Something doesn’t add up
All-cause deaths for a respiratory virus that had already largely petered out shouldn't suddenly blow up in one (spring) month.
I recently presented mortality data that suggests older Michigan residents were dying at increased rates months before official Covid.
However, the finding that really opened my eyes was Michigan’s mortality statistics from April 2020. What jumped out to me was the massive increase in “excess deaths” that began after the lockdowns.
Question: How could all-cause deaths increase by such massive numbers in just a few weeks?
Here are the numbers that made me smell a rat.
All-cause excess deaths by week, Michigan, all-ages
… Before lockdowns …
March 7 - 0.3 percent (1,982 deaths)
March 14 - 0.0 percent (1,955 deaths)
Author Comment/Professional Analysis: Nothing going on here.
Post lockdowns …
March 21 - 3.8 percent (2,036 deaths)
Comment: It’s possible something is starting to happen here.
March 28 - 24.8 percent (2,431 deaths)
Comment: Yes, something crazy is happening here.
April 4 - 61.1 percent (3,117 deaths)
Professional Comment: Egads.
April 11 - 76.1 percent (3,385 deaths)
Comment: Simply not possible with a flu-like respiratory virus.
April 18 - 65.4 percent (3,159 deaths)
Comment: A song from my childhood pops into my head: “More, more, more. How do you like it? How do you like it?”
April 25 - 48.6 percent (2,806 deaths)
Comment: Things are finally getting better - Only 900 more excess deaths than the first week of March.
May 2 - 38 percent (2,588 deaths)
Comment: This must be the first respiratory virus with 38-percent excess deaths in May, a month not typically associated with the “cold and flu season.”
I also tallied the number of excess deaths that happened before and after the lockdowns in Michigan and learned that excess death was negative the week before the lockdowns.
Pre-lockdown weeks …
March 1 to March 7: 6 more deaths than expected.
March 8 to 14: - 13 fewer deaths than expected.
Excess deaths seven weeks after lockdowns …
March 15 to March 21: 74 more deaths than expected (2,036 deaths vs.1,962 expected).
March 22-28: 483 more deaths than expected (2,432 deaths vs. 1,949 expected).
March 29 - April 4: 1,181 more deaths than expected (3,117 deaths vs. 1,936 expected).
April 5-11: 1,463 more deaths than expected (3,385 deaths vs. 1,922 expected).
April 12-18: 1,249 more deaths than expected (3,159 deaths vs. 1,910 expected).
April 19-25 - 917 more deaths than expected (2,806 deaths vs. 1,889 expected).
April 26 - May 2: 712 more deaths than expected (2,588 deaths vs. 1,876 expected).
Total excess deaths March 15 - May 2nd: 6,079.
In the four weeks of April 2020 in Michigan, excess death averaged 62.8 percent.
In seven days between March 8-14 (pre-lockdowns), 1,955 Michigan residents passed away. In seven days between April 5 and April 11, 3,385 Michigan residents passed away … 1,430 extra residents died compared to a couple of weeks earlier.
Stated differently, after the lockdowns - which were advertised to slow infections and reduce or prevent deaths, total deaths in Michigan … soared by 73 percent. (Bill’s “Law of Opposite Effects” kicks in again).
DISCUSSION
6,000+ extra deaths in a timespan of a few weeks in one state is a lot of unexpected deaths. I know I’m not supposed to ask this taboo question, but …
Key question: Did the virus suddenly change or did the medical protocols suddenly change?
Conventional wisdom tells us that excess deaths in Michigan (and America) spiked in late March and April. This, per the experts, is when the virus must have been spreading most intensely.
Per this “logic,” this is indeed a very lethal virus, but one that waited until until mid to late March to explode throughout the population. That is, we didn’t have “early spread” … we had “late spread.”
You’ve got to work backwards to get presumed infection dates …
According to multiple studies, the lag between date of infection and death is 21 to 25 days.
Since peak “Covid deaths” in Michigan occurred between April 8 -15, most decedents who (allegedly) succumbed to the disease would have been infected approximately three weeks before their deaths.
We also know that lockdowns in Michigan began March 13. This means Michigan residents who died on or after April 7th had already been taking extreme “virus mitigation” precautions for at least 24 days.
Lesson: The precautions - the entire lockdown contrived drama - didn’t work. The virus mimicked North Vietnamese troops in the Tet Offensive and suddenly attacked everywhere at the designated time.
