Here Kary Mullis explains how little boys build rockets. Loved every word!
Imagine how different our lives would be now had he not died in August 2019 at 74. Such a loss for science. Such a loss for all of us around the world. Mullis was fearless. He would have engaged Gates and Fauci actively and directly regarding COVID — especially regarding PCR, which was his invention that earned him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
In January 2023 Cochrane published another massive meta analysis on masks. I’ve lost track of how many studies there are now showing that masks don’t work, or in some cases, how they cause harm. Making community-wide decisions without evidence is dangerous public health policy. Yet, it happens all the time all over the world.
Really nice bit here from Mark Changizi. He clarifies the Precautionary Principle, and he adds a new principle to the concept as well. So the Precautionary Principle is now complete.
This quote sums nicely the two principles together:
Precautionary Principle: The burden is on you to convince me 12 ways to Sunday that your ingenious scheme to save us ISN’T GOING TO royally fuck things up.
Culpability Principle: The burden is on you to convince me 12 ways to Sunday that your ingenious scheme to save us DIDN’T royally fuck things up.
This quote re-names the principles and clearly assigns responsibility to each:
The Intervention Precautionary Principle
and the
The Intervention Culpability Principle
I like it. The terms are clear and parallel and responsibility is directly tied to the interventionist. To me the addition of the second component just completes the first. It’s common sense. And even though the original Precautionary Principle was incomplete, it still worked well for those who had a clue. I mean, I learned it 20 years ago in my technical writing classes at Northeastern University.
Reading Mark’s article above reminds me of The Buddha’s instructions to his son. Basically, The Buddha tells his little kid to think about his actions before, during, and after taking them. And he also tells his kid to test the results of his actions before, during, and after. In other words, think! Test! Will your actions cause harm if you do them? Stop! Think! Test! Are your actions causing harm now that you are doing them? Stop! Think! Test! Did your actions cause harm now that you’ve done them? Stop! Think! Test! This isn’t hard.
It’s excellent that we now finally have a substantial scientific and economic evaluation of the COVID lockdowns pushed by insane governments around the world. Below are three versions of the Hopkins study and also interviews with one of the authors.
June 2023
Did lockdowns work? The verdict on Covid restrictions (pdf)
Jonas Herby, Dr. Lars Jonung, and Professor Steve H. Hanke
Institute of Economic Affairs
Covid lockdowns were a costly failure
John Campbell
Lockdowns, a global policy failure
John Campbell
June 2022
Lockdowns Actually Saved SHOCKINGLY Few Lives – Fake Fact Checkers DEBUNKED
Jimmy Dore profiles Professor Hanke
May 2022
A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality: II (pdf)
Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke
Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise
January 2022
A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality
Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke
Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise
June 2021
Covid-19 Lockdowns and their Ratchet Effect of Increasing Government Control
Steve H. Hanke
Japan wasn’t always addicted to masks like it is today. Actually, Japan used to be pretty normal. Look at the images below. That’s what it looked like in Nagano in January 2008 — right in the middle of the normal yearly flu season! That’s 15 years ago. However, if you live in Japan right now in early 2023 you can see the difference clearly. For those who do not live in Japan, if you came here any time from 2020-2022 or even early 2023 you wouldn’t see a single face (except mine, of course). Note that it was actually not possible to come to Japan during 2020, 2021, or half way into 2022 because the country was simply closed (except if you had one of those fancy government passports, of course). Anyway, similar street scenes today like the images below would show people who’d be 100% masked.
We just started the 4th year of 2020. Utter insanity.
I have many hundreds of images like the ones below from all over Japan during all seasons in all spaces and circumstances for two decades where you’d be hard pressed to find even a single mask. I post this because I’ve heard so many people in the West during the “pandemic” saying that “Japanese people always wear masks” but that’s not true. Not even close. Now, there are individuals who do mask throughout the year here when they get sick, when they have allergies, when they go to a doctor’s office or hospital, when pollution is high, or when they just (unfortunately) want to hide their face. However, it’s not the norm. I count 1 mask below. That’s normal.
