Dr Malcolm Kendrick – drmalcolmkendrick.org 25th July 2020
This was first published on RT.com https://www.rt.com/op-ed/495421-inflated-covid-19-fatality-rates/
Why the scaremongering about COVID?
This week we were told that, in the UK at least, anyone who had a positive COVID test who then died – of anything – would be recorded as dying of COVID. No matter when they die.
Which means that someone could have been tested positive in March, with no symptoms of COVID at all, who then died in July. They would be recorded, in the official figures, as dying of COVID. Even if the were hit by a bus.
Even more weird is the fact that there does not seem to be any time limit to this. So, you could test positive in March 2020, then die in March 2040, and still be recorded as dying of COVID. I doubt this will happen, but it could.
To be honest I have known something very strange has been going on with the UK data for some time. In that, the UK has not provided any figures on how many people have recovered from COVID. In almost all countries, figures are provided on the total number of cased, the total number of deaths, the number of active cases and the number who have recovered.
In the US for example, there have been just over three and a half million cases, a hundred and forty thousand deaths and one point seven million people have officially recovered. In the UK, there have been nearly three hundred thousand cases, forty-five thousand deaths – and no recorded recoveries.
In short, in the UK, you cannot ever recover from COVID. Once you’ve got it, that’s it, you’ve got it. This anomaly has been reported on before. Here for instance, from the Guardian in June.
‘Britain is an outlier internationally in not reporting the number of people who have recovered from Covid-19 alongside statistics on deaths and numbers of identified cases.’ 1
Why would anyone want to do this? You would think the Government would be pulling out all the stops to decrease the number of recorded COVID deaths. Especially as the UK is sitting in a pretty dismal place on the international comparison charts. Why deliberately inflate your figures.
However, it is not just the UK that is hyping up COVID deaths. A reader of my blog sent me an analysis of the WHO advice on death certification, which seems accurate. In his analysis:
- If you die of anything and they suspect you might have it, with no tests and perhaps just because everyone else is assumed to have it, then COVID-19 goes on the death certificate as primary cause of death. Broadly speaking… unless the patient dies of something that is sudden and cannot be a long-term comorbidity.
- If you have the same symptoms as flu or pneumonia you must be put down as COVID19 and not due to an influenza type illness.
- Any certificates that are in any way erroneous with regard to the above must be recoded to conform.
- Any COVID-19 codes that are wrong should not be fixed in any circumstances
To me looks like a recipe for systematic over inflation of death counts, designed to disallow or circumvent clinical judgement 2.
In the US Dr Scott Jensen, who is a physician, and a member of the Minnesota senate, has been notified by the board of medical practice in Minnesota that he is being investigated for public statements he has made.
Essentially, he is being accused of spreading misinformation about the completion of death certificates, and the overestimation of deaths from COVID-19. Also, that he has been comparing COVID-19 to influenza, in terms of how serious it is. This is considered ‘reckless advice’.
For pointing out the over-reporting of COVID-19 deaths and daring to claim that COVID-19 is no worse than a bad flu season, he could be struck off the medical register. You can see Dr Jensen discussing this YouTube 3.
So, it seems that, around the world the same things are being seen. A seemingly coordinated attempt to vastly over-inflate the number of deaths caused by COVID-19, and to drive home how deadly it is.
For example, a few days ago, a new story hit the headlines in the UK, warning of hundreds of thousands of deaths this winter.
‘The UK could see about 120,000 new coronavirus deaths in a second wave of infections this winter, scientists say.
Asked to model a “reasonable” worst-case scenario, they suggest a range between 24,500 and 251,000 of virus-related deaths in hospitals alone, peaking in January and February.’ 4
Where did this come from? It was a model, using exactly the same assumptions as that created by Prof Neil Ferguson from Imperial College London in March. The one that warned of five hundred thousand deaths in the UK. Only out by a factor of ten. Probably far more, because many of the deaths recorded as due to COVID have been, simply, wrong.
How certain was their prediction of 120,000 deaths? Professor Stephen Holgate, who chaired the report then said. ‘This is not a prediction – but it is a possibility.’ A possibility… Perhaps it should be published in the Journal of possibility-based medicine. A journal where you simply make up facts, then see how many people run around in sheer terror.
What is now happening is extremely disturbing. COVID has certainly been a serious disease, but the flu epidemics of 1957 and 1967 were just as bad, if not worse, with regard to total fatalities. They were both over a million, and COVID has a long way to go to match that 5
In addition, in those epidemics far more younger people died. With COVID, if you are under fifteen, the chance of dying of COVID is around one in two million, which is three times less than the chance of being struck by lightning 6.
Across Europe, the excess in deaths has simply disappeared 7. There is no increased mortality anywhere to be seen. Whilst we are told about outbreaks of COVID deaths in various cities, the rate of new infection in these ‘outbreaks’ is less than one in a thousand. Which is not really an outbreak at all.
Despite this, mask wearing is to be mandatory. When COVID-19 took off, no-one was wearing a mask in my unit, unless they were helping a patient, and there was no social distancing between staff. Now the trust has decreed masks must be worn at all time, and social distancing is being ruthlessly enforced. A bell now rings, and we must wipe of all surfaces in front of us…
The reality is that COVID-19 has all but gone in the UK and Europe. The slow, but inexorable rise in deaths in the UK is being driven by the fact that anyone who has ever had a positive COVID-19 test, who dies, is recorded as dying of COVID.
