A couple days ago Rant team member Chad sent me this

Tucker Carlson interviews a Chinese virologist who claims she can prove that the virus was manmade, and she believes the Chinese government released it on purpose.  I have read several sources that make the same claims.  I have not commented on them for a couple reasons.  The first is that I lack the expertise to determine if this could be true.  In these rants I have often drawn parallels between the science behind global warming and the science behind Covid.  Global warming is a problem of thermodynamics and heat transfer; 2 things I use every day at work and 2 of the highest marks I received in University so I am quite comfortable telling you Anthropogenic greenhouse gas warming is a steaming pile of horse manure.  With Covid I am not a virologist, but I can see when the “experts” are obviously ignoring pertinent data and definitely not using the scientific method.  If you are not using the scientific method, you are not doing science; it is that simple.  From this short interview I can make no judgement on the quality of her science.  I refuse to believe because of her credentials.  That is a game the global warming charlatans play; because I have a PHD you must obey me.  Frankly I think the people who granted PHDs to some of those idiots must be rolling in their graves.

The second reason is that in some respects it really does not matter.  I think the evidence is clear that it did not come from the wet market.  They were not able to trace all of the original cases to the market and they have now found the virus in sewage samples in Europe and the US that date to early November before the virus supposedly originated from the market.  You read that correctly, someone tested sewage samples.  Real science is not glamorous work.  Fake scientist fly to conferences in Rio and Copenhagen where they rub elbows with politicians and celebrities.  Real scientists sift through sewage.  Despite my love of science, I have to admit the only time I have ever had to deal with sewage was when my father needed help at work; he was, among other things, a plumber.  I say the origins of the virus do not matter because the virus is not the problem; Politicians and Bureaucrats are.  Politicians and Bureaucrats are an entirely different form of virus.  One that replicates far more often and is far more deadly.

Even though I think our political infection is the more serious problem I want to take a minute to comment on whether the virus is man-made and what the implications are.  The virus could be man-made.  It is not shocking that the communist government of China would try to weaponize a virus.  As we have discussed in previous rants governments, especially left-wing governments, have little regard for human life and are responsible for the largest atrocities in history.  There are several sources claiming that this virus was a weapon.  There is no doubt that the entire world has been negatively affected.  The virus has been enormously effective in getting politicians to do enormously stupid things; but how can you count on that?  I mean in a general sense you can count on politicians to do stupid things.  After all these are people who possess no marketable job skills, have marginal intelligence at best, and are clearly sociopaths.  Despite my low opinion of politicians, even I did not think that the stupidity could have been ramped up to what we have seen over the last 6 months.  It seems odd to me to build a weapon that would be ineffective if politicians did not go out of their way to one up the most stupid thing they have on their resume.

Covid on its own is not much of a weapon.  Some people have died but as we have shown the numbers of deaths are, in some places like Alberta, not even outside the bounds of normal.  The people who it has killed are also not much of a military target.  All over the world the average age of a covid fatality is over 80 and ill.  Not many sick octogenarians  pick up rifles and charge in to battle.  If I was going to design a virus as a weapon I would make it selective to military age men and Children; the 2 groups that have zero risk of dying from Covid.  Military age men are obvious, hard to shoot a gun or guide a missile when you are dead.  Children because it upsets society and pulls military age men off the battlefield as they morn their Children. 

Does this mean a sick 80-year-old has no value?  No of course not; It is just that no one finds the death of a sick 80-year-old particularly shocking.  In Alberta 70 people die every day; 75% of them are over 75.  No one is surprised when someone over 75 dies, especially when they were in ill health.  I have already buried my Father, Father in Law, and my Mother.  They were all in ill health and I watched them all slowly deteriorate.  It was sad but not shocking when each of them died. I morn, I move on.  In contrast I don’t know how I could move on if I had to bury one of my children.  It is a very poor weapon that kills only those who pose no threat and were expected to die anyway.

It is not shocking that ill Seniors die of Covid.  It is shocking how the government has treated their family.  My father drew his last breath holding my hand.  My father in-law was the second-best man I have ever known.  Hours before his death I shook his hand and said goodbye.  My Mothers last lucid moment was to wake up, smile, and say hello to me.  If covid had been the final straw for any of them I would not have been upset the Chinese had released the virus; I would have been upset that Jason, Justin, Deena, and Theresa would not have let me in the room, let alone touch them, for my final moment with them.  Viruses are a very manageable problem.  The infection we need to get rid of is politicians and bureaucrats.

