About 3 million Americans die each year. The CDC makes this a hard number to find, since they don’t publish it, as far as I can tell. They publish a death rate per 100,000. You have to calculate it, based on about 330 million Americans.
Actually, here is one number, on page 6 of this report: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db427.pdf
Rounded slightly up, 3.4 million Americans died in 2020. For 2019, when I ran the numbers in about April or May of 2020, it was between 2.8 and 2.9 million. That is already an overall increase in mortality of 500-600,000 people. Blame COVID. Don’t blame COVID. It is still a number that warrants vastly more than the ZERO exploration I’ve seen in the public media.
And I think we know why we haven’t seen that exploration.
As far as I can tell, the numbers for 2021 are not out yet, but do you not think OneAmerica had the death numbers in Indiana, both among people they had covered and people they had not, down to the last death by noon on January 1st? After a year like that, everyone wants to know the damage.
Here is the thing: one of the beauties of free markets is you get competing interests. The GOVERNMENT, and the DEMOCRATS, mainly–although there have been a lot of Republican Quislings too–want to count UP COVID deaths, and count DOWN all other deaths. They want everything they did to look reasonable, and SUCCESSFUL.
[I should note that you may assume it would be the opposite, that they would want less COVID deaths so as to make it appear they reduced them. But the reality is that TRUE COVID deaths actually WERE quite low. It was a bad flu year, if you count people who REALLY died FROM COVID. That is my view. So they had to vastly increase them to justify the drama and justify the historically unprecedented lockdowns and masks and all that, which never had any science behind them. You can only do that sort of thing when you bullrush people screaming ITS AN EMERGENCY, then censor and shut down all the people who STILL want to stop your aggressions on freedom and common decency.
So the game is to keep high numbers–which are high enough to justify on going fear, ongoing repression, and make the usual idiots think its good policy, necessary, and its architects good and wise people–while avoiding any awareness on the part of anyone that you just killed 2 people with your medicine for every one you can even on the most generous standard claim to have saved.
And I will note that all this is CURRENT numbers. We can’t know how many people will die directly or indirectly from the effects of these Messenger RNA injections in coming years. Those numbers will presumably be as undercounted as they are now, and as COVID numbers have been overcounted. There will in any event be some true ambiguity.]
With the NIH and CDC they can likely get away with their Fun With Numbers. There are a thousand ways to lie with statistics, and with this much practice they are no doubt great at it by now.
But OneAmerica is looking at a huge loss of profit with all this, and they are going to want to limit their losses in 2022, which may well mean a full court press to get back to normal. That would make sense. Lobbying efforts. Speeches to Congress. Spots on Tucker Carlson.
Their bean counters gave them a worst case scenario, using the numbers they had on COVID (which were almost certainly HONESTLY calculated, using the data of someone like John Ionniddis), and they exceeded that worst case scenario probably 3-fold or more. Absolute catastrophe. Maybe they are reinsured–that’s what derivatives in some forms do–maybe not. They are rich, but this sort of thing is not why anyone is in business.
And the 40% absolute increase in overall mortality will vary State by State. I think OneAmerica mainly or only works in Indiana, so their numbers will apply to Indiana, but a change of that magnitude has be approximately as large everywhere. I would assume it is BIGGER in places like New York and California, and smaller in places like Florida and Texas. We don’t have the numbers yet, but it may be the life insurance companies who spill the beans because they are losing their shirts and need to get this shit fixed PRONTO.
Here is the main point of this post. The main event. The meat of the matter: if 3.4 million people died in 2020, and 2.9 million in 2019, and the overage relative to a normal year was forty percent, then if I use 3 million as a baseline, then 40% of that is 1.2 million.
Logically, if 1.2 million MORE people died in 2021 than were predicted (and I don’t know if this is relative to 2020, which was already an outlier, or historical averages) then THE COVID POLICIES OF THE DEMOCRATS KILLED 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE, just in 2021, and just in America.
Ponder that. Ponder it carefully.
At the VERY OUTSET of all this, way back in April or May or June of 2020, I looked up that quote from the Big Short, where Brad Pitt brings his young proteges down with the sober reflection that a mere 1% increase in unemployment kills 30-40,000 people EVERY YEAR it lasts.
I cited this quote often. I linked the BBC broadcast where they evaluated this claim and found it plausible, even if it was impossible to say with confidence a precise range in any given set of circumstances. That more people died of all causes in bad economic conditions seemed obvious, and the only debate was really about how to predict the numbers in a coherent and reasonably accurate way.
But STRESS KILLS. If there were some way to know the average blood pressure of the populace as a whole, it most likely went up 10-20-30 points during the lockdowns, and mask mandates, and the “get this jab or lose your fucking job asshole” bullshit. A lot of people got locked up with people they realized they didn’t like. A lot of divorces happened. A lot of ARGUMENTS, about money, about unresolved stress, about being in the same fucking room all day every day for months on end with fucking cops yelling at you if you took a fucking walk in the park.
People stopped getting checkups. Our kids stopped getting the immunizations that actually ARE immunizations. None of the vax folks want to talk about that. Cancers grew without people seeing doctors. Heart conditions worsened. People put guns to their heads and pulled the trigger. They ran into trees or oncoming traffic while drunk driving. They stuck a needle in their arms that was removed by the coroner.
And do you not think these numbers are not going to found EVERYWHERE? In Germany? France? The UK? The Netherlands? Even in Japan. Even and perhaps especially in China, which of course will not report them. Xi is even less honest than Fauci, and that is saying something.
This whole thing is a fucking disaster. It is a global catastrophe driven by ABSOLUTE INCOMPETENCE of such staggering stupidity that I continue to find it impossible to see it as accidental, or driven by other than venal and ideological forces.
I’ve been calling this a Nuremburg Trials worthy crime for some time.
Fauci killed over a million Americans just in the last year. Just think what a forty percent jump in death across Europe and much of Asia looks like. Just think what happens when we add in deaths from hunger and extreme poverty that his policies created all around the world.
Just think how EASY it would have been to allow doctors to TREAT this disease rather than do the worst possible things while waiting for a vaccine that kills more people than it saves, forcing the government to lie on behalf of Big Pharma.
It takes a bigger imagination than mine to fit all that in one brain, the lost lives and LIFE, the cruelty and malice, the greed and the lies, and the KNOWING ALL THIS TO BE WRONG, on the part of so many thousands of doctors and clinicians and experts, who in the main said nothing, and did nothing.
It’s believable. But it’s nauseating. I count myself on the right side of this global human drama, but I don’t have nearly as much company as even mild cynics would have expected. No, you have to view most of humanity as gullible, weak, unprincipled, and cowardly to get to a group this small. It’s tiny, perhaps 5% of the population that really GETS all this, and spoke out often and aggressively.
How can evil lose when 95% of the decent people in the world lack the backbone to say no to evil? It hasn’t been losing. That’s obvious. It’s winning.