In this miniseries I try to fathom what COVID was supposed to be using a sample of 21,810 adult in-hospital deaths over the period 2020/w1 – 2021/w36 for an undisclosed NHS Trust
"It is most curious that these four very different disease groups should all be responding in the same way; namely, a peculiarly instant spring death followed by the usual drawn out winter peak. How is it that a virus that is now known to be about as deadly as the flu dished out instant death across a whole raft of medical conditions in spring 2020 yet acted like a normal flu virus in the 2020/21 winter season? Do I smell something fishy? Are we seeing something nasty in the woodshed?"
This has midazolam Matt's fingerprints all over it methinks!!
Sure does! Because of this tear in the fabric of the mediverse I'm going to have to model two different periods and see how they stack up. Though I'm not chasing MM as such, this is what may well come out in the wash.
A few thoughts: 1) medical coma and intubation as standard protocol for anyone sent to hospital from nursing homes in the first spike was a major cause of death for already frail people (and which protocol was changed after the first spring spike as doctors realized how many it was killing), with the large majority intubated also being false positives from universal Covid screening in care homes once the highly flawed pcr tests were rolled out; 2) false positives dominated due to the well known but ignored base rate fallacy; 3) false positives were exacerbated yet further by the fact that the earlier versions of the pcr tests were fundamentally flawed bc they detected genetic fragments that are very common in microbes and human DNA. I did the deep dive here. https://tamhunt.medium.com/are-pcr-tests-mostly-picking-up-human-and-microbial-genetic-material-7d892231e575
Looking forward to it. I was entertaining for some time the notion that there may not in fact be a Covid virus at all -- it seemed at various points in my personal journey toward understanding that all the data could be explained without any virus at all -- but I have moved away from that position and come around at this point to the view that there is a Covid virus (SARS-CoV2), which almost certainly was created in a lab and released intentionally or accidentally (leaning toward accidentally still), which was GOFed to become far more transmissible than the previous wild-type viruses in this family, but that its impacts on the vast majority of people are not much different than a regular seasonal flu. And if we had treated it as a regular seasonal flu we would have had much the same global mortality as a regular seasonal flu. Keep up the great work.
I do recommend highly Kennedy's new book, The Wuhan Coverup, for its in-depth coverage of the policy landscape, the very very deep corruption of Big Pharma and GOF, and the US/UK/China biodefense (actually bioweapons) complex that was behind this latest pandemic and many earlier attempts at having a "real" global pandemic. Unfortunately he doesn't delive into the incredibly central roles played by the highly anomalous "case definition" for Covid, the decision to test asymptomatics widely and the false positive predominance this choice precipitated, or the defintions of "Covid hospitalization" or "Covid death." But on the topics he does cover he does an amazing job.
"It is most curious that these four very different disease groups should all be responding in the same way; namely, a peculiarly instant spring death followed by the usual drawn out winter peak. How is it that a virus that is now known to be about as deadly as the flu dished out instant death across a whole raft of medical conditions in spring 2020 yet acted like a normal flu virus in the 2020/21 winter season? Do I smell something fishy? Are we seeing something nasty in the woodshed?"
This has midazolam Matt's fingerprints all over it methinks!!
Sure does! Because of this tear in the fabric of the mediverse I'm going to have to model two different periods and see how they stack up. Though I'm not chasing MM as such, this is what may well come out in the wash.
The cure methinks was worse than the disease. By far.
A few thoughts: 1) medical coma and intubation as standard protocol for anyone sent to hospital from nursing homes in the first spike was a major cause of death for already frail people (and which protocol was changed after the first spring spike as doctors realized how many it was killing), with the large majority intubated also being false positives from universal Covid screening in care homes once the highly flawed pcr tests were rolled out; 2) false positives dominated due to the well known but ignored base rate fallacy; 3) false positives were exacerbated yet further by the fact that the earlier versions of the pcr tests were fundamentally flawed bc they detected genetic fragments that are very common in microbes and human DNA. I did the deep dive here. https://tamhunt.medium.com/are-pcr-tests-mostly-picking-up-human-and-microbial-genetic-material-7d892231e575
I believe my comments below go far in explaining your findings in this essay.
They do indeed. I shall be rolling out some split period modelling that may well support these further.
Looking forward to it. I was entertaining for some time the notion that there may not in fact be a Covid virus at all -- it seemed at various points in my personal journey toward understanding that all the data could be explained without any virus at all -- but I have moved away from that position and come around at this point to the view that there is a Covid virus (SARS-CoV2), which almost certainly was created in a lab and released intentionally or accidentally (leaning toward accidentally still), which was GOFed to become far more transmissible than the previous wild-type viruses in this family, but that its impacts on the vast majority of people are not much different than a regular seasonal flu. And if we had treated it as a regular seasonal flu we would have had much the same global mortality as a regular seasonal flu. Keep up the great work.
This is pretty much my position as it stands this morning. Ideas are flowing and I can't wait to turn the handle on this!
I do recommend highly Kennedy's new book, The Wuhan Coverup, for its in-depth coverage of the policy landscape, the very very deep corruption of Big Pharma and GOF, and the US/UK/China biodefense (actually bioweapons) complex that was behind this latest pandemic and many earlier attempts at having a "real" global pandemic. Unfortunately he doesn't delive into the incredibly central roles played by the highly anomalous "case definition" for Covid, the decision to test asymptomatics widely and the false positive predominance this choice precipitated, or the defintions of "Covid hospitalization" or "Covid death." But on the topics he does cover he does an amazing job.