Remember that at the next election.  Remember how these cold, Callous, sons of B%$ches would not let family be with ill seniors when they died.  If you have any rage left then worry about the Chinese communists.

As expected Covid 19 has become one of the central issues in the US presidential election.  The Democrats are hoping to convince voters that Donald Trump’s past actions led to higher deaths and that his current actions are ineffective.  Joe Biden claimed that if Trump had acted just one week earlier no one in the US would have died of Covid.  That is a very outlandish claim; if there was even one honest journalist in the world, they would have asked these 2 follow up questions

1                     Which countries enacted restrictions sooner the US?

2                     How many of those countries have 0 covid deaths?

Of course, there is no such thing as an honest Journalist so that did not happen.  I am told that there were 2 honest Journalists admitted to the arc but since one was actually a male identifying as female they were unable to reproduce and honest Journalism was wiped out by the flood thousands of years ago.

The dishonest Journalists that we are left to contend with have done a masterful job of keeping the Covid panic alive.  They were so successful that Donald Trump was dragged reluctantly into the madness; at times even appearing on camera wearing a mask.  The deceitful nature of the media has served Joe Biden well.  Joe Biden has been a politician for his entire adult life, 47 years now.  The only time during that period that he has not been in Government is the last 3.5 years that Donald Trump has been president.  In 47 years Joe Biden has done the same thing as nearly every other western politician during that time; absolutely nothing other than enrich himself, his family, and his friends. It is Difficult for Joe Biden to campaign on issues that existed prior to 2016.  It would be laughable for him to say he will solve those problems now when he did nothing about them for over 40 years, 8 of which he was second in command.  Joe Biden desperately needs Covid 19 because it is the only issue he has not failed at it yet.

Since the media has succeeded in making Covid a campaign issue, both sides must have a Covid 19 plan as part of their platform.  Trump is touting his efforts to make a vaccine available in record time.  Joe Biden says that he will make all Americans wear a veil mask.  Joe is convinced that if every day looks like Halloween the virus will get confused and stop making people sick.  In November Americans get to choose between vaccines or masks.  No one is offering a 3^rd option of not wasting any more money on testing and just get on with life.  Americans must choose between the lesser of 2 evils. 

Joe Biden has an uphill battle on his hands because the public has been told for decades how important Vaccines are and just months ago they were being told that masks did not work.  It has only been quite recently that masks have been promoted as a cure for everything and delightful little devices during foreplay.  The Director of the CDC saw the problem immediately and jumped into the fray to give Joe a helping hand.  The video below is him touting how masks are more effective than vaccines.

In a desperate attempt to get rid of Donald Trump, this deceitful waste of human flesh is using his pulpit as head of a major health organization to implore people to be anti-vaxers.  After decades of being told about the absolute effectiveness of vaccines, and laws mandating that we get vaccinated, the CDC is now claiming that vaccines are far less effective than a piece of cloth.  I need to check to see how high the life expectancy is for Muslim women; they must live well past 150.

Why is the CDC so willing to go out on a limb, they may never be able to get back from, to help Joe Biden?  Let me Jump to the answer before I get to the explanation.  The CDC is concerned that if Donald Trump gets elected that there might be repercussions when the CDCs involvement with Corona Virus development comes to light.  With Joe Biden they know it will never become known and they won’t have to worry about possible criminal prosecution.

A couple days ago I mentioned a debate my brother and I are having.  He does not think I am concerned enough about the origins of the virus.  My brother has always been reluctant to accept the wisdom of his older brother, so he was not about to give up on this one.  He sent me a couple of videos of an interview.  The person who was being interviewed brought up some very interesting points and dates.  The CDC patented the corona virus in 2007.  You can find the patent document here

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/6b/c3/21/a62eb55a0e678c/US7220852.pdf

This is very curious since the CDC was able to patent something that technically can’t be patented.  The US courts do not allow patents to be issued for things that occur naturally.  If they did, I could patent sunlight and force everyone to pay a royalty for using it.  Just think how much money I could make off farmers and resort hotels.

The other curious thing was how desperate the CDC was to get the patent.  They tried multiple times starting in 2003.  They were turned down several times because you cannot patent nature.  Then somehow, they were able to get the patent in 2007.  There was, no doubt, a money poultice applied somewhere.  I have no doubt that there is now a former patent clerk living well beyond his apparent means.

