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Horowitz: Why is there a sudden shortage of health care workers in Canadian hospitals?

Regarding the phenomenon of doctor shortages and sudden death syndrome in Canada, Leslyn Lewis, member of parliament and candidate for Conservative leader, made the following observation: “If three young women go missing in your neighborhood, and the police response was ‘Well, it is probably not a serial killer,’ that wouldn’t be good enough.” Why are we then not demanding answers about the cause of all these human shortages – from doctors to pilots – and the unusual number of people dropping dead young beginning in 2021 (not 2020)?

In an article titled, “'Not going to get better anytime soon,” CTV calls the doctor and nurse shortage in Canadian hospitals “dire.” One would think something this sudden, jarring, and consequential would have a readily available explanation for its cause, but the media struggle with attempts to cover up the cause. They posit it might be stress, mental health issues, or “secondary” effects of COVID. Nor does there seem to be any urgency on the part of the media or government to get to the bottom of this serious public policy issue.

Well, just like a bunch of missing young girls in a neighborhood might not involve foul play, but you would certainly begin an investigation with that in mind, one would think that this Health Impact News article would serve as a launching point for an investigation into the boosters: 6 Canadian Medical Doctors Died Within 2 Weeks After 4th COVID Booster Shots for Employees Started at One Hospital. First there were the three doctors who died suddenly with an unknown cause of death at Canada’s Trillium Health Partners-Mississauga Hospital in Toronto, then three more in other cities in Canada died – all of them young and some in their 20s. Now Steve Kirsch is reporting the name of 14 doctors across Canada who have recently died young, whose causes of death include “unspecified illness,” “died swimming,” and “died in her sleep.”

Obviously, this doesn’t prove it was from the shot, but given all the other data, science, pathophysiology, and life insurance claims information we are seeing, we should not rule out the shots, as the media has already done.

One could just chalk this up to bad luck if this were just a rash of noticeable sudden deaths among young doctors, but the fact that there is a doctor shortage would lend credence to the theory that many others who don’t die from the shots are getting sick for a few days. Given that they are all required to get boosters in the Canadian health care field, that would account for the sudden shortages. To add insult to injury, or shall we say “infection to injury,” the more you inject, the more you infect, so these same doctors are also more likely to continue getting COVID, which may also contribute to the staff shortages. A U.K. study showed that health care workers infected with the original Wuhan strain who then got multiple vaccines seemed to be more likely to get infected with the new variants. Dr. Robert Malone has explained this is the result of “immune imprinting,” where your body gets trained to respond improperly to the new strains by always responding to the defunct Wuhan strain.

The concern that doctors are suddenly dropping dead due to the shots is more than just anecdotal; this is happening across civilization. The leading cause of death in Alberta is now “unknown.” Over the past 20 years, the top cause of death was either heart attack or dementia, usually accounting for roughly 1,800-2,000 deaths a year. But suddenly in 2021, “unknown” takes the top spot at a whopping 3,362.

Just like doctors, pilots are highly specialized, and their limited numbers make it noticeable when only a small percentage are suddenly absent. There have been cancellations and delays all over the country for months now with no clear explanation why. On Sunday, a total of 6,378 flights were delayed and more than 900 canceled across the United States. In Chicago’s O’Hare airport, 40% of all flights were delayed and 12% were canceled.

It is true that some of them are quitting because of the mandates, and that in itself would create a shortage, but pilots have already spoken out about being injured and watching their employers cover it up.

More and more data points are demonstrating that VAERS was not only correct, but is underreporting the scope of injury. The Daily Sceptic recently pooled five surveys of the American public that show more people self-report vaccine injury or death in their families than COVID injury or death:

The pooled results of five surveys of the American public, now totaling over 2,500 people, show that while 4.4% of respondents reported that a member of their household had died from COVID-19, 8.9% said a member had died as a result of Covid vaccination.
The results also showed that 8.6% said they had been injured by their vaccination, 4.9% that they had sought medical help and 3.2% that they had been hospitalized, while 3.6% said that as a result of vaccination they were no longer able to work a full day or at all. These are percentages of all respondents. If we look only at the 74.0% vaccinated with at least one dose then the figures, as a proportion of vaccinated persons, are 11.7% injured, 6.7% needing medical help, 4.4% hospitalized and 4.8% unable to work. While these figures are self-reported and there is no control group, since the unvaccinated were not asked about adverse events, they are still alarmingly high.

