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  • Jan 15
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Updated: Jul 12


Possible causes of excess mortality since 2020


A.COVID-19


The global health crisis of 2020-2023 has been categorized as a COVID-19 pandemic, but the story of a coronavirus infection is problematic in many respects:


1.The controversy surrounding diagnosis


The medical innovation during that period was the heavy reliance on polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test as the gold standard technique to diagnose COVID-19. Critics have raised several questions about the PCR test as a diagnostic tool. Some of the main points of criticism were the identification of a “case” rather than a sick person, the debate about death from or with Covid if the person had comorbidities, the results of the test at very high amplification cycles, as well as the fact that a positive test shows the presence of viral RNA and not an active infection. Perhaps the last one is the most important point. A positive test result could leave open the possibility of a misdiagnosis for a person presenting with symptoms of a respiratory illness.


●      Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be. — August 29, 2020 (The New York Times)The article discusses concerns that PCR tests are too sensitive, detecting people who may have very low or non-infectious viral loads.


2.Duration of an epidemic of a particular type of virus


Several studies have been conducted on the average duration of the flu season. I am examining studies on the influenza virus because coronavirus epidemics have not received the same attention. In temperate regions like in the European continent, a typical influenza epidemic often lasts between two and three months. I will refer to three studies.


Study 1


A French study for the years 1984 to 2007 found seasonal epidemics lasted on average 9 weeks, with this duration appearing stable over time.


Cécile Souty et al. Influenza epidemics observed in primary care from 1984 to 2017 in France: A decrease in epidemic size over time — March 2019


Study 2


A study of data from England, Wales and the Netherlands for the years 1987/88 to 1996/97 found that epidemic periods lasted on average about 10 weeks.


D M Fleming et al. The duration and magnitude of influenza epidemics: a study of surveillance data from sentinel general practices in England, Wales and the Netherlands — May 1999


Study 3


A European study for the years 1999 to 2007 estimated the average length of an influenza season at 15.6 weeks.


John Paget, Richard Marquet, Adam Meijer and Koos van der Velden. Influenza activity in Europe during eight seasons (1999–2007): an evaluation of the indicators used to measure activity and an assessment of the timing, length and course of peak activity (spread) across Europe — Published November 30, 2007

 

The statistics for the coronavirus pandemic show a very different story, with every day cases and deaths continuing for months and even years. I will take the case of Greece, a relatively small country, as an example. This is the chart for daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths for Greece, and the second is the overall chart for daily COVID-19 cases and deaths. The source for both charts is Our World in Data.




The COVID-19 cases and deaths were reported daily in Greece for at least three years. This shouldn’t have been the case for one simple reason. The epidemic ends when a sufficient number of people develop immunity to the virus. The main COVID-19 variants were later becoming more transmissible and less virulent. Nonetheless, in several countries the most deadly wave was sometimes the third or fourth. In not a few countries, the worst Alpha variant had no impact at all, and the Delta variant was causing hospitals to fill up.


Two or three major waves of COVID-19 cases and deaths in many countries in less than a year raise suspicion that something else was happening. The timing of the waves was another fact that didn’t make sense. Typically, coronaviruses, just like other respiratory viruses, follow seasonal patterns. In the Northern Hemisphere, the coronavirus is a winter virus. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, a wave with many hospitalizations and deaths could appear in a country or province, in any month.


3.The irrational number of deaths and the persistence of the health crisis over an unexpectedly long period


The severity of the health crisis with its excess deaths and the prolonged duration of it is not what one would expect from a virulent strain of coronavirus. The chart below shows excess mortality in Czechia and Slovakia. In Czechia, the excess deaths appear to be 25% or more for six consecutive months, from October 2020 to April 2021. Then another irrationally large wave of deaths begins the following autumn but lasts for fewer weeks than the previous one.


Source: Our World in Data.



I continue to pay close attention to the severity of the crisis in Eastern Europe. Poland reported that the country suffered an excess death rate of 29% in 2021, with more deaths than in any other year since World War Two.



The projected rate of excess deaths in a severe viral season is about 10% over a four-week period. It could exceed that figure, but it would in no way approach the levels that we observed in the charts for the Eastern European countries in 2020-2021 or for Latin American countries since the beginning of what was termed the pandemic. This is the excess mortality chart for some of the larger Latin American countries. Source: Our World in Data.



