Covid19: Don't trust the statistics (or the science re the tests/the cause of the sickness)

[Gwin Ru]

REVEALED! Lockdown in UK Caused Almost 10,000 Deaths – Official Medical Reports

By Drago Bosnic Fort Russ News
Last updated May 11, 2020

LONDON – A report has been published in the United Kingdom claiming that about 8,000 more people have died in their own homes since the start of the coronavirus lockdown than in normal times as concerns grow over the number of people who are avoiding going to the hospital.

Of that total, 80% died of conditions unrelated to COVID-19, according to their death certificates. Doctors’ leaders have warned that fears and deprioritization of non-coronavirus patients are taking a deadly toll, The Guardian reported.

The data shows 8,196 more deaths at home in England, Wales and Scotland compared with the five-year average for this time of year, including 6,546 non-COVID deaths. It also indicates a drop in non-COVID deaths in hospitals, however, leading experts to conclude that many who would normally have been admitted to a ward are instead dying at home.

Jason Oke, a statistician with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, said,

“This would mean fewer deaths from other causes in hospitals and more deaths from other causes at home or in care homes. It is, of course, possible that, in addition to this, COVID-19 is being missed in people who remain outside of hospital.”

“A third explanation is that people are dying of other causes that would not have happened under normal conditions – and are collateral damage of the lockdown,” he added that there was no way of knowing for sure based on the available data.

Doctors’ leaders have warned that some sick people are too scared to go to hospital and are aware that much of the usual NHS care had been suspended in the pandemic.

“These figures underline that the devastation wrought by COVID-19 spreads far beyond the immediate effects of the illness itself,” said Dr. Chaand Nagpaul, the council chair of the British Medical Association.

“While all parts of the NHS have rallied round in a bid to meet the immediate rocketing demand caused by the pandemic, more than half of doctors in a recent BMA survey have told us that this is worsening the care of non-COVID patients,” Nagpaul added.

He cited a fall in A&E visits of up to 50% and a drop by half of patients attending hospitals with heart attacks.

“Referrals from GPs are not being accepted unless for serious medical conditions and routine investigations to aid diagnosis are not available in many cases. This means many ill patients are not getting the care they so desperately need now – and crucially, risking their conditions getting worse and with some even dying as a result,” Nagpaul added.

Prof Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said excess community deaths from non-COVID causes had been seen across Europe. A report this week found that there had been about 11,600 such fatalities in Italy during its pandemic, including deaths from heart attacks and strokes, he added.

“Data from other countries has shown delayed presentation in patients with heart attacks during the pandemic, either because people don’t want to burden the health service at the current time, or because of fear of catching COVID-19. It is critical that patients who are worried they may be having a heart attack or stroke should call 999.”

The fatality figures from the Guardian analysis of the England and Wales data are based on the date of occurrence rather than on the date of registration.

The number of deaths occurring in care homes in England and Wales in the week to 24 April was 3.1 times the toll in the equivalent week over the past five years, while deaths in private homes and in hospitals were up to 1.5 times higher than typically seen in the same week.

Over the course of the past seven weeks, there were 23,583 deaths in people’s homes compared with the five-year average of 16,794. But of the extra 6,789 fatalities, just one in four were attributed to coronavirus, leaving 5,355 excess non-COVID deaths.

Similar data from Scotland – which is based on date of registration rather than date of the death occurring and is more up to date – shows a similar trend. In the seven weeks to May 3, there were 3,453 deaths in private homes and non-institutional settings in Scotland. This compares with 2,046 in a typical year. However, of the remaining deaths, just 216 were COVID-related, leaving 1,191 excess deaths.

Similarly, 32,633 deaths were recorded in care homes in England and Wales, more than twice the figure typically expected at this time of year (15,670). Of the remaining deaths, just 6,815 were COVID-19 deaths, leaving 10,148 deaths unrelated to COVID-19. While there were 597 excess deaths in Scottish care homes in the seven weeks to May 3, these are lower than the number of coronavirus-related deaths (1,195).

There have been 704 excess deaths in Northern Ireland since the first coronavirus death was registered there. However, Northern Ireland does not currently publish a five-year average of deaths. Excess deaths grew week on week in both care homes and private homes in England and Wales up until the week ending April 10, but have fallen in the two subsequent weeks for which data is available.

David Leon, professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the significant numbers of non-COVID excess deaths in care homes would be down to several factors, including undiagnosed COVID-19 deaths.

“People who are dying from other conditions in care homes may be less likely to be admitted to hospital than pre-pandemic due to concerns about strain on resources,” he said, adding, “These deaths are ones that would have occurred regardless of the pandemic, but happened in care homes rather than hospitals.

“Finally, there is the concern that some of the deaths in care homes were avoidable – in that some people died because they did not get life-saving treatment in hospitals, because of a reluctance to send them for specialist medical treatment. How big this group is is unclear. It will undoubtedly be the focus of inquiry over the coming months,” he said.

[shaberon]

Posted by AutumnW (here)
The U.S perhaps has seen no AVERAGE increase in overall deaths. This is due to lockdown efforts, so the number of deaths, due to the virus, have been mitigated by prevention.

It may prevent a few of those, but the decrease is found in other categories. The entire lifestyle change of being less mechanized has completely changed everywhere in the world in ways that are obviously much safer.

And in some places there are exceptions; when I checked, West Virginia counted forty coronavirus deaths, but their seasonal average was still over 2,000 more than compared to "normal", which is maybe a big number in a small place like that.

So if there is a caveat about death "With" this virus, then it seems we just don't know. It could legitimately be the coffin nail for all kinds of previous problems, which does not make it less dangerous, really. Perhaps it is just not that dangerous on its own until it finds favorable grounds such as organ disease or a blood problem. It is a perfectly good point that the "From" cannot be said to be all that many, but it does not seem to release concern for the other group. For example, if someone says they are allergic to peanuts, I could be legally liable if a lab can detect a peanut molecule. So then we would have a situation where, perhaps, diabetics will say I'm allergic to Covid. It may be as meaningless to me personally as any kind of food allergy, but, if it is a legitimate concern for others, then it is probably worth consideration of why or how "With" is particularly dangerous.

