An irrational but effective marketing campaign

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Soon after the COVID vaccinations started the government realized many people would not take them.  This was a real problem for government because the unvaccinated would become a control group that the vaccines could be tested against.  The pharmaceutical companies and their government co-conspirators knew the jabs did not work and were not safe so this situation could not stand.  The control group must be eliminated.

What happened then was a very expensive marketing program that started with carrots but quickly moved to sticks.  Unvaccinated people were excluded from society.  The reason given was that it was unsafe for vaccinated people to come in contact with unvaccinated people.  This has got to go down as the most illogical marketing approach in history because it is a bold admission that the vaccines do not work.  Not only that but it is an admission that the vaccines have made things worse.  It is more dangerous to be around unvaccinated people now that you are vaccinated?  Frankly this took stupidity to another level but it worked.  Not the vaccine but the marketing program.

Thankfully many people held out against the government persecution and their resilience may someday save everyone.  Thanks to the control group we now know everything implied by the marketing program was true.  It is more dangerous to have been jabbed.

 

The Jabs are the first medical treatment in history that makes you more likely to die of the disease that it was supposed to protect you from.  In fact they make you more likely to die period.

To put this into perspective, the global average IFR of Covid for everyone under 70 had been determined to be about 0.07%. Thus, not only does the evidence lead us to conclude that the vaccines prevented no Covid deaths at all, but there is good reason to conclude that the shots were more lethal than Covid itself. Put bluntly, the cure was worse than the disease. Moreover, since the clinical trials were shut down after only six months, we have no solid data concerning any long-term consequences of these experimental injections. It remains to be seen if the fatality rate per dose will increase with time.

The list of lethal side effects grows each day and some of the side effects are slow killers.  We are not out of the danger zone yet and no one can predict when or if the jabs will stop causing damage.

If current adverse events do lead to deaths in five to ten years, will the deaths be properly attributed to the so-called ‘vaccines’? Owing to the fact that mRNA works at a cellular level, invades multiple organs,[ref, ref] can “integrate into the genome of human cells,” affects the immune system, and potentially leads to “autoinflammatory and autoimmune conditions,” it is conceivable that we have only seen the tip of the iceberg of the harms that will be caused by these experimental products.

Government was desperate to destroy the control group so that everyone was affected equally.  That would have prevented the problem of trying to explain why unvaccinated people are not succumbing to “Turbo” cancers.

You write garbage trying all how to avoid the 10,000 pound elephant in the room, yet I am not constrained, it’s the vaccine, you morons, it’s the vaccine and you know it! You are seeing the surge now post vaccine yet trying to talk about the last 30 years. Let us focus on the dramatic surge of all forms and very aggressive cancers in the last 2 years in the advent of the fraud COVID vaccine, where from diagnosis to death in some cases it is a mere days!

Had you even heard of the term “turbo cancer” before 2021?  Government is quite the marvel isn’t it?  It took government 3 years to maneuver people in to a position were they can now die within days.  Of course government did not do this alone.  They had a lot of help from people that fell for a marketing campaign that basically admitted the jabs don’t work and will make things worse.

It is not over

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COVID and COVID hysteria should have been over long ago but thanks to the diligent efforts of government it is not.  Chile is entering winter and masks are back.

 

There is zero evidence that masks work.  The virus is far too small to be stopped by anything less than an N95 respirator which is only catches 40%.  40% sounds significant but when N95 respirators were tested the reduction in infections was not statistically significant.

Masks are not back because they work;  they are back because to the government masks are a useful tool.  Masks, or rather the lack of them, immediately identify people who refuse to swallow government Bullshit. Also, masks help keep afraid.  They are a constant visual reminder that danger is imminent.  Frightened people are way easier to government than independent thinkers.

The same goes for mRNA injections.  There is absolutely no evidence that mRNA injections saved a single person.  I have discussed this many times on this blog.  If you did not find my arguments based on the unchanging infection fatality ratio convincing this article provides a different perspective to arrive at exactly the same conclusion.  A comparison of vaccinated Israel to unvaccinated Sweden fails to find anyone saved by the vax.

