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Why Are So Many Californians Dying?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Thomas Buckley via The Brownstone Institute,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Covid has claimed about 105,000 lives in the state since 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

In that same time period, 82,000 more Californians died from everything else than is typical.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adjusted for the decline in population, that non-Covid \u201cexcess death\u201d figure becomes even more concerning as the state has seen its population drop to about the same it was in 2015.<\/p>\n

In 2015 \u2013 obviously there was no Covid \u2013 260,000 of the then 39 million Californians died.<\/p>\n

In 2023, not including November and December, 240,000 people died not from Covid (6,000 additional people died of Covid.).<\/p>\n

Extrapolating the year-to-date figures for 2023 creates a final year-end figure of 280,000 \u2013 20,000 more people than died in 2015. That\u2019s a non-Covid, population-neutral jump of 8%.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In other words, despite the protestations of certain officials, the state\u2019s death rate has NOT returned to \u201cpre-Covid\u201d levels \u2013 in 2019 the year before the pandemic, 270,000 people died with a population at least 400,000 greater than today.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Dr. Bob Wachter, medical chair at UC-SF and ardent supporter of tight pandemic restrictions, did not respond to an email from the\u00a0Globe<\/em>\u00a0(away for work the auto-response said) but\u00a0he did recently tell the\u00a0San Jose Mercury News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that in \u201c(T)he last three years, not only were there a lot of deaths from Covid, there were a lot of additional deaths from non-Covid causes, which are probably attributable to people not receiving the medical care that they normally would have received\u2019 when ERs were overflowing with Covid patients (note \u2013 the truth of that ER assertion has not been verified)<\/em>, Wachter noted.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, the pandemicist Wachter admitted the pandemic response itself at least contributed to a significant number of excess deaths,<\/strong> a fact that was aggressively and roundly denied and \u2013 if mentioned \u2013 led to censoring and societal ostracization (and in many cases job losses) by the powers that be during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

A second admission along these lines was recently made by former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins \u2013 Tony Fauci\u2019s boss.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this video clip, Collins \u2013 who once called for a \u201cdevastating takedown\u201d (see above) of those who questioned the hard pandemic response \u2013 said his DC and public health blinders, well, blinded him to the problems his pandemic response caused and is still causing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a public health person, and you\u2019re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life. Doesn\u2019t matter what else happens, so you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people\u2019s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never might quite recover from. Collateral damage. This is a public health mindset. And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset \u2014 and that was really unfortunate, it\u2019s another mistake we made.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(You can see Collins for yourself here.)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

VIDEO CLIP of Collins Confession https:\/\/t.co\/ChcGItEThJ<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/MVYugVhvef<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

