I'm also from BC and your work has been invaluable in my legal case against my employer for forcing a no jab, no job mandate on the workforce. Thank you for keeping journalism alive.
It is not even deadly to elderly with several comorbidities. I know a couple in their 80s both well overweight, diabetic, one a heart patient, who had it early on and said it was like a mild flu. There is this 114 year old nun in France, now she is 116. A 92 year old friend had it last month (despite 4 jabs) and said it was a flu. I know only 3 who were really sick from it, one 40some, one 68, one 60, without comorbidities. There are several theories why some people get sick and others don't. But I think for most it just passed us by.
There were many people who were pointing this out in March and April 2020 but this was ridiculed. While I was against most of the measures from the beginning, this was a particularly good article regarding the issues:
Great article Rav. It's worth mentioning that Cambridge University's Biostats agrees the extremely low IFRs in Dr. Loannidis's paper. See link below and scroll to the Epidemic Summary for the most recent IFRs.
Second, I dispute the point about excess deaths among the young. They are there. And, in Canada, they're shocking. It's not Covid though--it's the Covid response. The fear-induced response caused the deaths that so many feared. The irony, if not tragic, would be laughable.
Sorry I'm just seeing this now. Happy New Year and thank you everyone for the well wishes. Rav, I will be in contact shortly. I have been busy meeting with lawyers from the BC Human Rights Clinic (it's a free service funded by the Ministry of Justice. In short, if you belong to a political group that is against mandates (not antivaxx), you have political code protection under the BC Human Rights Code. The employer has to prove that injecting you is a bona fide occupational requirement and that they tried to accommodate you to the point of undue hardship. I am an office worker who worked remotely throughout the pandemic and received positive job reviews.
As well as Ionnidis’ figures being an overestimate as they don’t adjust for health status (with most deaths being in the unhealthy) they also overestimate further by:
1. Using official Covid death numbers so including all the ”died with” deaths (eg man falls off ladder but tests positive), and
2. Not accounting for those whose mucosal immunity and / or T cells fight off whatever “the virus” is without seroconversion.
Once you realize that none of this actually had anything to do with a virus, it all starts to make a lot more sense. They were just using covid as a way to scare the population into going along with their "Great Reset" agenda, and to get them to take questionable injections.
The government and medical establishment (which are basically one and the same) downplayed the role obesity played in fatality. I would guess many of the people who succumbed to Covid could also have been carried off by the flu or a cold that affected the lungs.
It was indeed a mechanism to instill maximum fear and panic of the virus on the one hand ("millions and millions will die"). On the other hand, euphemisms were used to portray measures against the virus as comparatively harmless, trivial and banal: https://twoplustwo.substack.com/p/from-social-distancing-to-post-vac
Great article, Rav! While I commend Prof Ioannidis' meticulous (and good-faith) reasearch, this was abundantly clear from the outset and it shocks me that there is still argument surrounding this point. Way back in 2020, I was already looking at the case/fatality rates (which are an over estimate compared with infection/fatality rates) in the limited cases we had in Australia which showed a clear age-related increase in risk of hospitalisation and death. This assessment held up as cases increased (and was mirrored overseas), and it too failed to discern the risk stratification for those who are overweight and/or have comorbidities (not to mentioned the fact that hospitalisations and deaths were counted disingenuously and included people with incidental covid-19). It was also clear early on, through the experience of countries like the US and Israel which started vaccinating early, that the vaccines did not stop infection or transmission. As a middle-aged woman in a healthy weight range and without comorbities correlated with poor covid-19 outcome, I never needed to be vaccinated for my own benefit (especially not with insufficiently tested 'vaccines'), nor would my vaccination protect others. Yet like so many unvaccinated people, I have been publicly vilified, shamed, abused and labelled as a stupid, selfish, right-wing extremist, anti-vax conspiracy theorist (among other things). I still can't quite believe how easy it seems to have been to convince the average person to ignore the blindingly obvious during the pandemic response debacle.
I'm also from BC and your work has been invaluable in my legal case against my employer for forcing a no jab, no job mandate on the workforce. Thank you for keeping journalism alive.
It was the greatest crime in world history!
It is not even deadly to elderly with several comorbidities. I know a couple in their 80s both well overweight, diabetic, one a heart patient, who had it early on and said it was like a mild flu. There is this 114 year old nun in France, now she is 116. A 92 year old friend had it last month (despite 4 jabs) and said it was a flu. I know only 3 who were really sick from it, one 40some, one 68, one 60, without comorbidities. There are several theories why some people get sick and others don't. But I think for most it just passed us by.
