I will add that Sweden doesn't have a populace with nearly 50% adults obese and nearly 1 in 3 with prediabetes and millions more with actual diabetes. We took in unvetted and unvaxxed millions across the southern border, and when Texas was with hospitals full of delta COVID last summer, it was the Mexicans crossing over to see Tia and then heading to the hospital sick with the WuFlu. Americans are fatter and sicker, and thus more susceptible to all cause mortality at an earlier and more complicated death. However, we were lied to about all aspects of this virus, lies about the mortality, lies about the morbidity, lies about age, even gender stratification. Not to mention the whole "sit at home and do nothing if you feel sick and don't come to ER until your lips are blue" with zero acceptance of outpatient treatment. Pure unbridled canceling, board complaints, and license revocations for those doctors that dared speak up. I will never forget when the beaches and parks were closed in "free state" Florida because...being outside getting exercise was going to spread the virus. I thank God DeSantis realized the error of his ways and listened to other viewpoints to open up the state, but it could have gone the way of Ohio. The whole thing is nauseating.
"I will add that Sweden doesn't have a populace with nearly 50% adults obese and nearly 1 in 3 with prediabetes and millions more with actual diabetes."
if we're going to insist on having them, this seems a fine goal for public health agencies.
imagine if the US has devoted the time and resources it spend on phony NPI's, zoom class, masking, vaxxing, and terrifying kids and instead spent it teaching nutrition, exercise, and basic concepts of personal fitness and health instead.
what it we stopped showing them pictures of obese people and telling them "this is healthy" and actually taught them how to be healthy?
obesity is the number one health issue in america by a landslide.
Can you imagine if the same full frontal push of the state had been employed similarly to combat obesity and metabolic syndrome? vouchers for gyms? the return of physical education to all K-12? subsidized lettuce or broccoli instead of corn syrup? it still drives me insane that every convenience store in the South has a big sign "EBT ACCEPTED HERE" for soda, Twinkies, chips and anything with corn syrup.
Don’t forget stress. Number one cause of disease. But you’re correct, couple stress with all the comorbidities that public health looks the other way, and you’ve got a cocktail of massive policy failure, now two generations running and only gaining speed.
Rather than being surprised by destructive social phenomena, thinking they're "bizarre", we must turn the lens and ask, "How is this exactly as intended?"
All along we've been misled, "How depressing that these things spontaneously emerge." But the answer lies in asking, "Who has been promoting these phenomena, and why?"
The answer is not short-term greed. It is very long-term power hunger. If you want the entire world to submit to you, the first thing you require is that people let go of their personal power, and voluntarily give it away.
This requires "educating" people that health is not a mindset and a lifestyle (from the inside), it must come from pills and injections without which you are helpless (from the outside).
If you want to set up the population for culling, you might want to convince them there's nothing they can do about getting fat, that vitamins are a scam, that solutions for their weight and health must come from the pharmaceutical industry.
That way, when the time is ripe, they will be obese, vitamin-deficient, and anxious for whatever injections you might provide, as they've been fully persuaded that the solutions to their problems are not in their own grasp.
Incase anyone was still confused about whether health was the main goal needs to go to this guys instagram and watch this https://www.instagram.com/p/CYhzUdGvJHd/
I vividly remember the stupid articles with the computer simulation screencaps showing how "dangerous" jogging, running is when other people were around and may end up in your Covid viral cloud. 😳🙄
Ohio was far from the worst. Though not as good of a response as DeSantis, it certainly wasn't as bad as most other states. I lived near the local park system during the initial stage and there were tons of people on the trails walking/hiking/biking/doing something. It was great to see
People were out on the trail here too. BUT if the state could have stopped it, they would have because although they are conservative, they also mind the globalists. They took nets down on sport courts. Tennis, pickleball, basketball... all of them. I can't tell you how many times people screamed at me to put on a mask while walking on a trail by my house. It was very hard not to be mean to them.
By definition everyone without diabetes is pre-diabetic. It is not a disease. A disease has to have symptoms. Whilst diabetes has symptoms, not having diabetes cannot. Pre-diabetes is an invention to justify the various parasitical prodnoses telling people how they should live their lives, and it makes more money for doctors and pharmaceutical companies.
Another example of this is gluten intolerance. This is associated with celiac disease. This is easily diagnosed, easily treated and rare - It affects about 1% of population. Yet gluten-free foods are a multi billion £ market and in the UK the level of sales of gluten free products would require that ten time more have celiac disease than actually do. But not to worry. A new ‘disease’ has been identified - ‘Non-celiac disease gluten intolerance.. Like non-diabetic diabetes, I suppose.
Much is being made about obesity being a high risk factor with SARS CoV 2, maybe so, but it should be no higher a risk factor than for other respiratory diseases, bacterial infections and other diseases. And define ‘obesity’.
Paradoxically, if obesity is the big killer it is alleged, why is it that despite the ‘obesity crisis’, life expectancy has increased and keeps increasing?
Medicine is a multi-trillion $ market - always best to remember that it has more to do with money than people’s health. Snake-oil selling has a long history.
No, pre-diabetes is another term for chronic hyperinsulinemia. It's the point where your body is naturally producing high amounts of insulin to counter the elevated blood glucose caused by cells becoming more insulin resistant, but it's doing a good enough job that blood sugar readings look within the 'normal' range. If doctors routinely checked insulin levels, rather than blood glucose, it would be detected a lot sooner, and more interventions could take place, which might prevent full blown diabetes mellitis developing.
many doctors do this, as well as glycosylated hemoglobin (HgbAIC) which gives earlier detection and better guidance. the issue is that patients will not give their fast food drug. and the lockdowns only exacerbated the problems, with skyrocketing obesity in children and zero physical activity.
That is hypoglycaemic diabetes. It can have multiple causes. Pre-diabetes (also caused borderline diabetes) supposedly is elevated blood sugar but not high enough to cause problems - in other words no symptoms.
Well if there are no symptoms, everything is just fine! Nice medieval approach to medical well being. Let's not do mammograms to address breast cancer in its early stages when it is curable, or hypertension, or any other disease that produces no symptoms until it's simply too late. I have read the highest mortality from breast cancer in Europe exists in the UK due to an overwhelmed and chronically understaffed NHS. Ever heard of the silent killer? By the time diabetes whether type I or 2 produces symptoms such as neuropathy, blindness, excessive urination and thirst with concomitant renal failure, patients are near death. The course of insulin resistance --type 2 DM--is that it begins silently and people feel great and happy eating all the pasta and cake, and being overweight leads to the minor annoyances of joint pains, fatigue, sleep apnea, and not to mention the huffing and puffing going up a flight of stairs. The strain on the cardiovascular system causes its own toll.
Well, you are clearly on the test band wagon. I get my screenings so not against. But, like most things, there are multiple sides. The whole mammo/ DCIS issue is currently debated. Bone hardening drugs not so hot for all. Etc.
The definition of disease is presence of symptoms. You cannot treat symptoms that do not exist. Medieval approach is to treatment based on assumptions, often fatal.
As for screening: the question is how many people do you have to screen to save one life and at what cost? Could the money spent on screening thousands to save just one life, be better spent treating evident disease in others and saving more lives? And what cost in money and to those who are false positive, and in the case of breast screening, have radical surgery where none is needed?
And how about this: more men die with prostate cancer than from it because it is slow to develop and metastasise, and since prostate cancer us an old man’s disease, they usually die of some other non-related disease first. What value screening?
