Excellent read, very distilled information, thank you. I especially appreciated the graphs for the 3 different age groups. I feel better equipped to defend Sweeden’s approach, thank you!
After two years failing to convince almost nobody, I now am just waiting for enough mainstream media to tell my friends and family what was true was true.
Whether those in charge ever really do this I am still unsure of. What I do expect it that they'll continue to lead them on a merry dance with Climate change and occasionally inject some other emergencies as needed.
I commend Joel and everyone else for continuing, and ultimately without them, even the MSM hacks wouldn't have such good analysis available and being constantly thrown at them if and when they do change tack. And actually my partner said she'd have definitely been injected if it wasn't for me, and my 19 year old son is one of only two people his age groups he knows that didn't get it. I couldn't want bigger wins than those.
I know Sweden got it right regarding management of the pseudopandemic, but it doesn’t seem to have helped long term. My best friend has lived in Stockholm for over 15 years. He had the jabs in order to work because his customers were insisting on it in order to enter their premises (He teaches legal English). He was recently told in a letter from the State to get his booster or face possible restrictions on his ability to travel. He told me recently he’d had to show his vax pass to get into a club he’s a member of. When I asked if this was normal, he said “Oh yes, you have to show it to get into all sorts of places now”.
So, from where they were, Sweden is now in much the same place as other European countries, and it’s not really of great importance that they followed established protocols two years ago.
Frankly I have been living as normal since very early. And absent the time, inclination or obvious statistical analysis acumen as you I have the same (or similar from my perspective) truth trajectory. Finally, interestingly, some substackers in the past weeks were seemingly suggesting, if not outright asserting, that Omi is not a variant of CoV2 having pre-dated it (I do wonder where this stream of consciousness has wandered off to BTW). The interesting part is S-gene-target-failure. So in the US fewer than 1% of samples were being sequenced (I believe less than 5% worldwide) yet corporate media were breathlessly heralding the latest Variants Of Concern from which we were finally supposed to be afraid for our children. Suddenly, Omi is everywhere since unlike other variants we can tell from the PCR test that the S gene doesn't flouresce. Well what bullshark that seems to me. The study from the JAMA shows that SGTF (AKA previously essentially a negative test - NO S gene) surpassed SGT+ in March '21. Signaling, from my neanderthal thinking that CoV2, if existed at all, has now been surpassed by common respiratory illness and is endemic. Voila.
I’ve followed Sweden from the very beginning. Remember when the press said their approach it was a disaster early on? It was mainly due to nursing home deaths. Note how the media completely failed to show how New York did even worse? Note how they completely ignored Sweden as lockdown death rates states US states surpassed them by significantly?
Feb 7, 2022·edited Feb 7, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley
I've been saying it for a while, I'll say it again, and I think I will have to make a post about this as it's a big subject when you think more deeply about it. Red Pills are dangerous, they enable lies to be seen for what they are.
Is it just me, or is just about EVERY SINGLE THING which has been labelled a "conspiracy theory", slowly been PROVED to be true recently? I remember hearing about Covid before, I say again, BEFORE even the BBC had mentioned it! I had a contact who had a contact in China who was being locked in his apartment building! I mentioned it to people, guess what they called me. Yep, you guessed it! Once it was on the BBC, I was no longer a conspiracy theorist. Well, until a very short time later when I (along with other notable unmentionables like Steven Crowder and Don Trump Jr) expressed my view that it was not a huge amount worse than flu and could even be very similar to it in terms of mortality. My opinion remains the same on that even now. (I can explain why, if you remove all the "covid deaths" which were "with" not "of" Covid).
My point is, if the news had just reported what the "conspiracy theorists" were saying, from the very start, they would have been virtually bang on EVERY time!
It's a funny old world this. And I ain't taking off my tin foil hat any time soon. It's WAY too reliable!!
That's precisely my point, that is TRUE, but NOT ONLY in relation to C19! True, there are a whole load of BS conspiracy theories out there, real ones I mean. But I think C19 will cause people to re-assess some of the less 'crazy' ones, and I know what they are going to find! It's an exciting time for Truth, a dangerous time for media hegemony.
