There is no COVID-19. The 'novel' (fiction) virus is the sole product of fraudulent PCR test results. The significant excess deaths in 2020 were a result of the 'protections' placed on care homes. All excess thereafter was a combination of the lockdowns effecting NHS care for acute health problems and then COVID-19 'vaccine' death and injuries both still ongoing. One of the reasons there was no pandemic in Africa is because almost no care facilities for the elderly who are looked after by family or neighbours they way we used to do it in the West. Oh and also very low jab uptake.
I wonder if that is the link with wealth? Do wealthier states/nations have more institutionalised care? Do poorer families look after their elderly relatives in the home because they cannot afford residential care?
I could argue medical intervention is actually ahead of heart disease and cancer as the number one cause of death in the US. I think wealth may contribute to poor health outcomes contrary to the established assumptions. My family had enough wealth to be able to have best insurance allowing many doctors to diagnose and treat many things. I figured out too late that they had actually misdiagnosed or prescribed treatments that weakened and eventually killed my loved ones. I have had a lucrative position with premium health insurance for over 30 years now but I never use it and refuse to see any doctors based on what I witnessed. My colleagues, all with many health conditions and prescriptions and constant doctors appointments, think I’m crazy for not taking advantage of such great health insurance. I tell them I will see a doctor if I have a bullet wound or a broken bone sticking out and blood spurting everywhere. Short of that I will let God’s well designed immune and healing processes do their thing.
Nah, it's just wealthier countries took the funny money from the World Bank and all that comes with that in order to subjugate and train their compliant tv watching population into accepting the great fascist reset or as the tin foil hat people have said for decades the NEW WORLD ORDER. A foundational principle of the NWO is to depopulate as quickly as possible. The ''elite'' see humans as a cancer destroying the Earth. THEIR EARTH !
Nov 30, 2022·edited Nov 30, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley
A big part of the 'pandemic' was the OTT propaganda broadcast 24/7. FEAR and especially chronic fear is well studied to be THE worst thing for the human immune system. The frail elderly (93% of 'covid' deaths in Scotland were in those with dementia/alzheimers) so truly THE most vulnerable and thus easier to kill with a variety of methods including excess sedation. I find it astonishing there has been only moderate focus from researchers and scientists'' on the right side of history'' as to just HOW HARMFUL these lockdown measures were on populations. Coronaviruses are said to be seasonal Nov-Mar so for it to PEAK from April - June was also unusual. It wasn't a new virus doing damage it was the hysteria from the psyop then the jab effects took over.
Exactly! A random dry cough became a sign you were going to drown with pneumonia within days. Shortness of breath due to panic or fear meant a ventilator was required. A cycled up pcr meant you would spread the new Black Death to all your friends.
Ok but I got covid. From my vaxxed bf. And the rest of my household did. Granted, my bf is the only one who tested (and he got the sickest!). This was unlike any sickness I’d ever had. Felt like I’d been violated indeed by a man-made something or other. I didn’t get seriously ill, but the sore throat was horrendous, and the symptoms came in unpredictable and varied ways for all of us (and all of us quite different symptoms, in different orders, too. So--how did I “catch” it?
Dr Peter McCullough did a video yesterday about the vaxxed able to shed mRNA+spike to the unvaxxed. This shedding info was also within the Pfizer documents. It's more of a poisoning than any virus.
I don't think it's wealth as much as it is culture. Colorado is very liberal and compliant, whereas Kansas is mostly conservative farming communities that are self-reliant and distrustful of the government. Conversely, one has got to wonder how the non-lockdown/mandate states of Florida and South Dakota did and are doing?
I don't see how ANYONE being truly honest, Doctor/scientist etc can say with ANY confidence COVID-19 (the disease) is the product of a brand new respiratory virus called SARS-COV2. The symptom overlap with typical respiratory diseases and other ailments is identical. COVID-19 has no unique defining feature. Therefore no PCR test it would not exist and no one would know anything new was going around ! That's psyops for you.
There are some actual bio weapons that could have been used in small settings such as a conference room or bus that could cause severe respiratory problems but would not be “transmissible “ from those that got dosed. I think these may have been used in a few select places to generate personal interest stories and add credence to the narrative.
