There were 1,540 more deaths than usual in England and Wales registered in the week ending June 24th, the most recent week for which data are available, according to the latest update from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), released on Tuesday. This is 16.6% above the five-year average. Of these deaths, 285 were registered ‘with Covid’ and 166 as due to Covid as underlying cause, leaving 1,374 from a different underlying cause.
This brings to 7,840 the total number of non-Covid excess deaths (above the five-year average) since April 29th, the start of the recent spike. Of these, a large proportion are occurring in the home, leading to calls for an urgent investigation into why thousands more people are dying than would be expected, despite Covid death numbers staying low. It is doubly concerning as following the 138,000 excess deaths since March 2020, a reduced number of deaths would now be expected due to the mortality displacement of people dying earlier than they ordinarily would.
As I noted last week, the current spike in non-Covid deaths has broadly coincided with the spring rollout of boosters to over-75s, which began on March 21st. This pattern is depicted in the following two charts.
The first shows cumulative non-Covid excess deaths by date of registration since week ending March 25th (the dip in the week ending June 3rd is due to the bank holiday weekend). The rise in doses and deaths around the same time is obvious.
The second chart shows weekly (not cumulative) non-Covid excess deaths by date of occurrence (I have split the first week’s vaccine doses between the first two weeks as there was no report in the first week).
A correlation of sorts is evident between vaccine doses and non-Covid death occurrences. However, it can also be seen that non-Covid mortality was rising since at least the start of February, though with a marked acceleration around the time of the booster rollout. It is also clear that non-Covid deaths do not fall off as the rollout winds up, which might have been expected if the vaccines are the primary driver.
The sharp rise in deaths by occurrence in the week ending June 17th is particularly noticeable.
Breaking it down by age, around 75% of the non-Covid excess deaths registered since week ending April 29th have been in the over-75s, meaning around 25% of the excess deaths are in the under-75s, despite that age group not participating in the spring booster campaign. In the most recent week (ending June 24th) the proportion of deaths in the over-75s dropped sharply to 64%, compared to 72% the previous week. This suggests the latest spike since mid-June is being driven to a large extent by the under-75s.
This gives a somewhat mixed picture of how the current wave of non-Covid deaths may relate to the spring booster campaign. This does not mean vaccinations should be dismissed as among the causes, however.
A recent article by Michael Simmons appeared in the Spectator asking what is behind the surge in deaths at home. He briefly considers the possibility that the vaccines may be involved, only to dismiss it.
Might the rise in at-home deaths be linked to the Covid vaccines? A paper by BMJ Editor Peter Doshi is doing the rounds saying that in trials the jab’s side effects hospitalised more than the virus. But the data wasn’t actually that clear cut. Sir David Speigelhalter, a statistician from Cambridge, points out that the study “only considers Covid hospitalisation during the trials themselves, which covered only around two months at a time of low Covid. The true benefit of vaccines extend far beyond this period, so the harm/benefit comparison used in this study seems entirely inappropriate”. He doesn’t think the Doshi paper will pass peer review.
But why then is all this happening? …
This is clearly far too quick to dismiss the role of the vaccines. Even granting Spiegelhalter’s point, it only means the risk/benefit ratio may change over a longer study period. It doesn’t affect the absolute number of serious adverse events that occurred with the vaccines within the study period. Dr. Doshi and colleagues found that the vaccines were associated with excess non-Covid serious adverse events of around one per 800 people vaccinated (12.5 per 10,000 or 0.125%). Since 47.5 million people in England and Wales have been vaccinated with at least one dose, on these figures we should expect around 60,000 serious adverse reactions (at a minimum – the trial participants were younger than the general population).
This estimate of adverse events from the trial data is broadly in line with the real-world findings of an Israeli Government survey, which found 0.3% of vaccinated people reported being hospitalised as a result of their Covid vaccination, as well as a U.S. Government survey, which found 0.9% of vaccinated people reported seeking medical care as a result of their vaccination, and a German study, which found 0.8% of vaccinated people reported struggling with serious side-effects.
With up to 1% of the vaccinated needing medical care, it is thus not inconceivable that as many as 0.1% may suffer something very serious or fatal, perhaps higher in an older population. Taking 0.1% of the 4 million spring booster doses gives a figure of 4,000, a similar ballpark to the non-Covid excess deaths during the period.
Whatever the respective role of vaccines, Covid and lack of access to healthcare, this is clearly something which needs looking into properly.
