A Shattered World – A further look at the unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policies

BY SIMONE J. SMITH

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I came across a recent study released about  excess mortality in 125 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic that found the major causes of death globally stemmed from public health establishment’s response, including mandates and lockdowns that caused: severe stress, harmful medical interventions and the COVID-19 vaccines.

In a 2022 analysis of the unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy, published in BMJ Global Health, the authors concluded: “Mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies have had damaging effects on: public trust, vaccine confidence, political polarization, human rights, inequities and social wellbeing.”

Among the most glaring yet unexamined consequences, according to the authors, are the hundreds of millions of people who have been pushed into poverty and food insecurity by COVID-19 pandemic mandates and the lost educational opportunities for children.

The lockdowns and restrictions aimed at curbing the virus’s spread led to widespread job losses and business closures, especially in low-income and informal sectors, leaving many without a stable source of income. For instance, in countries like India and Brazil, daily wage workers and small business owners found themselves struggling to afford basic necessities. Additionally, school closures deprived children of essential educational opportunities, with many unable to access remote learning due to a lack of internet connectivity and technological resources. In sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia, the digital divide left millions of children without any form of education for months, potentially affecting their lifelong earning potential and perpetuating cycles of poverty.

Researchers from the Canadian nonprofit Correlation Research in the Public Interest and the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières analyzed excess all-cause mortality data prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning with the March 11^th, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic declaration and ending on May 5^th, 2023, when the WHO declared the pandemic over. The results, presented in a detailed 521-page analysis, established baseline all-cause mortality rates across 125 countries and used those to determine the variations in excess deaths during the pandemic.

The researchers also used the baseline rates to investigate how the individual country variations in excess death rates correlated to different pandemic-related interventions, including vaccination and booster campaigns. Not all of the results on a country-by-country basis were the same. For example, in some countries, mortality spikes occurred before the vaccines were rolled out, while in other places, the mortality spikes tracked closely with vaccine or booster campaigns.

The researchers established that there was significant excess mortality worldwide between March 11^th, 2020, and May 5^th, 2023. Overall excess mortality during the three years in the 93 countries with sufficient data to make an estimate is approximately 0.392% of the 2021 population — or approximately 30.9 million excess deaths from all causes.

The conventional explanation for the excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, is that the SARS-CoV-2 virus caused virtually all deaths — and there would have been even more deaths if there hadn’t been a vaccine. The variations in excess all-cause mortality rates across space and time, the authors wrote, “Allow us to conclude that the Covid-period (2020-2023) excess all-cause mortality in the world is incompatible with a pandemic viral respiratory disease as a primary cause of death.”

They said the theory that the virus caused the deaths is propped up by mass virus-testing campaigns that should be abandoned. The idea that the vaccine saved lives is ridiculous, and based on flawed modeling. Here again, the researchers found no systematic, or statistically significant trends showing that vaccination campaigns in 2020 and 2021 reduced all-cause mortality. Instead, they found that in many places, there was no excess mortality until the vaccines were rolled out, and most countries showed temporal associations between vaccine rollouts and increases in all-cause mortality.

Researchers projected that 17 million of the excess deaths they identified were associated with the COVID-19 vaccines, confirming the findings of their previous research on a smaller sample of countries. Those vaccine-related estimations were based on analyses of places that had large spikes immediately following vaccination, or booster campaigns, and also by examining the numbers of vaccine doses and their relation to deaths over time.

Thirty percent of the countries they analyzed had no excess deaths until either the vaccine rollouts, or the booster campaigns. Hmmm! How interesting is that? Of course, there is no word about this on any of our popular news stations, and there were significant correlations between COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and peaks or increases in excess all-cause mortality. Ninety-seven percent of countries showed a late – 2021, or early – 2022 peak in excess all-cause mortality temporally associated with booster rollouts. It is highly unlikely, the researchers wrote, that the vaccine-mortality associations are coincidental.

This study needs to be catapulted everywhere possible. It confirms what many of us have been saying since day one: there was no pandemic, no unique viral pathogen that changed the world. What we faced was public health despotism, an overreach that maimed and killed people.

The scale of the deception is too vast for even those who consider themselves “in the know” to accept or comprehend fully. Many remain trapped in some version of the “Covid” merry-go-round, unable to see beyond the narrative. Others are still asleep, traumatized as the social fabric is being torn apart and the world around them is being completely transformed.

The great awakening is upon us, but there will still be many who refuse to believe they were fooled into believing something so sinister and deadly to mankind. No one wants to believe their spouse is cheating. No one wants to believe they were lied to. It’s human nature to not want to know the truth. The truth is painful, but a lie will kill you. The truth will set you free. Painful as it may be.

It’s time to wake up. It’s time to spread this study, this truth, far and wide. For only in the light of truth can we begin to heal and rebuild the world that has been shattered.

REFERENCES:

https://gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/7/5/e008684.full.pdf

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/food

https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/covid-19-leaves-legacy-rising-poverty-and-widening inequality#:~:text=The%20result%20is%20that%20the,percent%20are%20down%202.8%20percent.