New OECD data strongly indicates that COVID lockdowns in the US and Canada, in terms of the collateral damage they created, were arguably the worst pubic health disaster in decades.
The British newspaper The Spectator was one of the few Western sources willing to raise the possibility that lockdowns were counterproductive: “Sweden, Covid and ‘excess deaths’: a look at the data”. (The graphic above is from that article.)
It’s not as if the media doesn’t know. I contacted the editors of several Canadian and American newspapers, and the tip lines of Canadian TV networks. Beyond a few pro forma ‘thankyou for your input’ replies, there was no interest whatsoever.
North America’s mainstream media are actively suppressing this story. (Perhaps they feel a moral imperative to prevent future lockdown hesitancy.)
In a way, it is hardly surprising the media don’t want to acknowledge data indicating lockdowns stole more lives than they saved, given the extent to which the mainstream media actively supported the lockdowns.
Even more damning, they actively censored anyone who questioned the effectiveness of lockdowns.
They also worked tirelessly to ‘scare the pants off people’ - in British politician Matt Hancock’s immortal words - so that people would willingly imprison themselves.
Part of the problem is that a great deal of humble pie must now be eaten. It must be quite embarrassing for those who wrote all those stories saying how foolish Sweden was for not locking down. The internet doesn’t forget.
There was this piece in Time: “The Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster. It Shouldn’t Be a Model for the Rest of the World”. I’ll bet they wish now they could memory-hole that one.
The New York Times probably wishes it could disappear their “Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale”.
Given how late it came out, the LA Times should be embarrassed by “Did Sweden beat the pandemic by refusing to lock down? No, its record is disastrous”.
I could give more examples, but you get the picture.
This is not just about the past. An issue where silence about the past has immediate consequences is the continuing campaign in North America to vaccinate young people and children.
Every day, children and young people continue to be vaccinated. Some are dying, or suffering debilitating side-effects.
Earlier this week, Zerohedge reported on an Epochtimes article “Zero Young Healthy Individuals Died of COVID-19, Israeli Data Show”.
In response to a freedom of information request, the Israeli Government admitted: “’Zero deceased of 18–49 years of age with no underlying morbidities,’ the Israel Ministry of Health (MOH) said in response to a formal request from an attorney.”
No COVID deaths at all among healthy young Israelis ages 18-49? That’s a stunning admission. What else have Governments not bothered to tell us?
I was immediately reminded of another recent Freedom of Information request. In Australia, Dr. Melissa McCann was concerned by the number of vaccine side effects she was seeing among her patients. She asked the TGA - the Australian equivalent of VAERS - for more information on the TGA files. After much delay, and with severe limitations placed on the scope of her FOIA request, the TGA finally gave her more info on eight deaths among young people following vaccination.
The TGA had determined a causal link between vaccination and the deaths of five young people: two children ages 7 and 9, a 21-year-old male, a 21-year-old female and a 24-year-old female.
This is Natalie, TGA case 728139, a previously healthy young women who died from “Fatal AEFIs, including myocarditis, cardiac arrest, renal impairment, femoral artery embolism, spinal cord infarction” days after a Moderna booster.
The crucial information that these deaths were vaccine-caused was scrubbed from four of the five case files on the TGA’s public website. The TGA’s explanation was that they didn’t want to cause vaccine hesitancy. Which undoubtedly was also the reason Australia’s mainstream media didn’t think it important to report that the TGA was suppressing information on the true number of vaccine-caused deaths in Australia.
I’m guessing it’s also what the mainstream North American media would say if challenged about not reporting the Israeli story about ZERO deaths among young people.
Whatever happened to the principle of informed consent? Before the COVID pandemic, it was a longstanding fundamental principle of medical ethics that patients should receive full information on the risks and benefits prior to any medical intervention.
Health young people have a medical right to know that ZERO healthy Israelis died of COVID. That tells them the benefit of their getting vaccinated is essentially zero.
They also have a right to know the vaccines killed at least three healthy young Australians. That tells them the risks of their dying after vaccination is greater than zero.
The parents of young children also have a right to know that the risk of a healthy child dying of COVID approaches zero, while the risk while the risk of a child dying after vaccination is greater than zero.
Much of Europe has stopped vaccinating anyone under the age of 50 based on those exact risk-benefit trade-offs.
But here in North America, the US and Canadian Governments continue to push Big Pharma’s vaccines, aided and abetted by the deadly silence of North America’s mainstream media.
If you know any parents or young people who should be apprised of the above information, please pass it on.
PS: Natalie’s privacy is not a concern. Her family doesn’t care who knows the jab killed their daughter. God knows how many other tragedies like Natalie’s are hidden in TGA files the Australian Government refuses to release. And good luck finding out about the TGA scandal using search engines.
PPS: It must also be said that the media in North America haven’t wanted to share any information which would calm parents. Like this Swedish study from January of 2021. Remember that Sweden kept schools open. Masking in schools was not encouraged. How many of Sweden’s 1,951,905 children between the ages of one and 16 died of COVID before the school year ended on June 30th, 2020? ZERO. Hands up if you remember reading about that study in the mainstream press.
Or this German Study entitled “Risk of Hospitalization, severe disease, and mortality due to COVID-19 and PIMS-TS in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection in Germany”, which first came out in November of 2021. That study found ZERO COVID deaths in healthy children in Germany.
Actually the people who wrote the study were reluctant to admit that fact directly. Instead they talked around it: “The lowest risk was observed in children aged 5-11 without comorbidities. In this group, the ICU admission rate was 0.2 per 10,000 and case fatality could not be calculated, due to an absence of cases.” I would have thought an absence of deaths would have given a case fatality rate of zero. (When even scientists are afraid to speak openly about what their data says, you know Big Pharma has way too much power.) Betcha didn’t read about that study in the New York Times either.
PPPS: In an update to one of my previous posts, Modern Diplomacy has indicated that there are now 30 countries wishing to join BRICS: “The latest report indicates that the countries ready to join the BRICS alliance are Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.” Wow. Joe Biden’s efforts to create a powerful anti-American alliance are really paying off!
PPPPS: So much under-reported news, so little time. I had promised myself I wouldn’t do another post this week, but with mainstream media completely AWOl, there were just too many temptations. Yves Smith over at Naked Capitalism, has an excellent new piece aptly titled “Ukraine:Bleeding Out”, which lays out in detail how successful Russia has been in the war of attrition there. What NATO calls ‘supporting Ukraine’ amounts to destroying an entire country and its military in a failed attempt to weaken Russia.
As NATO countries fall like dominoes into recession, it is increasingly apparent that economic sanctions have hurt the West far more than they hurt Russia, and that the war has increased the effectiveness of the Russian military while dangerous depleting NATO stocks of military equipment and ammunition. Talk about an epic fail!
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