The mRNA platform has failed completely as a vaccine so it is really hard to explain why governments want to use it for all vaccines.  But government excels at unexplainable decisions.  The UK government is using taxpayer money to partner with Moderna to accomplish their goal of producing useless vaccines with horrible side effects.  The goal is to expand capacity to 250 million doses per year in a country of 67 million people.  I might be reading in between the lines a little but my math says the UK government plans to mandate quarterly injections.

3 years after this farce started governments are still forcing people to use masks that don’t work and vaccines that also do not work.  This will never be over.  They do not intend to stop.  The question is; will you continue to try and comply your way out of this?

 

If EVs were the solution Government would not allow you to use them

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Canadian UnEmployment Minister Seamus O’Regan and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson have introduced a bill forcing an unjust transition on Canadians who refuse to vote for them.  They claim to have no choice because the markets demand that conservative voters be unemployed.

“Global financial markets are driving many of these changes, with investors looking to steer away from investments that are not consistent with the low carbon future,” he said.

In keeping with my annoying habit of pointing out the obvious I feel compelled to remind everyone that if this was market driven there would be no need for government intervention.  But, we do have massive intervention designed to eliminate Canada’s petroleum industry.  Because of course Canadian oil is destroying the planet which is a little surprising when you consider that Ukrainian oil is not.  I am not a soil scientist but I can only surmise that there is something in Canadian soil, absent in Ukrainian soil that negates the massive benefits of fossil fuels.

To save the planet, millions of Canadians must give up the oil industry, accept a lower standard of living, and find a job building solar panels, electric cars and windmills.  That last part is a bit tricky since all that equipment is made in China.  I guess the just transition must include a Chinese work permit.

The “solutions” to the non-existent climate emergency are as stupid as Seamus O’Regan and Jonathan Wilkinson.  To start EVs don’t even reduce CO2 they just shift the CO2 production from vehicle operation to vehicle manufacturing.

According to this plot an EV must be driven more than 120,000 Km before it produces less CO2 than the same car with a diesel engine.  For the average person that is 6 years of driving.  After 10 years of driving the EV prevents about 3 Tonnes (3.3 tons) of CO2 which sounds good but this plot leaves out a very important point.  After 10 years the EV is no longer drivable but the diesel car is.  EV batteries won’t last more than 10 years and the battery is the most expensive, carbon intensive, part of the car.

10 years for EV batteries is actually quite a stretch.  Some owners have reported batteries failing within 3 years and constant use of fast charges could lower that to less than 1 year.  One aviation company has dropped development of electric planes because they are uneconomic without quick turnarounds with fast chargers.  Constant fast charging shortened the battery life to weeks.

The truth is everyone in aviation wants fast-charging planes so the air crew and the capital assets aren’t sitting around for hours paying airport-world prices while they earn nothing. But batteries have a shorter lifespan if they are pumped hard, fast and charged completely full. Sadly  slow charging and underchanging are not a solution either. Even if we treat these babies gently with long slow feeds, they would only store less than “170 watt-hours per kilogram”.  As the Telegraph authors point out, jet fuel has an energy density of 12,000 watt-hours per kilogram, which is seventy times as much.

Government likes EVs not because they are a solution to climate change.  EVs are popular with government because EVs are expensive and most people cannot afford them.

Looking at the consequences of high auto prices on Canadians, the government’s regressive policies are excessively impacting those who can least afford it. Not only do they make many Canadians worse off, the policies do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a reasonably cost-efficient manner.

Making cars unaffordable and curtailing movement is the point of the whole exercise.  The government does not want you to drive an electric car they simply don’t want you to drive at all and they are very open about that.

Government is using the imaginary climate emergency to do more than just take away your car.  They are using it to take away your standard of living.  Windmills and solar panels are now the only acceptable forms of power generation.  Both are horribly unreliable.  Windmills don’t produce any energy when the wind does not blow and solar panels don’t even always produce energy when the sun is shining.

Britain has started burning coal to generate electricity for the first time in a month and a half, after the heatwave made solar panels too hot to work efficiently.

Solar panels are tested at a benchmark of 25C. For every degree rise in temperature above this level, the efficiency is reduced by 0.5 percentage points.

The temperature level refers to the solar cell temperature, rather than the air temperature. In direct sunlight, the cells can easily reach 60 or 70 degrees.

