I came across this article from Financial Times thru Mike Adams. Many of us know Mike Adams as the owner of Natural News, and he is outspoken when it comes to alternative health. And he has been many times on my, if not our, side of ideas regarding health (I said many, not all - so shhh...).
On this COVID-19 thing though, Mike has been on the ultra-alarmist side of it. Here is the article he refers to by the Financial Times:
Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported | Free to read
And this is the article he wrote:
Bombshell Financial Times analysis reveals total deaths are surging worldwide, regardless of what's on the death certificates... 50 percent surge in total mortality points to common cause: COVID-19
From Financial Times:
The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries.
Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across these locations, considerably higher than the 77,000 official Covid-19 deaths reported for the same places and time periods.
If the same level of under-reporting observed in these countries was happening worldwide, the global Covid-19 death toll would rise from the current official total of 201,000 to as high as 318,000.
And here is Mike Adans' take:
Beginning in March, as the pandemic denialism movement started gaining steam, the naysayers started arguing that all the “covid-19 deaths” were actually just people who would have died anyway. All the death certificates were being switched to coronavirus, they said, to fake the coronavirus deaths.
This argument continues to this day. In effect, most of the independent media is now claiming that there is no net increase in global mortality whatsoever, and that all the people who are said to have died from covid-19 actually died from other causes. The coronavirus “hysteria,” they say, is a global false flag event that’s being staged by 100+ nations and hundreds of thousands of complicit doctors and nurses in order to enslave the human race under medical tyranny.
What is your take about this differing view from Mike?
I have to admit that I'm frozen in my ability to judge the current situation.
I just had a death - a cat, just the other day. Damn, I swear it was COVID. The un-neutered cat was a 3-yr old stray that I picked up as an abandoned 2-week old kitten. A very noisy cat whom I allow to break all rules, even sit atop the dining table as I ate. I didn't neuter him because I wanted to give him the freedom, in the hope that no harm would come to him. That didn't last. A week ago, he came from after being gone for the longest stretch- a week. I was happy to see him back, but dismayed that he had become so thin and scraggly, a sharp contrast from the plump kitty before.
It had seemed that all he needed was to get back to eating good food. For the first day, he ate like normal. And then he stopped eating. And I gave him vitamin C and copper acetate (antibiotic) and I stopped in less than a day since he looked recovered. But he was too have these episodes for the succeeding days, but I no longer gave him medicine since he looked to recover quickly each time. The last day, he was his usual self, following me to the fishpond to get some of the chopped coconut meat I feed the koi, and when I ate, he would be there to get some morsels. He was looking very clean too, and a cat that knows how to clean itself to me is a cat on the way to health.
But I failed to follow my cat owner instinct that Sunday. Late afternoon, he gave off a guttural sound that sounded more like a dog. I went to see him, and he was lying down with the ground wet from pee and his mouth was wet. I cleaned him up and left him there, with a cloth to lie on. He looked fine and damn, his coat was all clean and white. That fooled me. I was looking too much into that nice fur coat and thinking he's all healthy and happy. I lost sight of the fact that cats all hide their sickness, and the guttural sound should have been my cue to resume his vitamin C and antibiotics.
The afternoon turned into night, and at around 10 pm he started to sound off badly again. By then, it was too late. His mouth would foam, and I'd wipe it off with tissue, and we would go through the same motion, but each time he would shake wildly, like someone with epilepsy. Clearly, this has affected his brain and his nervous system. The foaming would likely be from his lungs, as he struggled to breath while becoming edematous.
I remember last January a friend had died. His last moments were also similar. He was shaking also. That time, I suspected it was COVID, but there was little for me to base it on. But details are slowly emerging that COVID isn't only expressed in the lungs. There are people who are dying with organ failure - liver, kidneys etc.
But what has the cat dying got to do with it? Well, I've been reading the hypotheses of Sandeep Chakraborty as shared in the forum by @RealNeat . The long and short of it is that the virus we're dealing with is a virus that takes over bacteria, or a bacteriophage. The bacteria, taken over or morphed by a virus, is the one that's doing the damage to our body. The mechanism is a fuzzy picture to me, but what's suspected is that it is destroying our red blood cells, and causing our blood to fail at transporting oxygen to our tissues. When oxygen supply is disrupted, the lungs is only one of many organs where the harmful effects are expressed. It could affect the liver, the heart, the kidneys, and even the brain.
Not only that, since it is a virus that is afflicting a bacteria, and this bacteria can affect animals as well, the harm is not limited to humans. I remember early on I'd scoff at people saying their dog died of COVID, but now it seems that the joke's on me.