[greybeard]

Dr Yvette Lozano from Dallas, Texas

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0SjZAsT43MI

[shaberon]

Mexico City appears to be another place where death is under-reported and the crematories cannot keep up.

This is an odd situation where we have to contrast the fact that...something is sketchy and unknown and not as dangerous as we may be led to believe, but, there must be some places where sickness and death is a bit beyond the norm. I mean, we could toss all the statistics out the window, but it is hard to ignore an overly-large pile of bodies.

[Tintin]

'Who controls the British Government response to Covid–19?' | Part 2

COVID–19: The Big Pharma players behind UK Government lockdown
By Vanessa Beeley
Source: UK Column - May 11th 2020
Also published in Off-Guardian: https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/10/...ment-lockdown/

(Continued from this Post #280 and Post #281)

"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas." — Dr George Brock Chisholm, who served as the first Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 1948 to 1953

In Part One of Who controls the British Government response to Covid–19? [2], I began an investigation into the individuals and entities that are, effectively, driving the UK Government response to Covid–19. In Part Two, I will expand upon the Big Pharma and Artificial Intelligence (AI) links already identified and will introduce new connections that appear to have considerable bearing upon the UK Government's Covid–19 strategy. I will expand upon the Bill Gates connections to the various organisations that are advocating global immunisation.

The UK Government chief medical adviser and Chief Medical Officer for England, Chris Whitty, is saying that a return to “normal” in the short-term is “wholly unrealistic”. Whitty is telling us that the “highly disruptive” social distancing policy will be in place “for really quite a long period of time”. “Highly disruptive” is a euphemism for the devastation of the world economy and the horrifying knock-on effect — an estimated 50% of the world workforce are at risk of losing their livelihood.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...20-4?r=US&IR=T

The UK Government has been promoting the concept of “immunity passports” as a means of loosening the draconian lockdown measures. It is very possible that facial recognition technology [5] may dictate who can exit lockdown and return to work. To get a passport, individuals must upload an image of their face to the app along with their ID (passport or driving licence). They are then tested to ascertain if they have had the virus and developed immunity. The app will then generate a QR code, which the employer will use to verify ID and immunity before allowing the employee back to work.

Onfido’s track and trace app, under serious consideration by the UK Government. [6]

The UK health service’s innovation agency NHSx has called for businesses and technology experts to submit their ideas for providing immunity passports [7]. Companies currently making proposals to the UK Government include Onfido [8], Yoti [9], IDnow [10], OCL, and iDenfy [11].

These UK Government “track and trace” plans still face various obstacles — including the questionable accuracy of some of the antibody tests — but the spectre of increased surveillance and government control over the workforce, and many other aspects of civil liberty, looms undeniably on the horizon.

As I pointed out in Part One, it is no coincidence that the Oxford University [12] start-up, Microsoft-funded facial recognition [13] firm Onfido “has recently raised $100 million (now $200m [6]) to boost its ID technology” to enable the creation of immunity passports. According to an interview with Onfido’s CEO, Husayn Kassai, the firm had previously offered a service that “automates background checks on prospective employees before they are accepted for work”; it would appear that immunity passports are a logical extension to what is, effectively, private sector spying on the workforce.

A more recent article [14] proclaims: “Onfido in talks with government about systems to help Britons return to work”. Onfido, already at “pilot stage” in other countries, is claiming that its proposals could be executed within months and that the “health certificate through app technology” is “gaining traction”. Onfido claims this technology could be the linchpin of the new “normality” and key to stimulating the economy — as backed by Bill Gates/Microsoft [6] and undeniably in lock-step with ID2020’s manifesto [15].

Many analysts have highlighted the danger of ID2020 being introduced under cover of the Covid–19 “crisis”:

We may indeed be just at the beginning of the implementation of ID2020 — which includes forced vaccination, population reduction and total digital control of everybody, on the way to One World Order; and global financial hegemony — Full Spectrum Dominance, as the PNAC (Plan for a New American Century) likes to call it. [Peter Koenig] [16]

The team behind the UK Government Covid–19 response
(SAGE: Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies | Source from UK Government here: https://www.gov.uk/government/public...ted-sub-groups)



My focus in Part One was largely on the role of Imperial College and Prof. Neil Ferguson in “modelling” the virus infection trajectory and influencing the UK Government response, as he has done previously, with a 100% failure rate [17] on the accuracy of his virtual predictions. My focus in Part Two is to put the spotlight on other members of the UK Government advisory committee and to reveal their connections to Big Pharma and the for-profit sector linked to the Covid–19 response.

Neil Ferguson defends lockdown policy while conveniently forgetting the failure record of his “model”
In a recent interview [18], Neil Ferguson defended his Covid–19 predictions, which now appear to have been greatly exaggerated.

Ferguson reinforced the message that Britons “cannot go completely back to normal, until we have a vaccine there will be a degree of social distancing in place” (emphasis added).

Ferguson also confirmed the UK Government's track-and-trace policy: “Longer-term social distancing will be required, not at the levels we have today, if we have contact tracing in place” (emphasis added).

With numbers not adding up to Ferguson’s alarmist projections, the subsequent lockdown of the economy, and now the UK Government's potential roll-out of mandatory vaccinations and biometric surveillance of the workforce, we could be forgiven for suspecting that the overarching agenda was always the increased surveillance and control of the majority of the population.

Ferguson H1N1 case study — Patrick Vallance — GlaxoSmithKline
At this point, I would like to go back in time to 2009 and Ferguson/Imperial College’s analysis of swine flu, H1N1: they claimed this virus would take the lives of 65,000 people in the UK. In the end, 457 people died from the virus.