Humans are not evolved to live much past reproductive age. Most diseases are diseases of old age - diabetes, cancers, dementia, cardiovascular diseases, for example.
The problem for heath care is this.
You cannot stop old age and the diseases that come with it. When I was growing up, people just died from most of the diseases people now survive because of medical intervention.
If Jones is saved from disease X, she lives to get disease Y, and if she survives that she gets disease Y at which point along comes ‘flu, gastroenteritis, bacterial infection or CoVid to finish her off. And whilst Jones is being treated for X, Y, Z and finally languishing for weeks/months on a ward, much younger Smith cannot get his treatment for a less complex disease on time because resources are finite.
Too few people understand that and it’s about time they did.
‘… due to an overwhelmed and chronically understaffed NHS.‘
Because of what I said above, that is only ever going to get worse as advances in medical intervention take place. Certainly with a State health system it is impossible on the grounds of cost to have sufficient built in redundancy to serve all comers on demand. All resources are scarce and have to be rationed somehow, either by price or quotas or waiting. Time people in the UK understood that too.
I live on Planet elsewhere. Life expectancy in the US is adversely affected by the propensity for young men to shoot each other dead and an influx of impoverished people in poor health with high infant mortality. But nevertheless In Europe with the same alleged obesity crisis, life expectancy is increasing. The USA is not the whole Planet.
Obesity is not the sole reason for the decline in life expectancy in the US. There are many contributors. The point is that life expectancy is not increasing here as you claimed. As for Europe, they do not suffer from anywhere near the rates of degenerative diseases that people in the US do. Anthony Fauci has wasted the past 40 years on drug and vaccine promotion and big Harma profits, instead of using his position to improve health outcomes in this country. The breakdown of community in the US is definitely a cause of shootings and crime, including drug use. The medical profession in the US, despite the highest per capita spending for health care of any industrialized nation in the world, is a travesty and has caused the US to have high infant mortality, something that the rest of the modern world (even impovershed nations like Cuba) have largely minimized. Greed, idiocy, and apathy have led to the numbers we have today. I don't disagree with everything you have said, just some of it.
I didn’t claim it was increasing in the US, I said it was in Europe. Nor did I say obesity was the only cause of a slight drop in life expectancy - males - in the USA.
Degenerative diseases: a broad group and certainly Europeans suffer the same ones as Americans, as to comparative incidence, I don’t have the data, do you?
Not so much violence as the disease of despair - addiction. Thinking there is an easy path to happiness enjoying friends. Aided and abetted by the entire War on Drugs complex with synthetics from China to meet demand.
Please, a terrible analogy. Japanese culture respects suicide as a remedy for abject shame. No other culture I believe has such a culture. Suicide is an honorable way to conclude impossible or embarrassing situations. High school students failing admission to higher education commit suicide so as to not dishonor parents who sacrificed to provide funding for school.
LA is hardly the example to hold up for the vast USA. Talk to me after you've been thru the hinterlands of Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama and even Florida--people don't walk, they waddle. I have never seen this level of obesity anywhere in Europe. The Bible belt is also known as the Stroke/Cardiac belt
Plus don't they heavily encourage the old and infirm to take an "Off" button pill? Or is that Norway? Or is it both? Got to hold the line on med expense when that is more than half of your paycheck going towards it. Kill yourself... as a last act of incredible benevolence. We will make a plaque with your name and date of sacrifice on it!
I believe you're thinking of the Netherlands. Ian McEwan's novel "Amsterdam" employs the plot device of a euthanasia pact used to hide a double murder.
I like Ian McEwan's novels. Haven't read that one though. But I am not surprised by the Netherlands. I did end up looking it up since my memory is not what it used to be (clearly). You can add Belgium and Switzerland to the "off them if they become too troublesome or burdensome" countries.
The vaccines clearly diminshed the severity of delta in those who were vaccinated. Is it a leaky vaccine? Yes. Is it perfect? No. But Mexico did nothing on this front and their mortality was very great. Young people with no comorbidities ended up with ARDS and dead by the scores. The point is that extra undocumented population skewed the data for Texas falsely and led to quite the showdown with the masking and the lockdowns last year.
It's not yet clear what the truth is on this. Remember they lied about everything else. There are potential confounders here. Eg, a great many frail elderly and chemo patients cannot tolerate the vaccine, yet die "with covid" and hence are counted.
Sweden was already completely committed to digital ID/currency prior to the "pandemic". They didn't need the Boogeyman of Covid to justify bringing in that level of state supervision. If you'd all just comply, take your Vax and install this app, we could get back to normal. Just like the Swedes.
Yes, Sweden may have saved lives, but that's only because the population has already been indoctrinated into compliance. They're even chipping people there.
I'm considering the theory that it was the all-consuming climate change narrative in Sweden that proved too strong to be crowded out by COVID.
The same might have happened in the US (where BLM & critical race theory holds a similar place) were it not that COVID fit very nicely into the existing cultural divide.
Well, since before, we've had a sort of digital ID system that's exclusively used to access govt services and to check and access your own bank account &c, but it's in no way compulsory and it has no uses outside of these.
Sorry, but you are making some really delusional conclusions. I have many friends in Sweden and happen to live in the country with digital and mobile personal identification. How on earth any of it is this related to Covid? Swedes are actually living quite relaxed life all thru the 2021.
Ok, how is digital identification problematic? If you consider the option of say 10 people being able to collectively sign the legally binding document in 10 minutes, while being thousands of miles apart problematic, then yes. Or if you think its problematic being able to legally identify yourself by using nothing more than your mobile phone, then yes its problematic. We can conduct 95% of our matters with government very conveniently online. The idea of going back to papers, queues and stamping feels literally like a stone age for us. You know, government can spy on you with or without digital ID.
He's saying that the root cause of the covid propaganda in most of the world was Big Tech pushing for more control/surveillance over people's lives (ie digital passports, digital currency). Since Sweden had already submitted to that level of control, Big Tech didn't pressure them to go covid crazy.
Yes, Comrade. Once I learned to stop trusting my lying eyes and follow the Experts instructions, I found a great peace and sense of purpose that has steeled my sense of honor and duty to the Great Cause during these unprecedented times.
And since Diversity is our Greatest strength (after compliance of course), it has warmed my heart to welcome so many new brothers and sisters from our southern gateway to Freedom who have joined the fight against covid. And hate. And racisms.
The glorious future is so near I could taste it except that I got a breakthrough case of Covid and still can't taste much. It was my own fault. I delayed in getting my booster. I just wanted to wait until all of my disadvantaged brothers and sisters of colors could get theirs first. There is so much injustice in the world. Luckily we have each other to blame. Onward!
If you play with the buttons you can find "Resident AADR per year", then de-select by county and you'll get total. My quick calc show that:
A ten-year (2010-2019) average death rate of 681 (rounded); 2020 is reported as 748, for a 10% excess mortality in 2020. 2021 figures not given.
I did similar calculations using raw deaths per year; I get 2020 having a 24% excess mortality and 2021 a 34% excess; the large difference in the 2020 figure may reflect changes in population, or other factors. But on this small data point, I would have to say all else equal, mortality jumped 10% in 2021. I doubt out State's population grew by 10%, no matter how many Blue refugees are moving here. I found some charts that suggest our annual population growth is in the 1% or slightly greater range.
