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Dilemmas

How many of you remember that cute little saying, “when you and a friend are being chased by a lion, you do not have to run faster than the lion, but merely faster than your friend.”

In my bizarre way of thinking I thought of that saying when I was reading an article by Joseph Mercola. (For those of you not familiar with him, Dr. Mercola is an American alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and Internet business personality.) His opinion piece from The Epoch Times, Health was titled “US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Decline.”

Granted Dr. Mercola is not infrequently at odds with how the AMA, CDC, NIH, etc think, but the following is from the Main Stream Media …according to the latest statistics reported by The New York Times, August 31, 2022: life expectancy in the United States dropped precipitously in 2020 and 2021. In 2019, the average life span of Americans of all ethnicities was nearly 79 years. By the end of 2021, two years into the COVID pandemic, life expectancy had dropped to 76 — a loss of nearly three years.

Right now you are probably thinking … “not a big surprise, as Covid killed a lot of people.” However, here is where that above saying about the lion comes in. For lack of a more P.C. way of putting it – in 2020, Covid thinned the herd. What I mean here is that the elderly and those with a variety of additional risk factors were, in essence, killed off by Covid in 2020. In other words, that lion caught the slowest runners, or according to another old saying, the low-hanging fruit was picked first. However, the dilemma is not 2020, but rather 2021. Why did the decrease in life expectancy continue in 2021?

And furthermore, excess deaths in 2021 far exceeded deaths labeled as COVID deaths. (“Excess deaths can be calculated by comparing the present death rate compared to the death rates in years past [reported deaths – expected deaths = excess deaths]).

So if there was an increase in ‘excess deaths’ in 2021, and this excess was not due to Covid, what was it due to? A dilemma!

Dr. John Campbell, retired nurse teacher, has reviewed  excess death data in Scotland, where excess mortality is now so high across all age groups that the government has launched a formal inquiry to determine the cause. Data show excess deaths are 11% above the five-year average, and have remained above average for the past 26 weeks.

Excess deaths are also soaring in England and Wales. As reported by The Telegraph, August 18, 2022, for 14 out of the past 15 weeks, England and Wales have averaged an extra 1,000 non-COVID deaths per week above the seven-year average, and the percentage of people dying at home is disproportionally higher than expected (28.1% higher than statistical norm).

According to The Telegraph, the spike in excess deaths became very noticeable around the end of April 2022, and, if this trajectory continues, the number of non-COVID excess deaths will outpace COVID deaths in 2022. 

What about in the U.S?

A National Institutes of Health preprint, published mid-May 2022, reviewed excess all-cause mortality across 3,127 counties in the U.S. between March 2020 and December 2021. While a majority of the excess deaths were attributed to COVID (which we know possibly only means they had a positive PCR test at the time of death, or within a certain time period of death), 171,168 excess deaths were not attributable to COVID. So, why did so many people die that “shouldn’t” have? 

The dilemma continues. The plot thickens!

Unexplained deaths among children under the age of 19 as well as unexplained deaths in young healthy adults has increased. Hmmm! 

The dilemmas continue even more so!

Without beating around the bush, Dr. Mercola explains these various dilemmas by postulating that the excess death rate, especially in younger adults, is due to the Covid vaccine.

Is his conclusion true? Frankly, I do not know, but, to me, it is indeed plausible. However, do not worry since ‘those that know best’ will be working overtime to explain these dilemmas … NOT!

9/21/22

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