What Was COVID-19, Exactly? (part 2)
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
Subscribers to John Dee’s Almanac will have seen me bashing my head month after month trying to tackle COVID-19 as a respiratory disease. It’s been a very slippery customer and at times I’ve even questioned whether a virus has existed! I’ve persevered largely because COVID-19 has been primarily sold to us as a respiratory pathogen and it is the image of the critically ill patient on a ventilator that has scared the shine out of the public. NHS posters of such have hammered this home to the point where I’m still seeing sorry souls wearing filthy masks in the open air in our beautiful parks and spaces. These folk have been psychologically damaged for life and I don’t see anyone being held criminally responsible any day soon; I guess the government is not about to go overthrow itself and bring charges.
If I were to summarise my 303 articles to date it would be to say that COVID-19 has not acted like a bone fide respiratory disease let alone a novel and deadly pathogen. This observation is…