Kevin Alexanderman

A Solution to the COVID-19 Crisis

KAlexanderman — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 14:43:55 +0000

Is the Solution Widespread Hydroxychloroquine Use?

Economic Depressions Kill.

Do you know that a person who is basically healthy, could take hydroxychloroquine alone, at probably 200mg, if they have a fever, without harm? If the symptoms persist, they could seek medical attention. If they subsided, they could stop the medication. If the symptoms returned, they could start again. This is the solution of the economic catastrophe, and is as deadly serious as the medical emergency.

No Testing is Necessary at This Point

Testing is for the information gathering stage. We have passed that.

Staying at home is not an answer. Closing businesses is a bad decision move–people have to produce to survive. Using a benign, inexpensive, generally effective remedy is a solution. It is the best we have, it is not dangerous, with low risk of complications (these people should know).

From the survey of 6,200+ medical professionals treating COVID-19,

According to the BBC, “Hopes rise that Spain is passing its peak, …as the number of people to have died in Spain in one day has fallen for the third day in a row, to 674”. Perhaps they have turned the corner, let’s hope.

But why? What are they doing differently than everyone else? What is the solution?

If we dig a bit deeper, we find a survey of 6,200+ verified medical professionals, confirmed anonymously that hydroxychloroquine usage amongst COVID-19 administers is 72% in Spain, and was overall chosen as the most effective therapy by 75% of COVID medical professionals in Spain, far above that in other countries.

This means that the country that used hydroxychloroquine the most, is the country that mostly confirms it as the most effective therapy.

The particulars are that hydroxychloroquine usage amongst COVID-19 treaters is 72% in Spain, 49% in Italy, 41% in Brazil, 39% in Mexico, 28% in France, 23% in US, 17% in Germany, 16% in Canada, 13% in UK and 7% in Japan.

Hydroxychloroquine was overall chosen as the most effective therapy from a list of 15 options (37% of COVID-19 treaters), by 75% in Spain, 53% Italy, 44% in China, 43% in Brazil, 29% in France, 23% in US and 13% in UK.

This is confirmed by a doctor below, as the Beginning of the End of the Pandemic.

Dr. Smith mentions something important: statistics. The infectious disease experts do not understand the statistics of low variance–this is the statistical problem that healthcare administrators (bureaucrats) have not comprehended (or evaded). For instance, consider the output of a sample size calculator below,

This is Statistics, not Medicine

What this means is that for the world’s population of ~8 billion people, a sample size of only 384 is required for a confidence level of 95%, +/-5%.

This is just statistics, not medicine. The low-variance opportunity to drop sample size is something Worldfree uses in the technology behind the FreeMark digital currency.

That means for only 384 people, chosen at random with their consent, and given hydroxychloroquine, if 90% show substantial improvement, then the medicine has a probability of 95% of being efficacious. This suggests that health leaders have let us all down after 4 months by not learning their statistics. They could have done a sample testing of 400 people in one week, 3 months ago.

I discuss this in my book Validating Ideas , which will be available on the 7th of April, 2020, for release then by Amazon. There is a chapter called Ideas Worth Validating that discusses the intellectual challenges in the healthcare sector that can be solved by the new theory of validation.

In the event that widespread hydroxychloroquine usage is needed to restore free markets/economic activity, then we have to accept that anyone who can drive down the road at 60mph can administer dosages according to directions, with limited medical support.

Economic Depressions kill.

From a previous post,

The above discussion of the risks of hydroxychloroquine, from a doctor, confirms that one way to alleviate the pressures on health infrastructure, should they occur as they have in Italy, for instance, is to make easily available low-risk, well-understood drugs such as hydroxychloroquine. Just having some available to a household’s responsible person in a cupboard will go a long way to reducing fear and stress. Again, hydroxychloroquine is currently used in many hospitals in China, South Korea and the US as an early medication against the virus.

Because the virus can cause permanent lung damage if it is not stopped quickly, it is a very good reason to get a stop-gap medicine available to everyone easily, without delay.

“Some people who recover from the coronavirus might be left with ’20 to 30%’ less lung function, and gasping for breath when they walk quickly”

Hong Kong doctors, March, 2020

The new book, Validating Ideas, is written in order to explain how you can assess policies, ideas, and arguments on your own, cutting through fake news and getting to the core issues of the challenges we all face.

In order to produce Artificial Intelligence technology, author and scientist Kevin Alexanderman spent more than 10 years developing a new theory of knowledge, including a new science of validation, also called the scientific method.

It is different than Galileo’s scientific method because it works for all ideas, in the general case, including concepts of the humanities. If you want to learn more about this crucial intellectual skill, and how you can improve your chances of success in everything you do, click below and receive a free booklet, The 4 Pillars of Intelligence.

Is the COVID-19 Calamity Unnecessary?

KAlexanderman — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:12:46 +0000

Is Martial Law Really Necessary?

People have to survive. They can die from a virus, or from starvation. In other words, shutting down free markets will potentially kill more people on its own than the virus. But let’s digress a bit to discover more about what has actually been happening.

There appears to be a cure already available, which would explain why China has been able to abruptly stop the COVID-19 virus from further spreading. See the article here.

“A team of Australian researchers say they’ve found a cure for the novel coronavirus”

The Chronicle, Australia, March, 2020

Well, in the article above, these Aussie doctors “found” a cure because some Chinese visitors to Australia who had the illness told them of the cure—basically under a health-imposed threat of death. Now the Australian “researchers”, who simply listened to their patients, are raising A$750,000 for more testing, having “found” the cure. So much for nationalized health care.

Now, President Trump has picked up on this cure (hydroxychloroquine), and it is being fast-tracked by the FDA for use for the Chinese Virus.