The combination of EVs and unstable power grids is a problem not a solution.  That is the point.  Even if climate change was a real crisis the government would do nothing to solve it.  A crisis, once solved, is no longer useful.  Take COVID for instance.  The crisis we were told was not the virus but the lack of hospital space yet after 3 years no government increased hospital space.  They had no intention of solving the problem as long as they could exploit the problem.

Government kept the COVID crisis alive for as long as they could with fraudulent PCR data.  Similarly the climate crisis is fueled by fraudulent temperature data.

That’s because more than 90% of the data is “corrupted.” And the reason for that is the reality that the vast majority of thermometers that NOAA relies on are improperly installed and maintained, leading to the recording of artificially higher temperatures.

COVID was not an emergency and even if it was government intentionally did nothing to alleviate the problem.  Climate change is not a problem and even if it was solar panels, windmills, and EVs would not help.  If EVs really were a solution, government would ban them as quickly as they banned Ivermectin.

The Smoking Gun logic said must exist

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Regular readers of this blog have heard me declare many times that the number of COVID deaths was increased rather than decreased by the jabs.  My opinion completely contradicts the government narrative that the jabs won’t protect against infection but will protect against serious disease.  I do not base my opinion solely on the fact that government is full of habitual liars incapable of the truth.  Although that simple reality would be enough, I have instead based my opinion on logic and math.  There are 2 data points that make my conclusion inevitable.

  1. Multiple studies have documented negative vaccine effectiveness. The more jabs you take the more likely you are to get COVID.  The COVID jabs are the first medical treatment in history that makes you more likely to get the disease that it is supposed to protect you from.
  2. No country saw a change in the ratio of deaths to infections after vaccinating the majority of their citizens.

Contrary to what Anthony Fauci and Theresa Tam want you to think there is no evidence that the vaccines prevent serious illness or death.  They are taking credit for a drop in serious infections that started before anyone was vaccinated.  The Jabs do not change your odds of surviving COVID

The math for this is very simple more people getting COVID with the same ratio of number of people dying per infection equals more COVID deaths.

The virus spread 2.5 times faster after the vaccines.  Vaccines facilitated infection without changing the infection fatality ratio.  More people getting infected with the same number of people dying per infection means vaccines increased the number of deaths.

My very logical conclusion based on simple math is quite controversial to people who still won’t even acknowledge existence of vaccine injuries.  Only 3 weeks ago I had a debate with my optometrist.  He had read studies that showed the vaccines did prevent serious illness.  When I asked him to explain why then the infection fatality ratio did not change he could not.  Yet he was still not even willing to acknowledge the jabs did not work let alone admit the vaccines increased the number of COVID deaths.

One thing I have learned over the COVID fiasco is that logic is a very lonely place.  Most people do not want to consider logic.  They want their television to form their opinions and they test their opinions against consensus not data.  But the thing about math and logic is that it is true whether you believe or not.  And, like all truth, it cannot be suppressed forever.

Yesterday my friend sent me this article with data from the US Veteran’s administration.  The thing about the military is that they keep meticulous records about everything.  VA records prove what I have been saying for almost a year.  Getting jabbed increases your chance of dying from COVID.

They also confirm what other studies have already shown; every successive jab makes it worse.  A jabbed and boosted veteran is 70% more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID than an un-jabbed veteran.  “This is insane” should be the official motto of all COVID policy.  Would you take a heart medication that makes you 70% more likely to suffer a heart attack?

The COVID jabs are without a doubt the largest crime in history.  They make you more likely to die of COVID and a host of other maladies.  The jabs need to be stopped and the guilty must be punished.

Know your Enemy

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Dr. Peter McCullough just won the award for understatement of the year.

 

The COVID jabs did not just backfire and promote COVID infections.  If that is all they did it would have been bad but manageable.  The Jabs have also come with a host of other problems that are far more serious than COVID.

Regulatory agencies had bio distribution studies that showed lipid Nano particles could go anywhere in the body including crossing the blood brain barrier.  They also had data that showed the spike protein is a toxin.  Taken together those two pieces mean getting jabbed can cause any organ in your body to produce a toxin.  In other words the jabs had the potential to damage any system or organ in the body and should never have been approved.

But they were approved and we now have documented evidence of cognitive impairment and damaged fertility.

And don’t forget myocarditis, which can be passed down by vaccinated mothers to those babies who do survive.