This table, provided by Eurostat, shows excess mortality in each European country from January 2020 until September 2021. The months that draw most of the attention are March and April 2020 for several countries, and October 2020 to January 2021. The percentage of monthly additional deaths in 2020-2021 compared to average monthly deaths in 2016-2019 is extraordinary, and the persistence of unusually high excess mortality in countries like Slovakia, Czechia and Poland, makes no sense.


Source: Eurostat, © European Union, 1995–2025. Reuse is authorised under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.


 

I will cite severe past flu seasons in three different parts of the world, United States, Germany and Japan.


United States 2017-2018


I present extracts from two pages of the CDC website:


The 2017-2018 influenza season was a high severity season with high levels of outpatient clinic and emergency department visits for influenza-like illness (ILI), high influenza-related hospitalization rates, and elevated and geographically widespread influenza activity for an extended period. In 2017, CDC began using new methodology to classify seasonal severity and applied the methodology to the 2003-2004 through 2016-2017 seasons. The 2017-18 season was the first season to be classified as a high severity across all age groups…


During the 2017-2018 season, influenza-like-illness (ILI) activity began to increase in November, reaching an extended period of high activity during January and February nationally, and remained elevated through the end of March. ILI peaked at 7.5%, the highest percentage since the 2009 flu pandemic, which peaked at 7.7%. Influenza-like illness (ILI) was at or above the national baseline for 19 weeks, making the 2017-2018 season one of the longest in recent years…


During the 2017-2018 season, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) was at or above the epidemic threshold for 16 consecutive weeks. During the past five seasons, the average number of weeks this indicator was above threshold was 11 (range of 7 to 15 weeks). Nationally, mortality attributed to P&I exceeded 10.0% for four consecutive weeks, peaking at 10.8% during the week ending January 20, 2018.



CDC estimates that flu burden during the 2017–2018 flu season was high, with an estimated 41 million people getting sick with flu, 21 million people going to a health care provider for flu-related symptoms, 710,000 flu hospitalizations, and 52,000 deaths from flu (Table 1).



Let’s put the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States into perspective.

According to a peer-reviewed study, a total of 459,764 excess deaths were reported across the United States from March to December 2020, while 477,147 excess deaths were reported in 2021.


Study


Eugenio Paglino et al. Excess all-cause mortality across counties in the United States, March 2020 to December 2021 — May 2022



Germany 2017-2018


The severe influenza epidemic of 2017/2018 in Germany caused 27,000 deaths. The 2018 grey line on the chart below represents the weekly number of deaths from all causes that peaks in the beginning of March 2018. The number 27,000 is based on an open letter to Angela Merkel from 39 German doctors, dated October 21, 2020. A rough estimate, based on the numbers of deaths on the same Our World in Data page, about the five-week peak between 23 February to 22 March 2018, shows that they exceed the expected deaths compared to previous years by more than 10% and appears to be approaching 20%. I emphasize it is a rough estimate. A summary of the influenza season of 2017-2018 in Europe was provided by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.


Excess mortality: Raw number of deaths from all causes compared to projection based on previous years, Germany. Source: Our World in Data.



Japan 2019


2.83 million people were reported with influenza symptoms in one week (Week 4, 2019). This was the highest weekly total since the NIID began this surveillance format in 1999. The nationwide average number of patients per sentinel clinic was 57.09 in Week 4 of 2019, surpassing the previous record of 52.35, set in 2018.


According to the Japan Institute for Health Security 3,400 excess deaths were observed nationwide in the 2018/19 season. The report does not clarify if the influenza virus was the cause of death. Another website states that Japan’s influenza-mortality (deaths) in 2019 was at 2,572, but without citing the original source of the data.


Articles about the 2019 Influenza epidemic in Japan:


●      Japan Gripped by Major Flu Outbreak — February 7, 2019 (Nippon.com)

●      Japan battles influenza epidemic; infection rate highest on record  — February 1, 2019 (Xinhua)

●      Millions in Japan affected as flu outbreak grips country — February 1, 2019 (UPI)

●      Backstories: Japan’s 2019 Flu Outbreak — (NHK World)

 

For comparison, here is the chart of Japan’s excess deaths. I have combined it with three other countries in East Asia, indicating that the rise in deaths was not unique to Japan. It’s a chart of Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. It covers the period from January 2020 to December 2024. Source: Our World in Data.



A peer-reviewed study about excess deaths in Japan, shows a lower number of excess deaths but positive excess mortality for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023.


