A new study published in the Lancet and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation on the “Global Burden of Disease” has laid bare the failure of pandemic interventions such as lockdowns and vaccines.
Published on April 3rd, the study included global age standardised mortality data during the pandemic. This Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, as the name suggests, is a massive global disease impact assessment. The report includes age-stratified mortality data from the first two years of the pandemic and therefore provides an indication of the global effectiveness of the measures implemented. The methods used for determining pandemic mortality incorporate excess death data combined with infection rates and COVID-19 specific deaths. The data within this report paint a concerning picture and demonstrate a substantial increase in global mortality across all age groups between 2020 and 2021.
Here is a plot of the data from that study comparing 2020 and 2021 COVID-19 mortality for different age bands (Fig 1):
These plots illustrate the exponential rise in risk of death with age and the substantial increased mortality comparing 2020 to 2021. This is a plot of percentage mortality rate for different age bands from this GBD study (Fig 2):
We were continually misled by Government bodies, respected scientific journals and the media about the age-related risk. The universal message was that everyone was at risk. The above chart indicates that on a global basis everyone below the age of 60 had a less than a 0.1% chance of dying and this does not even consider your individual health risk. The vaccines were portrayed as initially being effective against transmission and then, when that bubble burst, they were highly effective against mortality. The impact on mortality is sadly not supported by this report where one of the key differences between 2020 and 2021 was the unprecedented global health intervention of 11.3 billion vaccinations. This lack of beneficial (and possible detrimental) impact does not even get a mention in this report which, nonetheless, continually emphasises the supposed severity of the pandemic and need for well-informed global interventions.
If we examine these percentage differences specific to each of the individual age groups we get the following chart (Fig 3):
The above chart demonstrates a remarkably consistent (145% to 174%) rise in global COVID-19 deaths in all age groups peaking at 35 to 39 years. Since the risk to COVID-19 increases exponentially up to the age 80 (see Fig 1) one would expect any successful intervention to have the greatest impact in the older age groups. Higher age and risk groups were also prioritised for vaccination. In addition, there must have been a degree of natural immunity acquired after 2020 which would have had a beneficial impact in 2021. Yet mortality increased significantly across all age groups. There is also the carry-over effect of the 2020 excess deaths (mortality displacement), as you can only die once, so this should also have had a positive influence.
Worrying excess mortality data has also been reported by the U.K. Office for National Statistics and by the World Health Organisation. Data in the WHO report indicate an even more alarming increase in excess deaths of 131% between 2020 and 2021 and a temporal correlation with the vaccine rollout, which I have added to the chart below:
We have a significant number of the most ‘respectable’ bodies and journals reporting consistent and significant increases in mortality between 2020 to 2021 and beyond using a series of different methods and metrics. These reports should form the basis of an in-depth investigation into the root causes of these concerning rises in mortality. The official story is that the new variants that appeared from autumn 2020 onwards (beginning with the Alpha or Kent variant) led to larger and more deadly waves of Covid. But is that the full story? And why did the lockdowns and vaccines that were ubiquitous in 2021 not reduce deaths, as they were claimed to? Given the severity of the situation the investigation should be conducted by independent teams that have unbridled access to relevant sources of data.
Will this ever happen? A pig has just flown past my window.
This was another ‘too big to fail’ global project.
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“Top Gear’s Britain no longer exists”
It’s no wonder – most children’s experience of the motorcar is of traffic jams and a stressed out and vacant mum/dad on the school run.
Couple this with an entire generation of teachers who are unwittingly pushing the climate change scam and hatred of all things involving energy and fun, and all you get is a sad, uninspired, lethargic, apathetic, smartphone-obsessed youth.
And that’s before we get on to the impact of the callous, murderous lockdowns…
When I were a lad, motorbikes and sports cars passing the school gates would elicit a frenzy of excitement from boys and girls alike. The thrill of speed (and the potential for it), even experienced second hand, was palpable.
Until recently, I was commuting every day in north Leeds on a Kawasaki and would pass schools much like my own. I rarely received even a glance, never mind a demand for revs with the clutch disengaged, just to piss off Miss!
Zombies, the lot of them. Quite depressing.
We’re in France these days. The 50 and 125cc motos are alive and well with “the youth”. Glorious 2-stroke! I’ll be happy to see our own two little fighters riding them soon.
Italian youth still pretty keen on motorscooters too.
I imagine there’s an element of truth to the article, but where I live pretty much everyone learns to drive as soon as they can and gets access to a car, and young men are still wanting to drive fast and buy silly souped-up Vauxhall Corsas. But then I live in a market town surrounded by countryside, not a city. We used to live in London and lots of kids didn’t bother with cars, which is understandable as they cost a fortune and are honestly not that useful in London most of the time.
Spoke to someone from Wales.
