I am going to ask those of you for whom this makes sense to share it, at least the numerical part. We are being led by crooks and delusional fools, and honest data and science are the only truly good antidote.
If you are not daily feeling some low grade combination of rage and nausea, you have failed to understand the situation.
I calculated, for 8 nations, both the death rate from COVID-19 (claimed: I used the official numbers, which are clearly bogus in the United States), and the overall background death rate from all causes.
I challenge you to tell me, from these numbers, which countries are busting down doors to catch COVID violators, and which never really did the mask thing at all, much less locked people up for the crime of breathing within their jurisdictions. You can’t do it.
MASS DELUSIONAL PSYCHOSIS. Fear induced hallucination. Crime of global and unprecedented scale and audacity. These are the words.
Here are the numbers:
Australia: 1in 25,000 (Back ground 1 in 153)
Finland: 1 in 10,000 (1 in 102)
France: 1 in 1,240 (1 in 111)
Spain: 1 in 1,000 (1 in 110)
Sweden: 1 in 1,400 (1 in 117)
Switzerland: 1 in 1,800 (1 in 128)
UK: 1 in a 1,000 (1 in 107)
USA: 1 in 1,200 (1 in 117)
As a general rule death rates are exactly that: rates, as expressed in a number per 1,000. If you divide 1,000 by the rate, you get these numbers, or something close to them.
If I might state the obvious, in 9 months the amount of death in most cases has not risen above 10% of the total expected death, but the economic and psychological costs are still accruing, and cannot yet be calculated, but are OBVIOUSLY going to be enormous and on-going for many years to come.
And to this I would add the POLITICAL cost of teaching so many people passive–and indeed AGGRESSIVE–compliance to patently nonsensical constrictions in their freedom in all aspects of their lives, including their freedom to speak their minds; to assemble; to work; to visit bars, restaurants and movie theaters; to enjoy live music and theater; and to be in public outright without being molested and attacked for refusing to comply with anti-scientific mask mandates.