An Open Letter To Every In-Person Invitation
Want my attendance? Read this.
Hello, (person or organization) that would like to see me personally appear at (insert event). Since a variety of officials have repeatedly said that it’s up to each of us to assess our own Covid risks, I’ve invested some time in doing exactly that. I’m going to briefly walk you through my findings and my thinking, providing links to 22 relevant peer reviewed studies published in accredited medical journals as well as a range of efforts by medical professionals to explain those findings to non experts. I welcome you to follow along this brief journey to see whether your conclusions are similar to my own, and encourage you to follow the links to learn more.
Risk assessment basics
Human beings really like things to be simple, and risk assessment is a complex beast. As a result, we’re usually not very good at it. During my time as a member of the Working Group for the environmental agreement on the Giant Mine Remediation Project — the largest toxic cleanup in Canadian history, which involves more than enough arsenic trioxide waste to kill every human being on the planet — I’ve had a chance to learn a little more about how professional risk assessment is undertaken. We cannot simply consider the theoretical likelihood that one specific outcome may or may…
