On Wednesday October 18th in Parliament House, Canberra, the Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) held an inquiry, addressing the alarming rise in excess mortality in Australia since 2021. This inquiry aimed to uncover the most pressing question: What is causing Australians to die at unprecedented rates? Why has the death rate rocketed?
Mortality data
The scandal of excess death reporting (or lack thereof)
In stark contrast to the 2020 relentless daily death counts, there has been a virtual media black-out on excess deaths since the vaccine rollout.
Trends in Excess Deaths
All our readers will be aware that on October 20th, Andrew Bridgen managed finally to secure a debate on the Excess mortality which is occurring in the UK and across highly vaccinated countries in every continent. In the run up to the debate, HART joined in an open letter to all MPs urging them to attend and similar appeals were made by other groups most of which fell on deaf ears.
Trends in Excess Deaths, 20th October 2023
“We have experienced more excess deaths since July 2021 than in the whole of 2020. Unlike during the pandemic, however, those deaths are not disproportionately of the old. In other words, the excess deaths are striking down people in the prime of life. No one seems to care.”
You have to die of something!
When calling out the excess mortality after the covid vaccination campaign, the claim that Sweden disproves an association with vaccination is frequently raised. Why is it that Sweden has only a small excess, and some claim none when adjusted for age?
Debate on excess deaths 20th October
UK Parliamentary debate on Excess Mortality but will MPs attend?
Elegant modelling of excess deaths
Joel Smalley has carried out extensive analysis on a dataset which has allowed for the most accurate excess death data so far produced. There is a huge, previously unaddressed issue, of grouping cohorts when calculating excess deaths. There is huge variation in the size of the cohorts born each year.
Excess Deaths Adjournment Debate
Andrew Bridgen has secured an adjournment debate on the vital subject of Excess Mortality. This much vexed subject has generally been ignored by the majority of MPs as well as the mainstream media. The excess noted back in 2021 in adolescent males was highlighted in the High Court and the excess was acknowledged even then but with no decision to investigate. HART wrote to the MHRA at that time, as did members of the Pandemic Recovery APPG. Questions have been asked in the House of Commons too. But all attempts to get the issue taken seriously have drawn a blank.
Joint open letter to MPs retiring in 2024
How will you be remembered? Also available on Substack – Come and join the conversation with open comments A Word version of the letter available for download HERE for those who readers would also like to forward to their MP to ensure response. Letter to all Members of Parliament standing down at the next General […]
Have we overcalled the excess death concern?
There is much confusion about excess deaths currently with different government bodies contradicting each other about the extent of the problem. The ONS use a baseline which includes 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 as years with which to calculate expected deaths. Despite this clearly elevated “normal” they have reported excess mortality for most weeks of this year.
Covid jabs the big picture: Part 3
There is plenty of data that suggests concerning patterns emerging in terms of mortality rates among certain groups of people who received the covid vaccines. The number of deaths recorded in the vaccine group was higher than the placebo group in the Pfizer/BioNTech clinical trial, and there were more cases of cardiac and respiratory arrest in the vaccinated group.
Excuses for excess deaths
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine claims that over 20,000 people died in 2022 after waiting for care for at least 12 hours. They say these deaths resulted from long delays in A&E, where emergency departments are frequently overwhelmed and unable to find patients a hospital bed. The claim is based on modelled data which showed that patients who waited longer for a bed had a higher mortality.
An autopsy on covid deaths
Although covid undoubtedly killed people, looking at its fatality in retrospect, the claimed lethality does not always match what we now know about the virus. There are particular examples such as New York City and Lombardy where the alleged covid mortality figures are well in excess of what was seen elsewhere, and suggest other factors must have been at play. With that in mind it is worth re-examining the excess death waves to understand better what proportion was caused directly by covid and what could have been caused by the response to covid.
Problems with the ONS data?
After a seven month hiatus the ONS have finally released data on deaths by vaccination status but it is all very odd. Numerous analyses have been written on the findings as well as critiques of the quality of the data; this article will be an attempt to summarise them.
Can the mortality anomalies in the ONS data be explained?
The new ONS data seems to have a bias such that deaths in the unvaccinated are more likely to be included in the ONS sample, whereas deaths in the vaccinated have the opposite bias and are more likely to be excluded from this dataset. Oddly, the bias is different for covid deaths.
Three key findings from ONS analysis
There are significant problems with bias in the ONS dataset that are covered in two accompanying articles. However, even based on the ONS analysis there are three key points that strongly suggest that 2022 was a bad year for covid vaccines.
Did boosters save lives in Europe?
The top ten European countries in terms of the proportion of people booster doses given were compared to the bottom ten to see if there had been a benefit.
Singapore is a control group
The Singapore government released data on their excess deaths in 2021 which is a window into what has caused excess cardiovascular deaths. Singapore is interesting because covid deaths did not feature until September 2021. Prior to that date only 29 deaths had been attributed to covid.