Compares driving in Wales like driving in a funeral procession…
A significant minority here drive exceeding the 20 limits and quite a few deliberately break what would have been the previous 30 limit. Overtaking compliance zealots or those fearful of authority is up as are defacing and removal of the signs. And these include inappropriate 30 and 40 limits that have spung up in the last 5 years. Enough is enough !
Youth has always been dangerous, It’s in its very being! Trying to suffocate the rashness of youth will only ever lead to serious illegal actions or mental instability, it needs to vent itself naturally no matter the dangers!
I always ponder on how I ever made it to this age considering the dumb decisions I made in my teens, but ,that is the way youth HAS to be to learn.
The last term of school back in the seventies was a gloriously hot summer. Two local lads were working on the school roofs and both had long hair and rode Norton Commandos. They were a real inspiration to me and I headed down the road of motorbikes myself soon after I left. Still love old British machinery. Well, Italian and German machinery too but must be old. Not at all moved by modern stuff – it may be fast and loud and have exceptional brakes etc but they’re ugly machines and have no soul and I think that’s it. Our generation’s machinery had soul – electrics and mechanics (maybe electronic ignition!) and that was it!
“Covid hasn’t gone away – we’re still shielding three years on”
So other viruses are not a problem then? And this problem has suddenly appeared due to Covid? I think it can be tough for some people, such as people on chemo who have compromised immune systems. But surely it has always been a problem, and always will be a problem – that is until medical research comes up with a way to boost peoples immune system to treat these things, which I think it is. Whatever, the answer, locking down society ain’t the answer.
Logged in to say this too. These poor people would have been shielding no matter what – or should have been if the advice they’re given is consistent. Receiving abuse in the street for wearing a mask is odious, but if he’s wearing one of those supermarket scraps of plastic that people call ‘surgical’ masks it’s essentially useless.
The point is it’s him and his family who have a very unfortunate problem. What does he want the rest of society to do apart from offer sympathy? It’s not a reason to close down the rest of society.
Check out this for evidence of the damage done by the covid pushers:
(1) Not a lifestyle competition, but a shared vision (reddit.com)
I personally wouldn’t choose to have a go at mask wearers but certainly any of them who are NOT genuinely vulnerable but are just virtue signalling probably should be shamed because if we ever get covid or similar restrictions back it is those people who will be in the vanguard.
I sidestep them. Ostentatiously.
And I’m not sure Mr Boxall’s poor wife is getting much benefit from her seven vaccines either.
And hiding yourself away for the rest of your life, is no way of living in my book.
Allow a surgeon to state his case on masking up…
A big part of the problem is how gas-lighted people have been – and still are being – into believing they are vulnerable and therefore must hide away from society without being given the full facts. For instance, Prof Angus Dalgleish, in his discussion with John Campbell, explains how some of his long-term melanoma patients were ok when exposed to “Covid” because their immune systems had been boosted by the immune-enhancing therapy he administers to such patients. We should all be better informed about our vulnerabilities and the risks – as well as the potential treatments. For example, the problem for many Covid patients is not the viral infection in our airways but the pneumonia that follows and timely treatment with Vit C, antibiotics, etc is then needed. So many of us have been fooled into thinking the medical establishment has our best interests at heart when the reality is that most in the NHS don’t think to question what they are told (and that is limited to looking for a “disease” and prescribing a pharmaceutical). The current situation where people are being encouraged to take “boosters” that are damaging their immune systems and encouraging turbo-cancers is criminal and those administering them have no excuse for killing people.
….my friend, who is a cancer survivor, as part of her long-term regime, has also been prescribed Vit D for quite a while, which also helps.
I have said this before, but like everything with Convid, a lot of it seems to be based on very little evidence, and a lot of assumption. Where exactly are the studies showing that Convid is worse for the immuno-compromised…and exactly how much worse is it..if at all?
As we have know for a very long time now, Convid is something like flu, in so much as it’s much worse for the very elderly and very poorly…but for everyone else … not so much…
….was all this palaver going on all the time for flu?…and if not, why are they doing it now?
This is an awfully sad article..and I would say that all three of them are suffering more from mental illness than actual physical illness….I don’t know what they actually think anyone can do for them…?
My friend is also a cancer survivor, the second time having been treated during Convid ..she’s unvaxxed and getting on with life….as are many other cancer survivors…the fact that this man’s wife isn’t is not anyone else’s fault…
..and I can’t see any reason for his daughter, who has cerebral palsy, to be any more prone to Covid than anyone else?
I suspect more than anything that the massive Government/MSM Psy-ops has done its job.
“How Hamas-supporting medics are lurking within our NHS”
So what would happen if the Palistinian doctor/nurse had to treat a British Jewish patient? With such unhidden hatred, I wouldn’t want to be that patient! Welcome to the all encompassing and successful multiculturalist modern Britain!
So what would happen if the Palistinian doctor/nurse had to treat a British Jewish patient?
For that matter what would happen if they had to treat an Israeli Jewish patient?