Obviously, each one of these data points is imperfect in its own right, but taken together, there is enough circumstantial evidence to convict a criminal if this were a criminal case. Moreover, this is the best we can do when government and the medical and scientific establishment refuse to put the money into following up on these safety signals with better research and investigations.

Every week now, England is experiencing excess mortality, with deaths over the past six weeks up 14% over the five-year average. Edinburgh Group researchers are noticing the same trend in Scotland.

In Germany, there is a sharp increase both in COVID and non-COVID deaths over the pre-vaccine period of the pandemic.

Why is there no sense of urgency to investigate the cause of this ubiquitous sudden death syndrome other than to immediately exonerate the vaccine as a potential culprit? Why is there no push to begin doing autopsies? Over a year and a half into these glaring safety signals, there is no innocent answer to these questions.

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Horowitz: 20 bizarre causes of death that the media is blaming on sudden adult death syndrome

“Hundreds more people than usual are dying each week in England and Wales with Covid not to blame for the majority of deaths, new figures show,” reports the U.K. Daily Telegraph.

It’s become a common theme throughout the world since 2021 (not 2020): There is a spike in excess deaths and sudden unexplained deaths, including among younger people. It sounds kind of important, right? Shouldn’t we seek to investigate all the variables that have changed since 2021?

The fact that the human race is suddenly dying off early is no longer a secret. We need not pore through life insurance, medical billing, excess death, or disability data. The media is not even hiding the news of young people suddenly dropping from heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots. After all, that is why they invented the moniker of “sudden adult death syndrome.” But what is shocking is how they have conjured up every speculative reason under the sun as the culprit – often bordering on parody and insanity – rather than looking at a certain obvious starting point.

CTV News reported last week, “Alberta is reporting an unprecedented increase in ill-defined and unknown causes of death in 2021.” According to government statistics from Alberta, ill-defined and unknown causes of death more than doubled – from 1,464 in 2020 to 3,362 in 2021. It has surpassed dementia to secure the number-one spot in causes of death for 2021. That’s kind of a big deal.

For its part, Alberta Health and the medical examiner’s office have yet to provide an explanation for the sudden spike in deaths for unknown reasons. The article speculates, of course, that COVID or disruptions in health care as a result of the pandemic were responsible. However, it would be odd for that to have occurred only in 2021 and not during the first year of the pandemic, when there was a stricter disruption in health care services.

On the other side of Canada, CBC reports a 24% increase in all-cause deaths in New Brunswick for the final 25 weeks of 2021 over the long-term average of previous years. An extra 886 people died in the province during that half of 2021, but there were only 114 recorded COVID deaths at the time.

In order to avoid investigating the product that was introduced to the world, which is now associated with over 14,000 categories of injuries in VAERS, but particularly with heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots, the media has come up with a number of silly diagnoses of sudden adult death syndrome. Here are just a few examples:

