Lady Hallett, Chair of the U.K. COVID-19 Inquiry has not had a good week. Lord Frost, Professor Heneghan, Dr. Jefferson and Fraser Nelson are among the commentators and witnesses who, to borrow a phrase much loved by Angela McLean, the Government’s Chief Scientific Officer, have effectively accused her of being something of a f***wit. Not a phrase, you understand, that I’d use myself.
One could well imagine that had Lady Hallett been chairing the 1912 Titanic disaster Inquiry, she would have focused all efforts on the decisions pertaining to the alignment or otherwise of deckchairs, before, during and after the sinking. Can anyone watching any part of the inquiry’s proceedings think they’ve learnt anything at all about the pandemic? A masterclass in obfuscation it may be, illuminating it certainly isn’t.
Spare a thought then for Lord Brailsford, the almost forgotten Chairman of the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry, who, by the end of September, what with room bookings, the hefty fees of Edinburgh lawyers, plus his own, not inconsiderable remuneration, has managed to rack up £8,945,000 of spend (at the current rate of burn they’ll be well north of £10 million as I write) looking into the many aspects of the Covid pandemic in Scotland.
Of course, the reason pandemics are noteworthy at all is because they lead to an unfortunate level of excess deaths. In the absence of excess deaths, who would care? We don’t remember the annual outbreak of the common cold every winter because it doesn’t much kill anyone. We do remember the flu outbreak of 1919 and the Black Death because they killed so many.
Figure 1 is a chart I’ve copied from National Records of Scotland analysis of winter deaths. I’ve indicated in red some of the more notable pandemics that have occurred during the 70 or so years covered. The Asian flu pandemic in 1957-8, the memorable Hong Kong flu of 1968-9. In 1999-2000 there was a widespread flu outbreak; along with many of my colleagues I caught it myself, it was a nasty bug.
Who can forget the BBC minor news story published on November 30th 2018 concerning the flu outbreak of the prior winter that the authorities retrospectively discovered had killed over 50,000 people, relative to summer mortality levels? Not dissimilar to the number who officially died in the Covid waves of 2020. Yet in 2017-18 no one really noticed, because it wasn’t on the BBC every night.
Looking at Figure 1, following each pandemic deaths reverted to the mean the following year. But not this time. Despite Covid carrying off the vulnerable elderly, deaths have continued to increase.
The slightly awkward fact for Lord Brailsford and the SNP Government in Scotland is that as the current inquiry grinds ever on, deaths in 2023 are even higher than at the height of the Covid shenanigans.
The Scottish Inquiry is looking at the ‘pandemic’ period from January 1st 2020 to December 31st 2022. In setting up this time-limited period it was, we assume, presumed that deaths would have fallen back to their pre-pandemic level when the inquiry got under way, but not a bit of it.
Figure 3 is taken from the U.K. Government’s Coronavirus Dashboard. Towards the left hand side it shows the April 2020 and December-January 2020-21 peak Covid deaths in Scotland.
Recent data released by National Records Scotland include all-cause deaths in four-month periods: December-March, April-July and August-November.
Prior to April 2020 there were 297 registered Covid deaths in Scotland. During the period April-July there were 3,916 Covid deaths. This figure was exceeded by deaths during the December-March period of 2020/21 when 4,186 Covid deaths were registered. Figure 4 lays out the total Covid deaths in Scotland in each four-month period.
Surely, these pandemic Covid deaths must have pushed up the ‘all-cause’ deaths in Scotland? Who can forget the daily news-conferences when the daily toll would be read out as we seemingly headed towards Armageddon?
Well, figure 5 shows the Covid deaths (the blue line near the bottom of the chart), and the all-cause deaths (the red line at the top of the chart) totalled for each four month period.
And, what a surprise it is. Deaths during the December-March period of 2022-23, a period when Covid had all but disappeared, during one of the mildest winters on record, a winter with no significant flu outbreaks, there were more deaths than in any of the ‘pandemic’ periods.
Why is the Scottish Government spending millions of pounds to find out why more deaths weren’t averted during the pandemic period when they aren’t addressing the subject of excess deaths now when deaths are even higher?
Perhaps if you’re interested in the answer to this question you could ask your MSP. I’m sure Lord Brailsford and his chums would be delighted to follow up the current inquiry with yet another looking at “what actions, if any, taken during the pandemic period on Jan 1st 2020 to Dec 31st 2022 had any consequence on excess deaths in 2023?”
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That top article is complete horsepoo. What it translates as is; ”1/5 of Brits weren’t daft enough to get a test to see if they had a specific cold virus, and especially not if they had no symptoms at all.”