In response to the threat of swine flu, Big Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) developed the Pandemrix vaccine, with disastrous consequences [19]. An alleged sixty patients who suffered brain damage as a result of the vaccine were allocated £60 million [19] in compensation by the UK Government. Most of the victims were children. As one report has it: “It was subsequently revealed that the vaccine, Pandemrix, can cause narcolepsy and cataplexy in about one in 16,000 people, and many more are expected to come forward with the symptoms.”

A later British Medical Journal [20](BMJ) report deemed that GSK and health authorities had failed to warn the public of the vaccine’s alarming “safety signal”.

The vaccine was developed by GSK and patented in September 2006. Pandemrix contained a flu strain recommended by the WHO. After reports of brain damage began to emerge, the WHO revised [21] their advice to urge “restricted use” for people under the age of 20. Pandemrix is no longer licensed for use, but at the time, the Gordon Brown-led Labour government had granted GSK indemnity [22]. Details of that agreement have never been made public.

From 2012 to March 2018, Sir Patrick Vallance was president of research and development at GSK. He went directly from GSK to his post as the UK Government chief scientific adviser.

While Vallance and the UK Government are favouring AstraZeneca [24] — in partnership with Oxford University — to fast-track vaccine development [25], GSK is also in the race.

GSK is working in collaboration [26] with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), “aimed at helping the global effort to develop a vaccine” for Covid–19. The UK Government has invested £50 million [27] in CEPI to support the rapid vaccine and immunoprophylactic development against “unknown pathogens” (also referred to as Disease X). Bill Gates was one of the original and most influential sponsors of CEPI; more details later in this article.

So, the UK Government appears to favour AstraZeneca, but Vallance and the government also appear to be subtly supporting Vallance’s former employer, GSK, despite their Pandemrix fiasco.

While Vallance was in charge of research and development at GSK, collaboration [28] with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation was increased. In 2013, a new partnership between GSK and the Gates Foundation was announced: to “accelerate research into vaccines for global health needs”.

What we start to see here is the very definition of a revolving-door policy between philanthrocapitalism, Big Pharma and government agencies, all effectively working in lock-step to promote the global immunisation agenda, with massive projected profit for the Big Pharma complex and in particular for the members closely associated with Gates, the WHO, UNICEF, and world governments, as already discussed in Part One [2]. [my emphasis - Tintin]

Scientists, epidemiologists and analysts are not speaking as one voice on Covid–19

Going back to the Ferguson interview I mentioned earlier, my observation is that Ferguson was ill at ease, appearing to defend a script rather than opening up the discussion to include other models and expert opinions that vehemently disagree [29] with his assessment.

Eminent epidemiologist and bio-statistician Prof. Knut Wittkowski [30] has been an outspoken critic of lockdown and social distancing from the outset. In a recent interview, Perspectives on the Pandemic [31], he spoke about the Ferguson model:

"It does not make any sense. I have no clue [what inspired Ferguson to make his estimates]. I don’t like to engage in conspiracy theories, so, if you have a model that give results that contradict everything else, then you contact your colleagues, you say, ‘Send me your model, let me try it, let us compare what we have, where are we in agreement and what is it that makes my model different from yours?’. This is how science works. We all make mistakes — but we don’t present the results without first double-checking."

Even Dr Anthony Fauci, Ferguson’s counterpart in the US, has also cast doubt [32] on the efficacy of these models to determine government response to any given virus:

"I’ve never seen a model of the diseases I’ve dealt with where the worst case actually came out […] they always overshoot."

The fact that Ferguson ploughs on regardless — and without any reference to his appalling record and disastrous consequences for the British public — suggests that he functions largely as an outreach agent for actors with vested interests who are exploiting him to keep the Government on track with their own profit-driven Covid–19 campaigns.

The Big Pharma monopoly dictating the “new normal” in global healthcare



CEPI launches at the 2017 Davos meeting.

Who are CEPI? CEPI is the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. CEPI was launched [33] at Davos in 2017 by the governments of Norway and India, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the British-based Wellcome Trust global health “charity”, and the World Economic Forum. CEPI is described as an “innovative partnership between public, private, philanthropic and civil organisations”, to which I would add governments: the coalition has received investment from the governments of Germany, Japan, Australia, the UK, Belgium and Canada. Their primary role [34] in relation to Covid–19 is the “development of platforms that can be used for rapid vaccine development against unknown pathogens” (2018).

Historian and author Prof. Michel Chossudovsky [35] is convinced that CEPI is “seeking a monopoly role in the vaccination business, the objective of which is a global vaccine project”. As I have previously reported, CEPI is key to the success of the Gates “vaccine decade” project, which reaches its conclusion in 2020 — coinciding with the outbreak of Covid–19. CEPI brings together the main players in biotechnology, Big Pharma and associated global health charities, governmental agencies, and university R&D to drive us towards global immunisation.

CEPI’s euphemistically named “wider community” is represented by five non-voting members or observers; these include the World Bank, which is the principal financial institution holding CEPI funds, and a representative from the WHO. Every governing body or complex that is promoting global immunisation registers the same entities as influencers and sponsors. Again and again, the conflict of interest question must be raised in relation to the Covid–19 response. [my emphasis - Tintin]

[to be continued.....]

[silvanelf]

Posted by shaberon (here)
This is an odd situation where we have to contrast the fact that...something is sketchy and unknown and not as dangerous as we may be led to believe, but, there must be some places where sickness and death is a bit beyond the norm. I mean, we could toss all the statistics out the window, but it is hard to ignore an overly-large pile of bodies.

This image speaks for itself:

Workers bury the dead in mass grave on New York City's Hart Island amid coronavirus outbreak



source; https://s2.reutersmedia.net/resource...SA-HART-ISLAND

[shaberon]

Posted by Tintin (here)

"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas." — Dr George Brock Chisholm, who served as the first Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 1948 to 1953

I did not realize that; I never paid any attention to it and just presumed that WHO was part of some derivative alphabet soup agencies from the 1960s or thereabouts. It is not just part of the core of the United Nations, but is a successor of a similar Health Organization from the League of Nations. Chisholm was vehement about the word "World".