I lost sense of taste and smell for almost 2 months back in the early 90s. All food tasted like cardboard and every beverage tasted like water. I got depressed and lost weight I didn’t need to lose. Eventually senes came back and I just assumed it was a sinus infection. That’s another reason why I didn’t freak over the narrative, been there, done that. Advantage of old age. When they talk about record heat and global warming, I think back to a summer in Chicago in like 1983 when we had like 10 days over 100. But I guess if a millennial writes that now is the hottest ever, I think they mean in their short lifetime
This is a distinct possibility. I did not offer to marry her, yet I ate her cooking prior to the loss of my senses. Constitution of Rasputin save me in the end.
it's a result of immune suppression due to chronic fear propaganda. Otherwise benign or mild illness is made much worse even unusual due to chronic fear.
I now see my colleagues (some of them) FEAR as they more and more can see (due to the only solution to the con vid) the progression of cancers, clotting, bleedings, heart arrhythmias, progression of aortic before stable measurements, highly elevated and risky hypertension’s, strange infections, auto immune diseases , thrombocytopenia, more of pre eclampsia in before healthy pregnancies which often leads to pre delivery and a lot of stress for the early born baby.
The list is so long for the AEs and heartbreaking to know that it did not have to be that way.
And yes hospitals were empty in the beginning of the FEAR campaign.
And yes, FEAR is a very strong and real factor to induce any type ailment.
Vaccinated journalists do not want to know. The topic is existencially scary for all that did nothing wrong other than believe in health authorities. Global pandemic response policies are extremely dangerous. Humans are ment to organize locally and never ever do gain of function research on viruses. The whole thing is now a mess. Those who have been lying and lied to for 3 years is now agaist free speech. Total SYSTEM FAILURE.
hospital protocols for respiratory illnesses varied widely during the early days of the plandemic. is it possible that colorado used vents, propofol and fentanyl and kansas might have been more inclined to use steroids and iv vitamin c for example?
kansas is also more conservative than colorado and has lower covid shot uptake. to what degree is good old fashioned common sense a variable? colorado panic, straight to the emergency room and the vent, kansans keeping a cool head, less vulnerable to fear porn?
"Covid" wasn't anywhere as it doesn't exist. Your (and many of the "Covid sceptics") resistance on admitting this most important of points blinds you to a degree as to what exactly happened.
"Covid" is nothing more than a nebulous variety of common disease symptoms in the presence of a fraudulent PCR result none of which have ever been proven to be caused or transmitted by a specific microbe.
As to what happened in Kansas/Colorado it is in fact perfectly illustrative of what happened throughout the US which proves how fraudulent the entire "Covid" narrative is.
This is your comment:
"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."
So what is the reason for this?
I will keep this comment to that time period- Spring 2020.
During this “initial wave” only 15 out of 51 (DC) states were impacted by this alleged pathogen. There are multiple examples of this contradiction that you point to here with Colorado/Kansas. It's even more blatant than that as for example the "epicenter" in NYC had the "6 week spike" yet no adjacent regions of suburban NY or NY State had any such death event. We could say the same for areas in NJ, Mass. and a few other places.
The reason is simple and straightforward- the “first wave” of Covid deaths in the US- the 6 week spike- occurred almost exclusively in nursing homes and hospitals- not in the general population. These states all had Democrats as governors who enacted the same policies during the very same week. The other 36 states were not impacted during this time because they were not betrothed to these policies that killed people- some would enact and enforce them later.
In short there were radically different policies not some unique viral event (which destroys the "lab leak" nonsense as well) that caused the radically different outcomes.
Spot on Allen. Geographical discrepancies in the COVID figures can be explained away easily for a number of reasons but fundamentally because of a flawed test and the deaths that were medically accelerated. There is simply no evidence that a novel pathogen by whatever name, existed and indeed all the evidence points the other way. That there was a concerted effort by politicos across the world to indulge in a vile psychological and physical war on their citizens. And it continues.
I like the hypothesis someone had below, and that it is related to the policies in care homes. Since the majority of deaths generally occurr there, whether covid or not. Loneliness kills. Or like in Quebec, where if you had covid in a care home they killed you with morphine. Maybe they did that in Colorado. Maybe it was all the weed they were smoking.
JS: "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?"
That's both your strength and our weakness.
The true expert (if one exists) would express that same humility and uncertainty as you did: "I don't profess all the answers".
The public doesn't want to hear that. They want certainty, they want answers.
The grifters come in and will sound sure of themselves, so the media reports on the most confident voices.
