Unprecedented massive violations of civil liberties have been imposed on populations by governments around the globe, on the premise of the existence of a dangerous pandemic. But the first level of analysis, for any objective thinker who wants to understand what is going on, is to examine the raw data on deaths of all causes over time. Do these data show patterns that deviate significantly from the years prior to the era of COVID-19? If so, how and why?
In this extensive article, OCLA researcher Denis Rancourt and co-authors Marine Baudin and Jérémie Mercier address these questions for the United States and Canada.
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Nature of the COVID-era public health disaster in the USA, from all-cause mortality and socio-geo-economic and climatic data
by Denis G. Rancourt, Marine Baudin, and Jérémie Mercier
Abstract: We investigate why the USA, unlike Canada and Western European countries, has a sustained exceedingly large mortality in the “COVID-era” occurring from March 2020 to present (October 2021). All-cause mortality by time is the most reliable data for detecting true catastrophic events causing death, and for gauging the population-level impact of any surge in deaths from any cause. The behaviour of the USA all-cause mortality by time (week, year), by age group, by sex, and by state is contrary to pandemic behaviour caused by a new respiratory disease virus for which there is no prior natural immunity in the population. Its seasonal structure (summer maxima), age-group distribution (young residents), and large state-wise heterogeneity are unprecedented and are opposite to viral respiratory disease behaviour, pandemic or not. We conclude that a pandemic did not occur. We infer that persistent chronic psychological stress induced by the long-lasting government-imposed societal and economic transformations during the COVID-era converted the existing societal (poverty), public-health (obesity) and hot-climate risk factors into deadly agents, largely acting together, with devastating population-level consequences against large pools of vulnerable and disadvantaged residents of the USA, far above preexisting pre-COVID-era mortality in those pools. We also find a large COVID-era USA pneumonia epidemic that is not mentioned in the media or significantly in the scientific literature, which was not adequately addressed. Many COVID-19-assigned deaths may be misdiagnosed bacterial pneumonia deaths. The massive vaccination campaign (380 M administered doses, 178 M fully vaccinated individuals, mainly January-August 2021 and March-August 2021, respectively) had no detectable mitigating effect, and may have contributed to making the younger population more vulnerable (35-64 years, summer-2021 mortality).