According to Wiki, in 1934, he predicted the coming of World War II, in a Canadian Psychiatric Journal. His early specialty was mental health.

Others placed Chisholm among three prominent Humanists who early on headed important United Nations agencies: Julian Huxley of UNESCO and John Boyd-Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

He apparently first became controversial for saying children should not be taught to believe in Santa Claus, the Bible, or have their parents' views imposed on them, and should become intellectually independent.

A UBC Biography on him does refer to world government four times, somewhat along the lines of he thought a new system would work better. The actual quote above--erasing individuality, which completely contradicts his known stance--has no actual source and appears to have been put in his mouth by the John Birch Society.

It is entirely possible that like the Huxleys, he knew the WWII script by 1934, more by being around it than doing it themselves.

The quote however looks like cointel from the usual source.

That is why I say the free press is already painted they way they like it. This is almost always the same thing, every single time you see it.

[DaveToo]

Posted by AutumnW (here)
The U.S perhaps has seen no AVERAGE increase in overall deaths. This is due to lockdown efforts, so the number of deaths, due to the virus, have been mitigated by prevention.

Secondly, in densely populated areas that delayed lock down deaths have increased significantly. If you observe charts for those areas you will see a pronounced hockey stick pattern. These numbers offset the average decrease in overall deaths you would see in normal times, if everyone was shut in.

Sorry Autumn but I have to say this is pure and utter bull****!
You have been taken to the cleaners.
You have been had.

Thank the good Lord that we have all those brave nations and U.S. states that did NOT lock down.
Thankfully we can look to them as a 'control'.

And when we do we see absolutely NO DIFFERENCE in the case or death numbers as a percent of the population, compared to those countries/states that did lock down.

[DaveToo]

Posted by silvanelf (here)

Posted by shaberon (here)
This is an odd situation where we have to contrast the fact that...something is sketchy and unknown and not as dangerous as we may be led to believe, but, there must be some places where sickness and death is a bit beyond the norm. I mean, we could toss all the statistics out the window, but it is hard to ignore an overly-large pile of bodies.

This image speaks for itself:

Workers bury the dead in mass grave on New York City's Hart Island amid coronavirus outbreak



source; https://s2.reutersmedia.net/resource...SA-HART-ISLAND

This is old news silvanelf and has been meticulously debunked.
Do careful research on Hart Island, prison inmates etc. etc.

[greybeard]

Posted by DaveToo (here)

Posted by AutumnW (here)
The U.S perhaps has seen no AVERAGE increase in overall deaths. This is due to lockdown efforts, so the number of deaths, due to the virus, have been mitigated by prevention.

Secondly, in densely populated areas that delayed lock down deaths have increased significantly. If you observe charts for those areas you will see a pronounced hockey stick pattern. These numbers offset the average decrease in overall deaths you would see in normal times, if everyone was shut in.

Sorry Autumn but I have to say this is pure and utter bull****!
You have been taken to the cleaners.
You have been had.

Thank the good Lord that we have all those brave nations and U.S. states that did NOT lock down.
Thankfully we can look to them as a 'control'.

And when we do we see absolutely NO DIFFERENCE in the case or death numbers as a percent of the population, compared to those countries/states that did lock down.

I agree with you Dave Too.
Something else barely mentioned
Those with minimum restrictions will survive with their economy intact. and no higher death rate.

The death toll in recession through suicide and other causes is no small thing to be ignored.
Stress a major killer.
Chris

[Mare]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9romNO55yo

[greybeard]

I really hope this interview is correct /genuine
If so a massive act of bravery by the chief medical officer.
Is this a breakthrough where truth comes from a respected expert?
Chris
Ps on listening carefully I have to say that the heading is misleading
The chief medical officer did not say that lockdown was un necessary but I suppose he may have implied that lockdown was not necessary.
Anyway a step forward.
Last night on the BBC News Boris looked very uncomfortable in Parliament when questioned about 10K unexplained deaths in care homes -- the numbers did not add up.
Boris actually looks ill to me.
Now given that the above video is true and Boris was given those facts by the chief medical officer, its no wonder he looks ill at ease.
How is he going to get out of this one?
Who knows the media might actually get this and challenge the decision to go for lockdown.
Here is hoping
Chris

[shaberon]

Posted by shaberon (here)
The actual quote above--erasing individuality, which completely contradicts his known stance--has no actual source and appears to have been put in his mouth by the John Birch Society.

This remark catches my attention because they are the ones who promote Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory.

What are they doing, why do they want to make this doctor look bad, by having him say something about world government there is a better chance someone else may have said?

In the 19th century, there were ideas about it called Synarchy, but mostly just ideas. No one had a federal Europe or anything like that. The actual "doing" of it seems to have come in a bit of a storm, right at the beginning of the twentieth century in the Boer War, because it forced the Fabian Society to consider foreign policy.


There was no question whether it was a capitalist war, in perfectly plain terms we use now, done by the rich for the rich and so forth. It did not have public support, but, due to Propaganda, it was:

a possible jingoistic aberration on the part of Britain's citizens

And due to the spread of printing and literacy in the working class, it was:

a turning point in the use of propaganda, both by the British government and the national press, in shaping public opinion.



The British Newspaper Archive has no problem telling us:

it is possible to illuminate the various propaganda mechanisms used during the course of the Second Boer War, and how these would come to be used on a much larger scale in the coming First World War.


Due to the issue of the war, the Fabian Society split; a fair number would in no way support a capitalist war. Some of these wound up leaving the group, thereby weakening that part of it. Some, however, supported British imperialism as a means of disseminating enlightened principles of governance throughout the world. The Fabians rose from "a few" to tens of thousands. British foreign investment increased, and it particularly increased in the United States.