Based on these admittedly provisional figures, I think we can safely say that Florida's excess deaths since 2019, even deflated 1% per year are still way about normal. I would speculate we're seeing 9% higher excess mortality than 2020, which is especially interesting when you consider that the "low-hanging fruit" would have been culled in 2020 early in the pandemic and that pretty much anyone who's going to be vaxxed had been so done in 2021. We know that the reported "Covid" deaths are unreliable, so that leaves the burning question: what is increasing the death rates? That question we dare not ask, much less speculate upon possible causes....
AND it would be further edifying and clarifying if the all cause mortality for FL were broken out by age. There are a lot of blue hairs in FL. Old ones. Not the kool aiders. Thought I should clarify.
Well WE know what's impacting mortality.. lack of access to health care in 2020, and then of course that huge movement in 2021 where they were putting certain substances in people's arms.. I'm also in FL.. I don't think as many blue types actually moved to FL as we think, since there are now more registered republicans. The blues were already cheating and saying they lived here 6 months a year and were already voting here so they could say they were residents and not have to pay state taxes in NY or MA.
In fact - remember when health officials declared that the prisoners who got jabbed with an entire vial fulla vax declared that it was positively safe? Dose them up with the entire vial.
totalitarian progressive leaders went all in for zero covid, an impossible goal, taht caused harms we will not work through for 50 years. the most harmed are the children between new born abd 4 when the panicdemoneum was imposed.
And they were 'forced' to do that because the very first antibody tests showed the virus was too widespread to contain. They needed Trump out, so the shift to zero covid (without admitting it) was the play.
But nonetheless Stefan Lofgren was coup'd and replaced by a WEF puppet who is currently bringing in restrictions "because of the transmissibility of omicron" and pushing vaccines harder. I think we were all astonished that a country so in the grip of wokeism in other respects stuck to the workmanlike honesty of Anders Tegnell. Welp, that anomaly was in fact an anomaly.
Also, should be noted, in the early days in Sweden, something like half of all deaths were in the African immigrant population with dangerously low vit D levels. They were not into the oily fish AND they naturally can't produce much D in the northern lats.
I live in Sweden now, last 3 years, so I don’t get much exposure now to American media. And I don’t speak Swedish, so I don’t read or watch their news channels either. But there are plenty of serious Swedish data nerds and whatnot, writing in english. Tommy Lennhamn is a constant source of good analysis. His site here:
Notice Swedish ICU occupancy via covid for 2020 and 2021 (the middle graph). The sum of the figures for weekly Swedish ICU occupancy from covid are approximately 5000 patients total, the same in each year, 2020 (blue) and 2021 (orange):
So is that accurate? I eyeballed the Swedish Covid ICU graph and see about 5000 covid ICU patients in each year, 2020 and 2021. But, I’m eyeballing weekly ICU occupancy figures, and some patients are in hospital less than a week and some more than a week. So what are the actual number of covid patients in ICU in 2020 and 2021?
The author of this website cites official data:
(Covid) Cases ICUs Dead
Statistikdatum
2020 454758 4178.0 9817.0
2021 882235 4075.0 5494.0
According to this my rough estimate was pretty close. Actual Swedish ICU covid patient totals are 4178 in 2020 and 4075 in 2021.
This is in a country of 11,000,000 people.
Covid deaths are different but all-cause deaths in Sweden are normal and near all time low:
Now I’m wondering about hospitalization and ICU for “all respiratory diseases”. Recently I saw a graph of annual hospitalization and death from diseases of the respiratory system, absolute numbers in Germany since 1980.
Back to Sweden:
(Covid) Cases ICUs Dead
Statistikdatum
2020 454758 4178.0 9817.0
2021 882235 4075.0 5494.0
4000 patients in ICU per year are the cause of understaffed hospitals in a country of 11 million?
11 million people should be injected with exotic pharma products because 4000 people are in ICU with respiratory illness?
How many of those 4000 would be in ICU anyway, if SARS-Cov-2 had never existed? Other viral respiratory contagions would not have been present? ICU admissions for severe respiratory disease would not have occurred at a similar rate?
The main cause for the ill elderly has always been pneumonia. It just got recoded to COVID-19 in 2020. So, I think it’s safe to say the ~4000 would have in the ICU anyway.
Sweden is also highly vaccinated, so it seems to give lie to the idea being floated around that the vaccines are responsible for the increases in death. It may be the fallout from the lockdowns and authoritarianism that are the primary causes of untimely death - drug abuse, suicide, weight gain, lack of cancer screenings, etc.
This is the elephant in the room when looking at all cause mortality: Are the shots causing a spike in deaths? Most of the data I have heard/seen on various locales throughout the U.S. and world show significant increases in 2021. It would seem that Sweden is an outlier, though it is early. It could be that 2021 data is not complete. Still, quite possible that Sweden has not experienced much excess deaths from vax. Are there factors that could account for less vax deaths in Sweden than other places? Does Sweden actually have the best data and it's other places' data that are misleading us to think the vax causes excess deaths? We need to look at the big picture and continue drilling down on data before coming to final conclusions.
It may make a big difference if you were vaccinated after you already had been infected and recovered from covid vs having the vaccine be the first exposure you get. Also, the Swedish government suspending the use of the Moderna vaccine on those under 30 should have had some effect.
Death rates are stable here in Norway. No abnormal numbers. The statistic is a little ambiguous by a seeming drop in deaths from the lockdowns. Vaccines may be "making up the difference" but if they are the numbers are not very high.
Sweden held off on vaccinations. They didn't vaccinate "into the pandemic," they waited for the seasonal lull. And I don't think they boostered, either.
Gato where do you think harms from the vaxxes themselves fall into all of this. Not only were there were unintended harms from the non-pharm mitigation measures but the vaxxes prob killed people that would not otherwise have died.
A possible boosting factor in higher all-cause mortality is this combination I've not yet seen mentioned: in areas with lengthy lock-downs, there was of course the combination of people not obtaining medical care because they were afraid to leave their homes and/or the lack of open medical facilities even if they were brave enough to venture out. This, as Gato notes, would logically lead to foregone care and/or the diagnosis of serious conditions that might have been treatable if caught early. Now beginning in December 2020 with the mas vaccination campaigns. The mRNA jabs have the potential side effect of depleting the immune system, leading to resurgence of cancers, exacerbating (or creating) heart and circulatory damage, autoimmune issues, and miscellaneous damage. Thus, it logical to assume that some fraction of those who lacked for care early in the pandemic and then took the jabs are doubly damned.
Same holds true for almost all COVID deaths except the ones that should have never been put on a vent in the first place. We do have examples of young people
Just commented on your friday article re lockdown impacts - behind on my reading! It would be interesting to look at cancer screenings and health backlogs by nation. Instinctively you would have expected the negative impact of lockdowns to hit later, if they really are hitting mortality rates already, that does not bode well for the next few years.
The Indiana insurance company data shows 40% increase in mortality amongst young and middle-aged people. Wouldn't lockdown consequences and pandemic stress affect the older population at least as much, maybe more?
Remember that 2020 cleared out a tremendous amount of "dry tinder" among the frail elderly in nursing homes and senior housing. This group was fairly large (which made it look like a lot of excess deaths) because 2017-2019 had declining rates of death--call them "excess lives" or "lucky survivors," it doesn't matter, no one gets out of the Dance of Life except one way, eventually--2020 was an inventory clearing year.
