of the specifics or specificities of their provided services, who do produce, create, and or maintain such a database or databases, and who would most certainly (for a fee, nothing more) provide whatever aggregations of data obtained from such a/or database(s), to “the government” (we should, for the time being, place this phrase inside quotation marks)?
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“We don’t maintain a database along those lines. And we have no plans to.”Q: Are you currently, as of this moment, or will you at any time in the future, consider making any type of preparations for producing, creating, or maintaining any type of database relating to any data concerning
vaccinations?Q: Who are you referring to when you say “we”?
Q: What do you mean by “maintain”?
Q: Along what “lines” then do you maintain a database or databases? (unfortunately one must ask in both the singular and plural forms to avoid the clever) … If it is found out that such things were compiled, and the memory of the one asking is sufficiently long, they might say on a later occasion, “I asked you (only using the singular, or only using the plural) and you said “No” with the reply being “Oh, you asked if we maintained (singular) and we actually maintained more than one so when I answered “No” to your question I answered “truthfully”. … and of course the same would be the case if one only asked the question using the plural.
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I take your point on the importance of being able to formulate the right questions. On the other hand, in case such questions never get asked, I submit it’s at least as important to have a model for interpreting the implications of the answers (and the questions) we do get.
For example, in a denial or negation, when you hear qualifiers like “a database of who has been vaccinated,” then you can reasonably postulate they’re trying to cover up a database they do have that’s relevant to the question being asked. Maybe a database of who has made an appointment to be vaccinated? Or of who is on Medicare and not been reported as vaccinated? Another example: “That is not the role of the federal government.” Here we might reasonably postulate she’s implying “That is the role of somebody else.” Listening carefully to, and parsing, the language in the answers — however banal the answers may seem — can still yield tidbits of actual information. (I can see your comment implies all these things; it just goes further and focuses more on formulating questions than on interpreting answers.)
Or just use the 80/20 rule: assume they’re lying and that your assumption has an 80% chance of being correct. That’s a model I’ve developed for my own use, at any rate. Less precise but a huge time saver!
… see the Transcript Of President Clinton’s White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry’s Briefing of Jan. 21, 1998 http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/01/21/transcripts/mccurry/
… notice that he says several times that he will neither parse nor interpret statements.
One wonders if ERCOT has factored in this facility in its management of The Texas Grid? Now that might be an interesting question that an actual journalist might ask at the next ERCOT press briefing. Oops, I forgot … there are no more “actual” journalists.
Evidently he recorded my friend’s automobile license number and ran a check. The following week she was denied curbside checkin at the SLC International airport. She had to go into the terminal to clear her flight plans… she was allowed to board and caught her flight.
Water at Bluffdale… https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2118801&itype=CMSID
Unrelated, but perhaps of interest to some: a neighbor and I wanted to tour the nearby Kennecott Copper Mine (sp.?). Unable to do so because it is still closed following an accident in recent years. His inquiries included the discovery that Queen Elizabeth owns 20% of the mine. I trust his due diligence as he is a recent Harvard grad (medical field) with an eye for detail. Again, not directly relevant to your post, but of interest to me as something to perhaps to “dig” into further.
I was born in Utah and returned upon retirement in recent years, but have never been to the largest copper mine in the world (of its kind). My bad.