Study


Ganan Devanathan et al. Excess mortality during and after the COVID-19 emergency in Japan: a two-stage interrupted time-series design — April 2025



Let’s compare the severe influenza epidemics in the United States, Germany and Japan with the health crisis during the pandemic in Ecuador and Peru.

 

Pandemic era


Ecuador 2020


In Ecuador during the first two weeks of April, 5,000 people or more died “from COVID-19” in its largest city of 3 million inhabitants. The government of Guayas Province, where Guayaquil is located, said 6,700 residents died in the first half of April, compared to 1,000 in a normal year. The chart from Our World in Data about the excess deaths compared to the average in previous years is no less than extraordinary.


●      Coronavirus: Ecuador sees massive surge in deaths in April — April 17, 2020 (BBC)

Ecuador charts. Source: Our World in Data.


Excess mortality: Deaths from all causes compared to average over previous years. January 2020 - May 2022.



Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, Ecuador


 

Peru 2020-2021


Peru, a country with a population of 32 million people (2020) had an extraordinary health crisis with hospitalizations and deaths in 2020 and 2021. I note that the population of Peru is roughly ten percent of the population of the United States.


The following information is included in a document of the World Bank, with the title “The long-lasting impact of Covid-19”.


The government implemented a strict lockdown in the beginning of the pandemic on March 16, but it did not prevent Peru from becoming one of the countries with the highest death rates in the world. The first COVID-19 death was reported in the same month. Between 2020 and 2021, the Ministry of Health of Peru reported that 3.5 million people were infected with COVID-19, with fatalities exceeding 213,000. By July 2022, Peru had experienced more than 6,000 deaths per million people, the highest or second-highest number of deaths per capita in the world. The second year of the pandemic in the country (2021) was deadlier than the first, despite the fact it coincided with the third wave of COVID-19 cases. At the peak of the pandemic in the second year, 1,273 deaths were reported in one day, the highest number in the world.


Peruvians ages 40-65 were three times more likely to die during the pandemic than in a normal year, and Peruvians ages more than 65 were two times more likely to die during the pandemic. To put these figures into perspective, 24,000 deaths were reported in the 40-65 age-group before the pandemic, while, in 2021, close to 72,000 deaths were reported in the same group. In comparison, among the 65+ age-group, 72,000 deaths were reported annually before the pandemic, but, in 2021, the total of deaths reported was 151,000. A higher mortality was recorded in urban areas. In 2021, urban areas registered 4,500 excess deaths per million and rural areas registered 2,400 excess deaths per million. It’s important to note that mortality rates were homogeneous throughout the income distribution, meaning income did not protect the Peruvians from COVID-19 deaths.



According to this article, as of June 4, 2021, only 11 percent of Peruvians had received the first dose of a vaccine and less than 4 percent of people were fully vaccinated. As of June 30, 2021, there were 2,057,554 confirmed cases and 192,687 deaths (report by UNICEF).

 

Peru charts. Source: Our World in Data.


Excess mortality: Deaths from all causes compared to average over previous years. January 2020 - October 2022.



Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, Peru.


 

Infection fatality rate of COVID-19


I present three studies of epidemiologist John Ioannidis on the infection fatality rate of COVID-19, published between 2020 and 2021.


John P A Ioannidis, Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data. — Published 14 October 2020



John P A Ioannidis, Global perspective of COVID‐19 epidemiology for a full‐cycle pandemic — Published 25 October 2020



John P A  Ioannidis, Reconciling estimates of global spread and infection fatality rates of COVID‐19: an overview of systematic evaluations — Published 26 March 2021


 


4.Only part of the excess deaths during the pandemic were caused by the coronavirus


Statistics from health authorities around the world show that the COVID-19 was responsible for part of the excess deaths.


People were dying from other diseases as well, at increased numbers compared to the years before the pandemic. This began to become apparent in late 2020, but especially in the following two years, as the coronavirus pandemic was subsiding.

