Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Is Mackenzie Bennet Truthful?


 Is medical student Mackenzie Bennett telling the truth?  This was her Twitter message in 3 parts. 

“Having a difficult time putting into words the feeling I had when I left the hospital after doing chest compressions on a coding young person who lost their fight with COVID, to see a normal packed Friday night at bars and restaurants...

I am just starting my medical training, but this I know- it takes a village. Enormous gratitude to every single EMT, doc,PA, nurse, CRNA, PT,OT, RT, AA, SWer, tech, unit clerk, environmental services and maintenance worker out there, putting themselves at risk to care for others

As my friends/family know, I’ve cried a lot lately. Thanks to all of your incredibly kind words and support, tonight they’ve been happy tears. I’m shocked at the outpouring of responses, and grateful to everyone who took the time to engage with this message. 


Wear your masks!💜"


post your thoughts in the comments section. 


Analysis to follow 


16 comments:

Hey Jude said...

I would be interested to know if the patient was still alive when the student left the hospital, and if she therefore only later learned that the patient had died. This because “a coding young person” is present tense, while “I left the hospital” and “ lost their fight” are past tense.

If the young person was alive when the student left, a busy Friday night might not have raised much feeling, thus the difficulty in putting into words feeling, if she is trying, retrospectively to create a feeling she did not have at the time.

I would ask also if the student went into a bar or restuarant, as she places all the hospital staff “out there” putting themselves at risk, to care for others, rather than inside the hospital. It could be something like a child saying, “everyone else was doing it” - they were all out there, the whole village, but not her so much, as she’s their student - the allusion is to herself as their child as the quote is “It takes a village to raise a child.”

The message “Wear your masks!” is added at the end -it’s is not a feeling or difficult to put into words, so it does not seem this can be the message for which readers are thanked for their earlier engagement. Somewhat confusing as it seems the message is missing - along with other parts of this story.




frommindtomatter said...

The first post could finish at the word “COVID” and stand on its own as a statement. The reader would understand it in terms of language. She goes further and uses the high sensitivity word “to” which will seek to justify/explain her words/actions.

“[to] [see] [a normal] packed Friday night at bars and restaurants...”

“to see” is present tense and inappropriate. She avoids saying the expected “and saw” which would be reliable. That fits with storytelling language. She isn’t reporting what she saw, but rather what she needs to be explained (“to”).

Note what she isn’t telling us. We expect her to report what she saw, but she is telling us about “a normal” packed Friday night instead of "the" alleged night in question. Expected would be “and saw packed bars and restaurants” which would put her there with her words. Even better would be if she actually included people in her statement instead of being passive, which adds another flag to the storytelling element.

Her deception is cued from her use of the word “to”. She follows with “see” (out of tense), “a normal” (reporting what is normal instead of what is real) and then shows passivity in her description of the event which all points to fabrication.

Adrian.

happyuk said...

O/T but I think Trump was right to get shot of this guy (chief of cybersecurity).
His statement do not fill me with confidence at all:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-results-security-chris-krebs-60-minutes-2020-11-29/

happyuk said...

Is this an embedded admission?

"And so that pretty thoroughly, in my opinion, debunks some of these sensational claims out there-- that I've called nonsense and a hoax, that there is some hacking of these election vendors and their software and their systems across the country. "

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-results-security-chris-krebs-60-minutes-2020-11-29/

Autumn said...

First paragraph
She doesn’t start the first sentence with “I”. So she doesn’t take ownership of “having a difficult time putting into words”. Nevertheless this phrase may be truthful because nowhere in the first paragraph does she actually tell us what feeling she had exactly. This may be because her feelings had nothing to do with the patient. In other words: it seems she is “trying, retrospectively to create a feeling she did not have at the time” (see Hey Jude’s comment). In any case, the way she describes the patient is rather distant/impersonal: she refers to the patient as a “coding young person” and “their”. So to her the patient didn’t even have a gender. Her focus very much seems to be her own feelings since the emphasis is on what SHE felt when SHE left the hospital after SHE did chest compressions. The focus is not so much the coding “person”.

The sentence about the packed bars and restaurants doesn’t seem to be based on her own experience given that it is in the present tense (“to see”) and also lacks the pronoun “I” (see also Adrian’s comment).

By using words like “coding” and “lost their fight with Covid” she seems to avoid saying the patient died / died from Covid.

