How many people have really had covid?

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* IMPORTANT -- Addenda: May 27, 9 a.m. and May 28, 1:45 PM EST - If you've already read this article, you might wish to scroll to the very bottom to see some additional thoughts regarding the probable reason Canada is not included in the BMJ Chart and about Covid rumoured as a "bio-weapon".

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May 26, 2021

Good day, readers. I'm delighted to post another guest "Covid" article today:

Dr. Roger Higgs, is a self-confessed "dual national Brit-Canuck who lived in Calgary for 7 years and Victoria for 4 years".  He generally provides his own research regarding "Climate" on this site (see Archived papers here and in my side panel under NOTICES), but with regard to the "Covid Pandemic", he has expressed, both on May 24 and again today, an urgent warning to us all: "Wake Up Everyone".


How many people have really had "Covid"?

By Roger Higgs, DPhil.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) symptom chart for "Covid" versus flu and the common cold has been widely re-published, e.g. scroll down here ...

CBC: COVID-19 patient 'would beg' Canadians to obey top doctors, government

• If you get COVID-19, when does it get bad? How long do people spend in ICU and why is that such a challenge? Here’s a closer look at the progression of COVID-19, based on studies from around the world and interviews with doctors on the front lines.

Clearly, from this chart, anyone who believes they've had "Covid", based solely on symptoms, is deluding themselves. Note, for example, the supposedly tell-tale "dry cough" is common for both "Covid" and flu.

Moreover, regarding the PCR test -- now known to be hugely unreliable (false positives), and never intended as a diagnostic test by its inventor Kary Mullis (he won a Nobel prize for it) -- the new book by biologist/biochemist Dr. Reiss & eminent microbiologist Dr. Bhakdi (2021 - see advance chapter) says ...

• "Now even the WHO says that the PCR test alone is not enough to diagnose an infection  (click on "15" in reference notes at end of advance chapter).

Thus, based on both factors (symptoms and the supposed PCR test), it's impossible to know how many people have ever really had "Covid". 

What about excess deaths? 

Don't be fooled by this chart of 'excess deaths' in 2020, published 7 days ago (19 May 2021) in the British Medical Journal ...

• Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries | The BMJ
• Objective To estimate the direct and indirect effects of the covid-19 pandemic on mortality in 2020 in 29 high income countries with reliable and complete age and sex disaggregated mortality data. Design Time series study of high income countries. Setting Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England and Wales, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia ...

Those blue bars look very alarming at first glance. But let's look more closely. In the USA, for example, the 160 extra deaths per 100,000 people (right-hand graph) means a mere 0.16%!

That's less than 2 people in a thousand. If the rate had been 10 times higher, i.e. 20 people in a thousand, would a global panic have been justified? Even in Lithuania, the worst-case country of the 29 listed, extra deaths were just 250 per 100,000, i.e. 0.25%. New Zealand even had fewer deaths than usual.

For this they've wrecked the world economy, destroyed tens of thousands(?) of businesses, put millions of people out of work, and disrupted the education of hundreds of millions of children, let alone their mental health (imagine telling a child that he/she might unwittingly kill its grandparents!).

Are you beginning to feel that we've been misinformed? Does "Covid" even exist? Is it just flu?

Wake up, people.

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Addendum May 27 - 9 A.M.

​Dr. Higgs:

I just noticed Canada is missing from the BMJ excess deaths chart. Then I found this in the BMJ article:

• "We were also limited by the completeness of the data (for example, Canada and Australia have not yet reported complete data in 2020)."

That publication was accepted by BMJ on 29th April 2021. By then, 29 countries had managed to publish the total number of 2020 deaths (from any cause). But not Canada. Why not? That in itself is deeply disturbing. How hard can it be to add up the numbers?

YayaCanada:

Canada uses modelling, which may not be suitable for BMJ purposes:

• CTV News May 2020: New COVID-19 modelling shows curve flattening; up to 3,883 deaths by May 5
• Canada.ca PDF: Apr 23/21 -- National disease and severity indicators have increased considerably over the past month.

Dr. Higgs:

Computer modelling = stacked assumptions; a house of cards. Garbage in garbage out. The modeller can simply ask whoever is funding the study: "What answer would you like"?
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Ditto for "climate models".

Added by Dr. Higgs on May 28 at 1:45 PM DST:

What this means, of course, is that "Covid"', being non-existent, cannot be the supposed, much-discussed "bio-weapon".

Conclusion: If there is a Dr. Evil bio-weapon, it's the "vaccine".

I'm still undecided on that, pending next winter flu season's massive die-off (or not) of the "vaxxed". Either way I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

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