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Winter Death Toll Worst in 30 Years, Reports the BBC. What, Worse Than in the ‘Pandemic’?

by Nick Rendell
26 October 2023 9:00 AM

The main news headline on the BBC Scotland pages on October 24th 2023 was: ‘Winter death toll worst in more than 30 years.‘ This refers to last winter, 2022-23. This is nearly three years after the ‘once in a century’ pandemic and two years after the population was jabbed to ‘end’ said pandemic.

Figure 1

There you go, high excess deaths are worthy of comment! So much stranger then, that the BBC and the rest of the mainstream media maintained radio silence following Andrew Bridgen’s speech to an empty House of Commons, just four days earlier on October 20th.

Let’s just look at the Scottish numbers (available here). They cover the winter period, December to March, the period of the year with the highest level of deaths.

In 2018-19 there were 20,188 registered deaths in Scotland between December and March. In 2022-23 the provisional figure is 24,427, an increase of 21%. 2018-19 seems like a pretty good comparator because it’s the last year before there was any chance of Covid skewing the data. Whilst there were no recorded Covid deaths in the winter of 2019-20 there has since been plenty of speculation that Covid was around. But, if you prefer, let’s compare this winter to 2019-20, well, it’s still a whacking 14.2% higher.

The odd thing is that the winter of 2022-23 was remarkably benign from an infectious disease point of view: no big flu outbreaks, no Covid waves, no nothing. Perhaps even more remarkably, with the exception of the high flu deaths year of 2014-15, the year on year increase from 2021-22 to 2022-23 was the largest in over 20 years.

Figure 2

Figure 2 shows winter deaths for each year going back to 1951. See if you can spot when the once in a century pandemic struck?

Or, see if you can see when, following the coerced vaccination of 90% of the adult population with an ‘emergency use authorised’ treatment, this terrible pandemic abated?

Figure 3

Finally, figure 3 shows the winter deaths from 2012-13 up to last winter. In the winter of 2020-21 we had schools closed, society locked down, people wandering around in masks terrified for their lives, yet fewer people were dying then than died during the benign, no-fuss winter just gone.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
1 year ago

Thanks. A very clear report.
There is talk of so-called ‘covid’ deaths being on the increase again. Yes, they are a bit. In England and Wales this week, they are 3.3% of all deaths. But the average age of ‘covid’ death has been 81 since July. This is over 3 years older than all-cause death! How does that present a threat?
https://t.me/mikes_stuff/1346

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Reminds me of the old Harold Shipman case, when it comes to certificate accuracy.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

I do believe they removed laws introduced because of Shipman in 2020.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Everyone has to die of something, sooner or later.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

A profoundly simple truth, and one which the ‘saving millions of lives’ and ‘no-one is safe until we are all safe’ disciples would do well to heed

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Simple yet it is never asked of those claiming to have “saved lives”

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago

Thanks for the graphs. I pulled out my microscope and could not spot the once in a trillion Darwinian years ‘pandemic’. I tried the telescope for a wider view and that failed to spot anything, though the 50s look suspicious in graph one. I am sure the ‘science’ will flatten those curves to hide the incline.

Rona Medical Nazism. The greatest fraud and collective tyranny in history. Global. Unfracking believable that anyone still believes in the Rona fraud.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Have you tried Hubble?

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

I’m sorry, I’m not following, Sir Peter.

If there’s a possible benefit, what’s the downside?

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago

It’s obvious to the readers of The Daily Sceptic what is causing it but it is highly unlikely that the powers that be will ever admit the cause.
It will be kicked into the long grass, accused of being a “conspiracy theory” and nothing will come of it.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago

Waiting for the headline outlining how it’s all the purebloods still infecting the jabbed…

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Epi
Epi
1 year ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

Or “long Covid”.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

They will argue that thanks to their measures the death toll was kept down.

It will be the argument used for doing exactly the same thing next time they announce a new deadly bug is among us.

It’s the argument the left uses for every one of their social interventions.

And when the data shows deterioration rather than improvement, their argument is that not enough has.been done and even more of their prescriptions need to be adopted.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Indeed

Proper communism has never been implemented so we have to keep trying

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Aren’t they developing a vaccine for Disease X…..But what is this disease and does it exist?

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

As no one has the slightest idea what the alleged “disease” will be, the concept of developing a “cure” is clearly stupid. What is really happening is that a new disease is being developed, in a lab, and it will accidentally escape into bats, who will then infect the human population. Having infected? some humans, a magic cure will be produced, to kill many millions more. The gravy chain has to continue! But if one follows the money, we see what is actually happening, and that is not a conspiracy theory.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago

Should there have been a Fig 1?

I wonder what might be causing these deaths?

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  JXB

I guess Figure 1 was the screenshot with the ‘Winter death toll…’

Last edited 1 year ago by soundofreason
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Hardliner
Hardliner
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Good point, will check

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  JXB

We know exactly what is causing the deaths. It is the invasion of perfectly healthy tissue throughout the body with a curious, and unknown (of course) “spike protein” which damages and inflames the tissues, particularly of the heart and surrounding structures. The PM results are there for all to see and analyse. Then there are the yellow card reports, many of which have curiously been ignored or “lost”. This is entirely a planned state cover-up of huge proportions, but it will all come out in the end, despite the Covid enquiry, another vastly expensive diversion and alteration of the truth. Those responsible should face genocide and serious fraud charges at once, but strangely seem to have some kind of immunity!

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rachel.c
rachel.c
1 year ago
Reply to  The Real Engineer

It more than that. The problems are many but also fundamental to the mRNA technology which they are so keen to deploy. Conclusion from Geert vanden Bossche’s latest substack “As a seasoned vaccinologist, I am therefore of the opinion that no mRNA-based injectable product should ever be used for immunization purposes. After all, the purpose of vaccines is to generate immune protection and not to induce immune pathology or enhance disease!”

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

The graphs seem to be pure numbers of deaths in the Dec-Mar period with no attempt to adjust for size or ageing of the population. There have certainly been relevant changes to the population since 1951/52.

It’s not surprising that Winter deaths in 2019-20 barely register. The whole of 2019 was a relatively benign year for mortality (ie much ‘dry tinder’ remaining) and this continued right up to March 2020. The ‘Covid deaths’ started in March but didn’t hit their peak until second week of April (outside the months in question).

This comparison of Dec-Mar mortality against the preceding Aug-Nov and following Apr-Jul methodology to measure seasonal variation is almost completely useless.

As well as the recent terrible once in a century panicdemic can you spot the 1957/8 – ‘Asian flu’ and 1968/9 – ‘Hong Kong flu’ or 2009/10 ‘Swine flu’ epidemics?

Last edited 1 year ago by soundofreason
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Epi
Epi
1 year ago

“Move along now please, there’s nothing to see here.”

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