2023: Year of Truth & Accountability

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem

First, the Truth

After all the lockdowns, quarantines, job-losses, masks, and mandates we can now say that for non-elderly, the flu is deadlier than COVID. IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) is calculated by ration of deaths into TOTAL infections. The great John Ioannidis gave us his latest on Covid and I compare it to the flu with CDC data.

Influenza IFR (CDC data):

• 0–17: 0.005%

• 0–64: 0.029%

COVID-19 IFR (Ioannidis):

• 0–19: 0.0003%

• 0–59: 0.026%

Despite what the media and Team Apocalypse tells you - the pandemic is over. U.S. COVID-19 deaths by week shown below - 2022 is the bottom line of the chart (through Nov 2022).

This is based on the CDC Case Surveillance File. The date is the “earliest date” on record which means 1) the date of the onset of illness; 2) the date of the positive C19 specimen; and/or 3) reported date… the date the CDC received the entry. This is not the DATE of death - but probably off by no more than 30 days.

Here are the numbers by month for cases and deaths.

As we’ve noted in these pages before - these numbers are probably off.

Here’s a JUICY chart. How many Covid deaths are there from the pandemic in the U.S.?

The CDC has "confirmed" 923,710 deaths. But if you use an "apples to apples" comparison on how they track other respiratory burdens then you would have to conclude that there have been 347,601 deaths.

In other words, the MASTER record that the CDC uses to track cases and deaths has only 347K deaths that have complete information (clinical date, lab-confirmed sample)

This is data taken from the massive CDC Case Surveillance File. The data include: - 2 clinically relevant dates (onset of illness and/or specimen date). - a lab-confirmed case: yes/no - Hospitalization: yes/no Only 367K deaths meet these criteria, maybe even 347K:

In short, we don’t the actual number and we may never know…. but in the coming weeks we will have some marching orders on next steps for accountability.