It's a pity that most of them (still) ran into the arms of Pfizer and Moderna and took the mRna Gene Therapy Vaccines (mostly because they 'like to travel' and 'virtue signalling' is ingrained).
The best win would be the shots stopped for all when there showed a safety signal. I would like to see graph of medical treatments as a function of injection roll outs. Will treatments to say neurologists and/ or cardiologists rise above prior years baselines? I know 3 injected people less than 30 years old that require Neuro specialist for the first time in their lives.
And after all that, for a completely accurate picture, which is even more damning to the official narrative, most, if not all, of the excess deaths involving the old and sick were not caused by “covid” at all, but by the unprecedented policies implemented in response to the alleged “pandemic”, which even Sweden unfortunately succumbed to with respect to nursing homes and deadly isolation, neglect, and sedation.
don't know if you ever tried to check EMA data on vaccines, but I went today and a part you need to register, and a part you don't have access to all unless you show you got credentials for it, you cannot download pdf of latest data on vaccines trials or clinical data.
I managed to download some of them with a typical browser trick, but don't know how to send you or to a person that can analyze all that data.
All papers are confidential (why??) and all pages have a big sign in diagonal by Ema...
That shows clearly EMA is a private company not a public one....
The real mystery is that those countries that have seen these strange spikes in excess deaths don't seem to be in a hurry to dig into the causes.
But the spikes aren't everywhere. As in Sweden, many European countries have simply not had significant excess mortality in the under-65 age band all through the pandemic. And also as in Sweden, their excess deaths have been heavily concentrated in the over-80s and over-70s.
Additional thoughts on age stratification: clues from many countries indicate that a huge percentage of elderly covid deaths were in care homes. For example, last year, Switzerland published a report on its 2nd wave (October 2020 to February 2021). C19 deaths in this period totaled 7368, and a whopping 49% of these were in care homes, at a median age of 88.
But here's the kicker: the entire care home sector of Switzerland is rather small, and houses only around 153,000 people...of whom ∼3,600 died of/with covid. Meanwhile, during this same period, among the 'out and about' population of about 6.5 million under-60 year olds, there were just 143 deaths. That's not a typo. Just 143.
Switzerland did enact a modest partial lockdown for a few months, and also has had a bunch of restrictions concerning masks, bars, restaurants etc. If we consider the small number of casualties in the working-age population, even these modest restrictions probably failed from a cost/benefit point of view,
Links to the Swiss info (available in English) are at these sites:
Good question and good point of comparison for future studies. Maybe a lot of other countries’ excess mortality is due to delayed medical treatment, overdoses, and other lockdown effects, not just the jab. Maybe Sweden didn’t have those lockdown effects since they didn’t lock down? Maybe they didn’t jab as much? Maybe they used a safer brand of jab?
Yes, lockdown effects might have played a role. But consider Germany: for winter 2020/21, when we had a *real* lockdown, Covid deaths can explain excess mortality completely (after subtracting them, you hit the 2016-2019 median). This is not the case for the 2nd half of 2021. Here, Covid deaths only explain between one third and half of excess mortality. Comparatively mild Covid measures during that period.
Actually my account was only suspended but I would not yield to providing them with my ID to get it lifted. I'm holding out until maybe some of the stuff is need in a court of law.
Excellent read, very distilled information, thank you. I especially appreciated the graphs for the 3 different age groups. I feel better equipped to defend Sweeden’s approach, thank you!
Thank God for Sweeden & Florida!
After two years failing to convince almost nobody, I now am just waiting for enough mainstream media to tell my friends and family what was true was true.
Whether those in charge ever really do this I am still unsure of. What I do expect it that they'll continue to lead them on a merry dance with Climate change and occasionally inject some other emergencies as needed.
I commend Joel and everyone else for continuing, and ultimately without them, even the MSM hacks wouldn't have such good analysis available and being constantly thrown at them if and when they do change tack. And actually my partner said she'd have definitely been injected if it wasn't for me, and my 19 year old son is one of only two people his age groups he knows that didn't get it. I couldn't want bigger wins than those.