Still, the experts assure us the lockdowns saved millions of lives. This statement makes one wonder how many people would have died if no lockdowns had been ordered.
We actually know the answer to this question from the placebo nation of Sweden.
(Experts, on the scalawag nation of Sweden: “Boo! Hiss!”)
While the narrative protectors are quick to point out that Sweden initially recorded more excess deaths in the early months of the official pandemic than its Nordic neighbors, it turns out all these excess deaths happened among residents who’d already reached age 82 - or exceeded the average life expectancy of a Swedish citizen.
That is, there was virtually zero “excess death” in citizens under the age of 70. Of course, it’s now known that cumulative excess deaths in Sweden were/are vastly lower than those recorded in America … and definitely in Michigan.
But none of this conjecture answers the question of why this respiratory virus waited until late winter and early spring to attack its victims or why millions of Americans were suddenly infected at the same time, a stealth infection assault which caused many people to start dying at the same time (April 2020).
The experts are emphatic that this particular respiratory virus first “emerged” in Wuhan, China in the middle of December 2019. This fact (a “fact” that, in fact, is not a fact) is what we call “settled science.”
While videos of people falling dead in the streets in Wuhan started the whole panic, it turns out no one’s really sure how many people in Wuhan actually died 21 to 25 days after virus spread commenced.
CNN reported that a grand total of 41 residents of mainland China had died by January 24, 2020 - which would be at least a month after experts said virus spread was born at a live market in Wuhan in mid-December 2019.
But 41 deaths in a 30-day period in a country of one billion people doesn’t jibe with excess all-cause deaths of more than 6,000 in just just one U.S. state in a time span of a couple of weeks.
All I can conclude is that, for some reason, this virus was far more lethal and far more contagious in Michigan than it was in China.
Of course, as China is a totalitarian, communist government, it’s possible China’s “trusted experts” hid hundreds of thousands of deaths.
It’s possible that China was under-counting Covid deaths by hundreds of thousands while America’s trusted experts were massively inflating Covid deaths by hundreds of thousands.
That is, one geopolitical superpower wanted to show as few Covid deaths as possible … while the other was intent on showing as many deaths as possible. I don’t get it, but there you go.
It’s also possible Chinese doctors and hospitals are better than American doctors or hospitals. Or that Chinese citizens are perhaps a heartier lot and better at surviving respiratory viruses than Michigan and American residents.
I don’t know. All I know is something somewhere doesn’t add up. Absent a terrorist attack like 9-11 or a major earthquake, a state like Michigan shouldn’t go from 0 excess deaths to 1,455 in a period of three weeks. Especially for a virus that everyone now knows is a nothing burger to so many people:
Examples:
Zero Covid deaths for pro and college athletes in 3-plus years.
Zero Covid deaths for members of Congress (an organization not noted for its youthful members).
No deaths of anyone under the age of 65 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and no deaths under the age of 41 in three outbreaks on three big Naval ships with more than 7,000 crew members.
Even the terrible flu of 2018 quickly petered out, but Covid never did. On December 26, 2020 - nine months after they appeared - excess death in America were still 43 percent.
Until someone can credibly explain how excess deaths can go from non-existent to morgue-overflowing in a couple of weeks, I’m going to continue to do all I can to lampoon and defrock America’s army of prevaricating, obtuse non-experts.
In my previous article, I opined that statistics on "all-cause" deaths could NOT be manipulated. My thought was that a death is a death. However, a Substack colleague who has become THE expert on deaths in New York in the early stages of the official pandemic has written a provocative article that strongly suggests even all-cause death numbers/statistics can be rigged ... and probably were in New York.
Jessica agrees with many of us that the spike in all-cause deaths was caused by iatrogenic and lethal protocols (plus unnecessary panic), but she goes further and says the huge numbers of deaths in New York City perhaps can't all be explained by just iatrogenic reasons.
This is a highly-recommended article.
https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/where-is-the-proof-that-over-37000?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
The virus or whatever people want to call it was still incubating and spreading post lockdown then hospital remd-vent deaths picked up 3-8 weeks post lockdown. They were not treating them for cytokine storm, damaging their lungs with vents, their organs with remdesivir, killing them over a period of 1 month. Paid for every positive test and protocol death treatment - they maximized their profits by killing people. Turns out incentivizing murder brings out the psychopath in people, especially doctors.