We’ve used to live in Louisville (metro Boulder/Denver) area. In summer of 2020 we traveled east from Colorado through Kansas. Rural Kansas was like another world; nobody cared about COVID. I don’t know how it was in Kansas City and Wichita metro areas. Because Colorado is such a outdoors state, the Governor kept all state parks open, and encouraged people to go out, totally unlike California with their BS measures (arresting surfers and beachgoers). I found Boulder County’s measures, like masking while outdoors, including on trails, unacceptable and I’ve totally ignored these measures. The more “liberal” the location, the crazier the people. I was getting bad looks and such. One day, while riding on a trail a man saw me approaching with no mask, and he decided to go way off the trail not to encounter me. This level of induced fear is criminal and people responsible for this should be brought to justice. Here is a short video of this encounter - https://youtu.be/s91ZTgJgvO4 .
I think you need to look at other parameters. The virus isn’t all that lethal. Almost not at all if treated early. Here in the states we did NOT treat early and in fact, docs were banned from doing so. And then the death protocols were rolled into place and that is really what killed folks here. Then the injections started and now, injected folks ARE more susceptible to any virus, including the various iterations of COVID. And the death protocols have not been ended so early treatment, which could help, isn’t being used nowadays, either. Nor are docs admitting the harms are due to the shots so unless you know someone who is helping injected people recover (and also long COVID as well as early treatments for infection) then you are put of luck. And, it looks like, eventually dead for more and more folks.
For a while I was tracking 7 different midwest states with wildly different covid rules -- their covid curves were identical. It's seasonality! (Or was until the jabs)
Some notes on Colorado and Kansas for your non American readers.
1) Kansas is vast stretches of "nothingness" with very few cities. The largest, Wichita, has metro population of ~600K which accounts for 1/5 of the total population. Kansas ranks 14th in obesity in the US and has a generally older and poorer population. In the US Kansas is the epitome of a "flyover state", i.e., a state that enlightened coastal elite Americans have zero interest in visiting and likely only association is The Wizard of Oz and Superman.
2) Colorado is notable for Denver, metro population of 3 million. Colorado is generally wealthier, younger, and fitter than not just Kansas but most of the United States. They rank dead last in Obesity. Denver is a major airline hub and serves as connection between Los Angelos, Houston, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. If Covid was flowing through unchecked in 2019, then Denver should have experienced one of the earliest hits in terms of disease and hospitalization. Additionally Colorado is a a major tourist destination due it's beautiful mountains and ski resorts, which should have created multiple "super spreader" events throughout November 2019 - March 2020 as this is peak tourist season.
Yet mortality in Colorado was unchanged throughout the end of 2019 until the lockdowns of 2020 began in late March. Again, if the virus was super deadly and grave threat, there should have been a signal in all cause mortality prior to Lockdowns, yet there is nothing.
A quick summary in this imgur file I just made shows total deaths, accidents, covid deaths, and heart disease between KS and CO for years 2019-2021 as a quick snapshot. https://imgur.com/a/bMCMYHi
Notably Colorado, even in the era of Covid and vaccines still had lower deaths/million than Kansas pre pandemic.
This is a very important point the media and Public Health never brings up - why is it that some places have mortality rates 30%-100% higher than other regions? Why do we suddenly present Kansas as "bad" for having 10,743 deaths per million people in 2020 but never cared they had 9,069 deaths per million in 2019?
Why weren't we trying to solve why Utah had 6,000 deaths per million in 2019 while West Virginia had 12,000 per million?
The answer is actually quite obvious, we already had these answers. It was a combination of intertwined factors of age, obesity, poverty, drug use, access to healthcare, etc. All well documented even by the CDC.
Nov 30, 2022·edited Nov 30, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley
It's plausible Democrat Governor Jared Polis was eager to clean up the elder welfare rolls in Colorado and had willing help from his state bureaucracy, more so than Democrat Governor Laura Kelly in Kansas where Republicans put up a good fight when they are not fighting among themselves.
it would be interesting to zoom in on the different counties and jurisdictions within those states. See if the counties adjacent to the state border are similar, or radically different.
"Wealthier" states tend to still have pockets of normal or lower income, and vice versa. If wealth is factor, consider that some of the wealthier areas in Colorado tend to be seasonal homes for people who travel frequently or travel between multiple homes in multiple parts off the country.
Politics may play a part, as the behaviors differ among members of the two parties or unaffiliated. Unfortunately.
I think there could be some impact from higher altitude in Colorado. However, since the curves were similarly prior to that time. It seems odd. It could be the medical “intervention” was more available in Colorado, and that could cause a spike until Kansas got “up to speed”.