That felt good. I got this nagging thought out of the way.
Your turn!
On this COVID-19 thing though, Mike has been on the ultra-alarmist side of it. Here is the article he refers to by the Financial Times:
Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported | Free to read
And this is the article he wrote:
Bombshell Financial Times analysis reveals total deaths are surging worldwide, regardless of what's on the death certificates... 50 percent surge in total mortality points to common cause: COVID-19
From Financial Times:
The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries.
Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across these locations, considerably higher than the 77,000 official Covid-19 deaths reported for the same places and time periods.
If the same level of under-reporting observed in these countries was happening worldwide, the global Covid-19 death toll would rise from the current official total of 201,000 to as high as 318,000.
And here is Mike Adans' take:
Beginning in March, as the pandemic denialism movement started gaining steam, the naysayers started arguing that all the “covid-19 deaths” were actually just people who would have died anyway. All the death certificates were being switched to coronavirus, they said, to fake the coronavirus deaths.
This argument continues to this day. In effect, most of the independent media is now claiming that there is no net increase in global mortality whatsoever, and that all the people who are said to have died from covid-19 actually died from other causes. The coronavirus “hysteria,” they say, is a global false flag event that’s being staged by 100+ nations and hundreds of thousands of complicit doctors and nurses in order to enslave the human race under medical tyranny.
What is your take about this differing view from Mike?
I have to admit that I'm frozen in my ability to judge the current situation.
I just had a death - a cat, just the other day. Damn, I swear it was COVID. The un-neutered cat was a 3-yr old stray that I picked up as an abandoned 2-week old kitten. A very noisy cat whom I allow to break all rules, even sit atop the dining table as I ate. I didn't neuter him because I wanted to give him the freedom, in the hope that no harm would come to him. That didn't last. A week ago, he came from after being gone for the longest stretch- a week. I was happy to see him back, but dismayed that he had become so thin and scraggly, a sharp contrast from the plump kitty before.
It had seemed that all he needed was to get back to eating good food. For the first day, he ate like normal. And then he stopped eating. And I gave him vitamin C and copper acetate (antibiotic) and I stopped in less than a day since he looked recovered. But he was too have these episodes for the succeeding days, but I no longer gave him medicine since he looked to recover quickly each time. The last day, he was his usual self, following me to the fishpond to get some of the chopped coconut meat I feed the koi, and when I ate, he would be there to get some morsels. He was looking very clean too, and a cat that knows how to clean itself to me is a cat on the way to health.
But I failed to follow my cat owner instinct that Sunday. Late afternoon, he gave off a guttural sound that sounded more like a dog. I went to see him, and he was lying down with the ground wet from pee and his mouth was wet. I cleaned him up and left him there, with a cloth to lie on. He looked fine and damn, his coat was all clean and white. That fooled me. I was looking too much into that nice fur coat and thinking he's all healthy and happy. I lost sight of the fact that cats all hide their sickness, and the guttural sound should have been my cue to resume his vitamin C and antibiotics.
The afternoon turned into night, and at around 10 pm he started to sound off badly again. By then, it was too late. His mouth would foam, and I'd wipe it off with tissue, and we would go through the same motion, but each time he would shake wildly, like someone with epilepsy. Clearly, this has affected his brain and his nervous system. The foaming would likely be from his lungs, as he struggled to breath while becoming edematous.
I remember last January a friend had died. His last moments were also similar. He was shaking also. That time, I suspected it was COVID, but there was little for me to base it on. But details are slowly emerging that COVID isn't only expressed in the lungs. There are people who are dying with organ failure - liver, kidneys etc.
But what has the cat dying got to do with it? Well, I've been reading the hypotheses of Sandeep Chakraborty as shared in the forum by @RealNeat . The long and short of it is that the virus we're dealing with is a virus that takes over bacteria, or a bacteriophage. The bacteria, taken over or morphed by a virus, is the one that's doing the damage to our body. The mechanism is a fuzzy picture to me, but what's suspected is that it is destroying our red blood cells, and causing our blood to fail at transporting oxygen to our tissues. When oxygen supply is disrupted, the lungs is only one of many organs where the harmful effects are expressed. It could affect the liver, the heart, the kidneys, and even the brain.
Not only that, since it is a virus that is afflicting a bacteria, and this bacteria can affect animals as well, the harm is not limited to humans. I remember early on I'd scoff at people saying their dog died of COVID, but now it seems that the joke's on me.
That felt good. I got this nagging thought out of the way.
Your turn!