One of the guiding hegemons was Shaw who concocted Fabianism and the Empire (1900) which for instance around p. 24, suggests that gold mines and armaments should eventually wind up in the hands of the "Federation of the World", but, until then, remains firmly with Empire or specifically the British one.

So what has happened here is that a political theory of world governance has made its way into policy of a structure which rapidly gains power; it has British supremacy, mind control via the press, and money connections to the U. S.

The Fabians themselves proudly say:

We pioneered the idea of a United Nations.

The British Fabian Society (or, members) worked with French Synarchy so that World War II happened the way it was intended to. We could say they pioneered the idea of the U. N. and made it happen.

The creator of the British Union of Fascists Oswald Mosely and his wife Cynthia were committed Fabians in the 1920s and at the start of the 1930s. So he left the Fabians and Labour Party becoming in most respects the opposite: Anti-communist; forerunner of John Birch. British Fascists include Lady Queenborough and "Occult Theocrasy".

This bears relevance to our topic inasmuch as how the UN/WHO came to be an authority.

[silvanelf]

Posted by AutumnW (here)
The U.S perhaps has seen no AVERAGE increase in overall deaths. This is due to lockdown efforts, so the number of deaths, due to the virus, have been mitigated by prevention.

There is an average increase in overall deaths -- despite assertions to the contrary. See further below.

Posted by Gwin Ru (here)
COVID INSANITY CONTINUES: US Has Seen No Increase in Overall Deaths in 2020 – Yet Americans Continue to Cede All God Given Rights to the State

By Joe Hoft The Gateway Pundit
Published May 9, 2020 at 7:15am

[...]

It’s time for America to wake up and look at the real numbers behind the China coronavirus. If we are truly experiencing a “historic” pandemic with unprecedented deaths then this should be obvious in the data. We should see our total deaths for the first four months of 2020 greatly exceed the previous years’ numbers where there was no pandemic, but this is not the case.

An average of the total deaths for the first four months of 2020 is misleading, because the outbreak of Covid-19 in the US began in mid March. But if we consider the count of deaths from all causes in the United States on a weekly basis, then you will see an average increase in overall deaths. It's obvious that the report is still incomplete regarding the last two or three weeks.

Source; CDC
Data as of May 13, 2020 

Week ending / Covid-19 Deaths / Deaths from all Causes / Percent of Expected Deaths

2/29/2020          7    57,602     100%
3/7/2020          30    57,325      99%
3/14/2020         51    55,776      97%
3/21/2020        509    55,878      98%
3/28/2020      2,817    58,926     105%
4/4/2020       8,601    66,598     119% 
4/11/2020     13,783    71,784     129%
4/18/2020     13,446    66,767     123%
4/25/2020      9,775    56,914     106%
5/2/2020       4,657    40,582      75%
5/9/2020       1,182    17,410      33%

source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

[Gwin Ru]

Posted by silvanelf (here)
[...]
An average of the total deaths for the first four months of 2020 is misleading, because the outbreak of Covid-19 in the US began in mid March. But if we consider the count of deaths from all causes in the United States on a weekly basis, then you will see an average increase in overall deaths. It's obvious that the report is still incomplete regarding the last two or three weeks.
[...]

See this article as a likely reason for above average death tolls:

REVEALED! Lockdown in UK Caused Almost 10,000 Deaths – Official Medical Reports

[Tintin]

'Who controls the British Government response to Covid–19?' | Part 2

COVID–19: The Big Pharma players behind UK Government lockdown
By Vanessa Beeley
Source: UK Column - May 11th 2020
Also published in Off-Guardian: https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/10/...ment-lockdown/

(Continued from this Post #280 and Post #281, and Post #290)

Just as Sir Patrick Vallance was linked to GSK, so Chris Whitty, the UK Government's Chief Medical Advisor, was on the interim board of CEPI until the permanent board [34] was announced in 2018. Should we be surprised that the UK Government has invested £50 million in CEPI while being advised by Whitty?

Whitty also received [36] Gates funding in 2008: $40m for malaria research in Africa. The fact that Whitty was involved in the kick-start of CEPI, Gates' immunisation monopoly project, should therefore not come as a huge surprise.

CEPI and Imperial College partnership



Ferguson’s model was generated under the auspices of the Vaccine Modelling Impact Consortium [2], hosted by Imperial College — both effectively funded by Bill Gates and Britain's Wellcome Trust (primarily).

In December 2018, [37] CEPI went into partnership with Imperial College, London. CEPI provided funding of US$8.4 million for Imperial College to work on a vaccine platform that can be used to “rapidly develop vaccines against pathogens — even unknown ones”. The platform was appropriately named RapidVac and was focused on producing vaccines for H1N1, rabies and Marburg virus as “proof of concept”. The next step would be to develop vaccines rapidly in responses to “new and unknown pathogens, known as ‘Disease X’”. So, one year before the Covid–19 outbreak, Imperial College was working on a vaccine for “Disease X”.

An Imperial College statement [38] claimed that the partnership of CEPI and IC aimed to develop vaccines “against new and unknown pathogens within 16 weeks from identification of antigen to product release for trials” (emphasis added). This is an extraordinary claim, when vaccines have a typical R&D gestation period of up to fifteen years before being safely approved for public consumption. In addition, we must also always consider that there is a very strong argument [39] against the use of vaccines altogether; perhaps a subject for another article.

Development of Covid–19 vaccines

The genome sequence [40] of Covid–19 was published online in mid-January and researchers reportedly sprang into action. The global quest for a vaccine excompasses some ten to fifteen serious programmes. CEPI is reportedly funding six of these programmes: CureVac, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Moderna, and the Universities of Oxford, Imperial College and Queensland in Australia. We can also now add GSK to the list of participants partnered with the UK Government-assisted CEPI.

GAVI and CEPI partnership, December 2018

In Part One, I discussed GAVI, the self-proclaimed vaccine alliance. GAVI was established twenty years ago and incorporates the members of the Gates Foundation “Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration” consortium: those include, once again, the WHO, the World Bank, UNICEF and governments. The UK Government is GAVI’s top sponsor [2]. In turn, GAVI sponsors the VIMC, where Ferguson models his response to Covid–19 — hosted by Imperial College.

