John T. Reed’s news blog

With a few exceptions like Mark Levin, Americans have collectively lost their minds regarding the cost of our current quarantine-the-320-million-healthy-and-not-at-risk-age-groups policy..The last figure I heard was that we are putting an extra $4T on the national debt this year..Does anyone realize that is a loan—borrowing? Who is supposed to pay it back? Everyone in America seems to think “Not me.” The implicit answer is our grandchildren and their children. How much are we raising the taxes on current old-enough-to-vote people to start paying down our debt? Zero. No politician would even think about making the current borrowers of these huge...

The Salk polio vaccine was invented when I was in elementary school. As I recall, it was given to all kids ASAP. My brother-in-law got polio after the vaccine was invented. His parents said they were overseas and the vaccine was not available there. I would have sent him to wherever he needed to go to get it..When my oldest son went to China in High school, I researched that. I learned that he should get a special meningitis vaccination. The doctors resisted. I insisted. They special ordered it. He got it..I also told him to never drink the water...

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/post-hoc-ergo-propter-h….The little stick figure comic strip in the link above is both funny and accurate. The male stick figure says, “I used to think correlation implied causation, then I took a statistics class. Now I don’t.” The female says “Sounds like the class helped.” “Well, maybe,” say the male stick figure..Precisely, after which does not prove because of which..Dr. Mark Siegel of Fox News told a dramatic story of a 95-year old man with covid 19 who seemed to be at death’s door, then he took hydroxy chloroquine and suddenly got better. Siegel then revealed it was his father..So that proves...

People often claim studies prove they are right. A guy below says 2000 people say hydroxy chloroquine made them better therefore it did..But those, if they exist, are anecdotal. Laura Ingraham laughs out loud that Doctor Fauci is so stupid to say such a thing..Those results appear to all be from situations where a doctor tells a patient that here’s a pill that might work. It worked for others. Then the patient got better. Hooray, it worked?.It may have been irrelevant..In 2005, Dr. John Ioannidis published a famous study titled “Why Most Published Research Findings are False.”.In 2015, Science magazine...

Pandemics are excluded by insurance policies. They are uninsurable. Legislators around the US are proposing laws forcing insurance companies to pays lost business claims..Car insurance policies exclude being used a business delivery vehicles. Legislators want to force them to pay the resulting claims..Regulators are declaring a moratorium on cancellation or non-renewal of insurance policies. A MA legislator said “bold” action was needed. In that sentence, “bold” means unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral..One of the principles of insurance is that simultaneous mass claims must be excluded. That is why wars and riots are excluded from life insurance policies. Ordering the insurance companies...