Thread by @jaycurrie

Imagine if we had done nothing in the face of COVID. Treated it as a rather nasty flu, used antibiotics for the pneumonia and then got on with our lives. No distancing, plexiglass, one way aisles, jabs if you wanted them but no compulsion. 1/

Would we have been better off? Well, there would be a lot fewer people killed by the loony vent and remdesivir protocols, and the midazolam kill shots given to the elderly. And, if @denisrancourt's study is right, we'd have 13 million not dead from the jabs. 2/

And, if you look at the stats, in Canada more people died of COVID in the 80% jabbed year 2022 than in the unjabbed year 2020 or partially jabbed year 2021. It is quite possible that the jabs will turn out to have done more harm than good. 3/

The QR-IDs, mask mandates, jab mandates for employment and sports did nothing to stop the spread as the jabs prevented neither infection nor transmission and the masks don't work. (Washing your hands is a bit useful.) 4/

Not doing wildly inaccurate tests, jabs and IDs and masks and sanitary theatre would have left our economy and education systems intact. Yes, some people would likely have died, but death over 80 is a fact of life. 5/

Now there were two things which we could have done: encouraged exercise and a bit of weight loss, encouraged Vit D supplementation. Adequate Vit D levels have been shown to reduce COVID mortality by 50%. And the fitter you are the better you do. 6/

Doing nothing would have been by far the wisest course, but it would have taken real leadership. Especially in the face of the howls from the scientifically illiterate media. And this is generally true. 7/

There are a fair number of things where the best response is to do nothing simply because, without careful and cautious study, doing "something" may make matters worse and may be irreversible. 7/

Ooops, two #7s, oh well. Imposing carbon taxes, 15 minute cities, reductions in fertilizer use all in the name of climate action is a classic example of a situation in which doing nothing is the wiser course. 8/

You'll note how fuzzy the "gains" from the carbon tax actually are. Or how cutting back on fertilizer use has never actually been examined by the gov't science advisor. Or the shifting rationale for 15 minute cities. 9/

Similarily, there does not seem to be a lot of hard evidence as to the value of medical intervention in childhood to have the body conform to this week's gender self-id. Should we rush to welcome self-ided women into women's spaces? 9/

Is there any evidence that having self-ided penis packing women in women's prisons has a benefit for anyone but the penis packer? 11/

Not doing something, not changing something, is a choice. A choice to leave things as they are. I have always thought that if things are working OK there should be a requirement for overwhelming proof of improvement before you change them. 12/

This is particularly true where the proposed change is significantly disruptive for a large number of people who will not, directly, benefit from that change. And the bigger the change the more reluctant we should be to embrace it. 13/

Politicians just love "taking action". And they hate being accused of inaction. But a wise politician always asks, "What if we did nothing?" or says "Let's come back to the question in a year when we have more information." 14/

I realize that it is a big ask for politicians to strive for wisdom. But it is an ask which needs to be made before, in our haste to do something we sail the ship of state right up on to the rocks. 15/15