In December 2018 [41], the same month that CEPI went into partnership with Imperial College, the board of GAVI approved a proposal for the Kingdom of Norway to support CEPI through a bond scheme backed by a new Norwegian “pledge to the International Finance Facility for Immunisation [42]” (IFFIm).

Utilising the bond scheme, Norway funded CEPI to the sum of US$58.1 million. Gates-funded, Gates-established GAVI was the broker for this sponsorship deal, which funnelled money to the Gates-funded, Gates-established CEPI. Other sponsors are clearly involved, but I am just making the point of the revolving-door policy in relation to these consortiums that bring together private, public and global health sectors to further vaccine promotion globally. As Gavi’s website proudly states [43], the alliance now vaccinates almost half of the world’s children.

The UK Government blurring the lines between private and public sector when it comes to vaccines



The UK Government not only funds Gates-generated projects indirectly through CEPI and GAVI; there is also a direct collaboration that is off the radar of most reporting on the government’s response to Covid–19. If you enter the search term “Bill Gates” as an implementing partner into the UKAID development tracker [45], a number of vaccine-related projects are revealed.

This week, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, co-hosted the virtual Coronavirus Global Response International Pledging Conference — to “drive forward the global race for coronavirus vaccines, treatments and tests” (emphasis added).

According to information published [46], the UK has already provided £744 million of UKAID for the global response to Covid–19. That includes £388 million in support for new vaccines, tests and treatments. The UK has pledged £250 million to CEPI (the biggest contribution of any country).

£40 million has gone to support rapid development of Covid–19 treatments; £23 million to develop rapid tests for the virus; and £75 million to the WHO critical health systems response. The UK has also pledged the equivalent of £330 million per year for five years to GAVI, the self-proclaimed vaccine alliance.

The UK Government is effectively focusing on the market sector it has most heavily invested in — global immunisation — at a time when the British domestic economy is being forced to its knees by the government response to Covid–19. [my emphasis - Tintin]

Perhaps at this stage, one might still argue that the UK Government has the welfare of its citizens at the forefront of its agenda; but delving a little deeper makes it much harder to draw that conclusion.

The UK Vaccine Network

Not only was Chris Whitty previously sponsored by Bill Gates and on the interim board of CEPI; he now chairs the UK Vaccine Network [47] (UK VN). The UK VN brings together “industry, academia and relevant funding bodies to make targeted investments in specific vaccines and vaccine technology for infectious diseases with the potential to cause an epidemic”.

The UK Vaccine Network provides funding for vaccine development programmes. Projects supported by the DHSC through the UK Vaccine Network are listed here [48].

[Tintin]

[continued from Post #290]

'Who controls the British Government response to Covid–19?' | Part 2

COVID–19: The Big Pharma players behind UK Government lockdown
By Vanessa Beeley
Source: UK Column - May 11th 2020
Also published in Off-Guardian: https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/10/...ment-lockdown/

The UK vaccine network - cont.



Under Chris Whitty’s administration — Whitty is co-lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) — the NIHR and UK Research and Innovation are giving another £20 million [49] to CEPI for Covid–19 vaccine development. This is in addition to the £50 million already given by the UK Government to CEPI.

“It’s Humanity versus the virus” follows World Immunisation Week (April 26th–30th)
The timing of Boris Johnson’s “humanity versus virus” conference is unlikely to be coincidental, following as it does hot on the heels of World Immunisation Week [50].

A document produced by Public Health England [51] (PHE) provides a greater insight into how hard the UK Government is promoting vaccines during the Covid–19 “crisis”. The 2020 theme is “Vaccines work for all” — coinciding with the last year of the Gates “vaccine decade” of the 2010s.

Hashtags like #CarryOnVaccinating [52] are being deployed, and the “vaccines work for all” campaign will focus on “how vaccines — and the people who develop, deliver and receive them — are heroes by working to protect the health of everyone, everywhere”.

The WHO has designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. Why? Because of those professions' “crucial role as early vaccine champions for new parents and parents-to-be and life course vaccination, making sure older adults have their routine protection”. What a clever way to harness the genuinely dedicated nursing staff to promote vaccines to a huge market sector.



The outsourcing of vaccine promotion continues. There are social media memes prepared earlier that can be uploaded and shared to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by an unsuspecting public, who will thus advertise global immunity for free.

The language of the report is sinister in its behavioural nudging: [my emphasis - Tintin]

“Last year, WHO declared vaccine hesitancy among the top ten threats to global health”.

A civilian population in lockdown — desperate to stimulate the economy, to return to work and to avoid being infected with “Pandemic 1” — will be easily gaslighted by such a lexicon into accepting anything that will address the concerns that have been imprinted into their subconscious.

The document details the need to “counter the infodemic”, i.e. expert opinion that does not comply with the Big Pharma/WHO diktats:

If you are looking for information about vaccines, be sure to consult trusted and credible sources, like your health worker, local health authorities, health institutions like NHS.UK, Public Health England, WHO or the members of the Vaccine Safety Net.

[Sub-editorial: Charles Shoebridge (@ShoebridgeC) is as per his Twitter profile a former army officer, Scotland Yard detective and counter terrorism intelligence officer, international politics graduate, lawyer, broadcaster, writer. - Tintin Q]


We are, of course, already seeing this infodemic warfare in action: the YouTube CEO recently announced that YouTube would remove any video deemed to be in contravention of advice being given by the WHO. A recent statement from the Secretary-General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, reinforces the WHO recommendations. Guterres condemns what he claims to be “a dangerous epidemic of misinformation”. Journalist and researcher Michael Swifte described the vaccine agenda as follows:

"The loving embrace of a vaccine administered by the biggest public-private partnership in history. This is what the Secretary General of the UN is promoting."