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The fact is that Fishy and Co do not give a damn about what the French are doing. In fact it must be concluded that our government is complicit in the illegal movement of people. The British government is making no efforts whatsoever to put an end to this business and the conclusion must be that too many are profiting either directly or indirectly.
Analysis leads to the deduction that what are being perpetrated are acts of treason by those nominally in charge. Hardly a revelatory point to make four years in to their great reset but that is what is going on.
There is nothing complicated about stopping dinghies pulling up on our beaches so another story is playing out and that is a deliberate intention to undermine the British people and the civilisation in its broadest terms which constitutes the make up of these islands.
This won’t end well.
I think a quiet agreement was reached with the EU as part of the Brino negotiations that the UK would “take its fair share” of the criminal migrants.
For the sake of appearances, Sunak is pretending he wants to stop them and Macron pretends he is trying.
It’s the only thing which explains the close co-operation/co-ordination between the Border Farce and the French authorities.
A vote in the forthcoming GE for ANY establishment party is a vote of approval of current and continuance of mass illegal and legal immigration to these shores.
Altering the demographic to make the population more plyable and easier to control, no sovereignty, no belief in pride of place or history just a malleable citizenry prime for leadership by the new world government, its happening right across the west and is no accident
”We definitely need more people like this, not less. And what is happening across most of the West is really the most effective way of both getting and keeping these quality immigrants. For it is a fact that no matter what they do in the form of crimes we still need to hang onto them at all costs because we need the numbers.” Said no rational person, ever. Can I just sound like I’m victim-blaming a sec, though I’m not intending to, but if you’re naive, thick or ignorant enough to welcome a complete stranger, especially if that stranger is from a majority Death Cult country, then you’re potentially in for a world of pain and signing your own death warrant, are you not? This article details a few examples of what happened to so-called ‘good Samaritans’. None of them scream, ”I’m here for a better life and to integrate into European culture” to me;
”A 25-year-old homeless Algerian migrant has been arrested and charged for allegedly kidnapping, beating and raping a 49-year-old French woman in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, after she worked with the man “for years” to help him.
The victim was raped in an ordeal that lasted from Friday evening all the way into Saturday morning, with the man forcibly keeping her inside the apartment until she managed to escape and alert police.
Prosecutors say the man broke into her home with a knife and held the victim captive. The victim’s husband and children were not home during the incident.
The homeless migrant was arrested inside the victim’s home on Saturday morning and was held in custody over the weekend. On Monday, he was brought before a judge to be indicted.
“Sometimes I control myself, sometimes I don’t control myself,” he told the judge during his indictment.
The news follows a trend of good Samaritans who take migrants into their homes or work with migrants being targeted for rape and murder.
Also last year, a failed Iranian asylum seeker was sentenced to prison after brutally murdering a frail 87-year-old woman who took him into her home in the English county of North Yorkshire.
Another murder in 2023 saw an Albanian migrant kill his French host over an argument over religion and then send a photo of the murder scene to an acquaintance over Snapchat.
In yet another incident in 2023, an Algerian woman stabbed her host three times in the throat for unknown reasons outside Paris, resulting in the death of the French citizen.”
https://rmx.news/crime/sometimes-i-control-myself-sometimes-i-dont-control-myself-homeless-algerian-migrant-charged-with-kidnapping-and-raping-french-woman-who-helped-him/
There seems to be an alarming increase in violent attacks against elderly and very elderly women in their homes in France carried out by migrant men. There are also increasing attacks on teachers in French schools resulting in one Mayor in in the town of Marignane stating that teachers in schools should be supplied with attack alarms.
Or a baton, taser, pepper spray etc.
Well I’m sure the French are more than happy to get rid of these people, so why would they take them back? The best solution would be to persuade the French that they are best off stopping these people entering in France in the first place.
Well exactly. Which reminded me of this laughable situation. Of course the NGOs would call it ”crimes against humanity” if you do your job of stopping illegals entering your country to the best of your ability. I mean, this is a gravy train for the human-traffickers isn’t it, with no end in sight. Not now we’ve got this godawful ‘migration pact’ over here;
”Two NGOs have filed a complaint of “complicity in crimes against humanity” against the EU’s former head of border management, Fabrice Leggeri, just weeks before he is expected to be elected as an MEP for the national conservative Rassemblement National (RN).
His alleged crime? Trying to prevent illegal immigrants entering the EU. Which many might think sounds like doing his job as head of Frontex, the EU border management agency.
The NGOs filed the civil complaint against Leggeri in Paris on Monday, alleging that he engaged in human rights abuses by obstructing open border groups operating on the Mediterranean and enabling so-called ‘pushback’ operations against illegal migrants during his tenure leading Frontex between 2015 and 2022.
