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A team from MIT put together a fascinating study on online research communities. I loved reading it and wanted to share with others to help them try to understand my world. Some of the research communities they studied sounded adjacent to independent research and media communities that I have participated in since before the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. The full video includes reactions to this recent MIT study plus a review of the ‘pro-mask’ studies cited by it.
Transcript / essay / show notes:
https://wikiworldorder.org/2021/05/20/mit-study-anti-maskers-more-scientific-rigor-not-less/
Video Variations:
[Trailer] MIT study finds anti-maskers are “grounded in a more scientific rigor”
4 min: https://tinyurl.com/4n9445vj
[FULL Reactions+Research] MIT study finds anti-maskers are “grounded in a more scientific rigor”
151 min: https://tinyurl.com/ur3s8uuh
(this video)
[Reactions+Research Conclusions] MIT study finds anti-maskers are “grounded in a more scientific rigor” (Parts 1+2)
48 min: https://tinyurl.com/r8t59ypk
[Research Conclusions] MIT study finds anti-maskers are “grounded in a more scientific rigor” (Part 2)
11 min: https://tinyurl.com/rn6ffsd2
[Research Notes] MIT study finds anti-maskers are “grounded in a more scientific rigor” (Appendix A+B)
61 min: https://tinyurl.com/kvk8d467
[Familiar CDC Meme] MIT study finds anti-maskers are “grounded in a more scientific rigor” (Appendix C)
3 min: https://tinyurl.com/pke3atbk
A team from MIT put together a fascinating study on online research communities. I loved reading it and wanted to share with others to help them try to understand my world. Some of the research communities they studied sounded adjacent to independent research and media communities that I have participated in since before the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. The full video includes reactions to this recent MIT study plus a review of the ‘pro-mask’ studies cited by it.
Transcript / essay / show notes:
https://wikiworldorder.org/2021/05/20/mit-study-anti-maskers-more-scientific-rigor-not-less/
A team from MIT put together a fascinating study on online research communities. I loved reading it and wanted to share with others to help them try to understand my world. Some of the research communities they studied sounded adjacent to independent research and media communities that I have participated in since before the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. The full video includes reactions to this recent MIT study plus a review of the 'pro-mask' studies cited by it.
Transcript / essay / show notes:
https://wikiworldorder.org/2021/05/20/mit-study-anti-maskers-more-scientific-rigor-not-less/
A team from MIT put together a fascinating study on online research communities. I loved reading it and wanted to share with others to help them try to understand my world. Some of the research communities they studied sounded adjacent to independent research and media communities that I have participated in since before the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. The full video includes reactions to this recent MIT study plus a review of the 'pro-mask' studies cited by it.
Transcript / essay / show notes:
https://wikiworldorder.org/2021/05/20/mit-study-anti-maskers-more-scientific-rigor-not-less/
A team from MIT put together a fascinating study on online research communities. I loved reading it and wanted to share with others to help them try to understand my world. Some of the research communities they studied sounded adjacent to independent research and media communities that I have participated in since before the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. The full video includes reactions to this recent MIT study plus a review of the 'pro-mask' studies cited by it.
Transcript / essay / show notes:
https://wikiworldorder.org/2021/05/20/mit-study-anti-maskers-more-scientific-rigor-not-less/
A team from MIT put together a fascinating study on online research communities. I loved reading it and wanted to share with others to help them try to understand my world. Some of the research communities they studied sounded adjacent to independent research and media communities that I have participated in since before the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. The full video includes reactions to this recent MIT study plus a review of the 'pro-mask' studies cited by it.
Transcript / essay / show notes:
https://wikiworldorder.org/2021/05/20/mit-study-anti-maskers-more-scientific-rigor-not-less/
(Apr 2021) When emperors wear no clothes, and [unwittingly] quote cartoon shows, a bit of silliness is required to communicate novel absurdities. And no matter how much tough information we consume, we’ve all gotta laugh sometimes.
While containing plenty of comedy, depending on your views of the world, this mashup is also very dark. This is a reflection of the past twelve months, when most people are living under existential threats, fears, stressors, and doom peddled by the governmental and media institutions.
