In his original post he said:
4: Related, breaking news: A popular Substack claims that COVID didn’t happen at all, and that both “lab leak” and “natural origins” are part of the higher-level conspiracy to distract people from the fact that there was never a virus in the first place.
He later edited the post to add:
I wonder if I could even more Substack likes if I one-upped them with a theory that lockdowns never even happened, and it was just one of those Berenstein Bear or Mandela Effect things where everyone has a false memory.
So now it’s ironic, and therefore not harmful to spread the conspiracy theory to his large audience.
Good try but his own disclaimer at the top ends up telling on him
That’s nice Scott.
And right under there you’ve got
Assuming these numbers are real, it’s meaningless to compare gross salary, and not take into account the social contribution and whatever other taxes and contributions paid by the employer. I don’t have good enough knowledge about how US and UK salaries break down to elaborate much, but a heuristic I’ve been applying is to just slash US salaries in two to get a better impression of the living conditions.
(And as the page Scott links to specifies, “According to the Census Bureau in 2021, the average non-Hispanic black median household income was $48,297 in comparison to $77,999 for non-Hispanic white households”, so there you go)
I left a comment that made a similar point with some data:
christ the level of bad faith wrongheaded nonsense you’re getting in response is maddening
dude
“now do arbitrary homework for me”
Scott “I didn’t actually read the book I reviewed” Alexander.