The 12 Sigma event reported by Indiana (40% jump in working age deaths) is something completely different, and completely horrible. As for counting sigmas if you can expect 5,000/10,000,000 (0.05%) of the working age population to kick off each year and 4,990 or 5010 die, that's just a rounding error; go 10% each way and you are looking at some sort of, maybe 2 or 3 sigma event. Go 40% (7,000) dead and you are in the once in 500,000,000 years or so happening due to chance.
So, this wasn't chance or run of the mill. Think more like war, invasion, gulag style numbers.
I'm confused. Are we now saying that the vaccines are not causing an increase in all cause mortality despite we what the U.S. insurance companies are showing?
This is an interesting question and at this point mostly we are just feeling our way in the dark. All causes deaths means, of course, deaths from all causes. What could be the actual causes of a rise in all cause deaths in the 2nd year of a (USA) disastrous plan to control a basically uncontrollable virus:
1. Deaths of despair: generalized higher deaths due to rapid increase in depression and all sorts of social pathology--drug overdoses, domestic violence, suicides
2. Undetected and untreated diseases due to crap medical management of our universe and generalized fear of hospitals etc (heart disease, stroke, cancers, diabetes etc)>
3. Higher incidents of blood disorders caused by but, as an autopsy matter, not directly linked to, the jab (because no coroner can find traces of mRNA in a blood clot to the brain or heart or corporeal arteries)--myocarditis, pericarditis, stroke, aneurysm, generalized clotting disorders in the eyes, lungs and reproductive organs
4. VAERS type (but increased by an appropriate modifier) of deaths>
If you seek to lay it all at the feet of the vaxx then I think you will be shortcounting by a factor. This disastrous overall policy has severe knock-on effects (elementary school suicide ideation and suicides) which we will be dealing with for 30 years. Seriously. We are treating boomer and millennial terror of disease and dying by transferring the effects to the innocent babies--worst thing is lots of the "transferors" are woke parents of young children.
It might be different in the US with private health care delivery. Europe has to varying degrees a social system for delivery and in most states that just ground to a halt in 2020. In the UK its still almost impossible to see a doctor. You get a phone call.
Late treatment and mis diagnosis are I suspect serious problems and may well effect health outcomes more profoundly in middle aged people than the elderly.
These articles are interesting, and I do appreciate El Gato sharing his knowledge of statistics. But, the question is and has been since the beginning of this madness, where is the proof that Covid exists? And why doesn't El Gato address what is surely the biggest elephant in the room? It's called playing the game; selling half-truths to keep as many sheep in the fold as possible.
The "virus" was "discovered" by introducing polymerase and reverse transcriptase into samples of lung fluid taken from 7 people whom we are told were among almost 200 people who were admitted into local Wuhan hospitals in December of 2019 and were observed to be experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms. These patients were given antibiotics for three days. When their condition hadn't improved, the "doctors" rushed to the conclusion that the pneumonia-like illness must have a viral origin. New alert: pneumonia is a very stubborn illness that does not immediately respond to antibiotics and sometimes does not respond at all; but that's a story for another day. It should go without saying that jumping to conclusions on the basis of extremely specious evidence is not scientific.
Anyhow, the polymerase found genetic material in the samples, because, well, that is what polymerase does; and there is not going to be any shortage of genetic material floating around in the lung fluid of any person who is experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms. Nevertheless, without making any attempt to identify the source of the genetic material that was found, the "scientists" jumped to the conclusion that the source of the genetic material must be some novel virus.
To-date, the "virus" has never been isolated and purified (unless you choose to believe the Chinese). As a result, no genomic sequencing has been done; which means that the "virus" cannot be identified on anything that even approaches a "scientific" level. For all anyone knows, every time a PCR test (don't forget that Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR tool, repeatedly said, before he was killed just before the plandemic hit, that PCR is not a diagnostic tool, it is an amplification tool) is administered, the genetic material found in the sample could have a different source. Polymerase cannot be programmed so that it searches for genetic material from a specific source. And, even if it could be programmed to look for genetic material from a specific source, it could not be programmed so as to search exclusively for "Covid" because no genomic sequencing of the "virus" has been performed. No genomic sequencing means no way to identify the virus.
The "virus" is a mental disorder. It exists in the heads of the mindless masses who rely on the MSM for their "information" and nowhere else. What does exist are the killing devices being labelled "vaccines" and the chemtrails containing aluminum nanoparticles and GMOs and rancid vegetable oils and soil so depleted of nutrients that the crops it produces are practically devoid of nutrients. These are the things people should be worrying about. Not a fucking "virus" that doesn't exist.
You are probably right, but this is like the 'no planes' theory of 9-11. Not-insubstantial reason to suspect that there was a duping going on, but it's just too far beyond the pale for most to consider. The 'no-virus' argument, while not wrong, is simply too jarring for most as it implies high level international collusion. Sometimes the red pill is TOO red and just turns black......
The part stress plays in bad health outcomes cannot be stressed enough, we have tens of millions of people who are convinced they are going to die if they get infected this causes enormous stress. Also this is just beginning, the economic shockwave is just arriving and once the peak arrives the numbers will go even higher.
All-cause mortality is one datapoint. Another datapoint, life expectancy, IMO, is far more important. While Covid-19 kills mostly 80 year old (median), the pandemic measures (lockdowns, 'vaccines') kill 40 year old (median). On top of increased ACM, we are killing younger population! The loss in life expectancy could be 4x-8x higher as a result of our misguided public health policy. People also suffered massive loss of income and retirement savings. We need accountability!
I will add that Sweden doesn't have a populace with nearly 50% adults obese and nearly 1 in 3 with prediabetes and millions more with actual diabetes. We took in unvetted and unvaxxed millions across the southern border, and when Texas was with hospitals full of delta COVID last summer, it was the Mexicans crossing over to see Tia and then heading to the hospital sick with the WuFlu. Americans are fatter and sicker, and thus more susceptible to all cause mortality at an earlier and more complicated death. However, we were lied to about all aspects of this virus, lies about the mortality, lies about the morbidity, lies about age, even gender stratification. Not to mention the whole "sit at home and do nothing if you feel sick and don't come to ER until your lips are blue" with zero acceptance of outpatient treatment. Pure unbridled canceling, board complaints, and license revocations for those doctors that dared speak up. I will never forget when the beaches and parks were closed in "free state" Florida because...being outside getting exercise was going to spread the virus. I thank God DeSantis realized the error of his ways and listened to other viewpoints to open up the state, but it could have gone the way of Ohio. The whole thing is nauseating.
"I will add that Sweden doesn't have a populace with nearly 50% adults obese and nearly 1 in 3 with prediabetes and millions more with actual diabetes."
if we're going to insist on having them, this seems a fine goal for public health agencies.
imagine if the US has devoted the time and resources it spend on phony NPI's, zoom class, masking, vaxxing, and terrifying kids and instead spent it teaching nutrition, exercise, and basic concepts of personal fitness and health instead.
what it we stopped showing them pictures of obese people and telling them "this is healthy" and actually taught them how to be healthy?
obesity is the number one health issue in america by a landslide.
yet we do nothing but enable it.
bizarre.
Can you imagine if the same full frontal push of the state had been employed similarly to combat obesity and metabolic syndrome? vouchers for gyms? the return of physical education to all K-12? subsidized lettuce or broccoli instead of corn syrup? it still drives me insane that every convenience store in the South has a big sign "EBT ACCEPTED HERE" for soda, Twinkies, chips and anything with corn syrup.
Don’t forget stress. Number one cause of disease. But you’re correct, couple stress with all the comorbidities that public health looks the other way, and you’ve got a cocktail of massive policy failure, now two generations running and only gaining speed.
