Today I want to talk about red flags. No, not the communist ones - but those things that ought to have been warning us all along. The first red flag, for me, came back in April/May 2020. I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of a lockdown anyway, but I didn’t really know much back then. So I took the UK mortality data and did a rough estimate of the 2nd derivative. If you’ve forgotten your high school math - that’s the one that is the “acceleration”. It’s basically telling us something about whether the brakes are on, or not.
I agree on all the red flags. At the start in all my innocence, I was really expecting the government to open up at the end of 3 weeks, and when they didn't then I thought surely they would as spring progressed into summer. And then I started following up odd links on the internet to interviews with the likes of Mike Yeadon and became a full blown sceptic. My most hated red flag was the one on mask, which from the start I refused to adhere to -it was difficult at the start not wear a mask, but it gradually became easier and now boldly walk round at work as the only person without one (I notice an email got circulated reminding staff about wearing masks last time I was in the building!). I hate masks so much that I cannot watch videos of things like choral evensong from Salsibury Cathedral as it angers me so much - just have to listen, as I enjoy the music and singing. Haven't been to church such it started whilst the CoE continues to worship wfalse gods.
Thanks for this which had me laughing in places, albeit on a serious topic.
My favorite red flag was the scientific research paper that used fraudulent (made-up, non-existent!) data to show that hydroxychloroquinine (HCQ) was not effective, that it was actually killing patients. This paper caused HCQ to be banned and legitimate research to be stopped. The paper was retracted within 2 weeks, but the bans were not lifted and much of the research not restarted. A classic effective propaganda event; the data in the study came from somewhere, whoever created it knew it was bogus. Who created this fraud? Someone who benefited by not finding low-cost effective treatments for COVID.
Oh my! I think you have a new fan. I found your substack through my friend Mathew Crawford’s Round the Earth & plan to stick around for all your articles. Your sense of humor in the face of a brontosaurus is just what I needed.
So many red flags that the matadors waving them will need to watch their asses for the rest of their lives; in prison or out. Goggles 'which countries have red flags'.
Loving the humour, thanks so much! Don’t know if you’ve seen it, but statistician Mathew Crawford faced Simpson head on and has also done an age-adjusted analysis on the ONS all-cause mortality data, showing very little difference between the jabbed an unjabbed. Well worth the read… https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/uk-data-shows-no-all-cause-mortality
Alex Berenson got jumped on for the same thing, but when you look at the age ranges broken out by the UK health data, there is no simpsons paradox. IN EVERY AGE GROUP the vaxxed are dying at rates higher than the unvaxxed. So give yourself a break on this one please.
I agree on all the red flags. At the start in all my innocence, I was really expecting the government to open up at the end of 3 weeks, and when they didn't then I thought surely they would as spring progressed into summer. And then I started following up odd links on the internet to interviews with the likes of Mike Yeadon and became a full blown sceptic. My most hated red flag was the one on mask, which from the start I refused to adhere to -it was difficult at the start not wear a mask, but it gradually became easier and now boldly walk round at work as the only person without one (I notice an email got circulated reminding staff about wearing masks last time I was in the building!). I hate masks so much that I cannot watch videos of things like choral evensong from Salsibury Cathedral as it angers me so much - just have to listen, as I enjoy the music and singing. Haven't been to church such it started whilst the CoE continues to worship wfalse gods.
Thanks for this which had me laughing in places, albeit on a serious topic.
My favorite red flag was the scientific research paper that used fraudulent (made-up, non-existent!) data to show that hydroxychloroquinine (HCQ) was not effective, that it was actually killing patients. This paper caused HCQ to be banned and legitimate research to be stopped. The paper was retracted within 2 weeks, but the bans were not lifted and much of the research not restarted. A classic effective propaganda event; the data in the study came from somewhere, whoever created it knew it was bogus. Who created this fraud? Someone who benefited by not finding low-cost effective treatments for COVID.
Oh my! I think you have a new fan. I found your substack through my friend Mathew Crawford’s Round the Earth & plan to stick around for all your articles. Your sense of humor in the face of a brontosaurus is just what I needed.
So many red flags that the matadors waving them will need to watch their asses for the rest of their lives; in prison or out. Goggles 'which countries have red flags'.
Loving the humour, thanks so much! Don’t know if you’ve seen it, but statistician Mathew Crawford faced Simpson head on and has also done an age-adjusted analysis on the ONS all-cause mortality data, showing very little difference between the jabbed an unjabbed. Well worth the read… https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/uk-data-shows-no-all-cause-mortality
Alex Berenson got jumped on for the same thing, but when you look at the age ranges broken out by the UK health data, there is no simpsons paradox. IN EVERY AGE GROUP the vaxxed are dying at rates higher than the unvaxxed. So give yourself a break on this one please.