Full Post w/ GIFs, sources, transcripts, etc:
https://wikiworldorder.org/2021/04/15/doom-your-psyche-cdc-remix/
"Map Your Psyche" by Busdriver, Abstract Rude, and Ellay Khule:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BQRgT3925U
March 19, 2021 - President Biden and Vice President Harris Visit Centers for Disease Control:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?510081-1/president-biden-vice-president-harris-visit-cdc-atlanta-georgia
March 29, 2021 - White House COVID-19 Response Team Briefing:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?510367-1/cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-says-right-now-scared
Event 201 pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on October 18, 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9-oVXQX88esnrdhaiuRdXGG7XOVYB9Xm
"War Is A Racket" reenactment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0
...and book by Smedley Butler:
https://archive.org/details/war_is_a_racket_1903_librivox/warisaracket_01_butler_128kb.mp3
CFR State and Local Officials Webinar: A Conversation With CFR President Richard N. Haass
CFR President Richard N. Haass discusses the domestic and foreign policy challenges facing the United States and their relevance to state and local agendas. Mr. Haass is in his eighteenth year as president of the CFR, and Irina A. Faskianos is vice president for the National Program and Outreach at CFR.
Post with Transcript:
https://wikiworldorder.org/2021/02/19/richard-haass-conversation-cfr-members-are-not-new-world-order-architects-feb-11-2021/
Original Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWpvSvFaGCQ&t=22m24s
https://www.cfr.org/conference-calls/conversation-cfr-president-richard-n-haass
Corporate cartels took dominant control over the United States government long before my parents were born.
Why would the global governance being built [by those cartels] have better results for individuals or the whole earth?
More:
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/12/03/a-few-weird-memes-for-2020/
I think Orwell was warning. But Huxley and Klaus Schwab (of the World Economic Forum) were bragging. I stumbled upon this passage 80% of the way through Mr. Schwab’s July 2020 book, “COVID-19: The Great Reset”…
“There is no denying that the COVID-19 virus has more often than not been a personal catastrophe for the millions infected by it, and for their families and communities. However, at a global level, if viewed in terms of the percentage of the global population effected, the corona crisis is (so far) one the least deadly pandemics the world has experience over the last 2000 years. In all likelihood, unless the pandemic evolves in an unforeseen way, the consequences of COVID-19 in terms of health and mortality will be mild compared to the previous pandemics. At the end of June 2020 (at the time when the outbreak is still raging in Latin America, South Asia and much of the US), COVID-19 has killed less than 0.006% of the world population. To put this low figure into context in terms of lethality, the Spanish flu killed 2.7% of the world’s population and HIV/AIDS 0.6% (from 1981 to today). The Plague of Justinian from its onset in 541 until it finally disappeared in 750 killed almost one-third of the population of Byzantium according to various estimates, and the Black Death (1347-1351) is considered to have killed between 30% and 40% of the world population at the time. The corona pandemic is different. It does not constitute an existential threat, or a shock that will leave its imprint on the world’s population for decades. However, it does entail worrisome perspectives for all the reasons already mentioned; in today’s interdependent world, risks conflate with each other, amplifying their reciprocal effects and magnifying their consequences. Much of what’s coming is unknown, but we can be sure of the following: in the post-pandemic world, questions of fairness will come to the fore, ranging from stagnating real incomes for a vast majority to the redefinition of our social contracts. Similarly, deep concerns about the environment or questions about how technology can be deployed and governed for the benefit of society will force their way onto the political agenda. All of these issues predated the pandemic, but COVID-19 has both laid them bare for all to see and amplified them. The direction of the trends hasn’t changed but, in the wake of COVID-19, it got a lot faster.”
“COVID-19: The Great Reset” – July 9, 2020 — by Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum — 80% through the Kindle Version
I was surprised to stumble upon these sentences within Mr. Schwab’s technocratic teacher’s guide for The Great Reset.
He seems to strongly agree with one position I’ve taken ever since we started seeing data… “The corona pandemic is different. It does not constitute an existential threat, or a shock that will leave its imprint on the world’s population for decades.” But to me, that means presidents and governors should not have declared states of emergencies and opened up the authoritarian toolboxes.
He took his COVID tragedy estimate from June. But the updated COVID-related mortality count from WorldOMeters on Dec 23 is 1.7 million worldwide. So out of an estimated 7.7 billion, the COVID-related death toll thus far is approximately 0.02% of the world’s population. This is a significant increase from Mr. Schwab’s June estimate of 0.006%, but I would still say that 0.02% does not represent an existential threat.
“All of these issues predated the pandemic, but … in the wake of COVID-19, it got a lot faster.” Overall, the folks in the World Economic Forum, wall street, and other structures of the superclass seem quite happy about the direction we’re headed. They would never let a big crisis go to waste, and are re-shaping the global economy in line with their preexisting plans for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
It’s worth noting that the bulk of the chronic global issues were directly enabled by imperial governments fighting to aid international mega-corporations, for centuries. This is the same clique that built this unsustainable interdependence while outsourcing the most blatant forms of slavery. Nobody elected them, so I’m not sure why they appear to be driving the big show.
Full Disclosure: I am biased because I…
Love the scientific method,
especially when used for controlled, transparent, reproducible experiments. But I might only trust my life with the meta-analysis of empirical evidence.
Do not consent to authoritarian governments,
including demands to obey extraordinary mandates on inadequate evidence, without informed consent, while discouraging or censoring reasonable questions citing official data.
Do not consent to totalitarian governments,
like thoroughly dictating how most businesses can function, or when I can leave my home without risking jail, or what must or must not go inside my own body.
Do not consent to fascist governments,
like those with concentrated public-private partnerships between big pharma, vaccine makers without any direct liability for harms, their interest groups, and some significantly captured federal and global institutions, supporting militarized public health operations.
So I am sorry that my biases deeply influence my lenses — that may offend people — because I love learning from others who want to keep learning too.
Full Post:
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/12/22/full-disclosure-i-am-biased-because-i/
Screenshot Sources:
https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/1.19970!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/533452a.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328717301969
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641067/
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
https://wikiworldorder.medium.com/franklin-d-roosevelt-on-familiar-fascism-e96a474a9af8
https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Operation-Warp-Speed/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
A smattering of my core concerns on the dominant discussions surrounding pandemic vaccinations. Please accept my apologies if this is tough talk. I've been thinking about these issues pretty deeply since the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic, and also take consent very seriously.
Still image made in May, animated in Dec, 2020
Creative Commons for reuse or remix
More COVID-related memes and various artistic expressions:
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/12/03/a-few-weird-memes-for-2020/
More data and logical arguments:
https://wikiworldorder.medium.com/
I’m finally publishing some graphs that I compiled using CDC data exports from October 21:
https://wikiworldorder.medium.com/oct-21-maryland-centric-covid-related-mortality-rankings-670522e4bcff
This round of analysis primarily involved the northeastern states in the U.S., which seemed to experience very similar first waves of excess mortality. Here, I rank various jurisdictions by their total number of COVID-related deaths.
Figure 1: COVID-Related Deaths (CDC) per Million of WHO Standard Population Distribution
This is the most statistically important graph in this post. Each state’s COVID-related deaths are broken down by age group, then scaled to a World Health Organization defined Standard Population Distribution (Table 4). This makes the data closer to useful for experts' analysis, and provides more accurate comparisons than crude mortality numbers.
After scaling for a WHO population distribution by age group… Governor Hogan presided over 371 deaths per standardized million here in Maryland, compared to Sweden’s 203. So despite the dramatic difference in 2020 public health policies, Maryland had 85% more age-group-standardized deaths than Sweden. Sweden also experienced fewer COVID-related deaths than most of the northeastern United States… safer than 17 out of the other 24 jurisdictions in this analysis.
Mostly made in May, completed Dec 6, 2020, Creative Commons
Song: https://archive.org/details/UkeleleParade
More COVID-related meme-type creations:
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/12/03/a-few-weird-memes-for-2020/
These pieces of animation express more of where my mind has been much of this year. But data and more explicit thoughts I have on these topics is documented here:
https://wikiworldorder.medium.com/
This is a followup to my efforts over the summer… Governor Hogan’s Science-Based Health Policies: An Information Request Experiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JM0T1niWcM
==== Voicemail Message Transcript ====
Hello,
This is Morgan Lesko, my phone number is _-_-_, and my email address is _@_. Living most of my life in Maryland, I appreciate your tireless efforts during these unprecedented times.
This summer, I sent a formal information request via certified mail and got confirmation that the Office of the Governor received it on May 22, 2020. I still have not received any responses from your office, but the Maryland Public Information Act requires a response to my request within 30 days.
I had requested a list of all the studies which informed the Governor’s public health policies in response to the Sars-CoV-2 virus and declared pandemic. This information is being sought for educational purposes, not commercial.
Most specifically, I am requesting a list of public health studies that informed the policies ordering “all non-essential businesses and other establishments” to close, and “requiring all persons to stay at home” outside of essential needs (Order Number 20-03-30-01). There were no health studies cited in the Governor’s Order nor its press release. Scientific citations and sources should be transparently published on or throughout coronavirus.maryland.gov. Are they elsewhere? Such documentation would help clear up misinformation about the science.
Is there any kind of tracking or identification number for my formal request?
If you deny any or all of this request, please cite each specific exemption you feel justifies the refusal to release the information and notify me of the appeal procedures available to me under the law.
It would restore some of my faith if I do not need to bring this to the Maryland Public Information Act Compliance Board and the state’s Attorney General.
Thank you very much for your time.
I’ve never actually met any “Science Deniers” who don’t believe that such methods can increase knowledge. IMHO, greater risks stem from more numerous and influential “Rights Deniers.” [Denying risks of democide also costs countless lives most decades.]
I condemn any restrictions on the basic rights of anyone, whatever they believe, absent direct physical harm. We must be smart enough to find solutions which protect both the vulnerable and basic rights.
Here in Maryland, Governor Hogan’s “Stay At Home Order” was “to be enforced by state and local law enforcement. Knowingly and willfully violating this order is a misdemeanor, and on conviction, offenders may be subject to imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.”
This might not seem like a big deal, especially if it is not enforced very often. But this is a legal precedent the Governor also plans to enforce for future seasons of COVID-19 or other viruses. This is fundamentally unacceptable for a presumably natural threat which kills less than 1% of people it attacks. I am happy to voluntarily wear a mask in public places if appropriate, but please condemn the suspension of our basic rights.
Populations who have their rights removed are more likely to be harmed by governments. Being jailed, or fined with the threat of jail, does harm. I am deeply offended that I lived under these threats for a month and a half. As someone living with psychological trauma from police, this has not been good for my health.
I don’t know how many millions of American lives have been taken or destroyed by the “War on Drugs” over my lifetime — that’s from an attempt to help a public health issue. But the response to COVID-19 includes many steps to further “close” our “free” society.
If the media and public is encouraging the United States to behave more like China, at some point they need to take seriously the risk assessments of totalitarian or authoritarian governance. The exponentially scaled impacts of governance is not trivial, and not a joke.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide
If you don’t trust your neighbors enough to live in a free country with representative governance, and you cannot afford to move to a more repressive society, then perhaps you should support your state’s secession. If you want to threaten me with arrest for leaving my home, then I do not consent to cohabitation with you.
Of course, any forced vaccinations in the future would also violate my informed consent. I do not even want to be friends with people who want to force anything inside my body without consent. “Would you like some tea? Here is all the science so you can choose to enjoy it and make the world better.”
Just some food for thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8
Cross-Posted:
https://medium.com/@wikiworldorder/science-denial-rights-denial-471d7a84f202
https://steemit.com/politics/@wikiworldorder/science-denial-rights-denial
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/05/28/science-denial-rights-denial/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCZ_ZQBUIow
Post: https://steemit.com/politics/@wikiworldorder/drug-use-and-pandemics-as-public-health-issues
The COVID-19 pandemic was declared a full-blown “state of emergency” in most jurisdictions, like a 9/11-scale event. But do you remember when big public health issues did not require a “war footing”? Approaching 40 years old, I sure don’t.
Drugs should be a public health issue again, because the war against drugs has always done far more harm than [illicit] drug use itself. Pandemics are also public health issues, and should only be turned into wars in far more deadly situations, I think 10x-100x worse than COVID-19. Wars are always filled with fogs of unaccountability, collateral murders, profiteering, and known and unknown atrocities. For reasons like these, it is always necessary to question the premises of any type of war.
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If you don't think we already have some kind of police state, then where is the line for you?
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Given the observable context throughout my life, why would I trust these institutions to try to save hypothetical lives on black-swan-level, while we the people can't get it to stop proactively destroying hundreds of thousands of other lives? Few have decent track records in my book.