I know Sweden got it right regarding management of the pseudopandemic, but it doesn’t seem to have helped long term. My best friend has lived in Stockholm for over 15 years. He had the jabs in order to work because his customers were insisting on it in order to enter their premises (He teaches legal English). He was recently told in a letter from the State to get his booster or face possible restrictions on his ability to travel. He told me recently he’d had to show his vax pass to get into a club he’s a member of. When I asked if this was normal, he said “Oh yes, you have to show it to get into all sorts of places now”.
So, from where they were, Sweden is now in much the same place as other European countries, and it’s not really of great importance that they followed established protocols two years ago.
Thank you Joel!!
Frankly I have been living as normal since very early. And absent the time, inclination or obvious statistical analysis acumen as you I have the same (or similar from my perspective) truth trajectory. Finally, interestingly, some substackers in the past weeks were seemingly suggesting, if not outright asserting, that Omi is not a variant of CoV2 having pre-dated it (I do wonder where this stream of consciousness has wandered off to BTW). The interesting part is S-gene-target-failure. So in the US fewer than 1% of samples were being sequenced (I believe less than 5% worldwide) yet corporate media were breathlessly heralding the latest Variants Of Concern from which we were finally supposed to be afraid for our children. Suddenly, Omi is everywhere since unlike other variants we can tell from the PCR test that the S gene doesn't flouresce. Well what bullshark that seems to me. The study from the JAMA shows that SGTF (AKA previously essentially a negative test - NO S gene) surpassed SGT+ in March '21. Signaling, from my neanderthal thinking that CoV2, if existed at all, has now been surpassed by common respiratory illness and is endemic. Voila.
I’ve followed Sweden from the very beginning. Remember when the press said their approach it was a disaster early on? It was mainly due to nursing home deaths. Note how the media completely failed to show how New York did even worse? Note how they completely ignored Sweden as lockdown death rates states US states surpassed them by significantly?
By mid 2020 it was clear from IFR data that the great majority of people need not be fearful. All one had to do was look for themselves.
I've been saying it for a while, I'll say it again, and I think I will have to make a post about this as it's a big subject when you think more deeply about it. Red Pills are dangerous, they enable lies to be seen for what they are.
Is it just me, or is just about EVERY SINGLE THING which has been labelled a "conspiracy theory", slowly been PROVED to be true recently? I remember hearing about Covid before, I say again, BEFORE even the BBC had mentioned it! I had a contact who had a contact in China who was being locked in his apartment building! I mentioned it to people, guess what they called me. Yep, you guessed it! Once it was on the BBC, I was no longer a conspiracy theorist. Well, until a very short time later when I (along with other notable unmentionables like Steven Crowder and Don Trump Jr) expressed my view that it was not a huge amount worse than flu and could even be very similar to it in terms of mortality. My opinion remains the same on that even now. (I can explain why, if you remove all the "covid deaths" which were "with" not "of" Covid).
My point is, if the news had just reported what the "conspiracy theorists" were saying, from the very start, they would have been virtually bang on EVERY time!
It's a funny old world this. And I ain't taking off my tin foil hat any time soon. It's WAY too reliable!!
The difference between truth and conspiracy theory relative to C19 tends to simply be a matter of time.
That's precisely my point, that is TRUE, but NOT ONLY in relation to C19! True, there are a whole load of BS conspiracy theories out there, real ones I mean. But I think C19 will cause people to re-assess some of the less 'crazy' ones, and I know what they are going to find! It's an exciting time for Truth, a dangerous time for media hegemony.
It's a pity that most of them (still) ran into the arms of Pfizer and Moderna and took the mRna Gene Therapy Vaccines (mostly because they 'like to travel' and 'virtue signalling' is ingrained).
Also don't forget they had finally greenpass. Also to enter country you need a greenpass. For what reason?
The best win would be the shots stopped for all when there showed a safety signal. I would like to see graph of medical treatments as a function of injection roll outs. Will treatments to say neurologists and/ or cardiologists rise above prior years baselines? I know 3 injected people less than 30 years old that require Neuro specialist for the first time in their lives.
