Covid military deaths were almost non-existent

Belated examination of military’s Covid death statistics does not produce grave fear. And why did military deaths spike AFTER most in the military had been vaccinated?

Are more would-be recruits rejecting Uncle Sam because they don’t trust the stuff the military’s jabbing into their bodies? The military’s Covid death numbers show no healthy young military member needed the Covid non-vaccine.

The U.S. military’s having trouble making its recruitment goals. A doctor friend emailed me this article that postulates the military’s increasingly woke culture is turning off many would-be recruits.

The article identifies another factor that’s no doubt causing some young adults to forgo a career in the military. Namely, many young people don’t want to get vaccinated for Covid (or perhaps any of the long list of vaccinations given to military personnel). 

The article includes a telling quote from a recent commandant of the Marine Corp:

“… on December 3, 2022, then Commandant of the Marine Corps General David Berger acknowledged … that the COVID-19 shot mandate had a negative impact on recruiting. While expressing support for the mandate, Gen. Berger noted how “politicized” the COVID environment became and how potential recruits were immediately disinterested in enlisting after finding out they had to get the COVID shot. 

Gen. Berger stated, “You talk to me in the cafeteria, and one of my first questions is, ‘Do I have to get that vaccine?’ And you go, ‘Yeah, you do.’ Ok, I’ll talk to you later. It’s that fast.” 

This anecdote represents a good news/bad news story.

The bad news is the U.S. military’s having more trouble than ever recruiting quality recruits to fill its ranks. 

The good news is more young adults are rejecting the spurious claims about Covid vaccines and don’t want to serve in a military that cares more about advancing its “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives.

This caused me to revisit my research on military Covid deaths …

Reading about the military’s recruitment woes motivated me to return to research I’d performed two years ago when I tried to identify how many military personnel had actually died from (or, more likely, with) Covid. 

This was before I had a Substack newsletter and I never published the data. Today, I’m going to publish the statistics, which I think make the point that young adults (and military personnel) do not need to fear death from Covid and thus never needed a Covid vaccine, especially now that (surely) everyone knows the shots are not “effective” at preventing infections or transmission.

In the second part of this article, I’ll provide more current statistics from the Department of Defense. This data might be even more interesting as these statistics show that Covid deaths in the military spiked dramatically after the vaccines, which shouldn’t have happened. 

Total military deaths as of March 17, 2021

Note: The following statistics were provided by Department of Defense spokesperson  Lisa Lawrence from an email in April 2021. These numbers would include Covid death totals from the first 12 months of the official pandemic.

Army: 10 deaths (4 Active duty, 6 Reserve)

Navy: 7 (5 Active duty, 2 Reserve)

Air Force: 0

Marines: 0

National Guard: 7

Summary of Active duty military deaths:

Navy: 5 (out of 330,000 active duty personnel)

Army: 4 (out of 480,000 active duty personnel)

Air Force: 0 (out of 328,000 active duty personnel)

Marines: 0 (out of 186,000 active duty personnel)

Total active duty deaths in first 12 months of pandemic: 9 (out of 1.34 million active duty personnel).

Total active duty deaths in Air Force and Marines: 0 (out of 514,000 active duty personnel).

Comments/Key take-aways ….

* As we can see, only nine U.S. active duty military personnel died, allegedly “due to Covid 19.” My personal opinion is that at least 50 percent or more of these “Covid deaths” might not have been caused by Covid but by other reasons (including iatrogenic deaths).

* Fifteen (15) of the military deaths (63 percent) occurred among reservists or National Guard members, who are generally much older than active duty military members.

* In the first year of the pandemic, no Covid deaths occurred among active duty in the Air Force and Marines.

Mortality rates from Covid among military personnel …

Total military personnel (active and reserve components) not including the Coast Guard: 2,354,000

24 deaths/2,354,000 service members = 0.0010 percent of personnel.

Survival rate: 99.9855 percent (rounded up: 99.99 percent).

Mortality rate: 1/100,000 (0.001 percent).

***

Odds of dying of COVID, All Military: 24-in-2,354,000 = 1-in-98,083

Odds of dying of COVID, Active duty: 9-in-1,324,000 = 1-in-148,888

Odds of dying of COVID, Reserve forces: 16-in-1,030,000 = 1-in-64,375

Note: Again, these “death probabilities” would be even more minuscule if one believes all “Covid deaths” should not be labeled as Covid deaths.

Marine Corps data from May 2021 …

From this article, I found more detailed data on cases and deaths among Marines, updated through May 13, 2021.

Marine Corp Cases, Deaths and Hospitalizations

Total Cumulative Cases: 22,023

Cumulative Deaths: 0

Cumulative Hospitalized: 80

From this data, we can see that 22,023 Marines had PCR-confirmed cases and these cases led to zero deaths, making the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) 0.0000 percent. 

The total number of Marines who were hospitalized for Covid in the first 15 months of the pandemic was 80, meaning 0.36 percent of “cases” (about 1 in 300 cases) resulted in hospitalization.

Question: Why would Marines need an experimental “vaccine” to protect them from “severe” cases if virtually no Marines developed a severe case?

Skip forward 21 months …

The following Covid mortality was reported by military.com in an article from March 28 of this year. It includes mortality data through December 6, 2022. This would include any recorded deaths that happened in the 21 months after the data reported above.