Cross-Posted:
https://steemit.com/politics/@wikiworldorder/drug-use-and-pandemics-as-public-health-issues
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/05/28/drug-use-and-pandemics-as-public-health-issues/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPzqZJDVo8I
CDC Observational Data updated May 8 is compared with approximations of Imperial College Model Projections from March 16.
Post w/ more links:
https://steemit.com/politics/@wikiworldorder/revisiting-imperial-risk-assessments-of-covid-19-may-12
https://medium.com/@wikiworldorder/revisiting-imperial-risk-assessments-of-covid-19-may-12-503f76eeab82
http://WikiWorldOrder.org/2020/05/13/revisiting-imperial-risk-assessments-of-covid-19/
Data Sources:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/
https://data.cdc.gov/Health-Statistics/Deaths-from-Pneumonia-and-Influenza-P-I-and-all-de/pp7x-dyj2
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
My Math & Hypotheticals:
http://wikiworldorder.org/dox/imperial-risk-assessment-200512.ods
On March 16, 2020, the London “Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team” led by Neil Ferguson published their “Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand”. This report was very widely shared on mainstream media, social media, and by policymakers. I interpreted this report to be a primary driver of the atmosphere under which policy discussions are still limited.
I’ve been wondering how their model projections have corresponded to the observational data we have thus far. Unfortunately, they do not provide predictions in any formats that can be readily matched with what little data is actually reported by the CDC, etc. Perhaps models intended to inform public policy should always predict specific hard measurements over time for later comparison. How else can policymakers and voters verify the accuracy or efficacy of a given policy?
So for my next thought experiment, I have graphed a few hypothetical projections on top of the 2010-2018 Historical Average of All Deaths Reported Weekly. In this graph, the dark blue line on top is the raw observational data for All Deaths Reported Weekly in 2020 as of May 8. The most recent few weeks in that observational data are clearly missing a lot of reports because the WorldOMeters website has reported over 80,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. cumulatively. So I’ve manually constructed the orange line as a projected/artificial/fabricated/fake set of COVID-19 deaths which represents the ballpark shape of 80,000 Excess COVID-19 Deaths through May 10 — stacked on top of the Historical Average of All Deaths Reported Weekly.
Next, I constructed a hypothetical curve close to the Imperial College’s Projected COVID-19 Deaths if they were reported weekly. With ample trial and error, I was able to roughly simulate the time frame (May~August) and peak intensity with my curve, while getting the area under the curve to total 2,200,000 American deaths from COVID-19. I then scaled this same curve to also simulate 1,100,000 and 300,000 deaths occurring before the end of August. Each of these Projected Excess COVID-19 Weekly Death simulations was then stacked on the Historical Average of All Deaths Reported Weekly for the accurate reference.
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Open society back up now, while focusing on:
- Protecting nursing homes, assisted living, and other vulnerable populations
- Repairing those with lives destroyed by the reactions to the virus
Make American [Partially] Free Again
Cross-Posted:
https://youtu.be/7hjVhvgNlhQ
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Some related videos I recommend…
The Failure of Expert Predictions and Models | The Coronavirus and Public Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG2vdyfLv7U
Why lockdowns are the wrong policy - Swedish expert Prof. Johan Giesecke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfN2JWifLCY
Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr. John Ioannidis Update: 4.17.20 | Episode 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPqmLoZA4s
The Coronavirus and the Constitution | The Coronavirus and Public Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlcl72is3EU
Shelter in Place with Shane Smith & Edward Snowden (Full Episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5OAjnveyJo
Post & Sources: https://steemit.com/politics/@wikiworldorder/governor-hogan-s-science-based-health-policies-an-information-request-experiment
Science-based policies have the awesome potential to be transparent throughout their logic, assumptions, uncertainties, and data.
Societies are evolving their relationships with science, and any branches of government should logically be able to share their work when it comes to any science-based policy — by definition. I will always support evidence-based policy over “policymaking based on ideology or ‘common sense'”. I assume everyone is doing their best with the information available. But like ethical science, representative governance requires the informed consent of the governed.
Scientific citations do not need to be included within laws or executive orders, but they at least need to be published somewhere for citizen oversight of evidence-based policies. Most laymen might still just trust their science-minded friend’s take on it, but that friend would actually have a clear understanding of the largest experiments that societies run. I have been looking for the controlled experiments which inform the most extreme new policies in Maryland.
If you too have wanted to understand the science behind your governor’s unprecedented public health policies, perhaps more voters and journalists need to demand such baselines of accountability in the new normal. I am just documenting my attempts to gather the facts which might dispel floods of misinformation…
Dear Office of the Governor:
Living most of my life in Maryland, I appreciate your tireless efforts during these unprecedented times.
Under the Maryland Public Information Act Title 4, I am requesting an opportunity to inspect or obtain copies of public records. I am requesting a list of all the studies which informed the Governor’s public health policies in response to the COVID-19 virus and pandemic. I am requesting a list of all the studies or evidence that informed the Department of Health’s recommendations to the Governor. I am also requesting a list of any studies or evidence that informed the Governor’s experts who advised him on these science-based policies.
Most specifically, I am requesting a list of public health studies that informed policies ordering “all non-essential businesses and other establishments” [close], and “requiring all persons to stay at home” outside of essential needs (Order Number 20-03-30-01). There were no health studies cited in the Governor’s Order nor its press release. Scientific citations and sources should be transparently published on/throughout coronavirus.maryland.gov. They would help clear up misinformation about the science. Are they elsewhere?
If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me if the cost will exceed $40. However, I would also like to request a waiver of all fees in that the disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and will contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of science-based policy. This information is not being sought for commercial purposes.
The Maryland Public Information Act requires a response to this request within 30 days. If access to the records I am requesting will take longer than this amount of time, please contact me with information about when I might expect copies or the ability to inspect the requested records.
If you deny any or all of this request, please cite each specific exemption you feel justifies the refusal to release the information and notify me of the appeal procedures available to me under the law.
Thank you for considering my request.
Sincerely,
Morgan Lesko
I will be patient in waiting for replies, and will share any appropriate information after it’s been collected. This is a strategy I’ve developed in hopes on increasing clarity on a novel state of emergency. Perhaps it is worth remixing here and elsewhere, both to encourage and to audit evidence-based policy making.
Cross-Posted:
https://medium.com/@wikiworldorder/governor-hogans-science-based-health-policies-an-information-request-experiment-86f4b1b5fe1c
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/05/20/governor-hogans-science-based-health-policies-an-information-request-experiment/
https://youtu.be/-JM0T1niWcM
Post & Sources: http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/05/20/governor-hogans-science-based-health-policies-an-information-request-experiment/
Science-based policies have the awesome potential to be transparent throughout their logic, assumptions, uncertainties, and data.
Societies are evolving their relationships with science, and any branches of government should logically be able to share their work when it comes to any science-based policy — by definition. I will always support evidence-based policy over “policymaking based on ideology or ‘common sense'”. I assume everyone is doing their best with the information available. But like ethical science, representative governance requires the informed consent of the governed.
Scientific citations do not need to be included within laws or executive orders, but they at least need to be published somewhere for citizen oversight of evidence-based policies. Most laymen might still just trust their science-minded friend’s take on it, but that friend would actually have a clear understanding of the largest experiments that societies run. I have been looking for the controlled experiments which inform the most extreme new policies in Maryland.
If you too have wanted to understand the science behind your governor’s unprecedented public health policies, perhaps more voters and journalists need to demand such baselines of accountability in the new normal. I am just documenting my attempts to gather the facts which might dispel floods of misinformation…
Dear Office of the Governor:
Living most of my life in Maryland, I appreciate your tireless efforts during these unprecedented times.
Under the Maryland Public Information Act Title 4, I am requesting an opportunity to inspect or obtain copies of public records. I am requesting a list of all the studies which informed the Governor’s public health policies in response to the COVID-19 virus and pandemic. I am requesting a list of all the studies or evidence that informe..
The COVID-19 testing itself is very challenging to find certainty in. Given that most COVID-19 deaths have co-factors, the data on total reported deaths should be by far the most actionable.
Post: https://steemit.com/science/@wikiworldorder/risk-assessment-update-on-u-s-covid-19-deaths
Graphs and my rough 300,000 simulation:
http://wikiworldorder.org/dox/risk-assessment-update-200510.ods
Creative Commons, feel free to critique, remix, or reuse.
