The CDC Reads my Substack!
Or they gave up trying to hide the death stats…
In my last post, I dissected the February 6th release of the CDC mortality dataset, shrieking about how a quarter million dead Americans had seemingly vanished, making the 2021 mortality look a little less awful. Well, this weekend, as a way of procrastinating on starting my taxes, I decided to give them another chance and downloaded the latest update.1 This one was released on 02/20/2022, which must be a lucky date, because, lo and behold, our dead friends are back! I mean, they’re still dead, but at least they’re being counted by the CDC again. All I can think is that the whole CDC must be following my Substack now, and as soon as they learned that there had been some tiny accidental oversight in their data prep, they got it straightened out lickety-split. I certainly hope nobody got fired over this.
Wait, who’m I kidding? Nobody ever gets fired in government health care, no matter how bad they screw up.
So…on to the new and improved dataset. With the update, we find that the 2021 total US mortality jumped way back up, to where it is now only 750 bodies short of the 2020 total, showing us, once again, the amazing power of our public health policy to save lives! With the lockdowns mostly over, kids mostly back in school, lots of people back to work, and these awesome life-giving drugs shot into 70% of the population’s arms, we saved a whopping 0.00023% of our people from dying this past year, compared to 2020. Of course, that was still 23.4% higher than the pre-COVID (2015-2019) average—exactly the same percentage excess as 2020. So much saving! So much living!
The key point of my original post back in November, though, was about who was dying—as in, not mainly the old folks. No offense to old folks, but your odds of making it for each additional year just aren’t that great, compared to us middle-agers and especially not to the young ’uns. When we start dying in large numbers, people pay attention. Unless the government doesn’t want people to pay attention, in which case, they start censoring stuff and give folks other things to think about, like a ginned-up war. But I digress.
In my November post, I focused on only the third quarter of the year, because I wanted to see what effect the vaccination roll-out had on mortality, so I had to leave enough time for everyone who wanted to, to get vaxxed. By the time of the big mandate announcement by Joe Biden near the end of third quarter, about 52% of the US population had had two doses of the vaccines. As of today, that number is 65%, with many of that additional 13% forced into it by employers/mandates, which have mostly been struck down since. Without that element of force, and with more vax facts slipping out into the public sphere, the number who have volunteered for a booster shot of the chemical brew sits at only 29%.
Most of those additional shots were given during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, but the vast majority of original vaccination happened prior to Q3, so let’s see how this jabbarama has played out for Americans, especially younger, low-COVID-risk Americans (which is everyone under about 75).
So what we have here is a comparison of excess death rates between 2020 and 2021 (for a refresher of how this is calculated, please refer to the original post). Now, clearly, the vaccines did not return US mortality to normal, which would be 0% excess death, and in fact, the Q3/Q4 combo—the entire second half of 2021—appears to have been more deadly for many of us than was our first Q3/Q4 with this novel virus, at least for those in that 25-69 year old key demographic that our economy depends on.
For those of you who are graph and chart-challenged, allow me to state it plainly: 25-39 year olds died at a 53% higher rate than normal in 2021, compared to 39% above normal in 2020. And for 40-54 year olds, those numbers are 45% and 28%. In other words, roughly half again as many excess deaths occurred in 2021 as in the prior year.
Do you really want to tell me that’s due to delayed cancer diagnoses? In 25-54 year olds? Really?
Another theory I’ve heard is that all these excess deaths are from drug overdoses. ODs are very prominent in this age group and are definitely up, so let’s take a look. For the twelve months ending September 2019, about 70K people died of drug overdoses, and by September 2021 (latest available), that number had risen to 104K2, so an increase of 34K deaths per year, or 17K per six months. In the second half of 2021, there were 185K extra deaths among 25-69 year olds, the prime drug age group. So sure, maybe 10% of the excess deaths can be written off to increased ODs.
The next popular theory is that all the excess deaths were from unvaccinated people dying of the COVID Delta variant. I suspect you, my readers, are bright enough to not need a graph on this one, but here you go anyway.
What we see above is that during Q3/Q4 2021, when 70-80% of the population over twelve years old had had one or two COVID shots, and another 30% had had three, deaths ostensibly due to COVID doubled or even tripled in the age groups that were at lowest risk to begin with. Even in the 70-84 year old group, deaths barely declined. Only the 85+ group saw a significant benefit. That’s some effective vaccine, eh? It’s almost like we should’ve just protected the high risk people and let everyone else get on with their life, untouched by the miracle of modern med—, er, chemistry. In fact, it’s almost like everything all those vaccine experts have been saying all along about vaccinating during a pandemic wasn’t misinformation at all…
Well, there’s a lot more to explore in this dataset, including breakdowns by age and ethnicity, and I’ve also gotten my hands on the CDC state-by-state cause-of-death datasets, so I’ll stop now and look forward to digging into those next. But in the meantime, a word to those who are getting sucked into the war propaganda—never, never forget how much you were lied to over the last two years, and then ask yourself why you should trust anything that’s coming out of your government or its bought-and-paid-for media lapdogs ever again. And if you have any doubt about that last remark, I’ll refer you to this lovely Substack article by Emerald Robinson:
As always, your questions and comments are welcome below!
Thanks for staying on top of this, Maria. It's so important that these continually shifting numbers are captured in real time, and that a permanent record is created. If and when we ever get a real Congress elected, this needs to be thoroughly investigated.
I put Maria's substack in a list-essay I published recently on the seven Best Vax-Harm Substacks. Keep up the good work, Maria! https://pomocon.substack.com/p/the-best-vax-harm-substacks?s=w