Month: January 2021

Something horrific has happened to young adults in 2020

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For months now, I’ve had a hunch that we could discover whether we were living in the midst of a true pandemic by comparing the total number of deaths from at-risk age groups this year with those of previous years. Ideally, we would compare mortality numbers from nursing homes this year with previous years, but accurate numbers from long-term care facilities are hard to come by.

Since COVID-19 disproportionately kills those older than 65, we should see a significant spike between this year and previous years. That’s not what I found. Compare both charts below.

In 2020, total mortality for the age group 75-84 is 4,627.8 deaths per 100,000 population. In 2019, it’s 4,308.3. In 2018, it’s 4,386.1.

Mortality for this age group is up 7.4% from 2019.

For the 65-74 age group: 1,905.8 per 100,000 in 2020. In 2019, it’s 1,764.6. In 2018, it’s 1,783.3. For this age group, an 8% increase in mortality.

But now let’s look at the age groups not at risk of COVID. First, the 15-24 age group. In 2020, there are 77.95 deaths per 100,000 population. In 2019, it’s 69.7. In 2018, it’s 70.2.

This is an 11.8% increase in mortality. Again, this age group is not at risk of COVID.

Something else is killing them.

For the 25-34 age group, the same phenomenon occurs. In 2020, we have 146.7 deaths per 100,000. In both 2019 and 2018, it’s only 128.

A 13.8% increase in mortality. Again, this age group experiences extremely low risk of COVID complications.

This year has seen an enormous, horrific increase in deaths among young adults.

For 35-44, it’s the same story: 228.8 per 100,000 in 2020. 199.2 in 2019, 194 in 2018.

A 14.9% increase in mortality.

Something bad happened here in 2020, and it wasn’t a virus. This is man-made. These are lockdown deaths.

To the question: did we really experience a pandemic in 2020? 80% of COVID deaths have occurred in the 65-and-up age categories, and yet death rates have increased at a far higher rate among age groups not at risk of COVID.

What happened? What did we do to ourselves? Through lockdown, have young people been sacrificed to alleviate the unfounded fears of the old? This is grim.

US deaths, January 4, 2020 to January 2, 2021:

 

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Unarmed woman shot dead by Secret Service

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It’s already been all over the news, and there’s plenty of horrific video of the incident. 35-year old Ashli Babbitt was shot by a Secret Service member outside of a barricaded door inside the Capitol. It doesn’t appear that any warning shots were fired. From the video, it appears that she stepped up to look inside a broken window, and you can see the SS agent fire several shots. Babbitt immediately falls back and dies.

Her Twitter feed was filled with Lin Wood retweets, as well as Sidney Powell, and many others who claimed, and yet never provided their evidence, of election fraud. If there is any blame to go around, it lands squarely on the heads of Wood and Powell. These two were clearly charlatans, looking to cash in on their deranged conspiracy theories. It is Wood who incited the mob that forced its way into the Capitol, culminating in Babbitt’s death.

From the footage, it doesn’t appear that anyone needed to die at all. What does appear obvious is the presence of an SS agent eager to get his gun off.

And just look at the fallout today. The Trump movement has been dealt a mortal blow by the idiots who bought into Lin Wood’s insane ravings. What a fool, and what a crowd of fools who trusted him.

Violence solves nothing. Argument and persuasion are our only legitimate tools. And they are powerful. Peaceful principled resistance, not mindless mob violence, is the only path to change. Rioting and destruction do nothing except endanger innocent lives and discredit the ideas of the rioters. How could the Trump rioters not have learned that lesson?