Reading through this PHE document is a veritable exercise in Behavioural Insights methodology: again, no coincidence, when one considers British expertise in “nudging” the public towards any given pre-determined agendas or decisions that benefit the ruling classes. This excellent article at UK Column provides a comprehensive analysis of the role played in the Covid–19 response by Behavioural Insights.

Public Health England — who are they, and how are they linked to Porton Biopharma?

According to one report, PHE exists to “protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities”. PHE is an “operationally autonomous executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)".

In June 2018, PHE transferred its drug development to a new state-owned company, Porton Biopharma Ltd (PBL), which is wholly owned by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Health (currently Matt Hancock). Perhaps unsurprisingly, PBL has the only UK-licensed anthrax vaccine among its portfolio. We are told that “the future success and revenue growth of PBL will provide PHE with an income dividend which will be ploughed back into the delivery of its priorities”. Once again, we see the revolving door between government agencies and private, for-profit sectors with a focus on vaccines.

Matt Hancock and UK Government commercial interests in Covid–19

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, is also owner of Porton Biopharma during his tenure; but that is not the only tie that Hancock appears to have to for-profit entities that stand to benefit from Covid–19 response strategies.

A recent report in the Byline Times detailed “highly controversial contracts” which will enable British ministers and senior health officials to “mine confidential data from tens of thousands of Covid–19 hospital patients”. These contracts have allegedly been awarded to technology companies “without being put out to competitive tender, NHS has disclosed”. Microsoft is included in those companies; that is, Bill Gates is present.

Babylon Health — the NHS is not for sale (!)



Both Hancock and Dominic Cummings, chief adviser to the Prime Minister, have questionable ties to Babylon Health, a prominent health tech firm implementing AI. Cummings held an undisclosed consultancy job at this healthcare venture: a firm endorsed by the government and at the top of the list to receive a National Health Service (NHS) Fund cash injection of £250 million.

According to an article in The Bureau Investigates, during 2018, Cummings “advised Babylon Health on its communications strategy and senior recruitment just months before its GP at Hand app was publicly backed by Matt Hancock.”

Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary (British opposition spokesman on health), condemned the Cummings/Hancock connection to Babylon:

"The links between Dominic Cummings in the heart of Downing Street, the health secretary and this AI health firm are increasingly murky and highly irresponsible."

In case anyone is in doubt over Hancock’s enthusiasm for the Babylon GP at Hand app, it is highly advisable to read this article published at the British Medical Journal (BMJ), written by Rachel Clark, a doctor specialising in palliative medicine:

Matt Hancock loves Babylon so much he doesn’t merely use its smartphone app, GP at Hand, he gushes enthusiasm for the product at every opportunity. First, at Expo, he name-checked Babylon, among others, as one of the “world’s best HealthTech companies.” Then he gave a speech eulogising the company while literally standing beneath its logos inside its London HQ. Then in comments to The Telegraph he declared a breathless vision for the “revolutionary” app to be “available for all"

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And, last week he featured in a double-page, Babylon-sponsored puff piece in the Evening Standard entitled “Technology can be a great fixer for the NHS.” Its centrepiece was an interview proclaiming Hancock’s ringing endorsement of Babylon: he declared GP at Hand to be “a force for good within the NHS”.

Although this detail may appear to be an excursus away from the involvement of the UK Government Covid–19 health advisory board in the promotion of global vaccine programmes, it serves as a further demonstration of the blurring of lines between commercial interests and the welfare of citizens. [my emphasis - Tintin)

This relationship is highlighted in legendary journalist John Pilger’s latest documentary The Dirty War on the NHS, a film I cannot recommend highly enough for its stark portrayal of the stealth privatisation of the NHS. Babylon Health was founded by former Goldman Sachs banker Ali Parsa, who also co-founded and acted as CEO of a private healthcare company, Circle — the first private business to operate an NHS hospital. That hospital was Hinchingbrooke, which proved to be a disastrous enterprise.

Babylon and Bill Gates
Yes, Bill Gates has a connection to Babylon, too. In March 2020, Babylon’s Rwanda-focused virtual care subsidiary, Babyl, signed a ten-year partnership with the Rwandan government giving every citizen over the age of 12 access to digital health consultations. The project is heavily subsidised by the Rwandan government and the Bill Gates Foundation and promises (!) to “make health care affordable” for even the poorest communities. Again, we must ask to what degree these apps are serving as surveillance instruments for government agencies.

The alleged war criminal and President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and Bill Gates proclaim: “Every vaccine is a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the African economy.”

Babylon and Covid–19



Cue the Babylon Covid–19 Care Assistant app. The app provides a four step care programme to subscribers: information, symptom checker and live chat with healthcare experts, a care plan, and video consultation with a healthcare professional.

We are informed: “The app is free to download. Using the service is free in Birmingham and London through the NHS. However, users located elsewhere will have to sign up for pay-as-you-go or annual subscriptions to the service. Annual plans start from £149. One-off consultations can cost as much as £49 each time.”

Cummings and Hancock — tag team that pushed for lockdown while promoting vaccines




Cummings is accused of pressuring Boris Johnson’s advisers to adopt a draconian lockdown policy to combat Covid–19. If this is true, it must raise the question, yet again, of how much the UK Government's policy is influenced by genuine medical expert opinion and how much by commercial, Big Pharma, interests and agendas — interests and agendas which are demonstrably also those of the UK Government.

Certainly, members of the scientific advisory committee “were shocked, concerned and worried for the impartiality of advice” after Cummings effectively gatecrashed the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergency (SAGE) meetings.

Just this week, Hancock warned that there has been "no greater demonstration in modern history" of a need for a vaccine. Previously, in September 2019, Hancock had stated that the government was looking seriously at mandatory vaccines for state school pupils. Falling vaccination rates for children in the UK prompted Hancock to consider prohibiting self-determination among parents who do not agree with vaccination regimes.

