A new paper by Professor John P. A. Ioannidis et al., is full of statistics and technicalities, but has an important conclusion about the number of deaths from Covid during the “pandemic.” As we know, the health authorities pushed the idea that Covid was a deadly disease threat, and so, lockdowns were necessary, and then mass vaccination, then more, and still more. And, here in Australia, although the population has Covid vax fatigue, the health authorities keep doubling down, especially with winter approaching, which in the light of global warming looks like being even colder! (Just joking of course, it is global warming which is the joke, and it is on us!)
The paper looks at the way various factors were not properly considered in past estimates of Covid deaths, including adjustments for the age structure of populations, death registration incompleteness, and the fact that hospitals in many jurisdictions counted people dying with Covid, as dying from Covid. “It is difficult to disentangle deaths attributed directly to SARS-CoV-2, indirect pandemic effects, and effects from measures taken. Globally, deaths directly due to SARS-CoV-2 may be the minority of calculated excess deaths.”