Never Stop Asking

 First off please don't punch anyone on this Boxing Day. 

This author had the idea of a Christmas special for the Awkward Question of the Week (AQW) where a number of questions would be presented and the list just got to long to be to make sense. So this article is just an augmented version of the AQW.

 Are there some studies that should never be done because so many people just can’t handle the answer? Here are some considerations: 

• Age of birthing person (previously known as mother) and the resulting autistic children count?
• The number of people per capita aware that some vaccines given to children that contain aluminum.
• Support by the Government of birthing person so Government becomes the father figure?
• Lack of a physical father figure leading to higher incarceration rates in young men?
• Percentage of teachers divided by sex/gender and race who take sexual advantage of their charges?
• Percentage of homeless people homed under Government supervision that have died under the care of that same Government verses the population norm?
• The number of people per capita, by culture and country, who feel that the Afghanistan government should use USA abandoned weapons much like a used car lot to gain cash to help their people in the form of foreign aid? (this implies that no foreign aid be sent to Afghanistan)
• Is cereal soup?  

Over the last 40 years there has been a swing towards the current position of acquiescence and this author feels that this current situation has been arrived at because much of the demos has forgotten to ask awkward questions such as those listed above; of the ones in power. Society has become softer and it now has also become more malleable as more and more trust was placed away from the individual in favour of the authoritarians without decent facts. 

In the NEWS this author has witnessed reports where hospital access and deaths were supplanted by case numbers in regards to COVID-19. This is a cause for concern as the initial measures were put in place approximately 20 months ago with the statement; 'two weeks to flatten the curve.' This stance was taken to ensure that hospitals and health care systems would not be over whelmed and they weren't.  

While it is said that hind-sight is 20/20 in this case there is nothing to view, because the sheer amount of data points to be considered from across the globe will take years to en-mass and process. The first few years will be spent deciding on the data points to be used and here are just a few things up for consideration; gender, age, height, weight, diet, latitude, stress, travel habits, exercise habits, inbound travelers, and population density.

This, for this author, demands a more awkward question than any given above - why did so many countries roll-back the COVID-19 death numbers after the fact? I'll leave that conclusion to the reader, the reader who should return to the old school practice of asking questions.