Well, I was thinking along the "catch up" lines too. Did some of the poorer nations and states get told to get into gear and that's when their problems started?
Colorado is a big skiing destination. The ski resorts attract a lot of people from all around the world. If memory serves me, the ski towns were some of the hardest hit in the very early stages of the pandemic. Overcrowded ski lodges are a perfect place to spread a respiratory virus.
That's not the say that the world's largest ball of twine in Cawker, KS doesn't have its admirers, but not so many who hop on planes from all around the world.
But Kansas still had sufficient COVID circulating at the same time to make a difference? I don't suppose there were that many frail old biddies hitting the black runs?!
This is a very interesting comparison. Covid just stopped at the border, I guess. It was some kind of invisible virus fence? The data point showing that Colorado's vaccination rate is 20 percent higher is the lede of the article IMO.
BTW, in my article on Twitter giving amnesty to some Covid misinformation spreaders, I used an exchange I had with the Commander from your Reader Comments section to steal the Commander's important censorship point.
Forget Twitter, Substack is what might save us all.
There is no COVID-19. The 'novel' (fiction) virus is the sole product of fraudulent PCR test results. The significant excess deaths in 2020 were a result of the 'protections' placed on care homes. All excess thereafter was a combination of the lockdowns effecting NHS care for acute health problems and then COVID-19 'vaccine' death and injuries both still ongoing. One of the reasons there was no pandemic in Africa is because almost no care facilities for the elderly who are looked after by family or neighbours they way we used to do it in the West. Oh and also very low jab uptake.
I wonder if that is the link with wealth? Do wealthier states/nations have more institutionalised care? Do poorer families look after their elderly relatives in the home because they cannot afford residential care?
I could argue medical intervention is actually ahead of heart disease and cancer as the number one cause of death in the US. I think wealth may contribute to poor health outcomes contrary to the established assumptions. My family had enough wealth to be able to have best insurance allowing many doctors to diagnose and treat many things. I figured out too late that they had actually misdiagnosed or prescribed treatments that weakened and eventually killed my loved ones. I have had a lucrative position with premium health insurance for over 30 years now but I never use it and refuse to see any doctors based on what I witnessed. My colleagues, all with many health conditions and prescriptions and constant doctors appointments, think I’m crazy for not taking advantage of such great health insurance. I tell them I will see a doctor if I have a bullet wound or a broken bone sticking out and blood spurting everywhere. Short of that I will let God’s well designed immune and healing processes do their thing.
We must be brothers!
Nah, it's just wealthier countries took the funny money from the World Bank and all that comes with that in order to subjugate and train their compliant tv watching population into accepting the great fascist reset or as the tin foil hat people have said for decades the NEW WORLD ORDER. A foundational principle of the NWO is to depopulate as quickly as possible. The ''elite'' see humans as a cancer destroying the Earth. THEIR EARTH !
That wouldn't explain Colorado vs Kansas though?
A big part of the 'pandemic' was the OTT propaganda broadcast 24/7. FEAR and especially chronic fear is well studied to be THE worst thing for the human immune system. The frail elderly (93% of 'covid' deaths in Scotland were in those with dementia/alzheimers) so truly THE most vulnerable and thus easier to kill with a variety of methods including excess sedation. I find it astonishing there has been only moderate focus from researchers and scientists'' on the right side of history'' as to just HOW HARMFUL these lockdown measures were on populations. Coronaviruses are said to be seasonal Nov-Mar so for it to PEAK from April - June was also unusual. It wasn't a new virus doing damage it was the hysteria from the psyop then the jab effects took over.
https://www.ajmc.com/view/the-effects-of-chronic-fear-on-a-persons-health
Exactly! A random dry cough became a sign you were going to drown with pneumonia within days. Shortness of breath due to panic or fear meant a ventilator was required. A cycled up pcr meant you would spread the new Black Death to all your friends.
It's not that hard to work out is it ?
Ok but I got covid. From my vaxxed bf. And the rest of my household did. Granted, my bf is the only one who tested (and he got the sickest!). This was unlike any sickness I’d ever had. Felt like I’d been violated indeed by a man-made something or other. I didn’t get seriously ill, but the sore throat was horrendous, and the symptoms came in unpredictable and varied ways for all of us (and all of us quite different symptoms, in different orders, too. So--how did I “catch” it?