It would be "failure" if we assumed, in the first place, that the purpose of the policies was public health.
Rather than being surprised by destructive social phenomena, thinking they're "bizarre", we must turn the lens and ask, "How is this exactly as intended?"
All along we've been misled, "How depressing that these things spontaneously emerge." But the answer lies in asking, "Who has been promoting these phenomena, and why?"
The answer is not short-term greed. It is very long-term power hunger. If you want the entire world to submit to you, the first thing you require is that people let go of their personal power, and voluntarily give it away.
This requires "educating" people that health is not a mindset and a lifestyle (from the inside), it must come from pills and injections without which you are helpless (from the outside).
If you want to set up the population for culling, you might want to convince them there's nothing they can do about getting fat, that vitamins are a scam, that solutions for their weight and health must come from the pharmaceutical industry.
That way, when the time is ripe, they will be obese, vitamin-deficient, and anxious for whatever injections you might provide, as they've been fully persuaded that the solutions to their problems are not in their own grasp.
America teaching nutrition would be brought to you by Monsanto and Kelloggs...just as it has been
And all the weight loss programs that ultimately don’t work as far as keeping weight off.
Incase anyone was still confused about whether health was the main goal needs to go to this guys instagram and watch this https://www.instagram.com/p/CYhzUdGvJHd/
You bad fat shamer, you. I like Lizzo as do many, but worry about her heath. I am advised my concerns are trolling https://www.huffpost.com/entry/concern-trolling-lizzo-health-weight_l_611d8650e4b0caf7ce2c8a17. I doubt the larger people have her work ethic.
I vividly remember the stupid articles with the computer simulation screencaps showing how "dangerous" jogging, running is when other people were around and may end up in your Covid viral cloud. 😳🙄
Yes because viral load in open spaces must be at least one in a zillion cubic metres of air.
Ohio was far from the worst. Though not as good of a response as DeSantis, it certainly wasn't as bad as most other states. I lived near the local park system during the initial stage and there were tons of people on the trails walking/hiking/biking/doing something. It was great to see
People were out on the trail here too. BUT if the state could have stopped it, they would have because although they are conservative, they also mind the globalists. They took nets down on sport courts. Tennis, pickleball, basketball... all of them. I can't tell you how many times people screamed at me to put on a mask while walking on a trail by my house. It was very hard not to be mean to them.
That’s unfortunate. Yes I saw some playgrounds roped off but was never once confronted for not wearing a mask anywhere
Count yourself lucky. It was only old people and I live in a 55+ with lots of CA transplants. They got a little hysterical.
‘… 1 in 3 with prediabetes …’
By definition everyone without diabetes is pre-diabetic. It is not a disease. A disease has to have symptoms. Whilst diabetes has symptoms, not having diabetes cannot. Pre-diabetes is an invention to justify the various parasitical prodnoses telling people how they should live their lives, and it makes more money for doctors and pharmaceutical companies.
Another example of this is gluten intolerance. This is associated with celiac disease. This is easily diagnosed, easily treated and rare - It affects about 1% of population. Yet gluten-free foods are a multi billion £ market and in the UK the level of sales of gluten free products would require that ten time more have celiac disease than actually do. But not to worry. A new ‘disease’ has been identified - ‘Non-celiac disease gluten intolerance.. Like non-diabetic diabetes, I suppose.
Much is being made about obesity being a high risk factor with SARS CoV 2, maybe so, but it should be no higher a risk factor than for other respiratory diseases, bacterial infections and other diseases. And define ‘obesity’.
Paradoxically, if obesity is the big killer it is alleged, why is it that despite the ‘obesity crisis’, life expectancy has increased and keeps increasing?
Medicine is a multi-trillion $ market - always best to remember that it has more to do with money than people’s health. Snake-oil selling has a long history.
Please don’t think I am being cynical.
No, pre-diabetes is another term for chronic hyperinsulinemia. It's the point where your body is naturally producing high amounts of insulin to counter the elevated blood glucose caused by cells becoming more insulin resistant, but it's doing a good enough job that blood sugar readings look within the 'normal' range. If doctors routinely checked insulin levels, rather than blood glucose, it would be detected a lot sooner, and more interventions could take place, which might prevent full blown diabetes mellitis developing.
many doctors do this, as well as glycosylated hemoglobin (HgbAIC) which gives earlier detection and better guidance. the issue is that patients will not give their fast food drug. and the lockdowns only exacerbated the problems, with skyrocketing obesity in children and zero physical activity.
That is hypoglycaemic diabetes. It can have multiple causes. Pre-diabetes (also caused borderline diabetes) supposedly is elevated blood sugar but not high enough to cause problems - in other words no symptoms.
Well if there are no symptoms, everything is just fine! Nice medieval approach to medical well being. Let's not do mammograms to address breast cancer in its early stages when it is curable, or hypertension, or any other disease that produces no symptoms until it's simply too late. I have read the highest mortality from breast cancer in Europe exists in the UK due to an overwhelmed and chronically understaffed NHS. Ever heard of the silent killer? By the time diabetes whether type I or 2 produces symptoms such as neuropathy, blindness, excessive urination and thirst with concomitant renal failure, patients are near death. The course of insulin resistance --type 2 DM--is that it begins silently and people feel great and happy eating all the pasta and cake, and being overweight leads to the minor annoyances of joint pains, fatigue, sleep apnea, and not to mention the huffing and puffing going up a flight of stairs. The strain on the cardiovascular system causes its own toll.
Well, you are clearly on the test band wagon. I get my screenings so not against. But, like most things, there are multiple sides. The whole mammo/ DCIS issue is currently debated. Bone hardening drugs not so hot for all. Etc.
The definition of disease is presence of symptoms. You cannot treat symptoms that do not exist. Medieval approach is to treatment based on assumptions, often fatal.
As for screening: the question is how many people do you have to screen to save one life and at what cost? Could the money spent on screening thousands to save just one life, be better spent treating evident disease in others and saving more lives? And what cost in money and to those who are false positive, and in the case of breast screening, have radical surgery where none is needed?
And how about this: more men die with prostate cancer than from it because it is slow to develop and metastasise, and since prostate cancer us an old man’s disease, they usually die of some other non-related disease first. What value screening?
Humans are not evolved to live much past reproductive age. Most diseases are diseases of old age - diabetes, cancers, dementia, cardiovascular diseases, for example.
The problem for heath care is this.
You cannot stop old age and the diseases that come with it. When I was growing up, people just died from most of the diseases people now survive because of medical intervention.
If Jones is saved from disease X, she lives to get disease Y, and if she survives that she gets disease Y at which point along comes ‘flu, gastroenteritis, bacterial infection or CoVid to finish her off. And whilst Jones is being treated for X, Y, Z and finally languishing for weeks/months on a ward, much younger Smith cannot get his treatment for a less complex disease on time because resources are finite.
Too few people understand that and it’s about time they did.
‘… due to an overwhelmed and chronically understaffed NHS.‘
Because of what I said above, that is only ever going to get worse as advances in medical intervention take place. Certainly with a State health system it is impossible on the grounds of cost to have sufficient built in redundancy to serve all comers on demand. All resources are scarce and have to be rationed somehow, either by price or quotas or waiting. Time people in the UK understood that too.
