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Today I visited the district Court of Helsingfors to see Aseem Malhotra's expert testimony in the case between Mika Vauhkala and the Finnish government/Fazer group.
Mr Vauhkala is suing the Finnish government/Fazer because of an incident that occurred in December 2021 at one of Fazer's pastry shops, where he was denied service because he lacked a Covidpass.
Now, the parties are presenting their respective discourse for the judges to decide from.
In order to sort facts from figures, one should try to deconstruct the discourse to its parts, and analyze each of them. As a psychological scientist, I know something about that.
In 2018, I was invited to Finland to become a research-leader at the University of Helsingfors, for a project which aimed to explore the future of Finland's food production from a perspective of Entrepreneurial thinking (Österberg, 2021).
Obviously, if one explores the future of food, it makes sense to explore which food is related to physical and mental health, because that's what a food producer should aim at.
Because we were encouraged to publish popular scientific stuff on our own blogs, I published a long-read where I had explored the origin of our species diet as well what we should eat to sustain our health (Österberg, 2019).
In January 2020, I was invited to the department for Food and Nutrition to make my case at their seminar series for experts on food and nutrition. I based the case on fundamentals, that our species are adapted to eat animal source food and that we need to consume 13 vitamins, Choline, DHA- and EPA-fats, and at least 15 minerals daily from the same plate (Österberg, 2020). That remained an important conclusion for the project, but it turned out to have other implications ...
Another part of the conclusions was a model I chose to call Rational Entrepreneurial Thinking, which is how one elaborates facts-based scenarios forward time.
The model has a three part structure, based on existing theories:
- Epistemic vigilance - be suspicious about a message and the sender of the message (Sperber et al. 2010).
- Disjunctive reasoning - take many sources into account (Stanovich, 2009).
- Numeracy - rely on numerical data (Brook and Pui, 2010).
In December of 2019, the world encountered a new challenge - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) which, if it travels through our species, may cause Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid19).
Finland's government, led by acting prime minister Sanna Marin, decided to lock-down Nyland county, and capital - Helsingfors.
Schools were closed and on March 10, I was no longer allowed into my office or to conduct lectures at the faculty. It didn't make sense.
And in March, 2020, YLE News reported that suicide, hade increased by 15% compared to the previous year.
Therefore I started to explore the Sars-Cov (2) concept and some of the peculiar behaviors that occurred in consonance with it, .e.g. people en masse started to buy toilet paper.
There are a few remarks to be made. First, if there's a second version (2), there must be a first version. Hence, Sars-Cov (1) has existed for many years (Thiel, 2007), and therefore, there should be some knowledge about how to handle a situation if a similar virus emerges.
Second, note the word 'may'. May do not imply 100% causation, but rather some risk.
One early conclusion was that nutrient matters; those who were fully loaded with the thirty micro nutrients we need to consume from the same plate on a regular basis, seemed to be more resistant against the virus and dysrationalia (Österberg, 2020 a).
In a second article, I explored the probability, risk, of becoming really sick from the virus. It also included getting acquainted with two new concepts: 'Cytokine storm' and Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). The overall conclusion was that the risk of becoming sick if Ace2 welcomes Sars-Cov (2) into your organism, is very, very low (Österberg, 2020 b).
During the summer of 2021,
- I wrote another popular science article which was published in a Swedish-speaking Finnish business journal. There I repeated the close-to-zero probability to suffer hard if Sars-Cov (2) travels through our species (Österberg, 2021 b).
- there was an election for office in Helsingfors city (and other cities in Finland). I met with politicians, and there was one major concern - depression, which was soaring after the lock-down, and maybe facilitated by the vaccine?
In december 2021:
- acting prime minister Sanna Marin was interviewed by the Guardian. She didn't mention the negative effects of the lock-down and the vaccine mandate. Instead, she mentioned UNs annually Life-satisfaction inquire, and claimed: “Finland is the world’s happiest nation – and I want to keep it that way” (Topping, 2021).