  1. Caffeine: For no apparent reason, a story appeared in the U.K. Express on July 7 noting that caffeine can cause “sticky blood” and lead to deep vein thrombosis. Yeah, because somehow people never drank caffeine before 2021? Of course they did, and yet we never heard about mass blood clotting. And of course, the spike protein has nothing to do with blood clotting, even though there have been over 9,000 reports of DVT in VAERS!
  2. Eggs: Well, what do you often have with your morning coffee? Some eggs and bacon. The same U.K. Express dug up a Cleveland Clinic study and published an article earlier this year warning that eggs and some meats can elevate risk factors for blood clots.
  3. Skipping breakfast: OK, well if coffee and eggs are out, perhaps I will just skip breakfast altogether. Not so fast. The U.K. Express warned in December that skipping breakfast might elevate your risk for a heart attack. So, all those young people suddenly having heart attacks? Just remember that skipping your breakfast might increase your risk of heart attack by 21%.
  4. Cold weather: We are told that the globe is warmer than ever, yet in the winter of 2021-2022, the U.K. Sun felt it was important to notify people that cold weather can suddenly cause blood clotting and heart attacks more than ever.
  5. Global warming: Well, what accounts for the sudden deaths not during the cold weather? Fear not, they have you covered. Around the same time, a new paper published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology warned that the future increase in severity of heat waves will dramatically harm cardiovascular health.
  6. Energy bills: You just can’t avoid heart attacks and strokes any time of the year. Even if you stay indoors during the global warming-induced cold fronts, but with skyrocketing energy prices, people might cut back on home heating. Dr. Amir Khan warned in WalesOnline that “if you can't afford to heat your home, it actually causes an increased risk of developing heart attacks and strokes because your blood vessels contract to conserve heat, which pushes your blood pressure up, and over time that has an impact on your heart attack risk."
  7. Climate change: Well, if it’s not too hot or cold, either way the climate is always changing, and that is reason for concern. Forbes magazine would like you to know that the reason there is a sudden concern about early death from heart attacks is because of climate change.
  8. Solar storms: The New Scientist wants you to know that every 11 years there are solar storms that could cause up to 5,500 heart-related deaths. So when going through the excess sudden deaths beyond recorded COVID deaths, you must also factor in the solar storm deaths.
  9. Increased physical activity: If you are cold and you want to prevent your blood vessels from contracting, you might do some exercise. But the Irish Times warned last year that rigorous exercise could place you at greater risk for heart attacks by creating a rapid build-up of calcium deposits in the coronary arteries.
  10. Weightlifting: In recent years, weightlifting has become more popular among those going to the gym. But Dr. Manjunath warned in the New Indian Express, again, headed into the 2021-2022 winter that isometric exercises add strain to muscles, which can rupture the plaques in the heart. It must be that gym lifestyle that is responsible for the reported sudden increase in heart attacks among young healthy individuals in India.
  11. Watching TV: Man, rigorous exercise will cause cardiovascular problems? I’ll just sit on the couch and watch TV. Well, now the media everywhere is warning of a new study that watching more than four hours of TV a day can increase your risk of blood clots by 35%.
  12. Falling asleep with TV on: OK, so I won’t be a couch potato all day, but will only watch TV as I’m ready to go to sleep. Not so fast! A brand-new study being promoted widely in the media shows that you are at risk of dying young if you fall asleep with the TV on.
  13. Gardening: If you can’t safely be a couch potato nor exercise vigorously without the threat of a heart attack, perhaps gardening is a happy medium to get you active but not too active. But in comes the U.K. Sun with a recent headline, “GREEN FINGERS Urgent warning to gardeners as soil ‘increases risk of killer heart disease’.” All those toxins in the soil can give you a heart attacks and strokes, according to researchers at the University Medical Center Mainz.
  14. Sex:The Medical Express really wants you to know that it’s not just elderly politicians cheating on their spouses who could die suddenly during sex. A new study in JAMA fond the median age of those who died within one hour of having intercourse was 38. Oh, and many were female too. So the next time you see a young athlete suddenly drop on the field, aside from the rigorous exercise that seemed to cause so many heart attacks before 2021 on the soccer fields, he might have engaged in intercourse before the game. Or perhaps they did it while standing up.
  15. Cold showers: If you want to avoid the risk factors of the sex, then you might opt for a cold shower. However, you might change your mind with new research out of Portsmouth University, which warns that some young, fit people who recently died of sudden heart attacks must have been the result of plunging into cold water during a heat wave.
  16. Lack of sleep: All of this might be giving you anxiety and preventing you from sleeping. But the American Heart Association is now warning that lack of sleep could increase your risk factor for a heart attack.
  17. Pandemic: Last year, on World Stroke Day, Dr. Tom Wolfe, Advocate Aurora Health Neurologist, informed the public that there’s been a rise in younger people having more deadly strokes. But he thinks the reason is the bad habits picked up during the lockdowns, like watching too much TV and being on the computer. Somehow, those deaths weren’t seen until 2021, not in 2020 during the lockdowns.
  18. Energy drinks: I’ll tell you why so many young people are getting sudden heart attacks and strokes. They are the ones consuming all those fizzy energy drinks! Of course, they were invented in 2021.
  19. Losing your temper: Around the same time as all these other articles, the New York Post warned that losing your temper can lead to a stroke. You know, because people never lost their tempers before 2021.
  20. Everything but the magic juice: In an article titled, “Why are so many footballers collapsing?” the U.K. Daily Mail quotes Professor Sanjay Sharma, the U.K.'s leading sports cardiologist, noting that the cause could be anything including random causes, but one thing we can rule out is the magic juice. “Is there an issue? Are these people being tested properly? Is the game doing it? Is there something in the air to cause an increase? I'm keeping an open mind. My feeling is that this is probably a statistical cluster rather than something on the rise.”
As you can see, there is no lack of variables that can be used to explain sudden adult death syndrome. The one issue, though, that will never be explained is: Why now?

WHO nearly triples global COVID-19 deaths after factoring in 'deaths linked indirectly to COVID-19'



The World Health Organization nearly tripled the global COVID-19 mortality figure on Thursday after taking into consideration "indirect" deaths allegedly related to the pandemic.

What happened?