And after all that, for a completely accurate picture, which is even more damning to the official narrative, most, if not all, of the excess deaths involving the old and sick were not caused by “covid” at all, but by the unprecedented policies implemented in response to the alleged “pandemic”, which even Sweden unfortunately succumbed to with respect to nursing homes and deadly isolation, neglect, and sedation.
What would be great is a post that list all the myths about covid and the facts/data that show the reality, like this one but on every topic.
Funnily enough, I've been meaning to do that for a while for a media group I support. Thanks for reminding me!
Hey Joel, I'm sure you are already on this, but here it is anyway: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf?utm_source=New+Blue+Party+of+Ontario&utm_campaign=04edbd797e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_PresVoteDelegate_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51987ebace-04edbd797e-402403727&mc_cid=04edbd797e&mc_eid=03e11b96b8
Off Guardian has done those multiple times along the way. Been drafting my own.Surprising how quickly it balloons.
don't know if you ever tried to check EMA data on vaccines, but I went today and a part you need to register, and a part you don't have access to all unless you show you got credentials for it, you cannot download pdf of latest data on vaccines trials or clinical data.
I managed to download some of them with a typical browser trick, but don't know how to send you or to a person that can analyze all that data.
All papers are confidential (why??) and all pages have a big sign in diagonal by Ema...
That shows clearly EMA is a private company not a public one....
If you interested pls replay and let me know how
OK; so why is there none of the (non-covid attributable) excess mortality that we seen in many other countries during the second half of 2021?
I really cannot answer that but I really wish I could.
The real mystery is that those countries that have seen these strange spikes in excess deaths don't seem to be in a hurry to dig into the causes.
But the spikes aren't everywhere. As in Sweden, many European countries have simply not had significant excess mortality in the under-65 age band all through the pandemic. And also as in Sweden, their excess deaths have been heavily concentrated in the over-80s and over-70s.
Additional thoughts on age stratification: clues from many countries indicate that a huge percentage of elderly covid deaths were in care homes. For example, last year, Switzerland published a report on its 2nd wave (October 2020 to February 2021). C19 deaths in this period totaled 7368, and a whopping 49% of these were in care homes, at a median age of 88.
But here's the kicker: the entire care home sector of Switzerland is rather small, and houses only around 153,000 people...of whom ∼3,600 died of/with covid. Meanwhile, during this same period, among the 'out and about' population of about 6.5 million under-60 year olds, there were just 143 deaths. That's not a typo. Just 143.
Switzerland did enact a modest partial lockdown for a few months, and also has had a bunch of restrictions concerning masks, bars, restaurants etc. If we consider the small number of casualties in the working-age population, even these modest restrictions probably failed from a cost/benefit point of view,
Links to the Swiss info (available in English) are at these sites:
https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/situation-schweiz-und-international.html
Care home population stats are at https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/fr/home/statistiques/sante/systeme-sante/etablissements-medico-sociaux.html
Were the elderly culled, to save government money? It would be convenient.
My first thought is a question to your question: How many at what ages took the jab?
Good question and good point of comparison for future studies. Maybe a lot of other countries’ excess mortality is due to delayed medical treatment, overdoses, and other lockdown effects, not just the jab. Maybe Sweden didn’t have those lockdown effects since they didn’t lock down? Maybe they didn’t jab as much? Maybe they used a safer brand of jab?
Yes, lockdown effects might have played a role. But consider Germany: for winter 2020/21, when we had a *real* lockdown, Covid deaths can explain excess mortality completely (after subtracting them, you hit the 2016-2019 median). This is not the case for the 2nd half of 2021. Here, Covid deaths only explain between one third and half of excess mortality. Comparatively mild Covid measures during that period.
You should send this to LinkedIn and get them to reinstate you. And apologise.
Actually my account was only suspended but I would not yield to providing them with my ID to get it lifted. I'm holding out until maybe some of the stuff is need in a court of law.
I estimate that to be about as likely to happen as Fauci apologising to the families of every dead he's been responsible for...
Would he really like to, though... I can only speak for myself, but after seeing some of LinkedIn's behavior, I deleted my account there last year.
Excellent! Thank you!
But at least the vaccine didn’t kill people?