Below are some articles related to the topic:


United States


●      2020 Was Especially Deadly. Covid Wasn’t the Only Culprit. — December 13, 2020 (The New York Times)


United Kingdom


●      Thousands more people than usual are dying ... but it’s not from Covid — September 24, 2021 (The Telegraph)

●      Unexplained surge in non-Covid deaths triggers calls for probe — November 17, 2021 (The Week)

●      What’s behind nearly 8,000 excess deaths in under two months? — July 7, 2022 (The Conservative Woman)

●      Excess deaths are on the rise – but not because of Covid. — July 5, 2022 (The Telegraph)

●      Massive increases in Excess Deaths and Serious Ambulance Call-Outs in the UK — August 19, 2022 (Naked Emperor)

●      The unexplained rise in excess deaths around the world — July 7, 2022 (Murray Hunter / Substack)

●      We need to talk about excess deaths — September 22, 2022 (The Spectator Australia)


Singapore


●      1,535 excess deaths in Singapore in 2021, of which 804 were due to Covid-19 — May 9, 2022 (The Straits Times)


Spain


Translation: The excess of deaths this July are five times the average for that month. And not only because of the heat and covid


Switzerland


●      Sustained, as-yet unheard of excess mortality trend strikes Switzerland — September 9, 2022 (Eugyppius / Substack)


New Zealand


●      Why Are People Falling Ill and Dying in Record Numbers? — August 3, 2022 (Hatchard Report)


Australia


●      Excess deaths in 2022 ‘incredibly high’ at 13 per cent. — December 8, 2022 (News.com.au)

 

5.Inflammation of the respiratory system and a positive COVID-19 test result, especially at high amplification cycles does not necessarily mean COVID-19, and if it is, the infection with COVID-19 could be just the surface of a bigger story


What is causing the imbalance of the body toward inflammation?


The peculiarity of some diseases that appeared since 2020, as well as the standout symptom that made many people young and old being hospitalized with the condition that was diagnosed as COVID-19 — and I am referring to shortness of breath — draw the attention away from the coronavirus and to another condition; inflammation of the respiratory system unrelated to a virus, or inflammation not exclusive to the respiratory system. Inflammation is part of the immune response to pathogens, but a patient could develop symptoms of a real infection by a pathogen, because inflammation creates the environment of pathogens to multiply or increase their ability to do damage. The shortness of breath has been cited as a condition suffered by a number of people in East Asia outside the period of COVID-19 outbreak, or as a remote symptom not related with COVID-19. I say that empirically. The asthma diagnosis in adults who never had the disease prior to the alleged pandemic was not uncommon either. The new disease that has been described as long-COVID needs to be reexamined too. A type of cancer, the colon cancer that has been on the rise in recent years and in age groups younger than expected, has been linked with bacteria in the guts. Different mechanisms have been identified for the cause of this type of cancer including the release of a toxin by the bacterium Escherichia coli. Inflammation can promote bacterial growth and is also directly associated with several other diseases including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Several mystery diseases have been reported during the pandemic years and I present a few related articles below.


Mystery Diseases Mostly in Young Children Since 2020


●      Coronavirus alert: Rare syndrome seen in UK children — April 28, 2020 (BBC)

●      Scientists Search for Cause of Mysterious Covid-Related Inflammation in Children — October 20, 2021 (Kaiser Family Foundation)

●      Hospital admissions for under-fives rise amid RSV spike — October 8, 2021 (Herald Scotland)

●      The Mysterious Rise in Severe Diseases in Children — May 2, 2022 (Brownstone Institute)

●      New Insights on Inflammation in COVID-19 — April 21, 2021 (Wiley)

●      COVID-19’s Effects on the Brain — January 21, 2021 (The Scientist)

●      Christoph Kessel et al. Discrimination of COVID-19 From Inflammation-Induced Cytokine Storm Syndromes Using Disease-Related Blood Biomarkers — April 20, 2021 (Wiley Online Library)

●      The Rise of Hepatitis — May 23, 2022 (Brownstone Institute)

●      What Weakened Immune Systems Have Wrought for Children — July 12, 2022 (Brownstone Institute)

●      COVID Restrictions Likely Led To Resurgence Of Rare Hepatitis Among Children (Two new studies in the UK) — July 28, 2022 (Principia Scientific)

●      Investigating the rise in hepatitis in children — July 25, 2022 (Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children)

●      COVID-19 liver damage may be more common than previously thought — August 12, 2020 (Medical News Today)


Study


Melanie A Hundt, Yanhong Deng, Maria M Ciarleglio, Michael H Nathanson, Joseph K Lim. Abnormal Liver Tests in COVID-19: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study of 1827 Patients in a Major U.S. Hospital Network — July 6, 2022 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9258788/

 

In this study, researchers analyzed liver test results from 1,827 patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to Yale–New Haven Health hospitals between March 14 and April 23, 2020. Many of the liver test results were abnormal.


