In the last two weeks, the UK has seen the sudden deaths of five professional athletes: Rab Wardell, mountain biker, who died two days after winning the World Mountain Biking Championship. He was 37 and died of cardiac arrest. There was also rugby player Ben Benn, aged 30; soccer player Molly White, aged 20; Boxer Dominic Oscar, 19; and Danielle Cubitt, 20..For 14 of the past 15 weeks, The Telegraph reports about 1000 excess deaths per week in England and Wales, none of which were COVID-19 related, for 14 of the past 15 weeks..“If the trajectory continues,” they say, “these deaths will outstrip deaths related to COVID.”.Carl Heneghan, director for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford, says, “The signals in the data suggest something is not quite right.”.And the UK's The Office for National Statistics, says, “People who would have died this year from old age and natural causes, died in the past two years from COVID. Therefore, this year's excess deaths should be below average.”.They're not. And it's nice to see some people asking why..Meanwhile in Canada, the usual “safe and effective” mantra continues unabated, undebated and uncorroborated by the data from around the world..In Kitchener, ON just the other day, Eli Palfreyman, 20, and captain of the Ayr Centennials hockey team, died of what the media are calling “a medical incident,” despite the fact that a defibrillator was used. Also in Ontario, 13 doctors died within a span of two weeks, an obvious anomaly quickly cast aside by the related hospitals' communications departments and the media..Sudden Adult Death Syndrome? Who cares?.“For Canada, the data's very poor and out of date, so I don't think we can make too much of that,” begins John Campbell, a UK medical doctor, in his analysis of excess deaths from The World in Data. He then moves on to information from the UK, Scotland, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, United States, and Italy..All countries are showing excess deaths above 10% with some as high as 25%, and with COVID accounting for a small fraction of those figures. The deaths are especially high among people under 40..Campbell adds according to the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, the UK has had 15,000 excess deaths over the past 10 weeks. Thirty-six percent of those were heart-related..Canada's data on this alarming trend? Shoddy and useless..Undoubtedly, there are many reasons for these excess deaths, among them deferred surgeries, growing waitlists, a huge lag in ambulance arrival times, depression, and alcohol and drug use. More people driving after lockdown, even?.But why can't we even ask the obvious question that confronts us all when we hear of a loved one who has suddenly died?.A recent German preprint study by Christof Kuhbandner, from the University of Regensburg and Matthias Reitzner, of Osnabr¨uck University, is gaining attention. It looks into excess mortality in Germany from 2020-2022 and highlights the months of maximum vaccination..The researchers highlight that in the post-vax era, when the excess death numbers should be going down, “Death figures are still markedly higher than the median of previous years.”.Furthermore, starting from April 2021, there was “a high excess mortality observed in the age groups between 15 and 79,” and “An analysis of the number of stillbirths revealed a similar mortality pattern observed for the age group between 15 and 79 years.”.They conclude “excess deaths co-varies with the strong increase of the number of vaccinations,” and “the peaks of the excess mortality neatly coincides with the peaks of the vaccination campaign.”.Of course, there's always room for debate. Kuhbandner and Reitzner add that “Since co-variation does not necessarily imply causation, further studies are needed to investigate this assumption.”.This is obvious..Meanwhile back in Canada....Our prime minister, framed by doctor-y equipment in a hospital room, poses for an apparent impromptu press conference where he gives Canadians medical instructions. We'd better get boosted, otherwise the government will have no choice but to re-implement restrictions..In Canada, Alberta reports the leading cause of death is death from unknown causes: 1464 in 2020, 3362 in 2021 (more deaths than heart disease, stroke, and diabetes combined in 2021). Is there a Crown Commission announced?.READ MORE: Alberta doctors, lawyer raise questions over rise in deaths of unknown cause.In Canada, we're still in the era of “completely safe and 95% effective." Two doses. Then add a booster. Then a booster every nine months. Six months. Now from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization we're told that Canadians should get a booster every three months..In Canada we can't even distinguish between “dying of” and “dying with,” so the woman down the road who died in a car accident, but had COVID got counted as a COVID death..In Canada, never has there been an official walkback on anything Covid related, and never permitted into the public sphere has been that foundational element of scientific inquiry: Skepticism..In Canada, friends have died of COVID-19. Friends have died from the cures to COVID-19..We want to know why..You know, it’s not just the policies that we chafe at. It’s the galling “there-there” paternalism. It’s the zombie-like messaging from a cardboard cut-out prime minister who incessantly wags his most tolerant of fingers at us and chides us like we're stupid. That's what drives us nuts..But we're polite Canadians, all camped out on the lawn, still waiting for a bit of honesty, transparency — maybe some recognition the science is not settled and that some mistakes have been made. It happens..There is ample data out there to show a range of perspectives. And anyone can find it, even walking around our communities and talking with our neighbours..But we'll never get any of that from our prime minister or the bureaucrats who have complied with this regime..They say the upcoming election just might be about our trust in Canadian institutions..So be it.