She explicitly adds “when I left the hospital”. This is unnecessary information as it goes without saying that she left the hospital between doing chest compressions and seeing packed bars and restaurants”(unless the bars and restaurants were in the hospital). So something of importance may have happened right before she left the hospital.

Second paragraph
The focus on herself continues in the second paragraph. A young person supposedly just died under her hands but she happily goes on to talk about HER career and HER colleagues. The second sentence of this paragraph starts with “Enormous gratitude”. Although it has an ingratiating ring to it, she doesn’t take ownership of this feeling by using the pronoun “I”. Therefore: does she mean that others – we, the public, ordinary people – should have enormous gratitude for HER and HER colleagues “putting themselves at risk to care for others”? Does she want us to view her and her colleagues day-to-day work as heroic?

Third paragraph
She starts this paragraph by saying “As my friends/family know”. She could have just said “I’ve cried a lot lately” (again: it’s all about her). Apparently she feels the need to invoke the knowledge of her friends and family to make her statement more convincing (?). She is “shocked” at the outpouring of responses. Why does she say “shocked” and not (for example) “grateful”? Does she not think her message is worthy of the “kind words and support”?

Fourth paragraph
This paragraph consists of an order: “Wear your masks!” It’s not a suggestion, not a question, but an order. The heart symbol at the end seems intended to make this directive appear somewhat softer. The order comes out of the blue.

All in all, this message is manipulative i.m.o.. As if she wants human beings performing basic human activities – such as: having fun in close proximity to others and unhampered breathing – to feel responsible and guilty for people reportedly dying of Covid and putting her and her colleagues at risk. Her solution is that we all wear a mask. The heart symbol in the end adds to the manipulation.

Hamish said...

As others have stated, there's no 'I' at the start - MB is not really taking ownership of what follows.
The first sentence is overly long and rambling but does it seem that 'Having a difficult time' and 'lost their fight with covid' are a long way apart in the sentence, perhaps suggesting that her difficult time is not directly related to the purported death? Also, the order in which the details are given suggests priority seems to be about her feelings rather than the loss of the patient.
Her way of describing the deceased person, with whom she had close physical contact (chest compressions), appears to lack familiarity/intimacy. Only a general description of age is given and no gender is assigned. Is this normal? Perhaps being general so as not to reveal details of a deceased person is part of the training. Warrants further thought.
'Lost their fight' is a euphemism and does not strike me as medical language - rather, it seems designed to dramatise.
If she had indeed just seen somebody die, it's possible she could be moved by the juxtaposition of other people out enjoying themselves on a Friday night but the use of the word 'normal' seems unnecessary. What sort of night did she expect would be happening out there? Is she angry with them for simply enjoying their Friday night?
Overall, the first paragraph seems to be more about her not being able to put her feelings into words after being confronted with a normal Friday night than the fact that her patient died. Note, she has not mentioned guilt or sadness as might be expected.
A question not related to the language - do they let people who have 'just started' their medical training do chest compressions? Wouldn't that be left to a defibrillator, ventilator or someone with more experience?
Next, she thanks all the other people in the medical profession. This, despite the fact that the patient died. Even though she was not a loved one of the deceased, we might expect her to be recriminating at that difficult time rather than seeking to ingratiate herself with potential colleagues.
She further seeks to ingratiate as she talks about the risks that these people take to help others. As a member of the medical profession (albeit a new one) these risks are also taken by herself. In a sense, she is congratulating herself. Having supposedly just had her first patient die, this strikes me as unexpectedly self-flattering. It should be noted that she has still not mentioned her sadness or feelings of guilt over the loss of the patient.
Finally, she does concede that she has cried a lot lately. But were those tears as a result of losing the patient? It's not explicitly stated. The mention of tears is physically quite a long way from the mention of the death.
Tonight, however, she admits to happy tears that have come from the words of support. Happiness is the only emotion mentioned throughout the entire 3 part message. Does this seem unusual in a story about a death?
She is 'shocked' by the outpouring of responses. This is perhaps unexpected yet we must believe her. But why should she be shocked? Is it because her story of COVID death is made up? This amateur analyst believes so.
In order to give herself the perceived status of authority figures (government stooges) like Dr Fauci, she concludes by telling us to 'wear your masks'. No hint of herself being included in this missive as in 'we should all wear our masks'. Again, it would appear she is seeking to elevate and ingratiate herself with colleagues.
Deception detected (along with hubris)

PS - What is a 'coding young person'?
Is that a typo or have I forgotten how to English?