Sorry, what planet? Obesity is good or just neutral, than? Life expectancy in the US isn't increasing. Note the date of the article below (2019, prior to covid). More recent articles falsely claim that covid is to blame for the drop in life expectancy. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/08/786039745/whats-behind-decreased-life-expectancy-in-the-u-s
I live on Planet elsewhere. Life expectancy in the US is adversely affected by the propensity for young men to shoot each other dead and an influx of impoverished people in poor health with high infant mortality. But nevertheless In Europe with the same alleged obesity crisis, life expectancy is increasing. The USA is not the whole Planet.
Obesity is not the sole reason for the decline in life expectancy in the US. There are many contributors. The point is that life expectancy is not increasing here as you claimed. As for Europe, they do not suffer from anywhere near the rates of degenerative diseases that people in the US do. Anthony Fauci has wasted the past 40 years on drug and vaccine promotion and big Harma profits, instead of using his position to improve health outcomes in this country. The breakdown of community in the US is definitely a cause of shootings and crime, including drug use. The medical profession in the US, despite the highest per capita spending for health care of any industrialized nation in the world, is a travesty and has caused the US to have high infant mortality, something that the rest of the modern world (even impovershed nations like Cuba) have largely minimized. Greed, idiocy, and apathy have led to the numbers we have today. I don't disagree with everything you have said, just some of it.
I didn’t claim it was increasing in the US, I said it was in Europe. Nor did I say obesity was the only cause of a slight drop in life expectancy - males - in the USA.
Degenerative diseases: a broad group and certainly Europeans suffer the same ones as Americans, as to comparative incidence, I don’t have the data, do you?
Not so much violence as the disease of despair - addiction. Thinking there is an easy path to happiness enjoying friends. Aided and abetted by the entire War on Drugs complex with synthetics from China to meet demand.
Japan has zero guns, yet their suicide rate is higher than America's suicide and homicide rates combined.
Please, a terrible analogy. Japanese culture respects suicide as a remedy for abject shame. No other culture I believe has such a culture. Suicide is an honorable way to conclude impossible or embarrassing situations. High school students failing admission to higher education commit suicide so as to not dishonor parents who sacrificed to provide funding for school.
And they do have guns very heavily regulated.
What NPR meant was that the covid JAB reduced life expectancy. They just have an... editing problem. In the head.
Actually the overweight category and obesity for Sweden has had a rapid rise in the last decade. It is only about 5% behind Los Angeles County
LA is hardly the example to hold up for the vast USA. Talk to me after you've been thru the hinterlands of Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama and even Florida--people don't walk, they waddle. I have never seen this level of obesity anywhere in Europe. The Bible belt is also known as the Stroke/Cardiac belt
Plus don't they heavily encourage the old and infirm to take an "Off" button pill? Or is that Norway? Or is it both? Got to hold the line on med expense when that is more than half of your paycheck going towards it. Kill yourself... as a last act of incredible benevolence. We will make a plaque with your name and date of sacrifice on it!
I believe you're thinking of the Netherlands. Ian McEwan's novel "Amsterdam" employs the plot device of a euthanasia pact used to hide a double murder.
I like Ian McEwan's novels. Haven't read that one though. But I am not surprised by the Netherlands. I did end up looking it up since my memory is not what it used to be (clearly). You can add Belgium and Switzerland to the "off them if they become too troublesome or burdensome" countries.
They being the Swedes.
Oh dear, those unvaxxed hoards invading across the southern border. So you think the vaxxines work then?
The vaccines clearly diminshed the severity of delta in those who were vaccinated. Is it a leaky vaccine? Yes. Is it perfect? No. But Mexico did nothing on this front and their mortality was very great. Young people with no comorbidities ended up with ARDS and dead by the scores. The point is that extra undocumented population skewed the data for Texas falsely and led to quite the showdown with the masking and the lockdowns last year.
Clearly? Please provide some data to support.
there are reams of data on the mortality of vax vs unvax for delta. look it up.
It's not yet clear what the truth is on this. Remember they lied about everything else. There are potential confounders here. Eg, a great many frail elderly and chemo patients cannot tolerate the vaccine, yet die "with covid" and hence are counted.
Uh huh. School is still out on this and most covid conclusions IMHO despite your reams
Considering it's not a vaccine but an experimental gene therapy, we're several zip codes away from "perfect".
Sweden was already completely committed to digital ID/currency prior to the "pandemic". They didn't need the Boogeyman of Covid to justify bringing in that level of state supervision. If you'd all just comply, take your Vax and install this app, we could get back to normal. Just like the Swedes.
Yes, Sweden may have saved lives, but that's only because the population has already been indoctrinated into compliance. They're even chipping people there.
I'm considering the theory that it was the all-consuming climate change narrative in Sweden that proved too strong to be crowded out by COVID.
The same might have happened in the US (where BLM & critical race theory holds a similar place) were it not that COVID fit very nicely into the existing cultural divide.
so, digital id stopped covid? amzing what they can do w technology!
Excellent point.
Yes, this is what Stefan at Sanity4Sweden has been railing against for some time.
Well, since before, we've had a sort of digital ID system that's exclusively used to access govt services and to check and access your own bank account &c, but it's in no way compulsory and it has no uses outside of these.
Digital cash is endemic though.
Sorry, but you are making some really delusional conclusions. I have many friends in Sweden and happen to live in the country with digital and mobile personal identification. How on earth any of it is this related to Covid? Swedes are actually living quite relaxed life all thru the 2021.
I don't think he was implying it was related to covid, just that this in itself is problematic.
Ok, how is digital identification problematic? If you consider the option of say 10 people being able to collectively sign the legally binding document in 10 minutes, while being thousands of miles apart problematic, then yes. Or if you think its problematic being able to legally identify yourself by using nothing more than your mobile phone, then yes its problematic. We can conduct 95% of our matters with government very conveniently online. The idea of going back to papers, queues and stamping feels literally like a stone age for us. You know, government can spy on you with or without digital ID.
He's saying that the root cause of the covid propaganda in most of the world was Big Tech pushing for more control/surveillance over people's lives (ie digital passports, digital currency). Since Sweden had already submitted to that level of control, Big Tech didn't pressure them to go covid crazy.
Excellent thinking.
Sweden and Florida do not exist, comrade. Australia and China should be applauded and emulated. Freedom is slavery, we’re all in this together.
Yes, Comrade. Once I learned to stop trusting my lying eyes and follow the Experts instructions, I found a great peace and sense of purpose that has steeled my sense of honor and duty to the Great Cause during these unprecedented times.
And since Diversity is our Greatest strength (after compliance of course), it has warmed my heart to welcome so many new brothers and sisters from our southern gateway to Freedom who have joined the fight against covid. And hate. And racisms.
The glorious future is so near I could taste it except that I got a breakthrough case of Covid and still can't taste much. It was my own fault. I delayed in getting my booster. I just wanted to wait until all of my disadvantaged brothers and sisters of colors could get theirs first. There is so much injustice in the world. Luckily we have each other to blame. Onward!
I wonder what Florida's all cause mortality looks like at this point.
I'm a Florida resident. I did some googling and many searches on our state department of health web site. About 15 minutes of searching found this:
https://www.flhealthcharts.gov/FLQUERY_New/Death/Count
If you play with the buttons you can find "Resident AADR per year", then de-select by county and you'll get total. My quick calc show that:
A ten-year (2010-2019) average death rate of 681 (rounded); 2020 is reported as 748, for a 10% excess mortality in 2020. 2021 figures not given.
