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Only those who cannot face this truth do not know this by now Kurt. As one who could not bare to know so much for so long – I believe I understand how to maintain a delusion better than most.
God in His mercy choose to forgive me even though I struggle to forgive myself because of damage done.
As Brian Pickering points out in his training-
“If my people who are called by my name. “…… God said( My )twice. He did not say all people – in this instance , which is significant. There is a great delusion at play and we must each ask, am I a lover of truth ? Or as Father Calvin Robertson said “ if the world is against the truth then I am against the world.

You have to wonder how often some people need to have the facts revealed to them before they throw away their skeptical blinkers and accept that they’re wrong. This writer has had article after article refuted by the clear medical facts, yet continues to spread the same misinformation.

And this article is no different.

In this case, even less than two months after being refuted on the issue of excess deaths we have another, on the basis that now because legacy media are reporting on the issue.

But there are two fatal errors here. First, whereas this writer suggests that the excess deaths are the result of ” devastating long-term impacts due to missed medical appointments, poor diet and exercise, substance abuse and deaths of despair”, as a result of “the damage done by lockdowns”, none of the media reports he cites support that (and neither do the facts, especially for “deaths of despair”, as the number of people dying from suicide actually decreased slightly). In fact, they all cite “Covid-19 and an ageing population”.

And as we’re dealing here with 2022, when there were no lockdowns, the whole point is irrelevant.

But even stranger is the allusion to the possibility regarding “the potential role of mRNA injections in the excess death data”, when by the start of 2022 almost 95% of the population had received two doses, and many had also received a booster. How does a situation which has reduced from a flood to a trickle have any potential, even if there were evidence that it could prove fatal?

Second, for a writer who continually accuses the legacy medias of bias, to now hold them up as a prize witness to support his own bias is a bit hypocritical. You just can’t call them liars when it suits and then use them as “Exhibit A”. It’s confirmation bias writ large.

And confirmation bias leads to poor and selective research, which is proven by the fact that I could do a shallow dive a bit deeper than media releases and find the actual facts, figures and medical experts who understand them.

First, when you see the government’s figures (which the brief media stories rely on) at https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release you find that the excess mortality rate was 15.1% more than the baseline average. But when you dive into the particulars this is what it shows:

“Deaths due to dementia including Alzheimer’s disease were 15.0% above the baseline average for the year to November.
Deaths due to diabetes were 19.0% higher than the average for the year to November.”

As these are the two major causes of death, making up over one third of all deaths, this is one barrel of the smoking gun, the other being the 17% increase in deaths from heart attack in the first 8 months of 2022 (which was pointed out to this writer by me in that previous article – https://www.smh.com.au/national/fatal-heart-attacks-have-surged-in-australia-here-s-why-20230117-p5cd22.html), of which a significant proportion were due to previous COVID infection. As the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, in one of their news articles reports:

“The most likely cause for non-COVID-19 excess deaths, the Actuaries Institute suggests, is ‘post-COVID-19 sequelae or interactions with other causes of death’ that may be having a ‘high’ impact in Australia. ‘Studies have shown that COVID-19 is associated with higher subsequent mortality risk from heart disease and other causes,’ its analysis states. ‘However, we understand that medical science has not yet established a causative link that would allow, say, a heart attack several months after a COVID-19 infection to be attributed back to COVID-19. ‘As such, it seems likely that there would be more of these deaths than identified.’”

And this is why a more recent study (also cited in that article six weeks ago) at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/218/1/associations-between-covid-19-and-hospitalisation-respiratory-and-non was able to show the following:

“The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), the pathogen of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), has caused profound morbidity and mortality around the world. Evidence of its impact beyond the acute illness with respect to its cardiac and neurological effects is increasing, as well as for significant vascular disease events, including thrombosis.

The estimated risk of myocarditis or pericarditis after SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is 18–21 times as high as for uninfected people. Similarly, the risk of acute myocardial infarction is 3–6 times, that of ischaemic stroke 3–10 times, and the risk of venous thrombo‐embolism up to eight times as high. These risk differences are greater than for other viral respiratory infections or for vaccinated people not infected by SARS‐CoV‐2.”

So, as this writer has, over such a long period of time, shown a cynical and dogmatic refusal to acknowledge the facts on so many issues relating to the pandemic, the quote attributed to John Heywood from 1546, with reference to Jeremiah 5:21, is appropriate in relation to the writer of this article:

“There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.”