Nic said...
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Nic said...

Re Barr's resignation letter. Should it at least not have that word in it? Only four times does the pronoun "I" appear. He doesn't say he is resigning.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/ag-barr-resignation-letter/index.html

Nic said...

Also, the word "depart" (no pronoun) is unexpected and there is a timeline mentioned, "week" and a deadline "December 23rd".

It's unexpected (understatement) the reason he is writing wouldn't be the first sentence of the "resignation" letter. It starts off as thank you letter.

Also, CNN actually published this "glowing curriculum vitae" of Trump's last four years. I would think they would rather chew tinfoil regardless who wrote it. (That's if W. Barr wrote that.)

soulsurfer said...

As most have mentioned , she doesn’t put herself in the Statement through the pronoun I, although we learn shortly after that she is capable if doing so! She prioritizes her own struggle over that of the „ person“ who just died. This is about her Struggle! But it is not the Struggle over what she experienced, but rather the struggle to put into words, what she wants to express. that is of great concern to her. Her need to express herself is sensitive to her! She emphasizes the moment of leaving the hospital. What happened when she left the hospital? Any missing information here. The word „left“ should be flagged , although it could be argued that it is appropriate in the context. A „ Person“ is gender neutral, which is unexpected since she supposedly put her hands on his or her chest! She must know the gender, but chooses not to tell us. On the other hand we learn the person was young, which is not only unnecessary information , but deepens the impression of inappropriate vagueness regarding the gender! Why telling us the age but not the gender? The reflexive Pronoun „their“ is commonly used when referring back to the plural! Would „who“ not have been more appropriate. The incorrect use of the Pronoun „they“ is an enormous red Flag for us and of it self alerts us for possible deception! We do not learn that the person died of Covid only that a fight was lost. We could Interpret, that the person died of covid but we won’t! If she can not tell us we won’t say it for her! Also the word „with „ creates a distance between the person and Covid. Why the distance? Did the Person die with or off covid? We don’t even know that the Person is dead! He or she was coding but did he/she die? „to see a normal packed Friday night at bars and restaurants“ ! We are now given a reason where no question was asked. We are being told the reason why the person „died“ . Because they went out to a packed Bar! This is a Hina Clause and should be noted as such! In this , we very likely find the reason for the entire Statement. We can also find a blaming of the Victim, which is unexpected to be prioritized at such an early stage of such a tragic experience. We could go further not only is the Victim blamed, but everybody who behaves like the Victim including Bar and Restaurant owners.
In the beginning we learned that her Priority lies in her expression. Here we learn what it is she wants to express.

In the next Paragraph she appropriately point out the bravery if the medical staff, but does not miss the opportunity to subtly blame the victim again by emphasizing the word „risk“ where we find the next Hina Clause when she tells us why she thanks the medical Profession. Again we learn more about the reason for the statement.

In the next paragraph the Focus stays with her and the fact that she cries alot. Is telling us that she is the true victim here. This would be the perfect moment to state her compassion with the family who have lost a dear one, but instead we are supposed to feel sorry for her? She prioritizes Friends and family. Not the friends and family of the diseased, but hers! Tonight she cries happy tears, despite the fact that a young person „died“ under her hands?
Again we learn her priorities.Concern for self and support for her!
„to engage with this message“ again we learn this was about sending a message out, not sharing her feelings about experiencing someone die, not to send prayers and support to the family of that person!
And then we learn what the actual message is „ wear your mask“

Conclusion: Deception indicated! We can not say for her that anybody died! Her need is political/social! She wants to send out a message !


Andrea said...

I would like to see a Statement Analysis of Bill Gates...

Hamish said...

"Analysis to follow"
Oh yeah? When?

flightfulbird said...


I am keeping a tab open (ever since I first read the post and all of your comment and analysis below it) to watch this page for Peter's analysis and more comments/analysis from readers !

Hamish said...

When the article says 'Analysis to follow' what would the average user of this site deem to be a reasonable amount of time to allow for that to happen?

Peter Hyatt said...

I didn’t do the analysis as it seemed too obvious

Josh Brown said...

Dropping reference to "I" is almost universal in social media posts.