Further investigation into the nature of COVID and how fatal it is on its own.

Comparative analysis of Colorado and neighbouring Kansas in terms of all-cause mortality.

Since my last couple of articles have gravitated towards the hypothesis that COVID itself is perhaps less of a factor in determining excess mortality than I have thought up to this point, I have been in some debate with other truth seekers about the robustness of this hypothesis.

I admit it is not as unifying and cohesive as I would normally like before making any rock solid claims.

However, I did say I would investigate further, especially the US data since there is plenty of it and contiguous states with similar climate and demographics but potentially different COVID responses.

One such pair that stuck out in my preliminary analysis is Colorado and Kansas.

For the benefit of my American readers who don’t reside in these states, here they are on a map!

In previous years, much like the different European countries in my last analysis, the ebb and flow of their seasonal, excess mortality has been tightly correlated:

And so, when things don’t line up in the COVID era, I’m left pondering the same question. Why does this consistent pattern of seasonal mortality associated with respiratory pathogens break down in the presence of a seasonal respiratory pathogen, “novel” or not?

And we’re not just talking a little bit different. In spring 2020, Colorado gets a load of excess mortality but Kansas gets literally nothing extra.

I thought, perhaps, that COVID was somehow kept out of Kansas but there seems to be enough there to be a concern, even though it’s not as much as Colorado? and even that could be explained by higher testing in Colorado?

And Colorado “locked down” sooner than Kansas as I understand, pretty much exactly on the day that the deaths start to spike?

Thereafter, the COVID case curves are near enough identical.

So too are the excess mortality curves the following autumn and winter which makes me just wonder even more what was different in Colorado to result in so much more death during the spring:

But then, things deviate again the following autumn with Colorado, once again, exhibiting relatively more excess death than Kansas, significantly so in autumn 2021 and persistently since spring 2022.

Now, I don’t really know very much detail between the two states that could account for these disparities. In fact, what I did discover was that the main differences appears to be that Colorado is perhaps somewhat wealthier overall than Kansas?

Then, of course, Colorado is also about 20% more “vaccinated” across the board as well which is also weird because we were told that the jab saved millions of lives. How come relatively more people died in higher vaxxed, wealthier Colorado then?

I don’t profess to have anywhere near all the answers, nor do I care to. This is not for me to prove or even defend. It is, however, the duty of the public health authorities to at least ask the same questions, isn’t it? Perhaps even answer them too since they must have much better data than I have to work with.

Maybe someone in the media might give them a nudge? Because if mortality rates are materially affected by healthcare policy and other “pandemic response” activity, it would be in the public interest to know?