I said in my penultimate post of May 18th that I expected Bakhmut to fall “in the next day or two.”
Bakhmut did, in fact, fall to the Russians on May 20th.
Zelensky is still in denial, of course, and much of North America’s mainstream media have downplayed the importance of Bakhmut’s fall, if they covered it at all. But it is yet another indication that the mainstream fantasy that “Ukraine is winning the war” is not grounded in reality. Ukraine is relentlessly being destroyed and depopulated. The sooner the West acknowledges that, the sooner a way can be found to end the carnage and devastation.
On Sunday, I submitted an updated version of my post Calculating the Cost of Panic to the Canadian edition of the Epoch Times. Today, Epoch Times Canada has an article entitled ‘Excess Deaths in Young Canadians Jump to 27 Percent’ that presents StatsCan data on high rates of excess deaths in the under 45 age group in Canada in the final five months of 2022.
It includes the useful fact that there were only 102 COVID deaths in Canada in the under age 50 population between August and December 2022, which make clear that the large majority of the excess deaths in young people were not caused by COVID.
It presents evidence from Quebec indicating that excess deaths in young people may still be elevated: “Data from the Institut de la statistique du Québec from earlier this year shows excess deaths at 27 percent in the 0–49 age range, which is consistent with the national figures for late 2022.”
The article finishes by citing the same OECD website I cited, reporting that Canada had the fourth highest rate of excess deaths in the OECD during the final five months of 2022, whereas Sweden had the lowest rate of excess deaths among all 28 OECD countries during that time.
Where the article is misleading is that it makes it sound like the problem of excess deaths was confined to young people in the final five months of 2022, when it involved all ages, and the entire three-year span from 2020 through 2022. But, hey, it’s a start.
If my submission spurred the Epoch Times to look at the OECD excess mortality data, that’s a great outcome as far as I’m concerned.
Tomorrow I will send out an updated Canadian version of Calculating the Cost of Panic.
On Monday, assuming no mainstream US newspaper has carried my US version, I will send that out too.
Please feel free to ignore both updates. (The final data is even more damning of lockdowns, but otherwise in accord with what I previously presented on April 27th.)
That being said, I’m guessing that everyone reading this has a number of friends who still believe to this day that the lockdowns saved lives.
If there’s a new pandemic any time soon, those people are dangerous: They will be clamouring for MORE lockdowns. Now is the time to try to try to get them to look at the OECD data, which clearly shows that the lockdowns were a public health disaster.
I recognize that many of them will say: ‘My mind is made up, don’t confuse me with statistics.’ That being so, I think it’s a fair assumption that they will be more open to hearing new information now than they will be at some point in the future when Canada is in the grips of a new pandemic.
Feel free to forward the Canadian version to your Canadian friends and the US version to American friends. If they claim my data is phony, challenge them to download the OECD data for themselves - or examine my data spreadsheet. (I will email it out to anyone who asks for it.)
Once was more than enough for lockdowns. If you want to be sure they don’t happen again, it’s probably worth doing what you can to get the people in your circle to recognize the sad reality that the lockdowns took far more lives than they saved.
Bruce
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I love this - see reality, saving lives, what a beautiful concept 💯🙏