Needless to say there is not even a half-hearted apology involved. And Collins is\/was wrong in the approach to public health he apparently subscribes to, as throughout modern history it has involved a cost\/benefit analysis and a weighing of the impact on society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Public health, practiced properly, does not \u2013 and never before has \u2013 attached \u201czero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people\u2019s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never might quite recover from.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had the exact wrong people in charge at the exact wrong time,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>said Stanford professor of medicine (and one of the people Collins tried to \u201ctake down\u201d) Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir decisions were myopically deadly.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To remind Collins of the ramifications of his decision beyond the excess deaths:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Massive educational degradation.\u00a0Economic devastation, by both the lockdowns and now the continuing fiscal nightmare plaguing the nation caused by continuing federal overreaction.\u00a0The critical damage to the development of children\u2019s social skills through hyper-masking and fear-mongering.\u00a0The obliteration of the public\u2019s trust in institutions due to their incompetence and deceitfulness during the pandemic.\u00a0The massive erosion of civil liberties.\u00a0The direct hardships caused by vaccination mandates, etc. under the false claim of helping one\u2019s neighbor.\u00a0The explosion of the growth of Wall Street built on the destruction of Main Street.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The clear separation of society into two camps \u2013 those who could easily prosper during the pandemic and those whose lives were completely upended.\u00a0The demonization of anyone daring to ask even basic questions about the efficacy of the response, be it the vaccines themselves, the closure of public schools, the origin of the virus, or the absurdity of the useless public theater that made up much of the program.\u00a0The fissures created throughout society and the harm caused by guillotined relationships amongst family and friends.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The slanders and career chaos endured by prominent actual experts (see the\u00a0<\/em>Great Barrington Declaration<\/em><\/a>, co-authored by Bhattacharya) and just plain reasonable people like\u00a0<\/em>Jennifer Sey<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for daring to offer different approaches; approaches \u2013 such as focusing on the most vulnerable \u2013\u00a0 that had been tested and succeeded before.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Nationally,<\/a>\u00a0pandemic \u201call-cause\u201d deaths spiked, for obvious reasons, but they remain stubbornly higher than normal to this day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There could be mitigating factors to California\u2019s numbers, specifically the issue of drug overdoses. Since 2018, the overdose death rate has doubled. The last overall figures available are from 2021 which showed 10,901 people dying of an overdose. While not specifically broken out for which drug, the vast majority are from opioid overdoses and the vast majority of those involve fentanyl. In 2022, there were 7,385 opioid-related deaths with 6,473 of\u00a0those involving fentanyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the overdose death increase would account for only about 25% of the total increase in \u201cexcess deaths,\u201d meaning it has an impact but cannot explain the whole story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is also the\u00a0issue of homeless deaths<\/a>. Homeless people die at a far higher rate than the rest of the population and California has had a burgeoning homeless population for the last few years, despite the\u00a0money being spent<\/a>\u00a0on the issue. However, at least a portion of that increase can \u2013 as with overdoses \u2013 be attributed to fentanyl and is therefore difficult to separate out as discrete numbers.<\/p>\n

Those two increases, however, may explain the fact that the \u201call-cause\u201d excess death rate for those in the 25-to-44 year age bracket (it has comparatively higher overdose death and homelessness figures) have remained \u2013 except for two very recent weeks \u2013\u00a0above the typical historical range<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The increase in overdose (and alcohol-related deaths) has been directly tied to the\u00a0pandemic response previously<\/a>.<\/strong> In California, there were about 3,500 more alcohol-related deaths during the pandemic response than before: 5,600 in 2019 (pre-pandemic,) 6,100 in 2020, 7,100 in 2021, 6,600 in 2022, and 2023 is on pace to see about 6,000.<\/p>\n

That still leaves roughly half of the excess deaths unaccounted for, raising questions about the safety of the Covid shot (a shot,\u00a0not a vaccine<\/a>) itself. The CDC lists 640 deaths in California directly from the shot and an increase in \u201cadverse effects\u201d from the shot compared to many other actual vaccines. The Covid shot \u201c adverse\u201d rate was one in a thousand, while, for comparison, it\u2019s about one in a million for the polio vaccine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That means a person\u00a0<\/a>was more than 9 times as likely to die from the Covid shot as any other vaccine and 6.5 times to be injured by it in some fashion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still that is \u2013 according to state figures \u2013 not enough to explain the increase.<\/p>\n

There are three other issues to note: first, many of the counting questions are around dying \u201cfrom\u201d Covid versus \u201cwith\u201d Covid remain, meaning the Covid death numbers could be elevated if the \u201cwiths\u201d are lumped in with the \u201cfroms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second, there is the simmering matter of \u201ciatrogenic\u201d deaths \u2013\u00a0i.e. deaths caused by the treatment<\/a>. Early on in the pandemic response, a push was made to \u201cventilate\u201d patients mechanically. From the above article (no caps in the original):\u00a0<\/p>\n

here\u2019s an unsettling comparison: in NYC area, mortality rate for all COV ICU patients was 78%. in stockholm, the SURVIVAL rate was over 80%. this is a staggering variance. the key difference: ventilators. NYC used them on 85% of patients, sweden used them sparingly<\/p>\n

