Talking Praxis

Praxis - definition: practice, as distinguished from theory.

This project probably won't go far as I have a tendency to fade on such efforts. In fact, I ended up writing a lengthy, sprawling post all about praxis but quit as it was too all over the place. Now I want to salvage at least my talking about this project as perhaps writing about it will force my hand and lead to actual follow-through. Praxis is a fancy word that I use to mean taking some practical action toward a political position. If you read about why we shouldn’t be at war and then flip over to the sports section then what’s the point? In my case, if you have read all the critics of the Pandemic Response and they have convinced you that early treatment could have helped, the vaccines don’t help and even make matters worse, and so mandates that breach our rights are coercing people into self-harm….well….what I am going to do about it?

I mostly just punted because I’m a passive-aggressive George McFly type who hates confrontation, but I also decided if I was going to hold a position that was conflated with anti-vaxxers, I may as well read their arguments in full as well. It was a reading assignment of vindictive spite. It made things much worse. I now am a closeted anti-vaxxer. I don’t promote my writing, and I don’t share my thoughts with most of my family or friends, and I don’t plan to. I don’t want to be the ‘conspiracy’ theorist that punches an astronaut. But I can’t just turn over to the sports section. I need praxis. (Because this isn’t just a game) For me that is going to be:

• Posting on this Substack my thoughts while trying to be as transparent as I can, and not put too much conviction that I really have things figured out

• Continuing to keep tabs on news on Covid and whatever the Children’s Health Defense crew is talking about.

• Doing my mediocre web developer’s best at trying to illustrate in clear terms the evolution of all the vaccine schedules set up around the world, nation by nation, year by year, and show the 'correlating’ rates of chronic conditions in hopes that if I do it right it’ll make its own case as to how reasonable it may be to at least suspect ‘causation’

So for item three, I’m going to need to collect vaccine schedules and rates of chronic conditions and put them in some sort of model. Then figure out my own way of presenting this information with graphs, tables, or charts of some sort. Then make it so people can compare any vaccine schedule to another and see if truly every time the vaccine burden goes up, chronic conditions go up.

I’m sure this has been done before by better people than me but I still think it’s worth it. Just typing in the 2017 schedule the other day really drove home how large and expansive it has become. I’ve seen the graphics of babies with needles around them, but typing it in and listing it out in my own format, just gave it a different dimension of reality, or appreciation, for me.

This was partly inspired by Toby Rogers softly pitching a more methodical multivariate analysis project 3 to 6 months ago that stuck with me. If I knew how to do a proper multivariate analysis I’d probably do that. But I know how to scrape data, or am not above manual data entry, and I can do basic UIs, so I’ll do that instead.

Just looking around for rates of chronic diseases also revealed the blatant pattern in such a way that it’s tough to avoid the obvious suspicion.

There was a study bragging about Qatar’s vaccine uptake

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles

And here is one lamenting about France’s vaccine uptake and noting a more mandated schedule as recourse

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/health  (Web view)

And where would one suspect each country lands so far as autism rates?

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/autism-rates-by-country

I guess I’m cherry picking but honestly, it made sense to look at the top country on the list and the bottom one. Is it cherry-picking when it’s the first two you pick off the top?

Thanks for reading.