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When COVID-19 deaths go up, other deaths go down

Koen Swinkels
Medium
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
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CDC data show that increases in the number of COVID-19 deaths coincide with roughly proportional decreases in the number of non-pneumonia & non-influenza deaths.

The result is that the overall numbers of weekly deaths are roughly the same in 2020 as they were in the 4 years prior. (Do note that the 2020 numbers for Week 16 could still be revised upwards)

As to why this is so, there are likely multiple reasons, but part of the explanation may have to do with the way COVID-19 deaths are counted, as described in this (frankly shocking) video: If someone dies and at the time of death was also known to have tested positive for COVID-19 they are automatically counted as a COVID-19 death. In other words, deaths are listed as COVID-19 deaths even when the cause of death was clearly something else.

Comment: See also:

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Gov. Newsom instructs California coroners to examine deaths dating back to DECEMBER for COVID-19

Kerry Crowley
The Mercury News
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:20 UTC
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is instructing coroners to examine whether people who died as far back as December were COVID-19-positive
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And yet he went 'full lockdown' on California
Gov. Gavin Newsom said 86 more people who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus died in California on Tuesday, bringing the statewide COVID-19 death toll to 1,354.

During his Wednesday press briefing, Newsom said the death toll increased by 6.8% over a 24-hour period and provided an indication deaths that took place as far back as December could eventually be added to the state's count.

Following an announcement from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department Tuesday that two individuals who posthumously tested positive for COVID-19 died at their homes in February, Newsom said he has instructed coroners around the state to "dig even deeper" and perform autopsies on individuals who may have died from the novel coronavirus as far back as December, 2019.


Comment: To be clear, the California governor is pushing this in order to find as many 'COVID-19 deaths' as possible in order to increase the death toll he can reasonably claim from 'the pandemic'.

But the real implication is that COVID-19-related deaths in his state in December would - at the very least - make Wuhan one of two or more simultaneous clusters, and possibly place an 'original' cluster in the USA, not China...

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Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein met many times, AFTER the pedophile was convicted

Emily Flitter, James B. Stewart
The New York Times
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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Jeffrey Epstein • Bill Gates
Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in prison, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit.

There were billionaires (Leslie Wexner and Leon Black), politicians (Bill Clinton and Bill Richardson), Nobel laureates (Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek) and even royals (Prince Andrew).

Few, though, compared in prestige and power to the world's second-richest person, a brilliant and intensely private luminary: Bill Gates. And unlike many others, Mr. Gates started the relationship after Mr. Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.

Mr. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, whose $100 billion-plus fortune has endowed the world's largest charitable organization, has done his best to minimize his connections to Mr. Epstein. "I didn't have any business relationship or friendship with him," he told The Wall Street Journal last month.

In fact, beginning in 2011, Mr. Gates met with Mr. Epstein on numerous occasions — including at least three times at Mr. Epstein's palatial Manhattan townhouse, and at least once staying late into the night, according to interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the relationship, as well as documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Comment: Incidentally, shared obsessions include eugenics, 'editing' human genes, and a 'master-race':

Jeffrey Epstein dreamed of seeding 'master-race' with his DNA, planned 'baby factory' at his New Mexico ranch

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Take 2

Corbett Report: Speaking Truth to Power in Covid-1984 - Kit Knightly on Off-Guardian's Corona Coverage


Corbett Report
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:51 UTC
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Kit Knightly of Off-Guardian.org joins us to discuss the site's ongoing coverage of the corona crisis. From experts questioning the panic to death figure over-estimates to pushback against the new normal, today we highlight the work of those who are speaking truth to power on the defining event of our age . . . and point out those who are cheering on the out-of-control police state.

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War Whore

Whitney Webb on the Rise of a Biotech Industrial Complex Under COVID-19

Mnar Muhawesh
MintPress News
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:45 UTC
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Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence.