I want to understand this not a virus theory.
Dr Peter McCullough did a video yesterday about the vaxxed able to shed mRNA+spike to the unvaxxed. This shedding info was also within the Pfizer documents. It's more of a poisoning than any virus.
So it's simply that Jayhawks are less fearful than Coloradans?
Unless one did not follow WHO care home protocols then you have a valid point ?
I don't think it's wealth as much as it is culture. Colorado is very liberal and compliant, whereas Kansas is mostly conservative farming communities that are self-reliant and distrustful of the government. Conversely, one has got to wonder how the non-lockdown/mandate states of Florida and South Dakota did and are doing?
Wealth probably goes hand in hand with an older population for having saved more and also having the means to keep themselves alive longer.
yes yes yes there is no covid there is no viurs. Amen. The emperors got no clothes. https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/seeing-is-believing
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I don't see how ANYONE being truly honest, Doctor/scientist etc can say with ANY confidence COVID-19 (the disease) is the product of a brand new respiratory virus called SARS-COV2. The symptom overlap with typical respiratory diseases and other ailments is identical. COVID-19 has no unique defining feature. Therefore no PCR test it would not exist and no one would know anything new was going around ! That's psyops for you.
There are some actual bio weapons that could have been used in small settings such as a conference room or bus that could cause severe respiratory problems but would not be “transmissible “ from those that got dosed. I think these may have been used in a few select places to generate personal interest stories and add credence to the narrative.
'zactly biologyphenom good pt
What about anosmia? Until COVID, I hadn't heard of anyone completely losing their sense of smell, and for such long periods of time.
I lost sense of taste and smell for almost 2 months back in the early 90s. All food tasted like cardboard and every beverage tasted like water. I got depressed and lost weight I didn’t need to lose. Eventually senes came back and I just assumed it was a sinus infection. That’s another reason why I didn’t freak over the narrative, been there, done that. Advantage of old age. When they talk about record heat and global warming, I think back to a summer in Chicago in like 1983 when we had like 10 days over 100. But I guess if a millennial writes that now is the hottest ever, I think they mean in their short lifetime
You may have been poisoned and went back to normal after detoxing
This is a distinct possibility. I did not offer to marry her, yet I ate her cooking prior to the loss of my senses. Constitution of Rasputin save me in the end.
it's a result of immune suppression due to chronic fear propaganda. Otherwise benign or mild illness is made much worse even unusual due to chronic fear.
YES!
I now see my colleagues (some of them) FEAR as they more and more can see (due to the only solution to the con vid) the progression of cancers, clotting, bleedings, heart arrhythmias, progression of aortic before stable measurements, highly elevated and risky hypertension’s, strange infections, auto immune diseases , thrombocytopenia, more of pre eclampsia in before healthy pregnancies which often leads to pre delivery and a lot of stress for the early born baby.
The list is so long for the AEs and heartbreaking to know that it did not have to be that way.
And yes hospitals were empty in the beginning of the FEAR campaign.
And yes, FEAR is a very strong and real factor to induce any type ailment.
'Fear is the path to the darkside. Once you start down the dark path forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.'' - Yoda-Star Wars
yep
Vaccinated journalists do not want to know. The topic is existencially scary for all that did nothing wrong other than believe in health authorities. Global pandemic response policies are extremely dangerous. Humans are ment to organize locally and never ever do gain of function research on viruses. The whole thing is now a mess. Those who have been lying and lied to for 3 years is now agaist free speech. Total SYSTEM FAILURE.
hospital protocols for respiratory illnesses varied widely during the early days of the plandemic. is it possible that colorado used vents, propofol and fentanyl and kansas might have been more inclined to use steroids and iv vitamin c for example?
kansas is also more conservative than colorado and has lower covid shot uptake. to what degree is good old fashioned common sense a variable? colorado panic, straight to the emergency room and the vent, kansans keeping a cool head, less vulnerable to fear porn?
Infectious Clones Storm. Why waste it on KS?
Direct release in Denver and Boulder, CO Springs.
KS they were saving for the cows. (from *heat*)
that's the other variable!
"Covid" wasn't anywhere as it doesn't exist. Your (and many of the "Covid sceptics") resistance on admitting this most important of points blinds you to a degree as to what exactly happened.
"Covid" is nothing more than a nebulous variety of common disease symptoms in the presence of a fraudulent PCR result none of which have ever been proven to be caused or transmitted by a specific microbe.