The WHO previously reported 5.4 million COVID deaths in 2020 and 2021. But the organization revised that number to 14.9 million after adding what they claimed are the estimated number of "excess mortality" deaths.

That means the WHO believes there were 9.5 million more deaths related to pandemic in 2020 and 2021 than previously believed.

Excess mortality, according to the WHO, "is calculated as the difference between the number of deaths that have occurred and the number that would be expected in the absence of the pandemic based on data from earlier years."

For example, people who died because they were unable to receive proper hospital care during the height of the pandemic when hospitals were overcrowded is considered an excess fatality.

More from the WHO:

Excess mortality includes deaths associated with COVID-19 directly (due to the disease) or indirectly (due to the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society). Deaths linked indirectly to COVID-19 are attributable to other health conditions for which people were unable to access prevention and treatment because health systems were overburdened by the pandemic. The estimated number of excess deaths can be influenced also by deaths averted during the pandemic due to lower risks of certain events, like motor-vehicle accidents or occupational injuries.

The excess deaths were concentrated in Europe, southeast Asia, and the Americas, while the majority were male (57%) and older adults.

However, the actual number of deaths will probably never be known. After all, many health agencies still do not distinguish between "deaths with COVID" — meaning people who die while having a COVID infection — and "deaths from COVID," those that are caused directly by the virus.

Anything else?

One country has already disputed the WHO's numbers.

India reported just over 480,000 COVID deaths in 2020 and 2021, but the WHO estimates the country had 4.74 million excess deaths. In response, India is questioning the WHO's methodology.

"Throughout the process of dialogue, engagement and communication with WHO, WHO has projected different excess mortality figures for India citing multiple models, which itself raises questions on the validity and robustness of the models used," the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in a statement. "A modeling approach which provides mortality estimates on the basis of another estimate, while totally disregarding the actual data available within the Country exhibits lack of academic rigour."

COVID lockdowns delayed healthcare. People died as a result, life insurers report



Life insurance companies and industry analysts reported a sharp rise in death claims last year, as would be expected because of the COVID-19 pandemic. What was unexpected is that many of these claims were made for non-COVID-related deaths, which were unusually high in 2021, possibly because many Americans could not access the health care they needed during the lockdowns in 2020 and in their aftermath.

A survey of 20 leading sellers of group life insurance policies to employers led by the Society of Actuaries Research Institute showed a spike in insurance claims in the third quarter of 2021, many of which were for deaths that were not caused by the novel coronavirus. The survey found that incurred claims counts were nearly 40% higher than a pre-pandemic baseline, with nearly a 50-50 split between claims that were directly linked to COVID-19 and those that weren't, the Wall Street Journal reported.

While claims for COVID-19 deaths increased 18.7%, as would be expected during the pandemic, there was also a 19% increase in claims for non-COVID deaths, which was highly unusual and surprising.

The survey results corresponded to what several life insurance companies told industry analysts and investors in earnings calls, according to the Journal.

Companies including Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Primerica Inc., and Reinsurance Group of America Inc. each observed higher non-COVID-19 death claims compared with pre-pandemic baselines.

The companies attributed the excess deaths to delays in medical care associated with the 2020 coronavirus lockdowns, as well as people's continued fear of seeking medical treatment or trouble scheduling appointments due to causes related to the pandemic.

"The losses we are seeing continue to be elevated over 2019 levels due at least in part, we believe, to the pandemic and the existence of either delayed or unavailable health care," Globe Life CFO Frank Svoboda reportedly told investors in February.

He listed heart and circulatory issues, as well as neurological disorders, as causes for many of these deaths. "We anticipate that they'll start to be less impactful over the course of 2022 but we do anticipate that we'll still at least see some elevated levels throughout the year," he said.

Heart, stroke, and cancer were prominent causes of death, according to Hartford financial chief executive Christopher Swift, who said his company had "experienced higher levels of non-COVID excess mortality during the quarter."

Another group life insurance seller, OneAmerica Financial Partners, reported a 140% increase in claims for working-age adults over their pre-pandemic baseline — with one-third of those deaths likely caused by delayed medical care.

Horowitz: How disproportionate coronavirus panic will create excess cancer deaths for years to come



Last week, I presented an analysis showing that not only does SARS-CoV-2 replace the flu while it is circulating, its casualty targets draw heavily from the pool of past and future flu and pneumonia fatality victims. This has the long-term effect of flattening out the curve of excess deaths over time to a point that the imprint of this virus will be barely noticeable in many states. However, our panicked response to the virus will likely produce excess deaths for years to come that will grow over time because the years of life lost are much greater.

