More on the Excess Deaths Controversy By Chris Knight (Florida)

Edward Ring has reported on the phenomenon of excess deaths in America, and other jurisdictions, deaths way above the usual expectation. This is a tragedy whatever the cause. Of course, this involves taking official data at face value, so matters are likely to be much worse. While there is no direct proof that the vaxxes are at work, as the excess deaths correlate to the Covid vax rollout, and occurs across nations, where there are differences in other possible causes, such as climate, Sherlock Holmes would conclude that the chief suspect is the vax.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/30/excess-deaths-in-america-are-still-excessive/

“The purpose of this report is not to speculate about the role COVID played in these excess deaths from the past two years, nor to speculate as to the causes of the COVID pandemic, its timing, its impact, or the response. Instead, this report will rely on one assumption, which some readers may believe to be a stretch, but which I believe is reasonable: The CDC is not cooking the data when it comes to deaths from all causes. That is to say, everything presented here relies on the CDC accurately reporting how many people die each week in the United States.

If you accept that assumption, the data is unsettling. On the chart, six tightly bunched lines show deaths by week in the most recent six pre-COVID years. They are plotted according to how the CDC tracks flu seasons, i.e., from October 1 through September 31. These lines repeat in order to show the 12-month cycle of average weekly deaths. Hence the lines all rise upwards to reflect higher than average deaths during peak flu season in January and descend to low points in July when cases of the flu are far less prevalent.

The important thing to notice in these six plots of pre-COVID deaths is how close together they are. During peak flu season in January, typically, around 58,000 Americans die each week. During July and August, by contrast, only around 50,000 Americans die each week. There was an unusually severe flu season in 2017, represented by the blue line that rises above the pack at around 68,000 deaths in the first week of January 2017, but by and large, how many Americans die each week is predictable and stable from year to year.

Until COVID came along.

On the chart, the single line that soars well above the other rows of data does not repeat in 12-month illustrative cycles, but rather is a linear plot of deaths by week in the United States from October 2019 through the middle of June 2022. Because the CDC requires at least eight weeks to collect and compile data from all causes, it is not possible to provide an accurate count for any weeks more recent than mid-June of this year. That’s why the line falls off precipitously after mid-June. As data comes in, the true numbers will be known for more recent weeks.

Viewing this chart makes it quite obvious that total deaths from all causes have been well above the typical average ever since COVID began. The first peak in April 2020 was one of the worst. During the week of April 14, 2020, 78,946 Americans died, when a normal tally that time of year should have been only around 53,000. Then there was the surge in the summer of 2020, culminating in a peak of 64,121 on the week of August 4, 2020, when at that time in a normal year deaths would have come in at around 50,000. But when it comes to excess deaths in America, 2020 was just the beginning.

As can be seen, January 2021 was the worst peak for excess deaths, with 87,233 Americans dying during the week of January 19 when normally there should have been only around 58,000 total deaths. That was followed by yet another surge in September 2021, with 75,564 people dying on the week of September 14, more than 20,000 over the normal average. And then in January 2022, another awful surge, peaking at 85,290 deaths on the week of January 25, more than 25,000 over the norm.

If you compare how many people died in America during the COVID era to how many people would normally have died based on six years of prior year CDC data on deaths from all causes, the excess deaths are 25 percent over normal. Twenty five percent. With the sole exception of the Spanish Flu pandemic a century ago, there has never been a die-off in the United States on this scale.

Putting that percentage into numbers yields sobering totals. During the 12-month period from April 2020 through March 2021, a total of 3,527,041 Americans died. During the next 12 months, from April 2021 through March 2022, a total of 3,455,176 Americans died. On average, adjusting for population growth, during those same 12-month periods over the previous six years, only 2,789,994 Americans died.

Is it over? From the chart, we see the decline in total deaths this spring looks remarkably similar to the decline in the spring of 2021. The last data point on which we can rely, in mid-June, is actually tipping slightly upward from the previous week’s total.

By any standard, what has happened has been catastrophic for this country. We may never know how many of these excess deaths were from COVID, from deferred treatment for other ailments, from elevated numbers of people committing suicide, or from adverse reactions to the vaccines. But one thing must be understood unequivocally, and it ought to go without saying: This has been a tragedy on an epic scale and one from which we can only hope we have learned a great deal.

For starters, and while avoiding a socialist overreaction, we may begin keeping a closer eye on the pharmaceutical industry. The accomplishments of this industry must be acknowledged. Precision medicine is coming, and the days of many dread diseases are numbered. But that day will come sooner if Americans can root out the corruption in this industry, as well as in its supposed overseers.

It is important to recognize that not all players in the pharmaceutical industry are guilty of corruption, but some of the biggest have a sordid record indeed. They have hooked half the nation on anti-anxiety medications, they’ve pushed medication onto millions of children, they’ve pushed opiates out to masses of people, they’ve arguably oversold vaccines of all kinds, and they exercised far too much influence over the COVID response—including the shameful suppression of any experimental treatments or therapies they couldn’t control. Now some of them are pushing “gender confirmation” drugs, which transsexuals have to take for the rest of their lives. If that’s not enough, as we learned over the past few years, American pharmaceutical manufacturers have offshored production of many of our most essential drugs to China.

Meanwhile, it’s necessary to continue to investigate what has caused millions of excess deaths. But what is indisputable is this: In just over two years, over 1.5 million people are dead in America who in normal times would have been alive today. Even now, based on the most recent data available, deaths from all causes in America are still not quite 15 percent above normal. 

A mass die-off is still happening in America and reportedly around the world as well, and we have no idea what’s coming next”.