I did similar calculations using raw deaths per year; I get 2020 having a 24% excess mortality and 2021 a 34% excess; the large difference in the 2020 figure may reflect changes in population, or other factors. But on this small data point, I would have to say all else equal, mortality jumped 10% in 2021. I doubt out State's population grew by 10%, no matter how many Blue refugees are moving here. I found some charts that suggest our annual population growth is in the 1% or slightly greater range.
Based on these admittedly provisional figures, I think we can safely say that Florida's excess deaths since 2019, even deflated 1% per year are still way about normal. I would speculate we're seeing 9% higher excess mortality than 2020, which is especially interesting when you consider that the "low-hanging fruit" would have been culled in 2020 early in the pandemic and that pretty much anyone who's going to be vaxxed had been so done in 2021. We know that the reported "Covid" deaths are unreliable, so that leaves the burning question: what is increasing the death rates? That question we dare not ask, much less speculate upon possible causes....
AND it would be further edifying and clarifying if the all cause mortality for FL were broken out by age. There are a lot of blue hairs in FL. Old ones. Not the kool aiders. Thought I should clarify.
Well WE know what's impacting mortality.. lack of access to health care in 2020, and then of course that huge movement in 2021 where they were putting certain substances in people's arms.. I'm also in FL.. I don't think as many blue types actually moved to FL as we think, since there are now more registered republicans. The blues were already cheating and saying they lived here 6 months a year and were already voting here so they could say they were residents and not have to pay state taxes in NY or MA.
What's the best place to purchase bulk quantities of pitchforks and torches?
Don't forget the tar and feathers!
We could pluck a few off by simply forcing THEM to take the jab. Then, if they survive, time to build a rack.
In fact - remember when health officials declared that the prisoners who got jabbed with an entire vial fulla vax declared that it was positively safe? Dose them up with the entire vial.
Let's start at Home Depot for pitchforks and Sam's Club has plenty of torch-making supplies...
A few guillotines should do nicely.
Sweden is also highly vaccinated, so kind of indication, that vaccines as fortunately not killing people en masses
it's possible that is correct, but this is a tricky claim to make as one cannot be monolithic.
which vaccines were prominent may matter.
lumping all vaccines into one category has been a weird public health practice here.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/why-dont-public-health-agencies-and
The vaccination rate was only less than 10 percent until last May. So they took the first and second wave pretty much as unvaxxed.
totalitarian progressive leaders went all in for zero covid, an impossible goal, taht caused harms we will not work through for 50 years. the most harmed are the children between new born abd 4 when the panicdemoneum was imposed.
And they were 'forced' to do that because the very first antibody tests showed the virus was too widespread to contain. They needed Trump out, so the shift to zero covid (without admitting it) was the play.
But nonetheless Stefan Lofgren was coup'd and replaced by a WEF puppet who is currently bringing in restrictions "because of the transmissibility of omicron" and pushing vaccines harder. I think we were all astonished that a country so in the grip of wokeism in other respects stuck to the workmanlike honesty of Anders Tegnell. Welp, that anomaly was in fact an anomaly.
Also, should be noted, in the early days in Sweden, something like half of all deaths were in the African immigrant population with dangerously low vit D levels. They were not into the oily fish AND they naturally can't produce much D in the northern lats.
I live in Sweden now, last 3 years, so I don’t get much exposure now to American media. And I don’t speak Swedish, so I don’t read or watch their news channels either. But there are plenty of serious Swedish data nerds and whatnot, writing in english. Tommy Lennhamn is a constant source of good analysis. His site here:
https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com
Notice Swedish ICU occupancy via covid for 2020 and 2021 (the middle graph). The sum of the figures for weekly Swedish ICU occupancy from covid are approximately 5000 patients total, the same in each year, 2020 (blue) and 2021 (orange):
https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2022/01/01/sweden-covid-variants-of-concern/
So is that accurate? I eyeballed the Swedish Covid ICU graph and see about 5000 covid ICU patients in each year, 2020 and 2021. But, I’m eyeballing weekly ICU occupancy figures, and some patients are in hospital less than a week and some more than a week. So what are the actual number of covid patients in ICU in 2020 and 2021?
The author of this website cites official data:
(Covid) Cases ICUs Dead
Statistikdatum
2020 454758 4178.0 9817.0
2021 882235 4075.0 5494.0
According to this my rough estimate was pretty close. Actual Swedish ICU covid patient totals are 4178 in 2020 and 4075 in 2021.
This is in a country of 11,000,000 people.
Covid deaths are different but all-cause deaths in Sweden are normal and near all time low:
https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2022/01/03/sweden-all-cause-expected-vs-observed-deaths-per-age-grp-total-incl-dec-21/
https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/
Now I’m wondering about hospitalization and ICU for “all respiratory diseases”. Recently I saw a graph of annual hospitalization and death from diseases of the respiratory system, absolute numbers in Germany since 1980.
Back to Sweden:
(Covid) Cases ICUs Dead
Statistikdatum
2020 454758 4178.0 9817.0
2021 882235 4075.0 5494.0
4000 patients in ICU per year are the cause of understaffed hospitals in a country of 11 million?
11 million people should be injected with exotic pharma products because 4000 people are in ICU with respiratory illness?
How many of those 4000 would be in ICU anyway, if SARS-Cov-2 had never existed? Other viral respiratory contagions would not have been present? ICU admissions for severe respiratory disease would not have occurred at a similar rate?
more: https://whileican.substack.com/p/treat-the-sick
The main cause for the ill elderly has always been pneumonia. It just got recoded to COVID-19 in 2020. So, I think it’s safe to say the ~4000 would have in the ICU anyway.
Sweden is also highly vaccinated, so it seems to give lie to the idea being floated around that the vaccines are responsible for the increases in death. It may be the fallout from the lockdowns and authoritarianism that are the primary causes of untimely death - drug abuse, suicide, weight gain, lack of cancer screenings, etc.
This is the elephant in the room when looking at all cause mortality: Are the shots causing a spike in deaths? Most of the data I have heard/seen on various locales throughout the U.S. and world show significant increases in 2021. It would seem that Sweden is an outlier, though it is early. It could be that 2021 data is not complete. Still, quite possible that Sweden has not experienced much excess deaths from vax. Are there factors that could account for less vax deaths in Sweden than other places? Does Sweden actually have the best data and it's other places' data that are misleading us to think the vax causes excess deaths? We need to look at the big picture and continue drilling down on data before coming to final conclusions.
It may make a big difference if you were vaccinated after you already had been infected and recovered from covid vs having the vaccine be the first exposure you get. Also, the Swedish government suspending the use of the Moderna vaccine on those under 30 should have had some effect.
Death rates are stable here in Norway. No abnormal numbers. The statistic is a little ambiguous by a seeming drop in deaths from the lockdowns. Vaccines may be "making up the difference" but if they are the numbers are not very high.
Sweden held off on vaccinations. They didn't vaccinate "into the pandemic," they waited for the seasonal lull. And I don't think they boostered, either.
2021 looked worse than 2020. That's consistent with vaccine death.
What's your source for that? From what I've seen, excess deaths are lower there than pretty much anywhere else, at least in Europe.
71% total is not highly vaccinated. And their vaccine uptake was quite slow, they passed US in August on completed vaccinations per total.
Gato where do you think harms from the vaxxes themselves fall into all of this. Not only were there were unintended harms from the non-pharm mitigation measures but the vaxxes prob killed people that would not otherwise have died.