There are dashboards in nearly every country to monitor and tabulate every death caused (or allegedly caused) by the virus, even though there is no evidence at this point that any human intervention could have prevented those deaths. But there are no dashboards for people like 31-year-old Kelly Smith, a U.K. cancer patient who had her chemotherapy paused for three months beginning in March. Unfortunately, she didn't last long enough for the treatments to resume. According to the U.K Daily Mail, she is one of "thousands" of cancer patients abandoned by the lockdown policies, a policy that inherently regarded COVID-19 as a larger threat than cancer.

The overwhelming majority of COVID-19 deaths are people at or above life expectancy. The estimated 3-million-person backlog for cancer screenings in the U.K. will result in exponentially more life years lost because many of them, like Kelly Smith, are young. The U.K., like so many other countries, swapped out medical treatment and science that we know has worked for a strategy of locking down a virus that has never worked. The results are devastating and will continue to claim casualties long after the virus is over.

While the U.S. isn't quite as bad off because we don't have as much rationed care as the U.K., the death toll both from the initial lockdown and from the continued fear and panic, which drive people away from seeking preventive care, will continue to grow over time.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that medical billing and insurance claims data show there have been hundreds of thousands of missed and delayed mammograms and other forms of cancer screening since March. That is a recipe for thousands of people, over time, not getting a diagnosis until their diseases reacs stage 4 rather than the demonstrably more treatable stage 3. That is a very scary prospect, given that one in eight women develop breast cancer, and 78% of those with stage 4 breast cancer don't live past five years. Remember, the chance of dying of COVID-19 for most people is an infinitesimal number – below 1%.

Although most of the effects will be long-term, the Journal reports that cancer care provider 21st Century Oncology has already seen noticeable increases in the share of breast and lung cancer cases that are in advanced stages relative to the past five years.

"Claims tallied by researchers at UnitedHealth Group Inc., parent of the largest U.S. health insurer, show mammograms dropped by as much as 95% in the second week of April compared with that same week in previous years," reports the WSJ. "Screenings began to resume later in the summer, though they returned only to typical levels."

The nation's largest insurer has also observed through its claims data nearly a million fewer mammograms and colorectal and cervical cancer screenings for the first eight months of 2020, compared to the same period last year.

An analysis of medical billing from Community Oncology Alliance and Avalere Health indicate that oncology visits were down between 29% and 70% from March through July and biopsies for breast, lung, and colon cancer fell between 11% and 79% over the same period.

While the drop was the most severe during the first months of the actual full-scale shutdown, they are still well below average. According to the Health Care Cost Institute, mammograms fell 77 percent at the height of the pandemic, but were still down 23 percent in September long after the shutdown.

Why so? Although access to such care is no longer denied in most places, the fear and panic induced by the government and media are leading too many to believe that they are at greater risk of dying from the virus than from other ailments and to therefore delay critical preventive care. One Mayo Clinic doctor reported seeing more patients who ignored lumps in their bodies for fear contracting the virus while going out for testing. Other doctors and health networks have seen similar delays in colonoscopies, which have proven themselves lifesavers in catching silently growing colon cancer.

Now multiply these numbers of extra cancer deaths for many other ailments, such as heart and neurological illnesses, and you will find hundreds of thousands of excess deaths for years to come. A study published last week in Jama by Yale and Virginia Commonwealth University researchers found that even during the peak of the epidemic – from March through July – 33% of this year's excess deaths were not from the virus, but from non-respiratory causes, primarily cardiovascular, diabetes, and dementia. The cancer excess deaths will likely be spread out over time for years to come and, as this coronavirus becomes less deadly and more treatable, overshadow the deaths from the virus.

Moreover, this study accounted heavily for New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, where the virus hit particularly hard. In many places throughout the country, excess deaths from non-COVID causes are already higher than COVID-19 deaths in that given area.

Take Colorado, for example. A recent analysis of excess deaths in the Rocky Mountain State showed that at least 1,038 Coloradans have died from Colorado's reaction to COVID from June 14 through September 26, as compared to just 438 from the virus. My friend Karl Dierenbach, an engineer and attorney from Denver, posted an analysis of CDC mortality data showing that 200 of those excess deaths were Alzheimer's patients and 300 were from circulatory disease such as heart attacks and strokes. This harmonizes with an analysis published by local Denver doctors showing more people died of heart attacks because they declined to come to the ER than died from the virus in the area during the two week stay-at-home order in early April.

