What misdirection.
Not understanding how misdirection works? Here's an example in the context of your reply above...
You: You make numerous assertions that Cuomo is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people due to a directive that nursing homes accept residents back into their facility when discharged from the hospital if they are able to do so. The number you site ranges from 15,000; to 13,000; to 9,000; to 4,000; to we may never know—at one point asking "If you don't think Cuomo killed 4000, how many do you think he did kill?".
Me: I write a
direct response to the
specific allegation you make. In that
context, my first paragraph asks several questions regarding your assertion, all of which you ignore in your reply. In the second paragraph, within that
context, I state that we're fortunate not to have had to weigh the choices that Cuomo did between two risks—one, keeping patients no longer needing hospital care in hospitals already overwhelmed or the other of returning patients that had been treated in the hospital to the nursing home from which they were transferred.
You: You reply by focusing just on the second paragraph saying
only "I coun't [couldn't] have described a better defence of what Trump did than that." [
Misdirection #1] You redirect attention away from my questions and statement regarding your assertions about Cuomo
to focus attention somewhere else—namely defending Trump, which had
NOTHING to do with your assertions about Cuomo killing people OR my reply to them. A blatant misdirection away from a direct response to your assertions which you apparently wished to avoid.
Me: I reply—"My comments were in the
context of the decision made by Cuomo and the choices which he had to weigh" [trying to get you back on topic]. But play along with your first misdirection and also ask—"What decisions by Trump are you referring to defending? Is it the same defense that you will apply to decisions that Biden makes—or
Cuomo?" [trying again to get you back on topic].
You: You
ignore my reference to the
context of the discussion [your Cuomo assertions] in my first statement [trying to get you back on topic]. You also ignore my second question asking if you would apply the same defense to Biden or
Cuomo [trying again to get you back on topic].
Instead, you keep focusing on Trump. Though in fairness, you do also say "I give Cuomo the benefit of the doubt for his directive"—even though you
haven't in the numerous accusations you've made
blaming him for thousands of deaths due to his directive.
And on it goes with more discussion of Trump and economic fallout from Covid and Trump minimizing the seriousness of Covid,
until you then bring other actions by governors into the discussion—misdirection from Trump's minimizing the seriousness of Covid in the early stages of the pandemic. [
Misdirection#2]
You: "Governors know how deadly the virus is also. Yet they open their states trying to get their economies back as well." Still not talking about Cuomo and his directive or my reply to your assertions of him killing people. Now adding misdirection away from statements that Trump made.
Me: Finally, I've had enough and call out your "Blatant misdirection" which has continued throughout the discussion.
You: "What misdirection. [?]"
So, after a lengthy series of posts and replies to my
direct and specific response to your assertions regarding Cuomo killing people—never once do you ever address my questions or statements about your assertions which was the sole purpose of my post. Your responses never go there—they are directed somewhere else. The
possible exception being a statement by you midway thru the mess of misdirection when you say: "I give Cuomo the benefit of the doubt for his directive"—
even though that's the polar opposite of your earlier assertions that I attempted to discuss with you.Do you see how that works? I think that you know
exactly how it works.
As someone else put it much more succinctly than I just have, in a
polite request...
If you are not going to address the questions in my posts, please do not quote them and pretend that you are.
My sentiments exactly.