Why were they so desperate to patent a virus?  In the mid-2000s the US department of defense was very interested in using viruses as a weapon.  They were very interested in the corona virus because it was quite common and quite contagious.  Patenting the corona virus gave the CDC control.  Now no one could do any research on the corona virus without paying the CDC and getting their permission.  The department of defense had to pay the CDC a royalty and could only use companies that were approved by the CDC.  At first the research was done in the US but in 2012 the CDC realized that doing germ warfare research in the US had poor optics.  The research was sent to a third party outside the US and the NIH controlled the flow of money.  It is worth repeating the CDC had to approve of the lab, so they were OK with doing the research overseas in a foreign country as long as they got their cut.  They were also OK with the Department of defense funneling the money through the NIH.  We have talked a lot about the NIH since St. Fauci is one of the highest people in that organization.  So where did they third party the research to?  You might be able to guess where this is going.  The research was being done at a lab in Wuhan China a couple miles from the infamous wet market.  St. Fauci was cutting the checks to a Lab in Wuhan China so they could work on manipulating the corona virus.  The CDC was taking their cut off the top.  Do you still think covid came from bats in a wet market?

What does this have to do with Joe Biden?  The research was moved to Wuhan China in 2012 when Joe Biden was starting his second term as vice president.  The CDC wants Joe Biden because he is already aware of the CDC’s involvement, he is not about to call them out on it.  Joe Biden refuses to call China an enemy, he refers to them as a competitor.  It is very hard to explain why you would pay a competitor to do research on your behalf.  It is impossible to explain why you would pay an enemy to do weapons research.  If Trump gets elected People at the CDC risk Jail time.  If Biden gets elected everything will be swept under the rug and it will be business as usual.

This is very damning for the CDC.  I think there is a good chance that covid 19 is manmade and came from the lab in Wuhan.  Whether it was released intentionally or by accident we don’t yet know.  The origins of this virus are important.  But I still think it is of secondary importance.  If it is manmade my guess is still that the release was accidental.  As we have already discussed if this was to be a weapon it turned out to be a very poor one.  I don’t think they were done playing with it.  It certainly not ready for prime time.

Whether this virus was released accidentally or on purpose makes no difference to me.  We did not have to play this stupid game.  We could have treated this virus for what it really was, a bad Flu.  We could have investigated and held people responsible if it turned out to be manmade, but the inescapable fact is that all the damage was done by the politicians and not the virus.  The virus itself did very little damage.  So I will concede to my brother that this virus is probably manmade and could have been released intentionally but I won’t be concerned with that until we hold all of the politicians and bureaucrats accountable for their destructive, irrational response to the cold and flu season of 2020.  Every single politician in this country needs to be run out of office.  Every bureaucrat that had anything to do with developing or enforcing covid regulations needs to lose their job and pension.  After we deal with the people who caused the problem then we can deal with the people that caused the virus.

On Monday one of our fellow rant team members, Giles,  told me a story about his granddaughters first 2 weeks in Kindergrten.   She had been enjoying kindergarten immensely but one day last week she told her teacher her tummy was sore.  Her teacher sprinted to the front of the class to hit the big red button that would put the school on Covid 19 DEFCON 1 (ok I may have made that up but I doubt it was any less dramatic).  The young girl was sent home to self-isolate for 14 days.  When her mom got her home, she asked her what was wrong.  Her answer was nothing her stomach was sore because she was hungry.  We are now so hypersensitive that a hungry child can trigger an emergency response plan.  I looked up the symptoms of Covid 19 on health Canada’s website and this is the list I copied from the sight.

• new or worsening cough
• shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• temperature equal to or over 38°C
• feeling feverish
• chills
• fatigue or weakness
• muscle or body aches
• new loss of smell or taste
• headache
• gastrointestinal symptoms (abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting)
• feeling very unwell

In the teachers defense abdominal pain is on the list so she did have reason to be concerned.  The problem is that this list does not just describe Covid.  I have created a list below of all the things I could think of that would trigger one or more symptoms on this list.

• Hunger
• Eating too much candy
• Eating too much of anything
• A hangover
• Dust
• Asthma
• The common cold
• High blood pressure
• Low blood pressure
• Standing up too quickly
• Being overweight
• Being severely underweight
• Poor nutrition
• Being out of shape
• Exercising too hard (especially when you were out of shape in the first place)
• Dehydration
• Allergies
• Lack of sleep
• Lack of oxygen from wearing a mask
• Stress
• Stress caused by someone screaming at you for not wearing a mask
• Food sensitivity or poisoning
• Any bacterial or viral infection

My medical knowledge is not complete, but it seems to me that on any given day anyone could exhibit one of theses symptoms even if they are in perfect health.  It is a poor screening tool that can’t exclude anyone, but I guess that is the point.  The government wants you to believe that if you have a headache you are going to die of covid.  As we have seen it is very easy to keep people alarmed about this invisible menace.  So invisible it has not infected anyone you know, or if you use this list the converse is true, it has already infected everyone you know.  But for the grace of god all those people would be dead right now, or at the very least suffering from all the long-term health conditions the computer models predict.