Everyone will have had exposure to the damn thing by now, even if they were completely unaware of it. We’re over 3 years in FGS. Next!
My thoughts exactly Mogs. I will never have a test. If sticking a piece of bamboo into my brain passes for medicine they can stick it.
In August 2021 I was somewhat poorly with ‘flu-like symptoms for over ten days. So what laid me low? It is probably significant that I fell ill about four days after attending a large family gathering in which the vast majority were jabbed up so it’s a certainty that is where my infection came from – but I can’t say it was the C1984.
The population now has definitely been exposed to whatever bug might have been circulating so I agree:
“That top article is complete horsepoo.”
This is what happens when you give common colds and flu ‘special’ names LOL…!
Who knew so many would fall for the trick? That if you called a common respiratory virus Tom, Dick or Convid..it could take on special powers and elevate it to some higher level of consciousness that would fool the World?
The very same common virus, know about for thousands of years, and which all of mankind has always suffered from, and always will…..It’s a bit of evil genius really!!
“…even if they were completely unaware of it”?
This presupposes the existence of symptom-free Covid. Now we know there’s something odd about this virus compared to all previous respiratory pathogens, such as its transmission via aerosols. But other than a faulty PCR test, there’s nothing at all to substantiate that you can be a symptom-free “carrier” of Covid. Anyone I’ve ever known to test positive for Covid has felt shite for at least a week!
It’s clear to me that many many people are only testing AFTER the onset of specific symptoms. Many may test routinely also, but for instance in hospital workers who have to test every day, probability law dictates that there will be a high number of false positives generated, and these will be from those who test positive but feel completely fine (as in they don’t really have Covid. 1/5 of Brits sounds like a reasonable estimate.
A very good 15min excerpt on Joel Smalley’s ‘stack of a Jessica Rose interview, talking mainly about the jabs, VAERS and touching on lockdown harms. I’d like to watch the full thing though as he’s butchered the editing somewhat and Jessica is always a quality guest because she’s all about the data.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/necessary-safe-and-effective-expert
I agree, she’s always on the ball….but it’s never good news!!
She is reporting more bad news on the jabs in this article….
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/contamination-with-antibioticspike
Anandamide has published a Substack today that everybody needs to understand. The gist of the findings following sequencing of the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 products is that there is a high level of dsDNA contamination in the Pfizer products. This dsDNA contamination is in the form of circular expression vectors containing a spike gene and two antibiotic resistance genes for kanamycin and neomycin.
LOL I posted this earlier on the excess deaths article. We move in the same circles, me and you.
And while I’m on the theme of the Mail running crappy articles, apparently a study in the US demonstrates the non-death jabbed are more likely to get diabetes. Make of this what you will;
”Dr Alan Kwan, a cardiologist who led the study, said: ‘These results suggest that Covid vaccination prior to infection may provide a protective effect against diabetes risk.
‘Although further studies are needed to validate this hypothesis, we remain steadfast in our belief that Covid vaccination remains an important tool in protecting against Covid and the still-uncertain risks that people may experience during the post-infection period.”’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11749827/Now-scientists-claim-youre-likely-develop-DIABETES-youre-unvaccinated-against-Covid.html
I saw that. The comments section is encouraging.
No one buys this. The entire premise is so farcical, it makes the author look like a slavish dolt.
Do they bother with editors concerned with ludicrous claims on DM?
Eh, probably not actually…
Yes I had a quick peruse and thought so too, which is heartening. And who can take any doctor who is allegedly ”doing science” seriously if they say; ”we remain steadfast in our belief..” re the death jabs? I mean, that doesn’t sound like a man of science at all to me, it sounds like a science-denier who’s clinging onto the last wooden plank from his boat to save himself from drowning as his house of cards that he’s wedded himself to thus far has tumbled down. ”belief”?! He also sounds like a right flaming shill. Wonder what his conflicts of interest are if I could be bothered to check…The bioweapon jabs are just a faith-based system of dangerous lies, and I’m willing to bet he’s a bloody masktard to boot! As ever I’ll defer to legit cardiologists and await Drs McCullough and Malhotra’s opinion on this study’s findings.