Among young people under 45, Colorado recorded just 100 virus deaths for the entire duration of the epidemic, while the CDC shows 500 additional excess deaths not related to COVID-19. They were likely due to suicides and drug overdoses from the stress, depression, fear, and mental illness.

The cruel irony is that there are generations of science and data vouching for the effectiveness of preventive measures in lowering the death rate of heart disease, cancer, and strokes. On the other hand, after six months of observations, it has become clear that none of these draconian social control measures have done anything to save a single life from the virus. Rather, the panic, fear, and depression these measures induce in the population will kill more people just from the mental health issues and the higher blood pressure and stress alone.

How true were the words of King David thousands of years ago when he was presented with a choice between a God-made punishment of pestilence and a man-made problem of war. As he opted for the plague, he told the prophet, "Let us fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into human hands." ~2 Samuel 24:14.

Horowitz: Someone tell Dr. Fauci: Drugs killed four times as many San Franciscans this year as COVID-19



In a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Jake Tapper yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he believes the excess deaths we are seeing this year show that the COVID-19 death count is higher than what's officially being reported. "It certainly suggests that is the case," Fauci said in response to Tapper's assertion of over 20% more excess deaths. "Unless you can find another reason — which I can't think of — of there being these excess deaths in the context of coronavirus, you'd have to make an assumption that it's reasonably possible, if not likely, that those are deaths that are related to corona and they are just not being counted."

It's one thing to assert that the cost of panic, lockdown, and social isolation are somehow worth Fauci's alleged gains in preventing coronavirus deaths. But to deny the fact that we are seeing excess deaths this year that are not explained by the virus itself, but likely due to our response to it, is willful blindness. Nowhere is this more evident than with drug overdoses.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, half of the bodies in the city's morgue are from drug overdoses — with the city on pace for 700 drug fatalities by the end of the year. That is a staggering 59% increase from last year. It's hard to explain such an increase in one year without taking into account the mental health toll of the lockdown and social isolation. As city supervisor Matt Haney observed, "It's already killed four times as many people as COVID."

Through Aug. 31, there were 468 drug overdose fatalities. According to city data, there were just 91 reported COVID-19 deaths at that point. That means that just the excess drug deaths over last year alone are outpacing the deaths from the virus. This is occurring in many other parts of the country, such as in Nashville and in Ohio. In many of these states, the surge in drug deaths since 2013 had finally stabilized before the lockdowns. For Fauci to suggest that there is no explanation for excess deaths above and beyond the official COVID count is quite insidious.

What is further shocking about Fauci's disregard for the collateral damage of the mental health crisis is that these deaths are by and large among young people. The number of years of life lost due to the panic is enormous. As I noted in the case study of Tennessee, excess deaths for the elderly barely registered in that state. On the other hand, there is a notable bump in deaths among those ages 25-44, most likely because of Nashville's drug overdose crisis.

The sharp bump in excess deaths nationwide among younger people lays waste to Fauci's theory of undercounting COVID-19 deaths. It's one thing to suggest we are missing more COVID deaths among the elderly, but if the excess deaths (over and beyond the official COVID death count) are largely being driven by younger people, it is very hard to assert that we are missing thousands of coronavirus deaths among a cohort that is not really threatened by the virus, especially with our liberal methods of counting.

My friend Kyle Lamb of RationalGround.com prepared a table of excess deaths by age cohort based on CDC excess death data through Aug. 31.

Source: RationalGround.com

Based on this data, we are on pace to finish the year with 30,260 deaths above forecasted baseline deaths for those under 45, but only 8,307 deaths from COVID-19 in those same groups. That means that non-COVID-19 excess deaths (21,953) would be 2.6 times higher than excess deaths from COVID-19 (8,307). And remember, that includes those young folks who died in motorcycle accidents but tested positive for COVID and, ironically, in some cases, those who died of drug overdoses!

It's truly shocking how our leaders continue to brazenly ignore the collateral damage of their policies even as the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of the ill effects of lockdown. On Sunday, Dr. David Nabarro, one of the top WHO officials and a special envoy on the virus, appealed to world leaders to stop "using lockdowns as your primary control method" for the virus. While noting the increased poverty and child malnutrition induced by lockdowns, Nabarro categorically stated, "We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus."

Sadly, Fauci continues to move the goalposts from 15 days to flatten the curve so hospitals aren't overrun to a permanent control over our lives. The only way he can do so is to ignore the physical health, mental health, and economic consequences of his policies — even when they are in plain sight.