Combined with the placing of Covid\u00a0patients in nursing homes<\/a>, the number of actual \u201conly\u201d or \u201cnatural\u201d (for lack of a better term) Covid deaths, again, may be elevated.<\/p>\n

The state Department of Public Health declined to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n

Which brings us back to the Wachter and Collins oblique, nearly accidental admissions that the response itself may have caused significant and ongoing damage across numerous personal and public sectors.<\/p>\n

Comparing California to other states also shows a concerning trend, specifically when considering the aftermath of the pandemic response. While increasing in population, for example, Florida\u2019s excess death rate increase was\/is lower than California\u2019s as was its Covid death rate, a fact Gov. Gavin Newsom has been lying about for years.<\/p>\n

During the pandemic itself, the nation saw an \u201call-cause\u201d \u2013 including Covid \u2013 death rate increase of\u00a0about 16% above normal<\/a>. Using that metric, as it is clear the response itself had knock-on effects \u2013 California\u2019s was 19.4% and Florida\u2019s was 16.7%, despite the wildly different pandemic responses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine, if you will, you own a baseball team and you have two shortstops, one that earns $10 million a year and one that earns $1 million. And it turns out that both are equally talented \u2013 errors, batting stats, etc. \u2013 and that maybe the cheaper one is actually even a bit more talented it turns out. Which shortstop was the better deal for the team? The less expensive one, of course.<\/p>\n

That is an apt analogy for states choosing how to respond to the pandemic \u2013 Florida cut the $10 million player while California kept him. In other words, the two states got the same-ish performance but at wildly different societal costs.<\/p>\n

This pattern seems to be borne out by many of the figures. Obviously, various states that ended up lower than the national average took very different approaches: North Dakota and New Jersey saw roughly the same all-cause mortality numbers, as did Washington (state) and South Dakota.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is true on the \u201chigh side\u201d as well: California and Montana, Oregon and Arkansas are two pairs that had similar numbers with different approaches.<\/p>\n

All of this raises a deeper question in that there appears to be little if any direct causative resultant difference between a draconian pandemic response and a softer touch.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that should not at all be the case: the lockdowns, the masks, the shots, the social distancing, the closing of schools and stores and churches and parks, and everything else should have produced a clear and distinct difference \u2013 if the pandemicists were right.<\/p>\n

If they were right, the difference in results should be stark and obvious to the naked eye. Miami should look like Genoa after the plague ships arrived while Los Angeles should seem like a New Eden. If the much-maligned Swedish \u201csoft\u201d model was as dangerous as the pandemicists said, Stockholm should be a ghost town.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not at all true and that\u2019s why the pandemicists are\/were so evidently wrong.: the harshest methods had little impact on the end results.<\/p>\n

While there were differences between states, they cannot necessarily be directly tied to a specific policy construct (save Hawaii, which can be discounted considering their isolated geography). Hard or soft pandemic response, in the long run it didn\u2019t seem to matter much in the Covid death tolls.<\/p>\n

Where it did \u2013 and still does \u2013 matter is the immediate and long-lasting damage the more tyrannical responses had on society as a whole.<\/p>\n

And \u2013 if California\u2019s excess death numbers are an indicator \u2013 the pandemic response itself is still killing people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that, too, definitely shouldn\u2019t be happening \u2013 if the pandemicists were right.<\/p>\n

It is even more problematic \u2013 and even more ethically abhorrent \u2013 if the Covid death figures are inflated; the number of Covid deaths of 105,000 is only about 20% higher than the other non-Covid excess death figure of 82,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In other words, the net \u201cfrom Covid\u201d deaths may not be terribly different from the \u201cfrom the Covid response\u201d death count.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that possibility is the most terrifying of all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 01\/04\/2024 – 09:30<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/why-are-so-many-californians-dying<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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