A possible boosting factor in higher all-cause mortality is this combination I've not yet seen mentioned: in areas with lengthy lock-downs, there was of course the combination of people not obtaining medical care because they were afraid to leave their homes and/or the lack of open medical facilities even if they were brave enough to venture out. This, as Gato notes, would logically lead to foregone care and/or the diagnosis of serious conditions that might have been treatable if caught early. Now beginning in December 2020 with the mas vaccination campaigns. The mRNA jabs have the potential side effect of depleting the immune system, leading to resurgence of cancers, exacerbating (or creating) heart and circulatory damage, autoimmune issues, and miscellaneous damage. Thus, it logical to assume that some fraction of those who lacked for care early in the pandemic and then took the jabs are doubly damned.
Reality knocks, with anecdotes from 2021 -
Cardiologist: "After the second covid shot, several of my patients died."
Care home: 92-year old, with back pain but compos mentis, dead after shot #3.
Cancer patient, aged 50, steady until October, then rapid deterioration; died Dec.
In such cases, who is to tell?
Same holds true for almost all COVID deaths except the ones that should have never been put on a vent in the first place. We do have examples of young people
Well put.
Just commented on your friday article re lockdown impacts - behind on my reading! It would be interesting to look at cancer screenings and health backlogs by nation. Instinctively you would have expected the negative impact of lockdowns to hit later, if they really are hitting mortality rates already, that does not bode well for the next few years.
The Indiana insurance company data shows 40% increase in mortality amongst young and middle-aged people. Wouldn't lockdown consequences and pandemic stress affect the older population at least as much, maybe more?
Remember that 2020 cleared out a tremendous amount of "dry tinder" among the frail elderly in nursing homes and senior housing. This group was fairly large (which made it look like a lot of excess deaths) because 2017-2019 had declining rates of death--call them "excess lives" or "lucky survivors," it doesn't matter, no one gets out of the Dance of Life except one way, eventually--2020 was an inventory clearing year.
The 12 Sigma event reported by Indiana (40% jump in working age deaths) is something completely different, and completely horrible. As for counting sigmas if you can expect 5,000/10,000,000 (0.05%) of the working age population to kick off each year and 4,990 or 5010 die, that's just a rounding error; go 10% each way and you are looking at some sort of, maybe 2 or 3 sigma event. Go 40% (7,000) dead and you are in the once in 500,000,000 years or so happening due to chance.
So, this wasn't chance or run of the mill. Think more like war, invasion, gulag style numbers.
I'm confused. Are we now saying that the vaccines are not causing an increase in all cause mortality despite we what the U.S. insurance companies are showing?
This is an interesting question and at this point mostly we are just feeling our way in the dark. All causes deaths means, of course, deaths from all causes. What could be the actual causes of a rise in all cause deaths in the 2nd year of a (USA) disastrous plan to control a basically uncontrollable virus:
1. Deaths of despair: generalized higher deaths due to rapid increase in depression and all sorts of social pathology--drug overdoses, domestic violence, suicides
2. Undetected and untreated diseases due to crap medical management of our universe and generalized fear of hospitals etc (heart disease, stroke, cancers, diabetes etc)>
3. Higher incidents of blood disorders caused by but, as an autopsy matter, not directly linked to, the jab (because no coroner can find traces of mRNA in a blood clot to the brain or heart or corporeal arteries)--myocarditis, pericarditis, stroke, aneurysm, generalized clotting disorders in the eyes, lungs and reproductive organs
4. VAERS type (but increased by an appropriate modifier) of deaths>
If you seek to lay it all at the feet of the vaxx then I think you will be shortcounting by a factor. This disastrous overall policy has severe knock-on effects (elementary school suicide ideation and suicides) which we will be dealing with for 30 years. Seriously. We are treating boomer and millennial terror of disease and dying by transferring the effects to the innocent babies--worst thing is lots of the "transferors" are woke parents of young children.
It might be different in the US with private health care delivery. Europe has to varying degrees a social system for delivery and in most states that just ground to a halt in 2020. In the UK its still almost impossible to see a doctor. You get a phone call.
Late treatment and mis diagnosis are I suspect serious problems and may well effect health outcomes more profoundly in middle aged people than the elderly.
These articles are interesting, and I do appreciate El Gato sharing his knowledge of statistics. But, the question is and has been since the beginning of this madness, where is the proof that Covid exists? And why doesn't El Gato address what is surely the biggest elephant in the room? It's called playing the game; selling half-truths to keep as many sheep in the fold as possible.
The "virus" was "discovered" by introducing polymerase and reverse transcriptase into samples of lung fluid taken from 7 people whom we are told were among almost 200 people who were admitted into local Wuhan hospitals in December of 2019 and were observed to be experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms. These patients were given antibiotics for three days. When their condition hadn't improved, the "doctors" rushed to the conclusion that the pneumonia-like illness must have a viral origin. New alert: pneumonia is a very stubborn illness that does not immediately respond to antibiotics and sometimes does not respond at all; but that's a story for another day. It should go without saying that jumping to conclusions on the basis of extremely specious evidence is not scientific.
Anyhow, the polymerase found genetic material in the samples, because, well, that is what polymerase does; and there is not going to be any shortage of genetic material floating around in the lung fluid of any person who is experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms. Nevertheless, without making any attempt to identify the source of the genetic material that was found, the "scientists" jumped to the conclusion that the source of the genetic material must be some novel virus.
To-date, the "virus" has never been isolated and purified (unless you choose to believe the Chinese). As a result, no genomic sequencing has been done; which means that the "virus" cannot be identified on anything that even approaches a "scientific" level. For all anyone knows, every time a PCR test (don't forget that Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR tool, repeatedly said, before he was killed just before the plandemic hit, that PCR is not a diagnostic tool, it is an amplification tool) is administered, the genetic material found in the sample could have a different source. Polymerase cannot be programmed so that it searches for genetic material from a specific source. And, even if it could be programmed to look for genetic material from a specific source, it could not be programmed so as to search exclusively for "Covid" because no genomic sequencing of the "virus" has been performed. No genomic sequencing means no way to identify the virus.
The "virus" is a mental disorder. It exists in the heads of the mindless masses who rely on the MSM for their "information" and nowhere else. What does exist are the killing devices being labelled "vaccines" and the chemtrails containing aluminum nanoparticles and GMOs and rancid vegetable oils and soil so depleted of nutrients that the crops it produces are practically devoid of nutrients. These are the things people should be worrying about. Not a fucking "virus" that doesn't exist.
You are probably right, but this is like the 'no planes' theory of 9-11. Not-insubstantial reason to suspect that there was a duping going on, but it's just too far beyond the pale for most to consider. The 'no-virus' argument, while not wrong, is simply too jarring for most as it implies high level international collusion. Sometimes the red pill is TOO red and just turns black......
The part stress plays in bad health outcomes cannot be stressed enough, we have tens of millions of people who are convinced they are going to die if they get infected this causes enormous stress. Also this is just beginning, the economic shockwave is just arriving and once the peak arrives the numbers will go even higher.
All-cause mortality is one datapoint. Another datapoint, life expectancy, IMO, is far more important. While Covid-19 kills mostly 80 year old (median), the pandemic measures (lockdowns, 'vaccines') kill 40 year old (median). On top of increased ACM, we are killing younger population! The loss in life expectancy could be 4x-8x higher as a result of our misguided public health policy. People also suffered massive loss of income and retirement savings. We need accountability!
Good analysis by Joel on life-years lost metrics https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-covid-cure-is-worse-than-the/comments