When Giles relayed this story to me, he coined the term Covidiocy.  That is when it dawned on me that I have been wrong about the second wave.  I was only considering Covid but we have been dealing with infections of Covid and Covidiocy at the same time.  Health Canada did not have a list of symptoms of Covidiocy so I made my own.

Symptoms of Covidiocy

• Irrational fear of hungry children
• Wearing a mask and face shield
• Wearing a mask while driving alone in your car
• Wearing a mask while having sex
• Wearing a mask when not compelled to by threat of government violence
• Tourette like screaming at people not wearing masks
• Unwavering belief in the wisdom of politicians
• Deification of public health bureaucrats
• Belief that the most effective treatment to cold and flu season is unemployment
• Insisting on being tested for a virus when you have no symptoms
• Willful denial of reality
• Inability to understand numbers larger than 10 or smaller than 1

While we had our first ripple of Covid we had a significant first wave of Covidiocy.  During our second smaller ripple (echo maybe) of Covid we have had a tsunami of Covidiocy.  It seems Covidiocy infections are somehow inversely proportional to Covid infections.  I shudder to think of how much damage we will see when the Covidiocy peaks after people realize covid has been gone now for 5 months.

In past Rants, we have discussed Deena Hinshaw, Theresa Tam, Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, Robert R. Redfield (CDC director), and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus  (WHO Director).  These are some of the highest public health officials in the world and over the last 6 months of this fake pandemic they have shown themselves to be incompetent and/or corrupt.  Thankfully there is a glimmer of hope on the Horizon, Dr. Scott Atlas.  Dr. Atlas was recently appointed to the Covid task force in the US by President Trump and he is already making waves.  Dr. Atlas is going against the grain because he stubbornly insists on talking about data and science.  That is something we have seen rarely in the US and not at all in Canada.  Remember the video of Rand Paul trying to force St. Fauci to acknowledge the science.  St Fauci resisted all Rand Paul’s attempts and stuck to discussing his feelings.  Contrast that with this recent press conference

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/23/scott-atlas-peter-alexander-coronavirus-robert-redfield/

Did you notice how much the reporter pushes back?  Have you ever seen a reporter do that to St Fauci, Deena Hinshaw, or Theresa Tam?  The reporter even tries to invoke an appeal to authority by pointing to the corrupt head of the CDC.  Dr. Atlas would have none of it.  He has the science on his side, and he knows it.  On Friday I listened to an interview he gave to fox news.  You know that hard right Trump supporting network.  The reporter tried desperately to get Dr. Atlas to exclaim that Covid would ultimately kill everyone.  Dr. Atlas pointed out that the pandemic appears to be ending and he used the science and data to back that up.  No matter how many times the fox reporter tried to lead Dr. Atlas to the conclusion that Trump is evil for letting the virus kill people, he would not take the bait and stuck to the science.  When the reporter realized how badly this was going he finished with “Dr. Atlas we are out of time, but I must remind you that 45,000 Americans tested positive yesterday.  He cut the interview off and got the last word hoping that 45,000 positive tests would scare the listeners enough that they would disregard the science Dr. Atlas discussed.  Thanks for coming out Dr. Atlas but my journalism degree form an online university makes me way smarter than you and you are wrong.

The US is interesting.  It is possible to come out of nowhere and become President.  It has not happened much, but Trump is proof that it can happen.  It is impossible for that to happen in a parliamentary democracy like Canada.  You must become the leader of a party before you can become Prime Minister.  You don’t get to be a party leader unless you have been a party insider for a long time.  Prime Ministers and Cabinet Ministers are swamp creatures by definition.  In the US Donald Trump is not part of the swamp.  That is why the establishment hates him.  The most consistent mistake I have seen Trump make is giving the benefit of the doubt to long term bureaucratic swamp dwellers.  When Covid first hit Trump put together a panel of experts to help.  Any good businessman would have done that.  Trump just did not realize his experts were swamp dwellers and the fake experts that the media loves to use to push a narrative.  By the Time Trump figured it out it was too late, and he was pushed into shutting down the country.  The swamp was able to force Trump to play their stupid game, but Trump is not stupid.  He needed a way out and he knew it.  At first Trump tried to do what he always does; he lets things play out until the public start to realize how stupid things are and then he steps in front of the parade to take it somewhere else.  After 6 months he realized he could not do that with Covid and he has to change the rules of the game.  Dr. Scott Atlas is the game changer that he needed and right now might be the most important person on earth.  If the US pulls out of this insanity everyone else will have to follow.