In this episode, we are joined by independent journalist Whitney Webb. Many of our readers and listeners are familiar with Webb from her extraordinary work at MintPress as a staff writer and investigative reporter. She is now a contributor and is working on her first book about Jeffery Epstein and his ties to the Deep State.
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Bizarro Earth

Genocide of the 'impure': Surge in Do Not Resuscitate orders for learning disabilities patients issued during UK lockdown

Rebecca Thomas
Health Service Journal
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
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A learning disability care provider said it has received an "unprecedented" number of do not resuscitate forms from doctors that it believes to be illegal.

Turning Point, which provides supported living and residential care for people with learning disabilities, has raised concerns to HSJ that it has received 13 "unlawful" do not attempt cardio-pulmonary resuscitation or do not resuscitate orders from hospital specialists and GPs since the beginning of April, half of which came in the last week.

The provider said that, of the orders it usually receives, around 12 each year would require a legal challenge.

Turning Point, which operates facilities across the country, plans on challenging the lawfulness of the orders received this month, which it said appear to have been carried out without consultation with patients or their families.

Comment: This is just further proof that hysteria can make even those professionals entrusted with our lives act unconscionably:

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Bullseye

This pandemic is over. Now let's stop the economic suicide and get back to work

George Gilder
RealClear Markets
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:58 UTC
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With the latest reports of plummeting death rates from all causes, this crisis is over. The pandemic of doom erupted as a panic of pols and is now a comedy of Mash-minded med admins and stooges, covering their ifs ands and butts with ever more morbid and distorted statistics.

The crisis now will hit the politicians and political Doctor Faucis who gullibly accepted and trumpeted what statistician William Briggs calls "the most colossal and costly blown forecast of all time."

An egregious statistical horror story of millions of projected deaths, suffused with incense and lugubrious accents from Imperial College of London to Harvard School of Public Health, prompted the pols to impose a vandalistic lockdown on the economy. It would have been an outrage even if the assumptions were not wildly astronomically wrong.

Flattening the curve was always a fool's errand that widened the damage.
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Question

Hidden outbreaks: Amid signs the coronavirus came earlier, Americans ask: Did I already have it?

Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon and Thomas Fuller
Boston.com
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:09 UTC
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© Juan Arredondo / The New York Times
In January, a mystery illness swept through a call center in a skyscraper on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Close to 30 people in one department alone had symptoms — dry, deep coughs and fevers they could not shake. When they gradually returned to work after taking sick days, they sat in their cubicles looking wan and tired.

"I've started to think it was the coronavirus," said Julie Parks, a 63-year-old employee who was among the sick. "I may have had it, but I can't be sure. It's limbo."

The revelation this week that a death in the United States in early February was the result of the coronavirus has significantly altered the understanding of how early the virus may have been circulating in this country. Researchers now believe that hidden outbreaks were creeping through cities like Chicago, New York, Seattle and Boston in January and February, earlier than previously known.

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Corona

Looking into the crystal ball - What will happen next in the corona crisis?

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:02 UTC
COVID Predictions
© Corbett Report
Sometimes it isn't all that hard to predict the future. All you have to do is listen to what the social engineers are telling you they're going to do.

For example, when the neocons tell you that we need a "new Pearl Harbor" to justify a transformation of America's military, you can bet a new Pearl Harbor is going to arrive as soon as they get into office.

And now, after years of Bill Gates warning us that a pandemic was going to strike and utterly transform the world as we know it. He even went so far as to "simulate" the exact scenario we're living through just before we started living through it.

So, you see my point. Sometimes seeing what's coming next is just a question of listening to what the planners are telling us. Keeping that in mind, let's look at four predictions for how the coronavirus crisis is likely to proceed from here.
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Snakes in Suits

'Conjured up out of nowhere': Adviser reveals UK govt's 2-meter coronavirus distance instruction based on 'muddy science'

James Gant
Daily Mail
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 19:22 UTC
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© Reuters / John Sibley
Social distancing orders for people to keep two metres apart to stop the spread of coronavirus is not based on any scientific research, a government adviser has warned.

Robert Dingwall, from the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said the rule was 'conjured up out of nowhere'.

The sociology professor at Nottingham Trent University said scientific evidence supports a one-metre gap, but the two-metre advice was a 'rule of thumb'.

Nervtag feeds into the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which is spearheading the government's pandemic response.
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