In the olden days, before the plandemic revealed the deeply corrupt nature of medicine, I would have said that medical staff would have put their Hippocratic Oath first and treated according to need, not race, creed, colour or belief. I’m sure many still do. But given how some revealed their prejudices against the unvaxxed/unmasked – and were given carte blanche to do so – now I’m not so sure….
I can’t go along with this entirely as it conflates two entirely separate thing in my opinion. I think that illegal immigration is one thing…but in answer I would say..
…presumably the same thing that would happen as if a Jewish doctor was treating an Arab or Palestinian patient…or a Russian doctor was treating a Ukrainian, or a Chinese doctor was treating an American patient?
…what on earth is the basis for this nonsense? Have we had a spate of doctors killing their patients because of nationality or religion that I’m unaware of??
Fair point, but we may not be aware of the more subtle interactions between doctors with a bias veiw and patients!
We are only human after all!
‘Luton airport fire’
Something doesn’t add up!
-The fire was clearly on the top, outside level
-the culprit car was on the level below with at least 10″ of concrete between it and the top level
-the culprit car was in the middle of the access road, not in a parking bay
– the culprit car was a diesel range rover which seemed to burn like a petrol car or ev would, but generally not like diesel does! which is ‘combustible’ not ‘flammable’
– no sprinkler systems in a new car park?
Just a little puzzled!
My idea is the upper floor was already ablaze due to the source of the fire, then someone came back to their car to find this ongoing situation and tried to get their already burning vehicle out of the danger area only to get one level down before realising it was hopeless and abandoning their car in the middle of the access road.
Then the fire above caused the the partial collapse afterwards.
“U.K. Technology Minister holds urgent meeting on violent content”
Cue even MORE censorship…..
Findings from Monday’s World Council for Health emergency conference:
https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/wch-expert-panel-finds-cancer-promoting
“Findings from Monday’s World Council for Health emergency conference:
Bacterial DNA (plasmids) has been found in mRNA vaccine vials.”
This blows the bloody roof off!
Many thanks for posting.
Ta. The conference is worth watching especially McKernan’s brilliant segment, once they’ve spliced up each presentation (the whole thing was 4 hours).
But we knew this already. It’s been talked about at length on here. It also won’t make a blind bit of difference as we know the stuff will not get removed from the market. Now had there been contamination found in any type of food product they’d all be recalled right away because food manufacturers don’t enjoy the same luxury of indemnity from liability that Big Pharma does. The latter evidently have carte blanche to harm us whilst making mega profits.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-todays-philanthropists-dont-cut-the-mustard/
And this provides an interesting adjunct to the above.
LOL…somebody inform the Nobel Prize Committee…STAT!!
Can I just ask the question that must be on everybody’s lips?
Who gives a flying f**k what Gary Lineker or Emma Thomson think about… ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING?…
I have to agree. The less we see and hear of these degenerates the better, particularly that tax leech Lineker.
Oooh, but Lineker is an award winning human rights commentator, doncha know, and Thomson is….is…. Nanny McPhee!
Is the point not that we do want to see their hypocrisy exposed – because the resulting humiliation might shut them up in the future?
I, for one, enjoyed Emma Thompson trying to justify flying back from LA in first class in order to attend an Extinction Rebellion protest. “I’m in the very fortunate position of being able to offset my carbon footprint, but most people can’t.” – she argued.
I would never spoil anyone else’s fun..if that is what floats your boat, as they say.
…but for myself, I’m pretty sure I know exactly what they are going to say, and about what..and I’d rather poke sticks in my eyes than give them the satisfaction of looking like I gave two flucks …LOL!!
In BBC world, stating a plain fact can be seen as partial, it seems…
So..as far as I can see it’s the story of Covid throughout the world from day one??
…and the end of the article?? Get boosted!! LOL!
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/older-adults-make-thirds-covid-hospitalizations-year-cdc/story?id=103749710
5th October 2023..
Adults aged 65 and older made up 62.9% of all COVID-19-associated hospitalizations between January and August 2023, a report published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found..
During the week ending Aug. 26, the hospitalization rates for those 65 and older was 16.4 per 100,000, which is nine times higher than the rate for adults aged 18 to 64 and 16 times higher than the rate for those under age 18.
Hospitalization rates were highest among adults aged 85 and older at 42.2 per 100,000 and lowest among those aged 65 to 74 at 8.6 per 100,000.
Senior citizens also accounted for 61.3% of admissions to the intensive care unit and 87.9% of in-hospital COVID deaths in the first half of 2023, the report said. There were no statistically significant differences when it came to subgroups of patients in this age bracket.
Data showed nearly all adults aged 65 and older — 98.5% — had at least one underlying condition, and 90.3% had two or more conditions, including diabetes, kidney disorders, coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure and obesity.
After adjusting for factors including age, sex, and race or ethnicity, senior citizens with two or more underlying conditions were at four times greater risk of hospitalization.
COVID-19–associated hospitalisations continue to predominantly affect adults aged ≥65 years