It looks as though it is not the shutting down of economies that works to stop the virus, but very likely just wholesale passing out of the remedy. Perhaps the same Wuhan fish market that introduced the virus had the remedy already verified in advance of the outbreak.

There are also remedies being developed elsewhere, as in Japan, explained here. This drug “has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment” according to a Chinese official.

“Patients who were given the medicine in Shenzhen turned negative for the virus after a median of four days after becoming positive, compared with a median of 11 days for those who were not treated with the drug, public broadcaster NHK said.”

The Guardian, UK, March, 2020

The above China cases flat-lines at about 80,000, for a population of ~1.4 billion

Technically, if the remedy is less costly than/on the order of the testing, and without side-effects, it could be ordered in bulk and sold through private pharmacies, under reasonable prescriptions. Then health infrastructures would not be strained, and the draconian limits on personal and economic liberties that have been imposed in order to reduce the infrastructure stress would be completely unnecessary.

Instead, we have governments halting international travel, closing borders, shutting down businesses, shops, restaurants and pubs, cancelling sports and other public events, even ending schools—literally stopping all non-virtual social and economic life in the name of slowing the spread of the virus, primarily because the socialised healthcare systems cannot handle the stress. How long before this Martial law is rescinded?

“The killing of economic activity in the name of a virus which already has a cure has to end.”

The killing of economic activity in the name of a virus which already has a cure has to end. Testing and dispersal of remedies should be privatized to as large a degree as possible, in order to provide faster responses through established distribution channels, reducing the stress on the health infrastructure.

The socialists won’t like this, unless they are caught with the illness.

Because the virus can cause permanent lung damage if it is not stopped quickly, it is a very good reason to get a stop-gap medicine available to everyone easily, without delay.

“Some people who recover from the coronavirus might be left with ’20 to 30%’ less lung function, and gasping for breath when they walk quickly”

Hong Kong doctors, March, 2020

The new book, Validating Ideas, is written in order to explain how you can assess policies, ideas, and arguments on your own, cutting through fake news and getting to the core issues of the challenges we all face.

Exposing Fake News for Yourself

KAlexanderman — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:55:02 +0000

What is the difference between Fake News, and Sound Knowledge?

How do you tell?

If you want someone else to tell you—a government, an expert, or a newspaper—what happens if they are wrong? Are you willing to take that risk, or is there some other way to discern knowledge from speculative opinion that you can use for yourself?

This question, how do we tell the difference between knowledge and opinion, has been a question asked since ancient times. The classical challenge of epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is how do we distinguish genuine knowledge from rumour or invalid speculation. This is a crucial skill, as each of us faces ideas—good or bad—from possibly thousands of sources each time we go to the internet.

“The classical challenge of ‘epistemology’, or the theory of knowledge, is how do we distinguish genuine knowledge from rumour or invalid speculation”

The problem with using accepted ‘mainstream’ sources of information is that they, too, can be wrong, dishonest, or misinformed. Your decisions are your responsibility. If you base those decisions on invalid knowledge, then you will make errors that can cost you in lost time, money, or even threaten your own and your family’s welfare or survival.

Would it be valuable to have a set of mental ‘tools’ to call upon that helped you discern knowledge more easily? Our success in life demands we have a means of validating knowledge that we can use for ourselves.

The new book, Validating Ideas, is written for exactly this purpose.

Do you have children in school/uni and are concerned with leftist indoctrination?

KAlexanderman — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:54:34 +0000

How can you counter leftist indoctrination?

Today many people are concerned with the wholesale indoctrination of students that is occurring by the left within the academic community. Schools and university professors are openly biased, and ruthlessly oppose any challenge to their socialist hegemony. They fight with slander, libel, general ad hominem attack and any other method of character defamation of their enemies they can devise.

An attempt is made to push Marxist theory, which is pseudo-science, as a reasonable explanation of human society. To justify the theory, Marxist professors have spent many decades rewriting the history books as a faux evidence for the theory’s support. Below is an interview with the late Soviet KGB defector, explaining the process of indoctrination used by communist states to undermine economic and personal liberties in free societies.

This indoctrination has many years ago reached a critical mass, affecting all university-educated people. Ask yourself: if some basically criminal person wanted to deceive you or your children, would they prefer you all stupid, or smart?

Of course—they want you all dumb, so they can dupe you more easily.

For this reason, do you think socialists have tried to control the system of education? They have, and now society is in trouble because of it.

Do you have children in school or at university? Are you concerned that they are being indoctrinated by leftist/socialists? Are you worried that you don’t know what you can do about it, or resigned to the idea that you cannot even if you wanted to?

So you are a responsible, productive, basically honest person who wants your children to grow up the same. You want them, like you, to create value in exchange for value in free societies.

Leftists want to take that away from you and them—socialists want to literally steal you and your family’s liberties. They are willing to lie to do it.

You can do something about it, and that’s what the new book, Validating Ideas, is about.

“Kevin’s book is an answer to education questions such as ‘How do we teach students to think for themselves, fulfil their potential, be creative, gain self-esteem, and be ready for this productive world?’

“His book is a must for all educators from pre-school through graduate school. I wish his book had been available during my 42-year teaching career.”

Norma Silver, Retired teacher, Fort Lee, NJ

More and more people are waking up to the crisis of leftist indoctrination in education. In the US, Australia, the UK and in many EU countries, people are figuring out what has and is happening.

As an antidote to this aggressive, continuous indoctrination, spend a bit of time learning to more capably validate the ideas you already subscribe to, and discover the legitimacy of new ideas you encounter more easily. You can do so in a shortly forthcoming new book called Validating Ideas, which you can pre-order in the link below at a 50% discount for a limited time, as well as the free eBook, The 4 Pillars of Intelligence.