Yet, as COVID-19 disappears, mask wearing and social distancing is being enforced as never before, and the prospect of a deadly second wave is being waved like a black shroud, with warnings of hundreds of thousands of deaths to come.
A biomedical scientist in the UK sent me an e-mail two days ago, about the testing they had done.
‘In the week 9th – 16th July we carried out 2800 PCR tests (across three different platforms: mainly on the Hologic Panther, but some on the Cepheid GeneXpert and Biomerieux BioFire) and had only 4 positives. These 4 positives were all patients who had previously tested positive. We had NO new cases, and after checking back a few weeks, the only positives we have had have been from repeat swabs from these same 4 patients – they were almost acting like QC samples to ensure that our tests were actually working properly!’
Two thousand eight hundred tests and none positive. This scientist contacted other laboratories, and they were seeing the same things. ‘I have contacted a couple of nearby NHS Pathology Labs and they reported the same findings as us: zero or near zero new cases for several weeks.’
What on earth is going on?
2: https://www.who.int/classifications/icd/Guidelines_Cause_of_Death_COVID-19.pdf
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGeRFK0tao
4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53392148
5: https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/what-are-epidemics-pandemics-outbreaks#3.
7: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country
Governments were able to pull off this pandemic scam for a few months by faking the consequences of a pandemic–closing schools, universities, businesses; limiting access to hospitals and doctors; making us all wear masks etc–but they couldn’t produce what real pandemics produce allover the place. Lots and lots of dead bodies. So I wonder, how many who used to berate “conspiracy theorists” believe it’s a conspiracy themselves now?
Sweden did things differently and is emerging better-placed than us and Russia is opening up again. These and other factors will go on to prove this was all just one big lie.
Its a scam it always has been. Most of you know the reasons why this has been activated it has long been in the mix to happen and now it has. The UK population has been scared shitless by a PM who is nothing more then a sign up who is probably paid very well with a promise of a utopian life for delivering our souls. He has managed within a few months to destroy the economy lock us all up and decimate a way of life that took many many decades to create and establish here in the UK and we without question have let this poor excuse for a government do it. How they must be rubbing their hands together in glee at how easy it has been to do their masters bidding as for us instead of turning on the government and demanding this stops we turn on each other. The curtain twitchers and the witch finder mask brigade are in seventh heaven thinking there’ve got it all sewn up. It seems that’s the best they can do.
As for those of us who know what is going on and what the outcome will be if we do not act soon It is a bitter pill to swallow that because of their blindness the human race will have a hand in destroying itself .
For those at the top of the shit pile who hate us and want our destruction it will be job done and dusted.
Two distinct camps have emerged. On one side you have the top-down establishment consisting of international banking cartel, the major corporate elites, the super rich, the mainstream media, our governments including their agencies and the military, together with their vast networks of lockstep minions. Then on the other hand you have a rag-tag host of grass-roots truthers made up of libertarians, voluntarists, independent media hosts and honest decent middle class and wage earning supporters, all doing their best to expose the establishment scam and the totalitarian methods and intentions, to a largely MSM-and-government-brainwashed and sleeping majority.
On one hand you have decades of planning of not only of the plandemic but of all of the Great Resets underway, with likely hundreds of billions expended and no limits to their money made out of nothing to ensure their plans into fruition. On the other hand, we do not even have an official opposition in the public eye, and everything we do and think is monitored and largely suppressed by some tentacle of the establishment.
We are living through a live multifaceted psyop drawn through many months, unlike the 9/11 false-flag one in which the atrocities took only hours to perform. Also, unlike 9/11 which took years to unravel with the authorities not even flinching even with all the damning revelations, the truthers now are exposing the establishment lies concurrently with every step taken by the planners, and the establishment is now flinching to the point of becoming completely irrational. The exposure of their deceptions and lies is forcing them to act even more irrationally, by shutting down sites and ignoring all of the valid criticisms.
Because the truth will not go away, truthers will not go away, and can only get stronger, such that when the actual economic repercussions begin the register on the sleeping sheeple, the establishment will be forced to resort to even more irrational and oppressive measures, which we must trust will limit their days and finally bring them down to a justice not of their own making.
The spike in deaths wiped out those unfortunate people who would likely have died within 6-12 months. The use of ventilators and reduction of normal medical treatment finished them off over a short period of time to display a spike in deaths.
Now that many countries are now seeing average morbidity figures for the whole of 2020 proves the above.
Current ‘deaths’ are likely all due to this never-recovering as described in the article, and is to keep some deaths figures rolling along.
I was with him until this,
“ What is now happening is extremely disturbing. COVID has certainly been a serious disease, but the flu epidemics of 1957 and 1967 were just as bad, if not worse, with regard to total fatalities. They were both over a million, and COVID has a long way to go to match that.”
Not only has it not been serious, it hasn’t been proven to exist, let alone kill anyone. But then he wouldn’t be on RT if he said that because Russia is fully signed up to the scamdemic.