 ‘Although enterovirus infections are common in neonates and young infants, the reported increase in myocarditis with severe outcomes in neonates and infants associated with enterovirus infection is unusual.’

The jabs have caused carnage, and I do mean carnage.  This Canadian blogger took the time to compare excess deaths to military casualties.  Excess deaths in Canada are now almost equal to the combined total of all war casualties for every war Canada has ever participated in.  People need to wake up to the reality that we are at war.  None of this was an accident.  If it was government agencies would not be actively concealing and obscuring the truth.

 

 

The first casualty of war is always the truth.  Our governments have not told us the truth about COVID for more than 3 years.  Do you understand yet who we are fighting this war against?

Acting without thinking

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A UK COVID inquiry has found that lockdowns were imposed without any consideration of whether the costs might outweigh the benefits.

“Extraordinary though it may seem, given that it’s a word that’s forever seared in the nation’s consciousness, there was very little debate pre-pandemic of whether a lockdown might prove to be necessary in the event of a runaway virus, let alone how a lockdown could be avoided.

“Very little thought was given to how, if it proved to be necessary, something as complex, difficult and damaging as a national lockdown could be put in place at all.

This finding is not the least bit surprising to anyone familiar with how the left make policy decisions.  Actual science and thoughtful consideration of potential downsides are not part of the lefts decision making process.  The left fervently believes that their superior virtuousness gives them the Midas touch.  Any ridiculous idea that pops into their head must be implemented immediately because it is obviously beneficial.

Sane individuals, of whom the left has none, know that thoughtless decisions can be disastrous.  But thinking is difficult for the left and it is always done afterward if at all.

“When the time is right, our government will be very open to examining very thoroughly the response of this country to the COVID-19 crisis,”

The risk is that Canada will slump into its usual triumphalism — look how few of us died, relative to other countries! — and into a simplistic belief that stricter lockdowns always equaled better results.

Twitter is a great place to get a window into the minds of leftists.  I recently joined twitter and now with Musk at the helm rational people have more of a voice. This spawns a great climate change “debate” so to speak.  Many people post tweets pointing out the discrepancy between the data and the theory.  People who understand science know that it only takes one contradictory thing to disprove a theory and with climate change there are hundreds of things that contradict the theory.  But this simple affirmation of the scientific method never sways anyone on the left.  They are right; “deniers” are wrong, end of story.

The real inconvenient truth about climate change is that the theory has never matched the data.  That is why the models used to predict the future cannot reproduce the past.  They cannot match known data points therefore they wrong and should not be used, but without the models the narrative collapses.  Anyone on twitter who correctly points out that the failed predictions are the result of failed science is immediately attacked.  The attacks are always the same.  CO2 is rising, 97% of scientist agree, therefore anyone who disagrees is both wrong and uncaring.

Their defense of climate change boils down to this; humans must be causing climate change because ultra-virtuous humans believe other terrible humans are causing climate change.  This is why the world has so many problems.  The left controls most governments and the left makes decisions based on feelings of moral superiority and not facts.  We will solve nothing until we stop listening to these emotionally stunted children.

Japan discovers Experiments can go tragically wrong

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Japan is struggling with influenzas right now in the summer when influenzas should be a minor concern.

Some Japanese high schools reported flu infection rates as high as 25 percent, leading at least 30 schools to shut down for the week of May 22-28. Health experts were concerned that the flu wave does not appear to be fading on its own in June, as such outbreaks usually do.

This odd off season outbreak has mystified the experts.  There is no word as to whether these are the same experts also mystified by artic ice that Al Gore assured them was gone long ago.

“Immunity against the virus has declined because of the lack of influenza outbreaks and decreased vaccinations due to infection control measures during [the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic],” postulated Kurahara Yu of the National Hospital Organization’s Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center.

I think I might be in a unique position to help unravel this mystery, so I think it is important for the Japanese experts to listen carefully to what I have to say.  Your influenzas problem is not the lack of flu vaccines which children never took anyway.  It is also not the lack of infection mitigation measures (lockdowns) which have a failed to control airborne respiratory viruses 100% of the time.  It is the COVID jabs you F*@king morons.

Japan approved COVID boosters for children 5 to 11 in August 2022 and initial injection for children under 6 in October 2022.  Japanese culture is very conformist which led to these programs being very “successful”.  Almost 75% of children 12 to 17 have been vaccinated.   Nearly half have received boosters.

So less than 1 year after injecting almost every child in the country with a new treatment Japan is a country full of sick children.  Really who could have predicted that?

COVID was not a problem for young people.  Jabbing Japanese children was an insane, grotesque, decision.  In fact jabbing anyone in Japan for COVID was a remarkably stupid decision.  Due to their fish heavy diet Japanese have one of the highest vitamin D levels in the world.  COVID wasn’t even a thing in Japan until the Jabs arrived.  Japan had negative excess deaths through the first 2 waves of COVID and did not have any excess deaths until after vaccinations started.

This really was a remarkable set of decisions don’t you think?  At some point Japanese officials sat down and the discussion must have gone something like this.

Should we use a new, poorly tested, treatment to protect citizens from a disease that has to date caused no deaths?

Yes, absolutely.

Now that we are using this new treatment and adults are dying in large numbers should we give the treatment to children who also have not died from the COVID?

Yes, absolutely.

How the hell did this happen?  At what point did the entire developed world lose all sanity?  We see the same pattern in every highly jabbed country; abnormally high numbers of sick people and excess deaths.  We also see the same discussion; somehow this is all a mystery.  There are 1000 potential causes.  The only thing we know for certain is that it cannot be caused by the experimental medication everyone was forced to take right before the problems started.

Stupidity and willful blindness will kill us all; even our children.

The Dumb ages will end in economic collapse

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In the last week I have seen 3 articles about how immigrants are abandoning Canada at a time when Canada is rapidly expanding immigration.  The articles from the Canadian propaganda industry are meant to make Canadians feel ashamed that they are not doing more for immigrants but the reasons immigrants give for leaving Canada are not specific to immigrants.

Sagar struggled to find work in his field. He eventually got an administrative job at Statistics Canada, but he felt frustrated at not being able to use his training and education.

“I never would’ve thought I would have to struggle in my life professionally or financially,” he says.

New immigrants find housing too expensive and job opportunities too few.  In short they have the same financial struggles as every other Canadian.  Canada is no longer a good destination for immigrants because the Trudeau liberals have destroyed the Canadian economy with climate taxes and woke ideology.  Canada is failing because Justin Trudeau is so remarkably incompetent.

Under Stephen Harper Canada’s GDP per capita grew to match that of the United States.  Under Justin Trudeau GDP per capita has fallen at a time where American GDP per capita continues to rise.  The difference between the two men is not as philosophical as you might think.  Although branded hard right by the hard left Canadian Media Stephen harper is no such thing.  At best Harper can be considered center left.  If you don’t believe me go read his autobiography and judge him by his own worlds.  Harper actually states that small government is impossible.  Does that sound hard right to you?

The difference between Harper and Trudeau is competence.  Harper was competent; that is what made him look hard right.  Competence is so rare on the left no one could believe Harper was not right wing.  Competence is rare on the left because it is not valued by the left.  To the left, diversity and inclusion trump competence.  They believe that their obvious moral superiority will magically provide for everyone.  In the words of the ultra-virtuous Justin Trudeau “the budget will balance itself”.

But in the real world budgets do not balance themselves and organizations do not run without competent people.  Canada’s decade of promoting incompetence and demonizing competence is destined for catastrophe.  It is only a matter of time for the entire farce to collapse.

What happens with the competent retire, burn out or opt out? It’s a question few bother to ask because the base assumption is that there is an essentially limitless pool of competent people who can be tapped or trained to replace those who retire, burn out or opt out, i.e. quit in favor of a lifestyle that doesn’t require much in the way of income or stress.

When it comes to stupid ideas Canada is always well ahead of the curve but abandoning competence is not a uniquely Canadian phenomena.  Our Neighbors to the South are currently suffering through the most incompetent administration in their history as well.  The Biden administration is so incompetent that the media is forced to redefine success to cover for him.

On paper, the Biden administration has racked up some impressive achievements: more than 6 million new jobs were created, a single-year record. Unemployment dropped from 6.2% to 3.9%, another single-year first.

Biden has the first majority non-white Cabinet in history and presides over the most diverse administration in history. He passed a massive COVID-19 relief bill and an expansive infrastructure package many previous presidents tried and failed to achieve.