Double-Edges of Exponential Scientism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVI0A7c7_P4
https://steemit.com/science/@wikiworldorder/double-edges-of-exponential-scientism
Sources:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/
https://data.cdc.gov/Health-Statistics/Deaths-from-Pneumonia-and-Influenza-P-I-and-all-de/pp7x-dyj2
https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/us-demographics/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#OISmap
https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
https://blogs.imf.org/2020/04/14/the-great-lockdown-worst-economic-downturn-since-the-great-depression/
https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus/preventing-pandemic-induced-food-emergency
2020, Creative Commons
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“Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people.
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living.
Both lessons hit home.
Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
This concentration is seriously impairing the economic effectiveness of private enterprise as a way of providing employment for labor and capital and as a way of assuring a more equitable distribution of income and earnings among the people of the nation as a whole.”
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“We believe in a way of living in which political democracy and free private enterprise for profit should serve and protect each other—to ensure a maximum of human liberty not for a few but for all.
It has been well said that “the freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.”
Today many Americans ask the uneasy question: Is the vociferation that our liberties are in danger justified by the facts?”
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“Even these statistics I have cited do not measure the actual degree of concentration of control over American industry.
Close financial control, through interlocking spheres of influence over channels of investment, and through the use of financial devices like holding companies and strategic minority interests, creates close control of the business policies of enterprises which masquerade as independent units.
That heavy hand of integrated financial and management control lies upon large and strategic areas of American industry. The small business man is unfortunately being driven into a less and less independent position in American life. You and I must admit that.
Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise and is becoming a cluster of private collectivisms: masking itself as a system of free enterprise after the American model, it is in fact becoming a concealed cartel system after the European model.
We all want efficient industrial growth and the advantages of mass production. No one suggests that we return to the hand loom or hand forge. A series of processes involved in turning out a given manufactured product may well require one or more huge mass production plants. Modern efficiency may call for this. But modern efficient mass production is not furthered by a central control which destroys competition among industrial plants each capable of efficient mass production while operating as separate units. Industrial efficiency does not have to mean industrial empire building.
And industrial empire building, unfortunately, has evolved into banker control of industry. We oppose that.“
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies.
April 29, 1938
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-curbing-monopolies
Cross-Posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRu_zr-1-Iw
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/04/25/franklin-d-roosevelt-on-familiar-fascism/
Regarding "9/11 Truth and the Silence of the IR Discipline", by David A. Hughes, Published 2020
"First, there is a review of the IR literature on 9/11, showing that it fails to address 9/11 truth. Second, the key findings of 9/11 truth are presented in summary form, drawing only on the type of sources mentioned above in order to avoid charges of parochialism. Third, there is a discussion of why IR scholars ignore 9/11 truth. Finally, the conclusion considers the implications of taking 9/11 truth seriously."
Essay Version: https://medium.com/@wikiworldorder/democracy-international-relations-discipline-and-9-11-truth-221b01224fb2
Do you believe in democracy? Then this debate is relevant and worthy of your attention. The abstract of this International Relations (IR) paper does not do it justice as the '28 pages' we were looking for. David Hughes has compiled a remarkable collection of the strongest 9/11 Truth evidence, and points out how little has been addressed or debunked in peer reviewed literature. In my personal experience, "9/11 Truthers" who have done more than watch a few documentaries have been familiar with most of this paper's key claims for at least a decade.
No groups are immune to groupthink. So please, academia, steel man the open source work instead of firing professors. We've been begging you for decades. Replicate open source studies and go deeper to shut us up with stronger evidence.
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Due to inadequate skepticism toward expert authorities, "total deaths during the post-2001 U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen is likely to reach 3.1 million or more — around 200 times the number of U.S. dead."
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The chasm growing between reality bubbles continues to expand, which is a serious risk to society and safety.
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If we're not living under tyranny, then there are always valid reasons to challenge governmental claims to emergency powers. If not for your own protection, you must help stop this trend before it harms more of 'the others' whom it has already harmed.
Cross-Posted:
https://steemit.com/politics/@wikiworldorder/democracy-international-relations-discipline-and-9-11-truth
http://wikiworldorder.org/2020/04/24/democracy-international-relations-discipline-and-9-11-truth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-6XzM_QV-I
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