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Well Joel , the blind vaxxers wont even read these accurate figures that you research and post. I know this from my stupid dumb full on vax friends, ah well you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink.

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Nov 9, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley

Here in Sweden a great effort was made to prioritise cancer patients and make sure that they got their treatments same as usual, even if there was a pandemic going on. From what I read, this did not happen in the UK, and should be a significant and measurable factor.

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What you do is so utterly not like what it pulls me to do - and I am do grateful for the difference, as I very much value the information you have put together. Thank you!!

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Dear Joel - also check out this: https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/maternal-mortality-in-russia-tripled

Maternal mortality in Russia tripled in 2021

Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) recently released maternal mortality figures for 2021. The numbers raise some questions.

482 expectant mothers died in Russia last year—up from 161 in 2020, an increase from 11.2 to 34.5 per 100 thousand live births. 90% of the recorded deaths in 2021 were due to causes not directly related to pregnancy.

Officials “attributed the sharp increase in maternal mortality to coronavirus, but the cause could also be genetic COVID vaccines, which in Britain were recently recognized as unsafe for pregnant women. Mass vaccination in the Russian Federation took place in 2021, but not in 2020,” Russian outlet Nakanune reported on November 8.

The same outlet revealed in September that Russia’s birth rate had plummeted nine months after compulsory vaccination decrees were adopted nationwide in autumn 2021.

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Nov 9, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley

At least in the case of Sweden, the number of death cases is a mix of those who died due to and those who died with. Medically, it's a [huge] difference, but politically, it's the same. It has turned out, that only a minority of the dead actually died due to, but SCB are not allowed to show that kind of information due to [bad] politics. However, this is not unique to Sweden ...

Btw, noted a misspelling. SEB is one of the four major banks in Sweden. SCB is the one. (<i>Statistiska CentralByrån/Central Bureau of Statistics</i>)

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Still just a rounding error though off the total number of deaths in this multi year time period and in the big scheme of things.

Seems like nothing has made and could have made a difference.

Or, in short: Virus gonna virus.

As was common and accepted knowledge and practice pre Gates, Ferguson, Farrar&co.

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Thanks Joel. I seem to recall that Sweden apologised for getting its care of the elderly wrong during the first year. It follows that comparing E&W to Sweden may not fully describe best practice.

I'll also point to the UK's Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) in April of 2020 that suggests the UK healthcare was Worst in Class worldwide. (showing 21% today vs 16% in 2020).

Re masks : the link below has a "projections" button. The "projections" included the modelled effect of masking and distancing. Often the "projection" lagged the data by a month or so, and it was possible to tell therefore that the masks made no observable difference to the current outcome.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

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