In recent years just shy of 60 million have died globally each year. Our World in Data reports that in 2021 about 3.5 million people globally died from Covid.
Imperial College London’s claim that 20 million people were ‘saved’ during 2021 by the rollout of the vaccines has been repeated across the media and by governments worldwide; most people accept this as a ‘fact’. It’s a fundamental part of ‘the Narrative’.
Add 3.5 million ‘Covid’ deaths to the 20 million ‘saved’ from a Covid death and you have 23.5 million ‘Covid’ deaths that Imperial et al. anticipated would have occurred in 2021 sans the vaccine. That’s more than 40% of all global all-cause deaths!
Let’s just subject Imperial’s claim to a quick ‘sniff’ test. For just three weeks in mid-May 2020, before the arrival of any vaccines or much by way of therapeutics at all, cumulative all-cause excess deaths in the U.K. (according to the Hallett Inquiry, one of the worst hit countries) reached a peak of 20% (Figure 1). The figure then fell back to around 10%.
Of course, in 2020 we faced a novel(ish) virus with a naïve(ish) population. Even so, at no point did cumulative excess deaths in the U.K. approach anywhere near the 40% that Imperial’s research suggests would have been maintained across all countries, sustained for a whole year!
Estimates of total deaths linked to World War Two tend to be in the region of 70 million. Over the six years of the war this equates to about 12 million per year. Imperial’s claim that vaccines averted 23.5 million Covid deaths in 2021 would have you believe that, had it not been for the vaccines we would have seen twice the WW2 annual fatality level in 2021.
If you think you’ve read a recent article by me covering this same topic you’d be right. However, I missed some key data, which I hope this article will make up for.
My previous article made something of a ripple on social media, with Toby’s tweet of it reaching around 70,000 people.
It generated lots of comments. One came from Stephen Janitor, who pointed out that I should have set Imperial’s claim against global all-cause mortality to illustrate just how ludicrous it truly is. He was so right!
Figure 2 comes from Our World in Data (I’ve doctored the 2021 figure in line with the implied Lancet estimate). It shows that in 2019 global deaths totalled 58 million. In 2020 OWID show deaths at 63.2 million, an increase of 5.23 million. Interestingly, OWID attributes just 1.94 million deaths to Covid in 2020. So, what caused the other 3.29 million excess deaths? Lockdown? 1.6 excess non-Covid deaths for every ‘Covid’ death – how’s that for an instant cost-benefit analysis? Definitely one for an inquiry to look into some time.
I knew of two people personally who died of or with Covid. One was in his 90s, living with cancer and despairingly depressed from being locked in his room in a ‘care’ home. The other was over 70 and suffering from mesothelioma.
In the U.K., in round numbers, 10 people in a 1,000 die each year; in 2020, 11 people in a 1,000 died.
World War Two isn’t the only comparator worth considering. Looking at Figure 2 you’ll see I’ve circled a spike in global deaths back around 1960. This shows the impact of the great famine in China. You’ll have seen newsreels and read about it. It was truly horrific. In fact, so horrific that from 1958 to 1959 deaths in China increased by about, you guessed it, one third (33%) – lower than the 40% figure implied by the Lancet globally for 2021. Deaths increased again in 1960, before plunging back down to normal levels by 1962. We all lived through 2020 without vaccines; did it feel like we might imagine China to have been like in 1960? Thank heavens Mao didn’t emulate Rishi and introduce a Chinese version of ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ in late 1958, can you imagine what horrors Hugo Keith K.C. would conjure up that this would have led too?
I made the point in my previous article that the global vaccination rate at six months into 2021 was only about 10% and by the time vaccination could have had any impact at all only about 50% of the global population had been jabbed. However, in Africa the figures were less than 2% at the six month stage and only 10% at the end of 2021.
So, most of the unjabbed in 2021 were in Africa and, to a lesser extent, Asia. Did millions of these poor unvaxxed people die of Covid? Of course not.
Figure 4 shows Covid deaths across the world with Africa and Asia itemised. Where are all these deaths of the unvaccinated? Not in Africa, that’s for sure.
However, looking at Figure 4, we do see an inflection point. But it’s not when vaccines were introduced, or at any point in 2021, rather it’s when Omicron arrived in 2022.
