If Public Health Cared About Public Health and Research Ethics...
You would not have seen these during the push for mass vaccination.
It only takes a little searching on Pubmed or Google to find factors associated with severe COVID-19.
Remember when the master wizards of Public Health decided to appeal to Americans to vaccinate for the “reward” of
Hamburgers?
That’s former Mayor de Blasio, who evidently will now be teaching “Public Health” at Harvard University.
Or, remember when they tried to incentivize Americans to vaccinate with doughnuts?
And beer?
Michigan, California and few other states encouraged gambling as an incentive to vaccinate:
How about some participation in a nice, healthy sex trade practice (hey, they’re masked at least!)?
No, seriously, Toronto actually did this.
Even Larry Flynt got into the craze… want to get a vaccine at his joint?
These incentives were the brainchild of Public Health and the Biden Administration:
Here at Popular Rationalism, we prefer to stick with the Science:
“Several hundred studies provide powerful evidence that body mass index (BMI) is a strong linear risk factor for severe COVID-19 outcomes, with recent studies suggesting ~5-10% higher risk for COVID-19 hospitalisation per every kg/m2 higher BMI.”
The review says nothing about the effects of lap dances or gambling on the risk of severe COVID-19.
However, it’s worth pointing out that incentives for research are unethical.
See HHS’s
Attachment A - Addressing Ethical Concerns Offers of Payment to Research Participants
“OHRP FAQs currently define undue influence as potentially occurring ‘through an offer of an excessive or inappropriate reward or other overture in order to obtain compliance.’”
In my observations many of the US HHS public health service are obese. Many of the HHS employees are also obese. How can we expect the unhealthy to lead us to health? Thanks for all your work James!
Well said. Bought a peloton for the lock down, lost 10 lb. and survived the Delta WuFlu with a 4 day fever.