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Darn - a critical typo! That 18% figure should be 28% - the tables are correct but my fingers are clumsy. The online version has been revised.

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Thank you for the praise! I am going to return it soon. My current analysis of all cause mortality showed that even April 2020 was not that much of a stand out month when looking back properly over the last 600. Yes, 50 years! I was going to reinforce the point that at least 50% was not even COVID but, according to this piece, I can now confidently say it was a mere 0.4% to 28%?!

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It’s the “viral” Plandemic that keeps on giving. Great article once again.

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Innit just? I've handled some lousy data in my time but pandemic data - any and all of it - takes the biscuit!

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Would be great to see the main nuggets of your posts over the last few years distilled into a single long post or an academic paper -- if you can find the time and sufficient hot water.

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Dear John, you kindly said I could have a 2 for 1 subscription to include your Climate Corner substack. However the system hasn't recognised this and tells me I'm not a subscriber. I guess you have to do something administrative. Thanks, Ross

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I'll need to fiddle - hang on...

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Sorted!

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Thanks JD!

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Thanks John, keep up the good work. In terms of the jab side effects manifesting as "covid," Canas et al 2021 looked at this specifically and concluded, based on a machine learning model, that the side effects and Covid were indistinguishable: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370%2821%2900493-4/fulltext.

We know now, also, that spike was produced throughout the body for some time after the mRNA shots, so it also seems likely that post-vaccination effects also resulted in many test positives that were picking up jab-induced spike rather than Covid-induced spike (particularly for antigen/LFT tests b/c they were based specifically on spike in most cases).

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My feeling is that probably much of the "omicron wave" was in fact jab-induced rather than actually Covid.

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This post has been revised to accommodate my broader definition of symptomatic COVID!

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