tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5422968049311292363..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Does America Need to Do Penance?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62305628710539060852020-12-13T02:40:15.005-08:002020-12-13T02:40:15.005-08:00Yes, Ares, taking responsibility for one's own...Yes, Ares, taking responsibility for one's own decisions is challenging.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82933566492816185432020-12-12T02:06:07.909-08:002020-12-12T02:06:07.909-08:00The low vitamin D message is certainly just as imp...The low vitamin D message is certainly just as important. I only started taking Vitamin C and D3 a few weeks ago with winter coming and just in time with cases exploding in the Midwest. Who knew there'd be a winter wave? But I knew there would when I saw the cases and knew 3 weeks later deaths would follow. It would be great if identifying low D is the best lesson learned after this is gone, and it might save tens of thousands more from flu and other infections. We tend do ignore things that seem ordinary and have no idea we can do much better.<br /><br />The original March advice against masks were (1) limited PPE needed for hospitals, and (2) because it could give a false security so people might get closer and stay close longer than they need to. So after explaining that, it was only a matter of uncertainty how much it helped. Why fight simple things? Because people are stubborn and prefer not to change apparently. I admit it takes getting used to, but after wearing a few times in stores in before it was mandated, I got used to it. Being an adult is challenging.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32382047671882484082020-12-10T22:35:59.570-08:002020-12-10T22:35:59.570-08:00This is a broader social experiment about whether ...This is a broader social experiment about whether people can be induced, frightened or shamed into following irrational orders with equally irrational loopholes. This reminds me of something I read in the Times many years ago about an experiment done in the early phase of the Nazi control of Germany. In order for Goebbels to determine if Germans (generally known to bow to Authority) would bow to completely irrational orders, tne Psych Dept of a university placed signs on the curbside phonebooths within a five block radius of the school, some reading "Men Only," others "Women Only," then set out to watch the booths for the next x hours to see what happened. What happened was this: while some would-ne phoners cocked their heads and shrugged, all of them nevertheless complied. Except for one woman who, on questioning, was a French tourist. Waltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29674865777332181942020-12-10T07:41:05.521-08:002020-12-10T07:41:05.521-08:00No.No.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77829299918755503722020-12-10T05:31:46.180-08:002020-12-10T05:31:46.180-08:00The root of the lockdown / social distancing mania...The root of the lockdown / social distancing mania is, believe it or not with apologies to Ripley, a middle school science project by a 14 year old girl, Laura Glass. Her dad, Robert J Glass, was a systems engineer with Sandia Labs. Papa Glass' work focused on simulations of complex adaptive systems. The kid's work eventually resulted in a 2006 paper published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, available here:<br /><br />https://bit.ly/37PY6eh<br /><br />Ultimately, through Glass' bureaucratic influence, his kid's science project became official US Government policy.<br /><br />Sadly for the millions of suffering Americans, the Glass simulations (no pun intended) are infected with Ricardo's Vice, first identified by economist Joseph Schumpeter (whose genius is memorialized by the eponymous and coveted Schumpeter Prize) and described thusly by Investopedia:<br /><br />"the tendency for economists to make and test theories that aren't troubled by the complexities of reality, resulting in theories that are mathematically beautiful but largely useless for practical applications"trigger warningnoreply@blogger.com