The principal ethical issue with vaccines is not about how rushed were the production and studies.
You can deliver it as fast as you want.
What you CANNOT do is
- tell people it is totally safe
- censor critical voices
- mandate it
any of which violates informed consent.
SCIMO 470
In the news recently was some paper about how there are folks who don’t have an inner voice. Everyone cried, “That’s so weird!”
Nope. It’s the folks WITH an inner voice that are weird.
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THEM: Thanks, but I’ll listen to the experts.
ME: Are you a scientist?
THEM: No.
ME: Well I am. So, which of us is better able to know who the experts are? And which of us is more equipped to interpret their claims, their level of confidence, and the disagreements within their community?
THEM:
ME: Me. So if you want to play the “Who’s the expert?” game — which is dumb — then I win and so STFU.
While the world was demanding masking and social distancing, my company VINO OPTICS was selling my patented optical lenses that do the opposite, accentuating the social signals on human skin.
Three years ago this piece by me appeared at the Federalist about the launch of my free expression institute, FreeX.group
I suspect that the last thirty years of reining in antibiotic use in order to address antibiotic resistance will be looked back as unfounded and damaging, and understood as just one of the many groupthinks that the medical community suffers from.
Has many of the hallmarks of a righteous movement to save the world.
…from antibiotic resistance.
And one is willing to have one’s patient undergo local harm for the common good.
And, in such “righteous movement” circumstances, normal common sense reasoning tends to be undermined. …as you may have noticed in the Great Covid Debacle.
So, I don’t at all trust that even their argument that the inhibition on giving antibiotics is better for the general welfare.
That masks are deeply uncomfortable prima facie suggests they’re harmful.
And that absurdity made masks a BETTER membership signal.
Which evolved into a virtue signal.
Three SCIMO videos on this:
(1) That masks are deeply uncomfortable suggests they’re harmful. Moment 60
(2) Their position is absurd on purpose. Moment 71
(3) How did the science on masks change overnight? Moment 119
Overthrowing totalitarianism and punishing those responsible isn’t a thing.
It wisps away instead, and everyone pretends they were either righteous to do what they did, or pretends they were against it all along.
Such is the bizarre authoritarianism that’s done by all to all.
My life is now categorized into
~ 2019 and prior
~ 2020 and beyond
This is involuntary, and a much larger distinction in my brain than any other temporal boundary, whether it be college, marriage, kids, etc.
Totalitarianism is a game changer for how you view life.
Children's drawings are attempts at writing. Moment 466
They routinely withheld antibiotics for respiratory viruses, a dangerous trend that has been occurring even before Covid, but far accentuated during the panic.
They refused antibiotics for my wife’s flu-like sickness in January 2020, for example, until a week later we came back in and managed to convince them. By then she lost 80% of her hearing in one ear.
Anti-Lockdowners in a Nutshell. Moment 109
Completely unsurprisingly, Hamas’ casualty data has all the hallmarks of making up shit from whole cloth.
“Most likely, the Hamas ministry settled on a daily total arbitrarily. We know this because the daily totals increase too consistently to be real. Then they assigned about 70% of the total to be women and children, splitting that amount randomly from day to day. Then they in-filled the number of men as set by the predetermined total. This explains all the data observed.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers
Someone at a Kava bar I frequent found out that I’ve been vocal against Covid authoritarianism and began asking me about it, finding solace in hearing someone echo his doubts.
Someone else nearby overheard us, specifically while mentioning the number of business owners who lost their businesses.
“You all need to get some fucking proportion. They lost their business but are fucking alive! It was a worldwide pandemic for God’s sake.”
We have much work to do, folks.
Our authoritarian policy makers don’t understand human nature.
Moment 106
From 9/14/21
Another reason we have civil liberties is because those responsible for authoritarian interventions end up going all in with their reputation, and cannot be expected to behave rationally in such circumstances.
Moment 105 from Sept 8, 2021
Authoritarians can’t back down without utter disgrace - Conceit of Understanding Part 2. Moment 105 from Sept 8, 2021
If you need to tell people your pronouns, you may have made some poor life choices.
Why they believe the interventions work in spite of the evidence. Moment 104 from Aug 31, 2021