Excerpt:

“According to Pentagon data last updated Dec. 6, 2022, 96 U.S. service members died from COVID-19. Records kept by the services, however, show that at least 99 have died -- including 64 soldiers, 16 airmen and 17 sailors.”

Summary: Either 99 or 96 total Covid deaths had occurred in the military through March 2023.

Note: If we subtract the 24 deaths from data complete through March 2021, this would mean 75 additional military personnel passed away from or with Covid in the second and third years of Covid. 

Just like in the first tranche of data, the majority of deaths continued to be among members of the military reserves.

Cumulative deaths in reserves through Dec. 6, 2022

Army National Guard: 24

Army Reserve: 23

Navy Reserve and Air National Guard: 15+ 

Total military deaths among military reserves: 62 (at least 62.6 percent of Covid deaths).

Three years into the pandemic only 37 deaths occurred among active duty personnel (no deaths were reported in the first few months of 2023).

This means, on average, fewer than one active duty military member died each month since the official pandemic began in America in February 2020.

Why did vaccinated military personnel keep dying from Covid?

In comparing the number of military personnel who died in the first 12 months of the pandemic to the number who died in the next 24 months, I’m struck by the fact the vast majority of Covid deaths happened after the majority of military personnel were vaccinated. 

Also, these deaths occurred after stringent “mitigation” protocols were implemented. Thirdly, medical treatment of Covid victims should have improved and future strains of the virus should not have been as lethal as the original strain of the virus.

Per the above-cited article, military officials maintain only one vaccinated service member died after vaccines became mandatory in August 2021.

“Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mandated COVID-19 vaccines for all service members on Aug. 24, 2021, resulting in the immunization of 2 million U.S. service members. And for months after the order, DoD officials reported that no fully vaccinated troops had died from COVID-19.

“By December (2021), however, officials said at least one fully vaccinated service member of the 52 who died in the latter half of the year was killed by the virus.”

“Nonetheless, more than 57% of the military deaths from COVID-19 in 2021 occurred in the second half of the year, as Delta cases surged.”

The information that jumped out to me in this excerpt is that 52 military members died from Covid in the second half of 2021 (between July and the end of December 2021).

This means more than twice as many military members died of Covid in the second six months of 2021 (52 deaths) than died in the first 12 months of the pandemic (24 deaths).

Question: How can this be plausibly explained?

Military: All but one military death among the unvaccinated

For its part, the military insists that only one of these 52 deaths occurred among a vaccinated military member, meaning 51 of these deaths happened among the unvaccinated.

However, by the second half of 2021, the vast majority of military personnel had already been vaccinated.

From the military.com article: “Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mandated COVID-19 vaccines for all service members on Aug. 24, 2021.” From another article: By December 16, “98 percent” of all military members had been vaccinated.

Some Military personnel began receiving vaccines “voluntarily” in December 2020. While I couldn’t find an article that gives the percentage of vaccinated military personnel by the mid-point of 2021, I did find a report from the Department of Homeland Defense that said that 64 percent of Coast Guard personnel had been “voluntarily” vaccinated by the end of April 2021.

If this figure was similar to other services, it would probably have grown by another 11 percent in the next two months, which would mean that at least 75 percent of military personnel were vaccinated heading into the second part of 2021 … when 52 military personnel died from Covid.

In the military and in the nation, the vast majority of Covid deaths from the “Delta variant” occurred in November and December 2021, a major spike in deaths which occurred after even more military personnel had been vaccinated.

If 80 percent of the active duty (1.34 million members) and reserve military (1.030 million members) had been vaccinated by October 1st, that would be 1.896 million vaccinated military personnel and only 474,000 unvaccinated personnel before the big spike in “Delta” deaths commenced.

The military is thus saying that 51 deaths occurred in the approximately 470,000 unvaccinated personnel. 

Important context/point of comparison …

However, in the first 12 months of the pandemic almost all 2.37 million military personnel were unvaccinated and, despite this, Covid caused only 24 deaths in the entire military.  Again, deaths more than doubled in six months after widespread vaccination occurred in the military.

Either the virus became much more lethal in its second year or something else explains this huge spike in Covid deaths (in the military and in civilian populations). Furthermore, the vast majority of military personnel were vaccinated and were wearing masks and social distancing. 

The military’s statement that 98 percent of Covid military deaths in the second part of 2021 occurred among the unvaccinated should not be viewed as credible and would seem to represents evidence of massive fraud or disinformation.

It should be remembered that the military has records of every military personnel who was vaccinated and could easily provide documentation proving that all 51 of these deaths happened among the unvaccinated - supporting evidence the military has not provided.

Would you want to serve in this man’s military?

Circling back to military recruitment numbers being lower than they’ve been in decades, is it possible more would-be recruits now understand that trusted officials in civilian life and in the military maybe shouldn’t be trusted?

The quote from the former Marine Commandant acknowledges that plenty of high school seniors were saying “no thank you” to a vaccine they know they don't need.

It turns out these young people are probably much smarter than the head of the Marine Corps, who the story points out is a “supporter of vaccine mandates.”

He’s a supporter of these mandates even though he obviously knows these inoculation mandates are/were harming recruiting (which harms the Marine Corps). Also, he must have known that no Marine died from Covid in the fist 12 months of the pandemic … So he must know there’s no need for any Marine to be vaccinated … But he still supports the mandates.

If you were a young potential enlistee, would you want to put your life into the hands of superior officers this dense or this callous to known truths?

I wouldn’t.