Now allowing people to go back to work after preventing them from working is a success.  As is hiring based on race and spending unprecedented amount of money.

The dumb ages will end with collapsed economies and poverty.  We have no one to blame but the voters.

Describing the Jabs is easy in layman’s terms

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The longer this goes on the worse the jabs look.  The Jab narrative changed from preventing COVID to Preventing severe COVID.  Neither of those was true.  The truth is that the Jabs promote COVID without helping anyone survive COVID.  The best way to get COVID is to keep taking COVID booster jabs.

The figures show that Covid-19 deaths among the unvaccinated population have become almost negligible, while deaths among the vaccinated population have become more significant over time.

Anyone who researched how the jabs are supposed to work, as I did, understood that the jabs at best offered very little protection.  Now with time we have found that it is much worse than that.  The jabs kill.  Government data shows high unexplained excess deaths in every highly jabbed country.

 

The jabs are not safe, effective, or even the same product that was given emergency approval.  The product Pfizer sells uses a completely different manufacturing process than the one that was tested; a manufacturing process that leave the vials full of contaminants.

In this interview a biomedical engineer discusses the contamination he found accidentally while calibrating his equipment.  The interview is full of medical jargon that makes it hard to follow but he makes 3 main points.

  1. There is a lot of DNA and potentially dangerous SB 40 virus sequences that should not be in the jabs.
  2. These potentially dangerous contaminants are in every vial that he and other researchers have tested. They have found no pristine vials.
  3. He could not even categorize what he found. It is not a vaccine or a gene therapy.  We have given almost everyone on earth a product that even experience researchers are unsure of.  We do not know what it is or what it does.

 

I am not a biomedical engineer but I know exactly what these injections are.  They are a crime, the largest crime in history.

Common sense trumps “expert” advice

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The embedded interview is the kind of discussion we should have been having 3 years ago.  Because the data they are discussing was only recently released you can argue that the discussion could not have happened 3 years ago but that is not true.  The study may have just been recently published but the results surprise no one.  Every sane person knew lockdowns would fail from the moment they were introduced.

 

Lockdown supporters will no doubt point out that the researchers estimate 1700 COVID deaths were avoided so the lockdowns were successful.  After all every life is precious right?  If we can save one life shouldn’t we do it?  Yes but we were not saving lives we were trading lives.

I have no doubt that you can slice the data finely enough to show some COVID deaths were avoided by using lockdowns.  The problem with that assessment is that it avoids the question of cost and I am not talking about economic impact.  The data also shows that the countries with the harshest lockdowns had the highest number of excess deaths.  That means every person saved from COVID came at the cost of more than one lockdown death.

Put another way, to prolong the life of a senior we forfeited decades of productive life from more than one younger person.  Lockdowns dramatically increased the years of life lost due to COVID.  I don’t mean to say that the lives of those seniors had no value but killing a young person to protect a senior was an incredibly stupid way to handle a pandemic.  Proper nutrition (vitamin D), HCQ or Ivermectin, and improved building ventilation would have saved far more than 1700 seniors without killing any young people.  We had better options but chose not to use them.

That brings me to what I think is the most important part of the interview.  At one point Peter Hitchens notes that the lockdowns are an argument for caution before making decisions of such magnitude.  I agree with him completely but this important lesson has not been learned by government or the public for that matter.  If we had learned anything we would be having more rational discussions about climate change.

Just as lockdowns killed more than they saved, restricting energy use will undoubtedly kill more people than will ever be saved from climate change.  Cold weather kills more than hot weather and even the argument about storm severity does not hold water.  Storm severity is far less impactful than poverty.  Weak storms in poor countries always kill more than strong storms in wealthy countries.  Saving lives is a matter of wealth and high energy costs destroy wealth.

The wealth generated from affordable reliable energy does not just reduce storm fatalities.  It is what makes better nutrition and health care possible.  That results in lower child mortality and higher life expectancy.  Quite simply affordable reliable energy saves millions of lives each year.  Why would any sane society not want that?

It was evident that lockdowns would kill and they did.  Climate change policies will also kill.  Do we really need to count the bodies before we acknowledge that this was always self-evident?  How many people must die before we stop listening to the experts and re-discover common sense?