- Mika Vauhkala visited one of Fazer's pastry shops with a friend to eat breakfast. There he was denied service because he did not have a Covidpass (Link to story).
In March 2023, Swedens' Central Bureau of Statistics (Statiska Centralbyrån) compared a measure called excess mortality between Finland and Sweden and some other countries.
But the comparison between Finland and Sweden is most interesting because the countries share ancestry and socio-culture (only 16% of the Finns have ancestry from the east). Hence, you don't expect to see significant differences. Here's the first diagram:
Here's the second diagram:
Mr Vauhkala decided, bravely, to sue the Finnish state and Fazer. The trial started on April 10 and went on for three days.
On April 11, Danish freedom Movement arranged a conference in Helsingfors, where Mr Vauhkala, and Dr Aseem Malhotra spoke. After them, there was a panel with three victims of the Covid vaccins; one young man who suffered from heart-failure, a woman, who reported that Helsingfors Police broke into her home, forced her on the couch, handcuffed her, and transported her to custody. A local police officer then posted her picture and name on social media, with warning (there where some more details that will be added), a woman, who lost her son.
On the morning of April 12, people gathered at the District court in Helsingfors to listen to expert wittness Assem Malhotra, a british renowned physician who specializes in cardiocascular disease, and who have investigated the risks of suffer from Covid19 if Sars-Cov (2) travels through our species (Malhotra, 2024).
As people entered the courtroom, the judge's first question to the expert wittness from London was: - do you speak [Uralic] Finnish. That's a marker for tribal thinking.
It was a very odd question to a foreigner. Especially when not even all Finns speak that language.
The expert testimony was given using a translator, and Dr. Malhotra presented what is known as facts and figures, that is, numerical data, but managed to do that in a way so normal people could understand.
The representatives for the adversaries - the Finnish government and Fazer, were four lawyers. In response to Dr Malhotra's factual testimony, they only managed ad hominem oriented questions. Is that a demonstration of their clients Willful blindness?
In conclusion, the risk of lethal consequence from Sars-Cov (2) is very, very low, and the vaccine does not stop transmission. But the risk of getting really ill or dying after receiving the vaccine is bigger compared to virus, which was illustrated by the three cases.
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Mr Vauhkala decided, bravely, to sue the Finnish state and Fazer. The trial started on April 10 and went on for three days.
On April 11, Danish freedom Movement arranged a conference in Helsingfors, where Mr Vauhkala, and Dr Aseem Malhotra spoke. After them, there was a panel with three victims of the Covid vaccins; one young man who suffered from heart-failure, a woman, who reported that Helsingfors Police broke into her home, forced her on the couch, handcuffed her, and transported her to custody. A local police officer then posted her picture and name on social media, with warning (there where some more details that will be added), a woman, who lost her son.
On the morning of April 12, people gathered at the District court in Helsingfors to listen to expert wittness Assem Malhotra, a british renowned physician who specializes in cardiocascular disease, and who have investigated the risks of suffer from Covid19 if Sars-Cov (2) travels through our species (Malhotra, 2024).
As people entered the courtroom, the judge's first question to the expert wittness from London was: - do you speak [Uralic] Finnish. That's a marker for tribal thinking.
It was a very odd question to a foreigner. Especially when not even all Finns speak that language.
The expert testimony was given using a translator, and Dr. Malhotra presented what is known as facts and figures, that is, numerical data, but managed to do that in a way so normal people could understand.
The representatives for the adversaries - the Finnish government and Fazer, were four lawyers. In response to Dr Malhotra's factual testimony, they only managed ad hominem oriented questions. Is that a demonstration of their clients Willful blindness?
In conclusion, the risk of lethal consequence from Sars-Cov (2) is very, very low, and the vaccine does not stop transmission. But the risk of getting really ill or dying after receiving the vaccine is bigger compared to virus, which was illustrated by the three cases.
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