Denis Rancourt from Ottawa University has recently released a paper on All Cause Mortality. He was interviewed on Iron Will: https://rumble.com/v1ycyjo-what-really-killed-millions-denis-rancourt.html., Data showed Gov't actions caused the most significant amount of deaths, Vaccines saved no lives, people who die are the fragile, there was no sudden virus, this was induced by gov't.https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?
There were many people who were pointing this out in March and April 2020 but this was ridiculed. While I was against most of the measures from the beginning, this was a particularly good article regarding the issues:
https://aeon.co/essays/a-bioethicist-on-the-hidden-costs-of-lockdown-in-italy
Great article Rav. It's worth mentioning that Cambridge University's Biostats agrees the extremely low IFRs in Dr. Loannidis's paper. See link below and scroll to the Epidemic Summary for the most recent IFRs.
https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/now-casting/report-on-nowcasting-and-forecasting-25th-february-2022/
Agreed!
Two points:
First, The Canadian military was busted for exaggerating the risks (psy op-type stuff). We have no reason to assume other militaries weren't similarly complicit in stoking fear. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/psychological-warfare-influence-campaign-canadian-armed-forces-1.6079084
Second, I dispute the point about excess deaths among the young. They are there. And, in Canada, they're shocking. It's not Covid though--it's the Covid response. The fear-induced response caused the deaths that so many feared. The irony, if not tragic, would be laughable.
It takes a stupid person to make a stupid rule,
And a fool to mind it.
Do not be a stupid.
Do not be a fool.
Sorry I'm just seeing this now. Happy New Year and thank you everyone for the well wishes. Rav, I will be in contact shortly. I have been busy meeting with lawyers from the BC Human Rights Clinic (it's a free service funded by the Ministry of Justice. In short, if you belong to a political group that is against mandates (not antivaxx), you have political code protection under the BC Human Rights Code. The employer has to prove that injecting you is a bona fide occupational requirement and that they tried to accommodate you to the point of undue hardship. I am an office worker who worked remotely throughout the pandemic and received positive job reviews.
As well as Ionnidis’ figures being an overestimate as they don’t adjust for health status (with most deaths being in the unhealthy) they also overestimate further by:
1. Using official Covid death numbers so including all the ”died with” deaths (eg man falls off ladder but tests positive), and
2. Not accounting for those whose mucosal immunity and / or T cells fight off whatever “the virus” is without seroconversion.
Once you realize that none of this actually had anything to do with a virus, it all starts to make a lot more sense. They were just using covid as a way to scare the population into going along with their "Great Reset" agenda, and to get them to take questionable injections.
Survival/fatality rate for 60-69, 70-79 and over 80 missing. Why not publish those too?
Even the CDC doesn’t have them.
Is there a breakdown by underlying condition? And by underlying condition & age?
The government and medical establishment (which are basically one and the same) downplayed the role obesity played in fatality. I would guess many of the people who succumbed to Covid could also have been carried off by the flu or a cold that affected the lungs.
It was indeed a mechanism to instill maximum fear and panic of the virus on the one hand ("millions and millions will die"). On the other hand, euphemisms were used to portray measures against the virus as comparatively harmless, trivial and banal: https://twoplustwo.substack.com/p/from-social-distancing-to-post-vac
Keep up the good work, Rav!
Great article, Rav! While I commend Prof Ioannidis' meticulous (and good-faith) reasearch, this was abundantly clear from the outset and it shocks me that there is still argument surrounding this point. Way back in 2020, I was already looking at the case/fatality rates (which are an over estimate compared with infection/fatality rates) in the limited cases we had in Australia which showed a clear age-related increase in risk of hospitalisation and death. This assessment held up as cases increased (and was mirrored overseas), and it too failed to discern the risk stratification for those who are overweight and/or have comorbidities (not to mentioned the fact that hospitalisations and deaths were counted disingenuously and included people with incidental covid-19). It was also clear early on, through the experience of countries like the US and Israel which started vaccinating early, that the vaccines did not stop infection or transmission. As a middle-aged woman in a healthy weight range and without comorbities correlated with poor covid-19 outcome, I never needed to be vaccinated for my own benefit (especially not with insufficiently tested 'vaccines'), nor would my vaccination protect others. Yet like so many unvaccinated people, I have been publicly vilified, shamed, abused and labelled as a stupid, selfish, right-wing extremist, anti-vax conspiracy theorist (among other things). I still can't quite believe how easy it seems to have been to convince the average person to ignore the blindingly obvious during the pandemic response debacle.