Thank God for the US system and Dr. Atlas.  After 6 months Trump has finally put a real scientist on a committee that is supposed to advise him on science.  Up until now this has not happened anywhere in the world except Sweden.  You know this could have never happen in Canada.  The Canadian system is based on our British Parent.  The British have a new prime Minister who crawled out of the same swamp the old Prime Minister came from.  In a parliamentary system the more things change the more they remain the same.  To Boris Johnson rights and privileges are not for the little people.  Left to his own devices he will never go back to normal.  This nonsense does not affect him.  To make it worse he had Covid 19, so he knows it is not the great global killer he is telling everyone it is.  Boris Johnson has been prime minister for just over a year and people are already fed up with his swamp fed policies.  On the weekend there were these protests.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/26/thousands-protest-coronavirus-restrictions-london/

The British police responded by rushing the crowd and beating them with night sticks.

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/police-clash-with/ZYODSLKRDI5XUBCWUGT54UNQAU/

They beat the protesters because they were not socially distancing.  IN 2017 The police in London announced they no longer had the manpower to investigate property crimes.  They published a long list of crimes they would no longer investigate. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/met-police-spending-cuts-400-million-funding-london-crimes-not-investigated-burglary-assault-a8002746.html

Just weeks ago, the London police stood by while BLM protesters destroyed public property; all while not socially distancing.  The London Police have made it clear that theft and property destruction are no longer a concern to them.  Social distancing is also of no concern as long as you are engaged in either theft of property destruction at the time.  If you do not socially distance while you are protesting having to socially distance suddenly the London police find the time and manpower to rush into the crowd and beat people with night sticks.  The Political establishment in the entire western world is a putrid quagmire.  It is not just Canada and the US that need to drain the swamp.

Our Prime Moron just gave a speech to the UN where he had a laundry list of problems that Covid 19 has highlighted.  According to our Prime Moron we would not be aware of all the problems the world has to face if it was not for Covid.  Apparently the virus reveals these shocking truths by whispering in his ear while he sleeps.  I never thought I would agree with our Prime Moron on anything but I do agree that Covid 19 has highlighted a serious problem; it was not however, any of the problems he listed in his speech.  Covid 19 has shone light revealing the depth of the swamp and the rot that it has caused in every western nation.  The US now has one person standing outside the swamp trying desperately to drain it.  Why can’t we have someone like that in Canada?  Are we that far gone as a nation?

A month ago, rant team member Gary brought to my attention new data from the CDC that showed only 6% of Covid deaths in the US had no comorbidities.  That would seem to indicate that we can only say for certain that 6% of the 150,000 plus Covid deaths (the data was only complete until the end of July) in the US were caused by Covid.  The rest of the deaths could have been dying with Covid rather than dying from Covid.  We have certainly seen this in Canada where BC and Alberta did not have a covid peak or anything outside of normal.  Canada had a coivd peak, but it is much too small to account for the official covid deaths.  In Canada Dying with Covid is more common than Dying from Covid.  After what I had seen in the Canadian numbers, I assumed that I would find fewer excess deaths than the official US covid total.  In Canada people who would have died anyway were added to the count to make it look scary.  It was not the lack of parachute that killed that sky diver it was the covid.  I was able to find the total deaths in the US and to my surprise I found that the US had a covid peak that accounts for all the Covid deaths.  The number of excess deaths was so close the official Covid death total that it looked like the CDC was carefully watching the numbers and classifying anything above normal as Covid.  It looked like they were cooking the books.  Still the deaths were real, something caused them, right?  I did not know what to do with the data, so I set it aside for a month to think about it.

I went back to the data a few days ago and updated my numbers.  Now the data is complete to mid-August when the US official US deaths were 185,000.  I checked the excess deaths and found that the CDC was still carefully matching the excess deaths to the covid total.  I was only able to find 3 years of back data, but it was very consistent and gave me a good average.  The plot below shows total deaths by week for 2020 compared to the average of 2017 to 2019.