The fact that Cummings used his influence to politicise the SAGE meetings, and that Hancock is not averse to using his influence to promote private sector businesses with links to the NHS, should alert us to the possibility that both individuals are exploiting Covid–19 to further the aims of those whom they are connected to and potentially profit from. Bill Gates takes pride of place at the heart of the advisory network that has introduced and maintained lockdown in the UK — a lockdown not to be relaxed “until a vaccine is available”.

Covid–19 is pushing us towards global health fascism

"One of the questions I get asked the most these days is when the world will be able to go back to the way things were in December before the coronavirus pandemic. My answer is always the same: when we have an almost perfect drug to treat COVID–19, or when almost every person on the planet has been vaccinated against coronavirus." (Bill Gates — Gates Notes)

Covid–19 threatens an imminent “new normal” of global health tyranny and unprecedented government control and surveillance. The SAGE team was very likely derailed by Cummings’ political agenda and undue influence that he brought to bear upon the committee, which should have remained impartial and science-focused.

The most influential members of the UK Government advisory team have demonstrated a blatant conflict of interest through their connections to the Bill Gates empire, but the British Government itself has invested heavily in the global immunisation concept that Gates is engineering through all manner of public and private sector initiatives.

The WHO is the global health governing body and is heavily influenced and financed by Bill Gates. In January 2020, the WHO published its R&D blueprint prioritising novel Coronavirus vaccine clinical trials. The WHO's Working Group for Vaccine Prioritisation aimed in that blueprint to provide guidance and recommendations to vaccine developers and to identify candidates who could be considered for further development and evaluation.

The WHO is effectively a self-regulatory entity in charge of world health but with little public accountability, particularly where vaccines are concerned. The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) was established by the WHO in 1999 to respond to vaccine safety issues of “potential global importance”.

Bill Gates is demanding indemnity against lawsuits before he agrees to distribute vaccines. We are all being fast-tracked into a future where our medical self-determination is in serious jeopardy and where those who decide for us will, potentially, not be held accountable for any health-endangering side effects.

We have already seen the devastating consequences of mass immunisation during the H1N1 epidemic, with questionable Big Pharma transparency regarding risk, as found by those who were given a vaccination that left them brain damaged for life.

Experts in the field have warned against rushing through a Covid–19 vaccine, bearing in mind it can usually take up to fifteen years of rigorous testing prior to approval. Any attempt to compress this process must carry risks. Dr Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told Reuters:

"I understand the importance of accelerating timelines for vaccines in general […] there is a risk of immune enhancement."

In 2009, Dr Wolfgang Wodarg initiated the Committee of Inquiry into the WHO's role in H1N1 ('swine flu') held by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. In this recent interview, Wodarg describes Bill Gates as “crazy” to be attempting to shortcut research and development. Wodarg also talks about the “secret contracts” between states and Big Pharma that perhaps determine the trajectory of vaccine development.

The H1N1 vaccine travesty must serve as a warning against precipitous vaccine development motivated by lockdown cabin fever, when the lockdown itself is looking more and more likely to be orchestrated to achieve precisely this outcome.

At the same time, as the possibility of compulsory vaccination is under discussion, the government intends to roll out a surveillance apparatus that will ensure forever-control over an already politically weakened workforce pushed ever deeper into financial insecurity, first by austerity measures and now by Covid–19.

It is very important to push back against the emotional triggering that is being generated by the state-aligned media and agencies. The behavioural insight experts are working hard to nudge us towards dependency on the state — but we must not surrender our individual and collective independence. We must determine the drivers behind this “crisis”, identify the causes, and deal with the symptoms without succumbing to fear or panic. It is not easy; but our futures depend upon our ability to see what is really going on and to respond accordingly.

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[silvanelf]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
There are many ancient edifices that must be scrutinized because it is these institutions that have lead us to where we are today. If they are not directly responsible for our current plight, they most certainly were not helpful.

We cannot expect every generation to check our facts before adding to them. We must ensure future generations have solid data with irrefutable conclusions to draw on so that their work does not teeter on a foundation of suppositions and assumptions masquerading as fact.

Although we cannot repeatedly reinvent the wheel, we can develop better ways of getting 'around'.

You got everything upside down. The requirement to check our facts before adding to them is a crucial aspect of the scientific method. On the other hand, the desire to have "irrefutable conclusions to draw on" would lead to dogma and blind faith. The basic idea of "irrefutable conclusions" is a dangerous illusion, because that's not the way science is done.

[Ernie Nemeth]

Irrefutable conclusions are not facts, necessarily.

The basic idea of "irrefutable conclusions" is a dangerous illusion, because that's not the way science is done.

That is a conclusion very close to what I would offer, so what's the beef?

Science is just a best guess scenario, mostly based on the concerns of vested interests. It is a story, like history, written by those that managed to gain prominence, often undeserved. Also, we should not confuse technology with scientific advancement. This society is expert at turning small understandings into million dollar gadgets. But the philosophy of science is still in the dark ages, trying to reconcile observation with theory.

[Tintin]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
Irrefutable conclusions are not facts, necessarily.

The basic idea of "irrefutable conclusions" is a dangerous illusion, because that's not the way science is done.

That is a conclusion very close to what I would offer, so what's the beef?

Science is just a best guess scenario, mostly based on the concerns of vested interests. It is a story, like history, written by those that managed to gain prominence, often undeserved. Also, we should not confuse technology with scientific advancement. This society is expert at turning small understandings into million dollar gadgets. But the philosophy of science is still in the dark ages, trying to reconcile observation with theory.

One might also add, and inspired by a recent Chris Martenson slide, the following quote from Upton Sinclair as it relates to those vested interests and the gun behind the head most likely being deployed to proponents of certain aspects of mainstream science and a kind of cowardice. Science, when done properly and thoroughly is of course a good thing, but when it starts to become as untrustworthy and corruptible as (arguably) other types of belief systems, we're in trouble, or not, depending upon how courageous (sic) we are.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

- Upton Sinclair