The claims centre around Frontex’s cooperation with the Libyan coastguard when Leggeri was at the helm. NGOs allege that returning the migrants to Libya made Leggeri and the organisation potentially complicit in “crimes against humanity”.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/left-ngos-accuse-former-eu-border-chief-of-crimes-against-humanity/
Dinghy manufacturers must be doing well in some places. They must know the score or is there some water sport craze going round with dinghies in Northern France.
What we need is one of these bad boys. I’m thinking of getting one off Amazon to take to the next hate march. That’ll sort them out. At all other times it’ll be my guard dog, and you don’t even have to scoop the poop. Though I don’t know how my cat will take to this new addition…Black Mirror vibes, lol;
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1782791691209978219
A convert friend of mine, ex forces, on viewing the kettling of the Patriots yesterday suggested marbles. Apparently they sort the horses no problem.
Ben Habab was bang on the money by talking about pushing back boats, even sinking them if necessary. Too much for JHB. How many more crimes, rapes would be a red line for her!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ik-WDwdf1g
Talk Radio is owned by News Corp. Like the GB News owners they rely on keeping on the right side of the Uber woke advertising agencies that select where to advertise their clients products/services. Also, there is the politicised Ofcom factor to consider. They brought GB News to their subservient knees.
Methinks, JHB will have received a prompt in her ear piece from her editor to loudly denigrate Ben Habibs illegal boats solution.
Also News Corp is current publisher of The Times. We know how rabid they were over the vaccine mandates.
It is a worldwide scam and Britain is the most lucrative target. It consists of poor countries around the world offloading their poverty stricken and the criminally-minded in essence to save the cost of incarceration. The British love cheap labour perhaps more than any other western country – a few minor pecadilloes can be easily overlooked and so it is a marriage made in heaven if you are a member of the ruling rent-seeking class but quite the opposite if you are anyone else. It really is that squalid.
They use your country as a cash cow and a toilet and hope that you don’t notice. Of course it has been growing for years. My impression is that people in England are rather naive about the nature of this situation. All you need to bear mind is that our system is run by ruthless predators and that the few freedoms we have left exist only because they haven’t gotten around to destroying them yet. You can see the acceleration in the success of their agenda. At some point it can no longer be tolerated because it represents our total destruction.
It seems they have overplayed their hand regarding the WHO backtracking. Would be interesting to find out what rumbled them on that matter.
The only people we should blame for this border collapse is the hand wringing Political class of UN and WEF lackeys signed up to every global treaty going. They long ago stopped serving the people and now serve the global government that seek to control the worlds wealth and resources and who realise that having us all feel just like citizens of the world is best achieved by eroding National Identity with mass immigration. So we don’t feel French or German or British anymore. We are just good global citizens told how to think and act by technocrats we never voted for.
All that will be left of the Italians is the recipe for pizza!
Two weeks ago a small boat came from the Belgian coast. The Belgian coastguard asked them to turn around, which they refused. It was thought too dangerous to force a turnaround, so the Belgian coastguard decided to escort them into U.K. waters….
So is the British one. They are facilitating it with the French.
The French state is nothing more than a WEF puppet, doing as they are told, UK not far behind, ask penny.
When the Conservative Party finally decided who was going to be PM he(or she) should have sufficient briefing on the situation on the ground in France to realise that the migrant crisis is so bad there that the Police simply cannot deal with the crime and criminal gangs that are operating all over France. While that situation has devastating consequences for the people of France, the criminal trafficking gangs operating in the Calais region are having devastating consequences for us in the neighbouring country UK.
The new PM together with the new Home Secretary, Foreign & Defence secretaries should have gone to meet Macron immediately and point this out to him in the bluntest way and told him to deal with this situation by deploying the French Military across the Calais region.
Give him a deadline and if that doesn’t happen then the UK may have to defend its territory by sending OUR troops to the beaches there.
What created this was the EU. ——-They are the United Nations star pupil phony planet saving open border cesspit that is causing Europe to self destruct and destroy its own identity by importing every bit of sectarian clutter from all corners of the globe. We are being invaded now because the EU opened us up to the whole planet and it is now beyond ever being fixed. ——-Read all about it in “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer
What created this was the EU. ——-They are the United Nations star pupil phony planet saving open border cesspit that is causing Europe to self destruct and destroy its own identity by importing every bit of sectarian clutter from all corners of the globe. We are being invaded now because the EU opened us up to the whole planet and it is now beyond ever being fixed. ——-Read all about it in “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer