There was another huge development in the corporate media’s information embargo yesterday, in the form of a UK Telegraph article headlined “Lockdown Effects Feared to Be Killing More People Than Covid.”
Wow.
And look at the sub-head: “Unexplained excess deaths outstrip those from virus as medics call figures ‘terrifying’.” In other words, although U.S. corporate media is still ignoring them (with some help from the CDC), excess deaths still just went mainstream.
Holy Late Arrivals, Batman! Did you ever think you’d see the day? Before we get to the “lockdown effects” euphemism, let’s first just consider the profound implications of taking this “lockdown effects” nonsense at face value.
The Telegraph article reported that official UK data “suggests” that “the effects of lockdown may now be killing more people than are dying of Covid.” That’s not good. It said the paper “understands that the Department of Health has ordered an investigation into the figures.” The government will have to blame somebody. Somebody else. Maybe someone who gave it bad advice.
It’s pretty bad. The paper admitted “the number of excess deaths not from Covid dwarfs the number linked to the virus.” DWARFS them. People are dying from other things besides covid so much that they DWARF covid deaths. That means it’s SO bad they can’t use any cute non-alarming synonyms anymore. Time for plan B.
The rest of the article deflects the phenomenon right onto deferred care during lockdowns. That will obscure the real problem for a little while longer, but the “deferred care” excuse won’t work twelve months from now. It’s a band-aid, and it’s not free. Not even close.
Even accepting the article’s unlikely premise that “lockdown effects” of deferred care ARE the cause of all the unexplained strokes and clots and heart attacks, “lockdown effects” reflect awfully on public health agencies. That rationale “suggests” that public health experts failed to consider the now-obvious downstream effects; and worse, anybody with a google terminal will pretty much immediately discover scientists like Bhattacharya, Kulldorf, et al who warned about those very same “lockdown effects” back at the time the decisions were made.
So public health experts won’t be able to say they didn’t know. They just “ignored the science,” which is a cardinal sin under Branch Covidia. Once “lockdown effects” becomes the default explanation, there will be a massive backlash against public health, for failing to tailor the covid response to account for side effects like deferred care. OF COURSE, it makes NO SENSE to kill more people with mitigations than die from covid, especially when those mitigations have not shown any clear benefit, and especially considering the vast economic and political costs of those mitigations.
Thanks experts!
The CDC has withheld the excess death figures in the U.S. for two and a half months now, citing a software upgrade or some equally dumb excuse. Do you suppose it’s possible those numbers, like the UK’s, are so obvious and grim and embarrassing that a “complete reorganization” of the CDC would be required, and that, to show fast and effective action, Biden might strip handling pandemics completely away from a disgraced CDC, and re-assign that important job to some other agency?
Good thing we have one waiting and ready to go! The ASPR. The ASPR wouldn’t have made these kinds of mistakes. It’s not all bureaucratically bloated and packed with political hacks, not like the CDC. No, no, never. ASPR employees don’t care about money and stuff, just helping people. They are the very definition of selfless bureaucrats. You’ll see. So … problem solved! You’re welcome.
So, once again we note that the news is not about excess deaths — we’ve known about THAT for months now — the news is that the corporate media embargo on TALKING ABOUT excess deaths — instead of just hoping they’d bugger off — is all over now. We’ve pivoted into the next narrative.
The sleight of hand over “lockdown effects” causing cancer, heart attacks, and strokes (but not other types of injuries) from “deferred care” is just a trade-off. They’re throwing public health officials under the bus instead of considering other, more politically difficult causes. Like causes with needles. But it won’t last; it will catch up with them. First of all, public health MIGHT NOT like being thrown under the bus, and MIGHT fight back, but nothing would surprise me from that squad of masochists.
Second, the “deferred care” excuse can only last so long before it just doesn’t work anymore. Maybe they are hoping that the excess deaths will resolve by themselves after a while, which could happen; nobody knows. Maybe. But they’ll need to stop jabbing people if they want to find THAT out.
Oh, wait!
The UK Telegraph blames excess deaths on public health mistakes; The US gets out of the jab game; and the Biden Raid affidavit MIGHT be released. Somewhat. Sort of. In part.
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