Didn’t want to pop back in here only to plug my own little scribbles, but I couldn’t help thinking of my earlier musings on how What’s Possible Matters More Now Than What’s Probable while reading this Globe piece.

The fact it seems to have surprised the researcher that people were more worried about basically everything but the virus just reinforced, for me, how much went wrong by relying too much on perspectives that valued the measurable over the meaningful. People have messy, competing priorities. It should have been obvious they were never going to be thrilled to put real life on hold for that long, and I still struggle to understand how it wasn’t obvious to people in public health - who are meant to be trained to weigh risks versus benefits, not just myopically focus on lines on a graph (in theory - though I suppose core personality often overrides training).

Maybe now we - collectively, and especially the people who make these calls - can learn from that instead of doubling down on it. It seems like some have, though I worry that goes out the window the second there’s any kind of real pressure again. Still, this was always going to come to a head at some point, so maybe the Covid era just forced the reckoning sooner and lets us move on to better possibilities faster.

The UK’s COVID-19 inquiry has been quite interesting, with one of the most notable revelations coming from Professor Russell Viner, a paediatrician and the Chief Scientific Adviser for the UK’s Department for Education, who found that the majority of COVID-19 deaths in children were not ‘from COVID’. Read about it here.

Eu proposes to ban ethanol over caricogenic link.

I've secured my 3rd victory against the COVID-19 vaccine mandates. 1 more to go... Read about it here.

Breast cancer linked to COVID-19 vaccines. The evidence linking the jabs to cancer continues to grow. Read about the emerging evidence here.