And in other news –
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107966/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dme.14631
Ha, yes exactly. Good find. I thought this topic of diabetes emerging post-jab seemed familiar. I saw it on Dr McCullough’s substack recently. I think he’s citing a different paper to yours;
”It has been said we are in a chronic disease epidemic of diabetes mellitus. Before COVID-19, approximately 10% of diabetes was juvenile Type 1, which is an auto-immune illness characterized by auto-antibodies against pancreatic islet cells. The remaining 90% is adult onset type 2 diabetes characterized by lifelong excess in adiposity and insulin resistance. Mass vaccination with mRNA and adenoviral DNA vaccines may change the epidemiology of diabetes as we know it. There are several papers emerging concerning new onset diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis after taking a COVID-19 shot. Moon and colleagues reported a well characterized case of new onset type 1 diabetes in an adult temporally related to COVID-19 vaccination.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-onset-type-1-diabetes-after-covid
“Cancel the Vikings” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator wonders what took them so long to realise the “Vikings may have been a bit right-of-centre and therefore ripe for a spot of cancelling”.
It’s an excellent point. Television is awash with romanticising the blood, gore, rape and pillaging committed by the Vikings. Compare their portrayal to that of the evil English imperialists spreading Western infrastructure and culture.
I am English and proud to be.
I know it’s Rob Liddle so not meant to be taken seriously, but calling the Vikings ‘right wing’ is as ahistorical as saying Edward II was gay, purely projection of current prejudices back into history. I suppose romanticising them is just as bad really but Up Helly Aa looks like fun.
The Vikings didn’t even have a left or a right, they were seafarers, raiders, warriors, farmers and fishermen (not fisherthem!). Must we always attach these political attributes to explain behaviour from the past. It’s so dull. I imagine I would be described as a far right white supremacist just because I didn’t want an effin’ jab, don’t believe in the climate hype, want the mass immigration to stop, don’t believe the msm Ukraine narrative and I’m proud to call myself English and more but I’m just an ordinary fella…
Yep, we’re definitely on the same page Aethelred.
What is the point of the Sy Hersh story ATL…? It has no information that the original, which was already posted, didn’t have?
I’ll repost this, as I posted it later last night…(a re-tweet from El Gato Malo….)
BREAKING: A @Dept of Defense Source Speaking On The Condition Of Anonymity Told Me Details Of How @Joe Biden Ordered The Nordstream Pipelines Destroyed In June But Then Got Nervous & Changed Orders To PLACE THE BOMBS But Make Them Capable Of Later Detonation.
He DID NOT Inform Germany But DID Inform Norway Sweden and Denmark.
The CIA Informed Joe Biden Our Navy Had A Way To Place Bombs On Pipelines & Use A Raytheon Air Dropped Sonar Trigger At A Later Time.
The Navy Had Concerns That A Long Delay Between Placing The Explosives (C-4) & Detonating With A Sonar Drop Buoy Would Cause A Bomb Failure…
https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1626078491560099840
As I said yesterday, I don’t know who this man is, or whether he’s a know reliable source..but then again there have been smears against the Pulitzer Prize winning Hersh……but obviously this story is still running…
This is curious….I haven’t read this anywhere….so are they dropping the ‘quackcine’ quietly?? Not entirely sure what to make of it….
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/find-a-walk-in-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-site/
…but it contains this …
Changes to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine booster doses. After 12 February 2023 you will not be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.
Some people who are at increased risk, for example because of age or certain medical conditions, may be offered a seasonal booster later this year. If you are eligible for this, the NHS will contact you when it’s your turn to get vaccinated.
If you follow the link you can find out walk-in-centres in your area…my area shown none at all…..!
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1626206903209717761
It’s funny, but worrying.
….genuinely hard to believe the position that utter moron holds…When will I wake up!?
I think the Veep is high as a kite most of the time. I mean this isn’t normal behaviour. She would be better off as a primary school teacher and removed well away from the levers of power.
Still no DS article on the Ohio poison death cloud? Where’s Greta when you want her?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages
Enjoying her stolen childhood I think…how dare she!
Re the Florida Surgeon General story ATL..this is a more expensive overview from Dr Robert Malone ….
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/warning-florida-department-of-health?sd=pf
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/17/russia-to-introduce-digital-identity-cards/
Russia pushing Digital ID.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/16/discuss-so-whats-with-the-chemical-spills/
An update on the latest US train derailments. They are now more common than varieties of Billy’s viruses.
Short read.
According to Politifact, there are roughly 1000 train derailments in the US each year, so 5 inside a month is not unusual.
WTbloodyF!! 1000 train derailments? How? Why? I mean that is one heck of a lotta trains going horizontal. Imagine if that was over here, there’d be a massive outcry or some sort of reaction other than ‘Oh it’s just another of those pesky train derailments…lucky it ain’t nuclear waste! Ho hum’. !!!!!
LOL!….
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf
A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.
The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet.
But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.
In the interest of safety and security, HOLD THAT HANDRAIL!!
Have you seen the list of uk hotels full of illegals !! No way back soon ! What’s it all really for ??