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Sweden’s COVID policies worked like a charm, compared to everybody else. Their excess death rate since COVID began killing people is lower than every other country in the OECD.The weird thing is we aren’t sure why that is.The superiority of Sweden’s more laissez-faire policies was obvious from the beginning, but I assumed that time would show that mortality rates in Sweden would pretty much match those in other countries while avoiding all the negative consequences caused by draconian policies followed by most other countries.I was wrong.Sweden’s excess mortality during the pandemic is vastly lower than almost every other country in...

Australia has recently reported an alarming and “incredibly high” 13 percent excess death rate for 2022. The Australian government is now considering launching an urgent investigation into this rapid surge in the deaths among vaccinated people. According to an analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data by the Actuaries Institute, an additional 15,400 people died in the first eight months of the year in the Land Down Under. Actuaries said that number includes around one-third of those having no link to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Karen Cutter, the spokeswoman for the institute’s COVID-19 Mortality Working Group, said the...

Another former football player has passed away in the span of just one week in the sporting world. On Thursday, former South Carolina quarterback Phil Petty passed away at the age of 43. The tragic news follows his recent appointment as an assistant coach at Gray Collegiate Academy in Columbia, South Carolina. According to reports, Phil Petty died after a “brief stay in the hospital.” The cause of death has not yet been made public as of the time of this writing. ... Petty was a three-year starter at quarterback under coach Lou Holtz at South Carolina and led the...

[H/T Jane Long]Posted on 6:51 PM · Mar 10th, 2022 Begin Transcript:Edward Dowd: This is the CDC’s own data, that they aggregated into all ages. The bottom line is my insurance agency expert, former South side Wall Street analyst, went into the CDC data. We were looking for other things but what we found was pretty shocking.He took the data, and it took some time and effort; he did a lot of work. He broke it down by age and he created baselines for each age group, to come up with excess mortality, and the money chart, is really Chart...

U.S. History05/12/2021Ryan McMakenIn any given year during the past decade in the United States, more than 2.5 million Americans have died—from all causes. The number has grown in recent years, climbing from 2.59 million in 2013 to 2.85 million in 2019. This has been due partially to the US’s aging population, and also due to rising obesity levels and drug overdoses. In fact, since 2010, growth rates in total deaths has exceeded population growth in every year.In 2020, preliminary numbers suggest a jump of more than 17 percent in all-cause total deaths, rising from 2.85 million in 2019 to 3.35...