For good measure I’ve included a chart (see Figure 5) that shows the unbelievably rapid escalation of Omicron as the dominant, though milder variant, on all continents, at about the same time. Just in time to cause that March 2022 inflection point in consequent deaths.
It’s overwhelmingly likely that Covid was a man-made pathogen. It’s also been speculated that the Omicron variant, rather than having evolved naturally (albeit, from a man-made virus), was separately ‘manufactured’. If that’s the case, shouldn’t whoever developed Omicron be getting the plaudits rather than the developers of the uniquely useless vaccines, along with Mother Nature, for the perfectly adequate immunity system she endowed us all with?
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So it looks like the “science” came full circle then, lol.
The fomite route may simply be a result of fecal transmission, given how many people take their phones into the bathroom with them and rarely disinfect them.
Reminds me of that outbreak in a Florida bar in 2020, where interestingly the ONLY people in the crowded bar who caught the virus were this ONE group of friends sitting at the same table, who all caught it from one of them. And undoubtedly, passing around their phones that they brought into the bathroom, and sharing food and drink, and probably not even washing their hands in between. Fomite and/or fecal transmission may not be the dominant means of transmission, but it’s probably not zero either. All the more reason to wash your hands, don’t touch your face (masks actually make that more likely), don’t use your phone on the toilet, and disinfect your phone regularly.
Ew gross.
Mind you, this does remind me of how grubby kids can be and how easily they can pass things to eachother. You got me thinking of how, apart from 1 or 2 exceptions, every friend of my daughter who comes round to play doesn’t wash their hands after using the toilet. It’s literally a Dutch thing because I’ve experienced it countless times in lady’s loos out and about. I have to tell her friends to wash their hands all the time, like the hand hygiene police. But this should be automatic at 10yrs, 11yrs old right? Weird. Then they go sharing a tablet with unwashed hands…
Perhaps my standards are too high but this is basic stuff you learn when toilet training toddlers right?
And if you see a bloke coming out of the toilets and he’s doing up his fly you can be pretty confident he hasn’t washed his hands.
So true, Mogwai. It disgusts me to no end thinking about how pathetically low most people’s standards of basic hygiene are.
Apparently a lot of people take these mobile phone computer thingys into toilets – but never get round to cleaning them.
It always seems to me a bit of a losing battle in public toilets where you wash your hands but then have to grab a probably filthy handle to get out.
And then there’s train seats…
Yes I always think that as well so I just tend to open it with my non-dominant hand. Can’t exactly avoid all bugs on the many surfaces ( how often are the buttons you press at a pedestrian crossing cleaned? Then there’s handling our cash.. ) so I do carry a bottle of hand gel in my bag and try not to touch my face when out and about. But the fact we aren’t all permanently coming down with some bug or virus is testament to the fact that we have incredible and hugely complex immune systems looking after us every second of our lives. People should stop and appreciate their health and what our bodies are capable of ( mostly in an involuntary capacity beyond our conscious control ) more often actually, but the truth is most of us only consider this once something goes wrong. “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.”
Long before the arrival of mobile devices you could take into the bog there was a classic piece of graffiti in public conveniences: “There’s no use standing on the seat, the crabs in here jump six feet”
How about the fecal fountain? – not to mention hand dryers.
Can You Catch Covid From Groceries?
More bullshit from the world’s leading purveyor of Bullshit. The BBC. Can this outfit go any lower?
Quite agree. As far as I’m concerned this isn’t even relevant now. We’ve moved on way beyond modes of transmission now and if you’re still here I guess that’s because your immune system has been doing something right to get you through this “deadly” scamdemic.
File this under “Fear Porn”. Fear porn that’s almost 3 years out of date. Anyone remotely awake knows we’ve got more serious things to worry about than catching some lurgy from a tin of beans.
Indeed
BBC believes Rona flies for miles, mutates into eagles, or blue tits, who then converge into wolves, who then eat you. $cience. Conclusion: LDs worked.
The writers are scientists working in this field and rightly are concerned with accuracy. The way covid and other viruses are transmitted is I suppose a worthwhile field of study in so far as increasing knowledge is rarely a bad thing – and I suppose infection control in hospitals is quite important.
However, the fact is that viruses have existed since time immemorial and have so far been impossible to eradicate (and who’s to say eradicating them is a sensible goal), so the minutiae of their transmission is arguably not a subject of great societal importance or public interest. We simply cannot live in a manner that eliminates viral transmission, and attempts to do so will fail and cause more harm than good. I suppose one could slow it a bit, but I don’t know why anyone considers that a worthwhile goal.
