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Why are so Many Californians Dying?
Related: risk assessment, SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19 aka Coronavirus, The Brownstone Institute
re: Brownstone Institute
re: risk assessment
Huh. Back in late 2020, I wrote:
Destroying tens of millions of lives (relatively young lives!) via lockdowns and restrictions to save a tiny percentage of the old and infirm (with very short expected lifespan)—that should shock the conscience as grotesque moral inversion. Yet that moral inversion is the core operating premise of today’s COVID policies.
In the real world, all actions have costs and benefits. These must be weighed together, yet this is not done. Politicians and the vast majority of medical “experts” are NOT qualified for risk assessment, yet society has given them the de facto right to maim and de facto kill people by policy for the flimsiest of rationalizations. This is not an exaggeration but refers to actuarial facts proven by economic history.
I wrote similar things in many posts. The professionally incompetent “leaders” out there did so much harm to so many—and they still have their jobs!
Lights are coming on in a few dark corners now.
Brownstone Institute: Why are so Many Californians Dying?
2024-01-04
...Extrapolating the year-to-date figures for 2023 creates a final year-end figure of 280,000 – 20,000 more people than died in 2015. That’s a non-Covid, population-neutral jump of 8%... why?
... lot of additional deaths from non-Covid causes, which are probably attributable to people not receiving the medical care that they normally would have received’ when ERs were overflowing with Covid patients (note – the truth of that ER assertion has not been verified), Wachter noted.”
......so you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never might quite recover from. Collateral damage. This is a public health mindset. And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset — and that was really unfortunate, it’s another mistake we made”. — Francis Collins, former NIH director
...“We had the exact wrong people in charge at the exact wrong time,” said Stanford professor of medicine (and one of the people Collins tried to “take down”) Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. “Their decisions were myopically deadly.”
...the overdose death increase would account for only about 25% of the total increase in “excess deaths,” meaning it has an impact but cannot explain the whole story.
...Where it did – and still does – matter is the immediate and long-lasting damage the more tyrannical responses had on society as a whole.
And – if California’s excess death numbers are an indicator – the pandemic response itself is still killing people.
And that, too, definitely shouldn’t be happening – if the pandemicists were right.
It is even more problematic – and even more ethically abhorrent – if the Covid death figures are inflated; the number of Covid deaths of 105,000 is only about 20% higher than the other non-Covid excess death figure of 82,000.
In other words, the net “from Covid” deaths may not be terribly different from the “from the Covid response” death count.
WIND: loneliness and its ravages are surely involved too. The Jab itself, delayed medical treatment, economic destruction, loneliness, etc. But no one is counting the non-death damage or how it might shorten lives. We will never know.
I deem it a certainty that the government tyranny (as I see it) caused more deaths than the ridiculously exaggerated “deaths with COVID” figures. You can be certain that a proper accounting will never be done by the government—the same evil bastards remain in charge of counties, cities and states, let alone the federal government.
