Why have more people than usual been dying recently?
And why are so few people talking about it?
Dear Church Leaders
Here is a table of England’s all-cause mortality data from the UK government for 2020-2023. The figures are broken down by age and sex. The orange, red and black colouring shows where more people have died than expected. The yellow and green colouring shows where fewer people have died than expected.
Image from @OutsideAllan
Data from the UK Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
It is easy to forget that these figures represent life-changing tragedies for many thousands of families. This is an invitation to think carefully about what has happened, with a view to getting closer to the truth, not least for the sake of those most affected.
Spring 2020
According to media reports, the virus that causes covid was circulating in the UK in January 2020. If the virus were as infectious and deadly as we have been led to believe, why were people dying at close to the normal rate in March, but at an exceptionally high rate in April? What changed during that time? (NB of all the questions here, these are perhaps the most important ones.)
Summer 2021
After several months of deaths around or below normal levels, things changed markedly in the second half of the summer of 2021 across all ages and particularly the under 65s? Why might that have been?
Summer and Autumn 2022
After several months of deaths in the over 65s at levels around or below normal during the winter respiratory virus season of Jan-Mar 2022, substantially more people in this group died in the summer and autumn of 2022, i.e. outside respiratory virus season. Something somewhat similar happened with the under 65s. How might this be explained? And how did the media coverage in 2022 compare with that in summer 2020 when there were substantially fewer excess deaths in all age groups?
2023
Normally after a period where more people die than usual, there is a period where fewer people die than usual. But despite the excess deaths in the second half of 2022, 2023 has seen further excess deaths in almost all age groups in almost every month, and particularly so in the under 65s. And according to government data, this has been disproportionately affecting higher income groups. What might have been causing this?
The sound of silence
More generally, why has there been so little serious discussion of excess deaths during the last two years? Why are government ministers and journalists and medics and church leaders so slow to speak out about this? Where are the likes of Whitty and Vallance? Where are the government press conferences? Where is the Opposition?
Covid vaccine status
The dataset from which the above table is derived also includes covid vaccine status, and the UK authorities have supplied that information (presumably in anonymised form) to pharmaceutical companies. So why is such data not being released to the public who paid the taxes to fund its collection? If we really have had a “safe and effective” vaccine, this would be a straightforward way to demonstrate it from real-world data (as distinct from dubious modelling).
Finally, based on the above, to what extent do you think we have been told the truth over the past four years?
[Some further information and developments after the above article was written can be found below]
Additional context for Spring 2020
A version of the above with additional context, particularly for what was happening in Spring 2020, can be found here.
A table of excess deaths by cause of death
NB this table excludes deaths with covid as the underlying cause
Image from @OutsideAllan
An announcement from the ONS
On 20th February 2024, the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) put out this video announcing “the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths” and attracting 800,000+ views(!) A critique of the new method can be found here. Below is a summary in graph form of excess death estimates using different models.
A development at the OHID
In 2024 the UK Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) is no longer providing updates to the analysis of excess mortality in England.
Comments made at the UK Health Select Committee
At a UK Health Select Committee in March 2024, Chief Executive of the UKHSA Jenny Harries appeared to suggest that data might be withheld on the grounds of “commercial sensitivity”. But it appears that the authorities are stonewalling.
Andrew Bridgen MP
Andrew Bridgen has been the most prominent UK Member of Parliament raising questions related to excess deaths, e.g. in this debate at Westminster Hall on 24th January 2024 (video link here) and in this presentation event held at Portcullis House in December 2023 (although former Pfizer Chief Scientist Dr Mike Yeadon’s address “could not be played” due to “technical difficulties”).
But although Bridgen has received support from various quarters, some have raised questions over his conduct, e.g. in this video and this open letter. Apparently, “Mr. Bridgen has not replied” to the letter, although he has confirmed on video (see from 1:11:00-1:12:10) that he has read it.
18th April 2024 UK Parliament debate
On 18th April 2024 there was a debate on excess deaths co-sponsored by Bridgen and fellow MP Neale Hanvey (previously a senior nurse who managed clinical oncology trials in London). The full Hansard record of the debate is here.
Video footage of Bridgen and Hanvey can be found here and here respectively.
An article on Kevin McKernan’s discovery (subsequently replicated in other laboratories) can be found here.
Contributions from MPs Danny Kruger and Graham Stringer can be found here and here.
A comment on a contribution made by Dr Kieran Mullan MP can be found here.
Other summary articles can be found here (short) and here (rather longer).
Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts re “the crime of the century”
Queensland Senator Malcolm Roberts speaking in the Australian Senate in support of a motion from Senator Gerard Rennick:
An estimate of the number of covid vaccine deaths based on UK government data
Finally, while greater transparency and the release of more data would be welcome, we may reasonably wonder e.g. why this analysis from Emeritus Professor of Risk Norman Fenton is not reason enough to halt the administration of covid vaccines (and mRNA vaccines in general) while a thorough investigation is carried out by independent scientists. While covid vaccines are not the only cause of excess deaths, the evidence continues to mount that they were very far from safe.
Meanwhile the pharma-funded mainstream media continues to ignore the extent of the problem, often citing “cause unknown”:
The UK data is consistent with this 3-minute “elevator pitch” from Edward Dowd for his hypothesis that covid vaccine mandates killed and disabled tens of thousands of Americans:
After I put out this article in mid-March, I did a subsequent update. And I have since done several more. But given that the updates have made the post rather longer than I had originally intended, I thought it made sense to divide — or multiply — the whole thing into two separate parts:
the original post (as above), along with some of the most directly relevant updates
this follow-on post, related to various developments in health outcomes…
I plan to update both posts as events unfold.
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