As to what happened in Kansas/Colorado it is in fact perfectly illustrative of what happened throughout the US which proves how fraudulent the entire "Covid" narrative is.
This is your comment:
"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."
So what is the reason for this?
I will keep this comment to that time period- Spring 2020.
During this “initial wave” only 15 out of 51 (DC) states were impacted by this alleged pathogen. There are multiple examples of this contradiction that you point to here with Colorado/Kansas. It's even more blatant than that as for example the "epicenter" in NYC had the "6 week spike" yet no adjacent regions of suburban NY or NY State had any such death event. We could say the same for areas in NJ, Mass. and a few other places.
The reason is simple and straightforward- the “first wave” of Covid deaths in the US- the 6 week spike- occurred almost exclusively in nursing homes and hospitals- not in the general population. These states all had Democrats as governors who enacted the same policies during the very same week. The other 36 states were not impacted during this time because they were not betrothed to these policies that killed people- some would enact and enforce them later.
In short there were radically different policies not some unique viral event (which destroys the "lab leak" nonsense as well) that caused the radically different outcomes.
"Covid" is a fiction Joel- all of it.
yes yes yes no covid no virus!- it's frustrating isn't it! Still trying to point out the obvious, but we won't give up 🙏🏽https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/were-so-far-down-the-rabbit-hole
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Spot on Allen. Geographical discrepancies in the COVID figures can be explained away easily for a number of reasons but fundamentally because of a flawed test and the deaths that were medically accelerated. There is simply no evidence that a novel pathogen by whatever name, existed and indeed all the evidence points the other way. That there was a concerted effort by politicos across the world to indulge in a vile psychological and physical war on their citizens. And it continues.
There was nothing fictional about the tyrannical response.
What caused the spike in the first place? Here in Spain there was definitely a period when the hospitals were full in March. That's out of season.
I like the hypothesis someone had below, and that it is related to the policies in care homes. Since the majority of deaths generally occurr there, whether covid or not. Loneliness kills. Or like in Quebec, where if you had covid in a care home they killed you with morphine. Maybe they did that in Colorado. Maybe it was all the weed they were smoking.
Yes. I think CO was one of the places that mandated an outbreak in every nursing home. (But the coffee hasn't kicked in yet)
As a resident of Colorado, I can tell you it is true that SARS-CoV-2 positive patients were moved into nursing homes.
Thank you for the confirmation!
yes it's related to care homes and loneliness https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/seeing-is-believing
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JS: "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?"
That's both your strength and our weakness.
The true expert (if one exists) would express that same humility and uncertainty as you did: "I don't profess all the answers".
The public doesn't want to hear that. They want certainty, they want answers.
The grifters come in and will sound sure of themselves, so the media reports on the most confident voices.
Only intelligent people claim they don't know something.
We’ve used to live in Louisville (metro Boulder/Denver) area. In summer of 2020 we traveled east from Colorado through Kansas. Rural Kansas was like another world; nobody cared about COVID. I don’t know how it was in Kansas City and Wichita metro areas. Because Colorado is such a outdoors state, the Governor kept all state parks open, and encouraged people to go out, totally unlike California with their BS measures (arresting surfers and beachgoers). I found Boulder County’s measures, like masking while outdoors, including on trails, unacceptable and I’ve totally ignored these measures. The more “liberal” the location, the crazier the people. I was getting bad looks and such. One day, while riding on a trail a man saw me approaching with no mask, and he decided to go way off the trail not to encounter me. This level of induced fear is criminal and people responsible for this should be brought to justice. Here is a short video of this encounter - https://youtu.be/s91ZTgJgvO4 .
I think you need to look at other parameters. The virus isn’t all that lethal. Almost not at all if treated early. Here in the states we did NOT treat early and in fact, docs were banned from doing so. And then the death protocols were rolled into place and that is really what killed folks here. Then the injections started and now, injected folks ARE more susceptible to any virus, including the various iterations of COVID. And the death protocols have not been ended so early treatment, which could help, isn’t being used nowadays, either. Nor are docs admitting the harms are due to the shots so unless you know someone who is helping injected people recover (and also long COVID as well as early treatments for infection) then you are put of luck. And, it looks like, eventually dead for more and more folks.
Lockdown deaths.
For a while I was tracking 7 different midwest states with wildly different covid rules -- their covid curves were identical. It's seasonality! (Or was until the jabs)
I like that your try and look into something and publish an inconclusive result. Shows a degree of honesty in your work.