So I don’t really care how covid is transmitted, because it’s simply not important enough to warrant turning how we live our lives upside down – be that lockdowns or disinfecting everything all the time.
Would eradicating viruses, even if it were possible, by any chance end up like eradicating sparrows did for the CCP?
I suspect that interest in “covid” from groceries and such like is in fact a symptom of psychological issues in a now fairly large percentage of the population?
Yes indeed, sparrows. Meddling in things we hardly understand with huge downside.
I am sure there are a few Covid loonies out there who are still obsessed with it but even the covidians I know who believe lockdowns were the right thing to do and that the vaxx saved them have moved on.
Indeed. Mother Nature does NOT like to be effed with! Nature is the ultimate Chesterton’s Fence if there ever was one.
Thanks. I’ve only just started reading Chesterton and I didn’t know about his fence.
You’re welcome. G.K. Chesterton was very wise man indeed. Of course, there was also the apocryphal “banana, stairs, and monkey” experiment that is effectively a foil to his fence analogy.
Interesting – what an educational place DS is. I’d not read about that experiment. I’ve read up on it now and it seems full of holes and not in any way a convincing foil to the fence analogy. He’s not saying you can’t change anything, just that you should understand the reasons for things before you change them.
It’s amazing the difference I’m witnessing, out and about in shops. The contrast between now and this time last year when the dreaded signs were on every shop door saying masks were necessary so all the muppets obediently did as they were told. Now I never see them. Maybe I’ll see 1 or 2 per week if I go into the city, always Chinese-looking people still. But is this because people are more clued up and red-pilled now or is it because they’re just awaiting their instructions and they’ll jump into automaton mode and dance to the government’s tune? I hope it’s the former but suspect, for most, it’s the latter.
Round my way it’s the frightened old. Down in London it’s a mixture of tourists, Chinese people and metropolitan virtue signallers.
Neither red pilled nor ready to mask up again- just not scared of Covid any more because they have all had it.
Still a few of the vile mask signs about, you know. A filthy habit…
“…who’s to say eradicating them is a sensible goal…”
Indeed. A well-established field of research is coming to the conclusion that we have viruses to thank for having nothing less than our memory!
Now where did I put that spanner
I’m more interested in whether it is really possible to catch “vaccines” from veggies (please tell me no), or spike protein shed from other shoppers.
Will anyone be able to avoid unwanted medication in the future (or present)?
‘… inhalation of respiratory aerosols and droplets…’
Well… time was when it was ONLY transmitted by gravity obeying water droplets hence masks and 1 metre apart to thwart ballistic motion, rather than Brownian motion of aerosols.
Contact infection via body fluids is possible, but a viable infection is dependent on viral load.
Can you catch CoVid from groceries? Only if you stuff them up your nose.
Stop press for the geniuses at the British Bullshit Corporation: we catch all sorts of things from life itself. Even life, as they say, is a sexually transmitted disease.
And a terminal one as well.
Hey who says that?
I haven’t heard that one.
Was it The Stones?
“we catch all sorts of things from life itself”
Exactly. It’s the proper balance between things that is being disturbed by an obsession with safety, of which covidianism was an extreme form. In the case of covid, the safety was always going to be illusory anyway. There’s a new virus, there’s nothing much we can do about it, some people will die, carry on regardless. Even now, saying that out loud will get you compared to Hitler, but to me it’s the only sane response.
Be afraid of your salad, be very afraid. Also, be afraid of everything else we tell you to be afraid of because just about anything could kill you. Your sweet new kitten? Forget her, she’s weaponised. So are the dogs and the hamster. What I have heard however that is far more concerning if it’s true is that scientists – doncha just love those curly haired, bespectacled boffins? – are looking at ways to put mRNA vaccines into food. Yes, food! I know this was commented on yesterday but it’s still on my ‘what is this new horror’ top ten list.
Fluoride in water too (and maybe other horrors).
That too, Hugh.
BAREFACED BULLS*IT CORPORATION
OMG – I’m so glad this was brought to my attention. I must stop snorting broccoli and raspberries and licking food packaging. In fact – I’m going to stop buying food all together and start feeding intravenously. Liquidised bugs, obvs.