Contrary to what the corrupt media would like you to believe the US was one of the first countries to impose restrictions.  Deaths started to peak right after complete lock downs were initiated in Mid-March (week 11).  Then when deaths started to peak in the southern states in about week 25 restrictions were re-imposed in many places.  All these excess deaths occurred when the US was under lockdown.

Next, I looked at the comorbidities from the CDC. 

The first thing to note is how incredible ill these people were.  The 185,619 people who died during this period had a combined 528,068 comorbidities.  That is almost 3 per person.  That is what made this so confusing in the first place.  Which one of their 3 serious health problems caused their death?  Because these are truly excess deaths the CDC has taken the position that it must be Covid because that is the new complication, without it these people would be alive. 

Like most things the lunatic left says this makes sense until you think about it for a minute (or in this case a month).  I have two problems with this explanation

1. Some of the comorbidities are deadly on their own.  22,949 people suffered cardiac arrest and 16,349 had kidney failure.  If your heart or kidneys stop working you have way bigger problems than Covid.
2. We know from anecdotal evidence that some people have died because to the lockdowns.  To say that all the deaths were due to Covid ignores those deaths.  It also ignores the 6,152 people on the list above who died of accidental poisoning, injuries, and intentional harm.  How the hell does suicide become a comorbidity?  He shot himself but the real cause of death was the covid infection he did not even know he had?

Covid was not the only new factor.  The lockdowns are new and occurring simultaneously with Covid.  How many deaths are due to the lockdown and not the virus?  The CDC and other medical agencies have touted the lockdowns as an important mitigation tool, so they are more than a little reluctant to blame the lockdown for any deaths.  To them the lockdowns were a medical intervention.  Once again, the CDC is ignoring reality.  Medical intervention is often deadly.  250,000 people die every year in the US from medical errors.

To answer the question of how deadly the lockdown might be I looked at non covid related deaths.  I was able to find on The CDC website deaths from all causes categorized in major categories.  If there were more heart attacks simply because people with weak hearts could not stand the stress of Covid then I should see the same number or even fewer heart attacks with people who were not infected with Covid.  The same should go for all the other comorbidities on the list.  Unfortunately, the data base I found only had 2019 and 2020 so all I can do is compare with last year.  What I found was that in 2020 the US had significantly more deaths in some of the major categories than in 2019.  Remember these are for deaths unrelated to Covid.  Some of the biggest increases are below.

There were some very significant increases over 2019.  These 5 groups also happen to be the most common comorbidities for covid fatalities; over 50% of the comorbidities fall in to these 5 groups when you count all the various heart conditions listed in the comorbidity table.  Maybe 2019 was just a low year; I don’t know since I have no data from other years.  I might have thought that this was not out of the ordinary until I looked at the timing of these deaths.  I Grouped them all together except influenza; influenza is viral disease while the others are not, so I left it out.  Below is a plot showing the difference from 2020 to 2019 on a weekly basis.  When the number is positive 2020 had more deaths that week than 2019 on the same week.  When the number is negative there were more deaths in 2019 for that week.  See the plot below.

Don’t you find the shape to be very familiar?  Take another look at the first plot that shows excess deaths due to covid.  Covid deaths peaked in weeks 15 and 29 when the Covid lockdown restrictions peaked.  Deaths for people who had the same conditions but did not have covid also peaked in weeks 15 and 29 when the covid lockdown restrictions peak.  Deaths due to heart attacks, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and strokes peaked with the restrictions whether or not the patient had Covid.  It was the lockdown that caused these excess deaths not covid; covid was just along for the ride.  We have suspected all along that we would see deaths due to restricting health care to people who were managing long term health conditions and this is the smoking gun.  The lockdown kills.  We should suspect that some of the covid deaths would not have happened if it were not for the rationing of health care.  How many of those Covid victims put off seeing a doctor for their Diabetes not realizing that they also had Covid?

You cannot show that the lockdown saved a single life, but you can show that the lockdown negatively impacted millions of lives.  We will never know the complete cost in terms of human lives that the lockdowns caused but this plot would indicate that number is in the 10s if not 100s of thousands.  The people responsible for the lockdowns will forever block a full accounting of their sins, and these are huge sins.  How is this not mass murder?  War criminals have received the death penalty for less.  The only way to hold these people to account is to throw out the politicians responsible for this tragedy in the next election.  Then we must insist that the new people clean house.  We need to root out all the incompetent, corrupt bureaucracy that helped make this happen.