Can you compare Utah and Colorado? Utah has a state of the art health system that turned tyrannical during the scamdemic. Love your work
Some notes on Colorado and Kansas for your non American readers.
1) Kansas is vast stretches of "nothingness" with very few cities. The largest, Wichita, has metro population of ~600K which accounts for 1/5 of the total population. Kansas ranks 14th in obesity in the US and has a generally older and poorer population. In the US Kansas is the epitome of a "flyover state", i.e., a state that enlightened coastal elite Americans have zero interest in visiting and likely only association is The Wizard of Oz and Superman.
2) Colorado is notable for Denver, metro population of 3 million. Colorado is generally wealthier, younger, and fitter than not just Kansas but most of the United States. They rank dead last in Obesity. Denver is a major airline hub and serves as connection between Los Angelos, Houston, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. If Covid was flowing through unchecked in 2019, then Denver should have experienced one of the earliest hits in terms of disease and hospitalization. Additionally Colorado is a a major tourist destination due it's beautiful mountains and ski resorts, which should have created multiple "super spreader" events throughout November 2019 - March 2020 as this is peak tourist season.
Yet mortality in Colorado was unchanged throughout the end of 2019 until the lockdowns of 2020 began in late March. Again, if the virus was super deadly and grave threat, there should have been a signal in all cause mortality prior to Lockdowns, yet there is nothing.
A quick summary in this imgur file I just made shows total deaths, accidents, covid deaths, and heart disease between KS and CO for years 2019-2021 as a quick snapshot. https://imgur.com/a/bMCMYHi
Notably Colorado, even in the era of Covid and vaccines still had lower deaths/million than Kansas pre pandemic.
This is a very important point the media and Public Health never brings up - why is it that some places have mortality rates 30%-100% higher than other regions? Why do we suddenly present Kansas as "bad" for having 10,743 deaths per million people in 2020 but never cared they had 9,069 deaths per million in 2019?
Why weren't we trying to solve why Utah had 6,000 deaths per million in 2019 while West Virginia had 12,000 per million?
The answer is actually quite obvious, we already had these answers. It was a combination of intertwined factors of age, obesity, poverty, drug use, access to healthcare, etc. All well documented even by the CDC.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0112-rural-death-risk.html
It's plausible Democrat Governor Jared Polis was eager to clean up the elder welfare rolls in Colorado and had willing help from his state bureaucracy, more so than Democrat Governor Laura Kelly in Kansas where Republicans put up a good fight when they are not fighting among themselves.
it would be interesting to zoom in on the different counties and jurisdictions within those states. See if the counties adjacent to the state border are similar, or radically different.
"Wealthier" states tend to still have pockets of normal or lower income, and vice versa. If wealth is factor, consider that some of the wealthier areas in Colorado tend to be seasonal homes for people who travel frequently or travel between multiple homes in multiple parts off the country.
Politics may play a part, as the behaviors differ among members of the two parties or unaffiliated. Unfortunately.
And altitude or religion.
I think there could be some impact from higher altitude in Colorado. However, since the curves were similarly prior to that time. It seems odd. It could be the medical “intervention” was more available in Colorado, and that could cause a spike until Kansas got “up to speed”.
Well, I was thinking along the "catch up" lines too. Did some of the poorer nations and states get told to get into gear and that's when their problems started?
Colorado is a big skiing destination. The ski resorts attract a lot of people from all around the world. If memory serves me, the ski towns were some of the hardest hit in the very early stages of the pandemic. Overcrowded ski lodges are a perfect place to spread a respiratory virus.
That's not the say that the world's largest ball of twine in Cawker, KS doesn't have its admirers, but not so many who hop on planes from all around the world.
But Kansas still had sufficient COVID circulating at the same time to make a difference? I don't suppose there were that many frail old biddies hitting the black runs?!
Disagree with your first paragraph, but you killed it with your second. Do the Kansas City Royals play in Missouri?
This is a very interesting comparison. Covid just stopped at the border, I guess. It was some kind of invisible virus fence? The data point showing that Colorado's vaccination rate is 20 percent higher is the lede of the article IMO.
BTW, in my article on Twitter giving amnesty to some Covid misinformation spreaders, I used an exchange I had with the Commander from your Reader Comments section to steal the Commander's important censorship point.
Forget Twitter, Substack is what might save us all.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/twitter-gives-amnesty-to-some-covid