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The fact that we did a decent job of protecting children at the start of the pandemic was used to claim that children didn’t need protection at all. That’s farcical.
Jonathan Howard onMarch 10, 2023
In a recent article for Peste Magazine, I described the origin of a zombie myth spread by contrarian doctors, namely that COVID only kills one a in million children. In reality, this reflected the odds of an elementary school child dying only during the pandemic’s first 7 months. As new variants arrived and protections vanished, more children inevitably died. According to the Coronavirus in Kids (COVKID) Tracking and Education Project, the actual pediatric death rate as of September 2022 ranged from a low of 7.2 per million for 4-year olds to a peak of 91.8 per million for infants. Of course, often the numerator matters more than the denominator. Over 700 children under age 4 years have died of COVID in the US. That’s horrible. Many thousands more were injured by the virus, though grave outcomes in children are very rare outcome fortunately.
However, beyond the fact that this “one a in million” number is both blatantly and tragically false, doctors predictably used it in an inappropriate way to minimize COVID’s impact on children. The fact that we did a decent job of protecting children at the start of the pandemic was used as evidence that children didn’t need protection at all, not even a vaccine. Doctors who claimed that children didn’t need to be vaccinated against COVID because more children died of some other cause, failed to grasp that our reactively successful efforts to project children in the spring of 2020 was the only reason they could make these ludicrous comparisons.
I’m calling this absurd line of thinking the smoke alarm fallacy after a classic line from The Simpsons, and I’ve been seeing it everywhere lately.
Read the rest here:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-smoke-detector-fallacy/
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Those are nuclear-powered submarines, not nuclear-armed.
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Ipoh-born Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 95th Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles today.
This is for her brilliant role as Chinese-American immigrant Evelyn Quan in the movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once”, who while being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), discovered that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse.
Yeoh, 60, created history by being the first Asian actress to win in this category.
Ms Yeoh, who has long lived the life of a global sophisticate alongside her partner, Jean Todd, and spends little time in Malaysia, chose to play the victim claiming her Oscar on behalf of “people who look like me” and even older women.
She was spared the real life audit in her moment of triumph. However, according to disparaging material circulating back home, Yeoh is a daughter of privilege whose father was a politically connected businessman and MCA official who embraced the corrupted BN regime.
So, unsurprisingly perhaps, civil society and reform were not Yeoh’s thing. She has been only too comfortable championing Najib, speaking at his rallies and turning a blind eye to his blatant corruption
“We have a leader here who has done so many good things and will do more. I hope from the bottom of my heart that he will remain as the Prime Minister and I ask all of you to give him a strong mandate”
Yeoh memorably gushed in 2013. The fact her partner had received a plot of land and huge allowances including RM380,000 to cover their holidays, was dismissed by Najib’s spokesperson with the explanation “When he gets to meet people or contacts in Europe, RM1mil is nothing”.
According to reports, the spokesman added that Todt had even arranged to meet a top film producer and people from the Paris-based Hello! magazine, adding: “You think we can get that kind of access easily? No way!”
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Ms Yeoh therefore clearly intends to carry on having her cake and eating it. Playing the victim and playing the Malaysian when effectively she is neither and making money out of the grotesque story of her fellow Malaysian Jho Low and his disgraced Bossku – a man whom Yeoh was happy to profit from and to support wholeheartedly when it suited.
What a performance!
Read the whole report here:
https://www.sarawakreport.org/talkback/hollywoods-1mdb-links-keep-bouncing-back/
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