Sanjeev Sabhlok PUBLIC CHANNEL

2022-06-21 02:23:25 Making policy without a cost-benefit analysis is like
flying an airplane without an instrument panel.

Guaranteed to crash.

E.g. don't forget that inflation is a DIRECT consequence of lockdowns. Open / Comment

2022-06-21 02:11:45 For 20 years I have been preparing or assessing cost-benefit analyses for the Victorian government but when it mattered most - for lockdowns - the Victorian government abandoned this essential policy design method.

Sunstein's paper: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=law_and_economics Open / Comment

2022-06-21 01:52:49 I'm loathe to recommend any work of Cass Sunstein due to his advocacy of the communist nudge theory, but on the benefits of a cost benefit analysis he got it mostly right (his 1999 paper - freely available to read: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=law_and_economics). Open / Comment

2022-06-21 00:46:01 Lockdowns have killed around half a million children, mainly in Africa, from the dislocation caused: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263245

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Vast numbers have been killed from delayed cancer diagnosis & the poor have been devastated - & now inflation. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 23:57:21 Have updated and removed the word "lies" (which they are) - substituted with the more polite: "gross exaggerations"; provided reference re: John Ioannidis's claim and the link to CBA; and emphasised what should have been done (care for the elderly).

(Also the size of the flyer was wrong; have fixed it).

Will try flyer distribution companies again - if this amended version works. I have no choice but to keep trying. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 22:36:51 An explicit or implicit CBA of public health interventions has always been part of the public health literature. The greatest failure of the WHO in 2020-22 has been to not follow its own CBA guidelines (from 2006). Without a CBA public health policy WILL ALWAYS KILL, not save.

https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/43570

Also see https://bit.ly/3yO2No9. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 15:03:29 Here's a good paper (2021) on the status of CBA in health sector in Australia: https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12961-021-00796-w.pdf

The Treasury requires a CBA for interventions that cost >$10m. And for lockdowns and other "health" measures costing hundreds of billions, no CBA! Open / Comment

2022-06-20 13:06:50 I've been asked: Do I have any views on issues other than covid? I do. I have written extensively on a wide range of issues. I've linked some of the writings here: https://www.sabhlokcity.com/who-am-i/candidate-for-bulleen/

I’m a classical liberal with a conservative approach to society and family. My worldview is found in my book, Breaking Free of Nehru and manuscript, The Discovery of Freedom. I’ve written a book on economics for children and have thousands of policy-related posts on my blog, and over a hundred policy articles on my Times of India blog – and many in various newspapers. I’m currently writing a detailed manuscript on public policy for economists. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 12:09:34 Matthew Guy can't fool us. These people were fully complicit in the lies and harms perpetrated in Victoria by Dan Andrews.

I've asked him to take $11,000 from me if he can prove the false claims of his leaders and his party. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 08:14:02 It is inhuman to distribute flyers across 25,000 homes. I asked a distribution company for a quote and their management has declined to distribute since the DL flyer is "too controversial".

One can't even begin to fathom how the truth is being destroyed. 1984. Open / Comment