●      Valentina O Puntmann et al. Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) — July 27, 2020 (PMC) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7385689/


A review of 100 German patients who had recently recovered from COVID-19 showed that cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging revealed cardiac involvement in 78% and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60%. These findings were present regardless of preexisting conditions, illness severity, or time since diagnosis. The study was conducted at the University Hospital Frankfurt.

 

Hepatitis: Announcements by Health Authorities

 

●      Acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology - United Kingdom  — April 15, 2022 (WHO)

On 5 April 2022, the World Health Organization received a report of 10 young children in central Scotland diagnosed with severe acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology. By 8 April, the number of identified cases in the United Kingdom had risen to 74.

 

●      Update: Hepatitis of unknown origin in children — April 19, 2022 (ECDC)Following the identification of cases of acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology by the UK Health Security Agency, similar incidents have also been noted in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain.

 

●      UK Health Security Agency Update — July 28, 2022

According to the report, as of 19 July 2022 officials have confirmed 270 hepatitis cases among children 10 years old and younger in the UK. Fifteen of these children received liver transplants, and none died. The number of new cases being identified has declined.

 

●      CDC Report — April 21, 2022

 

A children’s hospital in Alabama informed the CDC that 5 pediatric patients previously healthy and all negative for COVID-19, had significant liver injury, including three with acute liver failure. All 5 of them were sequenced and had adenovirus type 41, which normally doesn’t cause hepatitis in healthy children. Two patients required liver transplant and no patients died. Four additional pediatric patients were identified with hepatitis and adenovirus infection for a total of 9 patients from October 1, 2021 to February 2022. The median age at admission of the 9 children was 2 years, 11 months.

●      Julia M. Baker et al.  Acute Hepatitis and Adenovirus Infection Among Children — Alabama, October 2021–February 2022 — Posted April 29, 2022.

 


6. The irregularity of the viral disease and the timing of an epidemic it causes, unlike what has been known so far in the field of medicine


Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, respiratory illnesses caused by viruses other than coronaviruses—most notably influenza—have at times shown unusually severe or prolonged symptoms. Furthermore, a virus may start an epidemic unusually early.


For instance, a person sick with flu could have a cough lasting weeks instead of just a few days, and the RSV virus could be the cause of hospitalization of elderly patients.


Typically the virus affects young children, mostly under the age of two and it’s the main cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in this age group. It also affects people with a weakened immune system or adults aged 65 years and older. The hospitalization of the latter category of people has been recently unusually common compared to the pre-pandemic era.


Some warning signs that we were dealing with a situation other than a Covid-19 pandemic are these:


•People reported that they have never been so sick in their lives but the respiratory disease was not caused by a coronavirus.


•Individuals with no prior history of respiratory illness, including common colds, are now experiencing such infections, occasionally more than once per year. Bloomberg published an article on this topic. Could it be related to the vaccines for COVID-19? From personal experience the answer is no, it happens to unvaccinated people too, including children.


●      Yes, Everyone Really Is Sick a Lot More Often After Covid — June 14, 2024 (Bloomberg)

●      What's behind the post-COVID surge in communicable diseases? — June 15, 2024 (Japan Times)


•Health experts around the world describe a “change of behavior” of viruses. It means among other things that viruses may initiate epidemics earlier than expected, occasionally over a month earlier.


•An anomalous heatwave in terms of either temperature or intensity, can be observed prior to an unusual in its features respiratory infection season.


•Anomalies in the age groups hospitalized because of an infection with a particular virus.


•Unexpected symptoms in terms of severity or duration, that could force patients to remain in the hospital longer than normal, and could last long after the patient is discharged from the hospital. For instance, during the period of the overwhelming surge of COVID-19 infections in China between December 2022 and January 2023, an unusually high percentage of patients were reported to show ‘white lungs’ in CT scans, indicating inflammation, fluid buildup or an infection by either bacteria or viruses.


•Prolonged duration of the epidemic compared to previous years.


•As mentioned previously, the incidence of respiratory diseases in individuals compared to the years before the pandemic, the frequency people become ill and the severity of their symptoms compared to previous years are out of the ordinary. New symptoms people had never had in the past like shortness of breath could be statistically evaluated, and the effectiveness of certain antibiotics in people with such a condition could be investigated.


Just recently in late 2025, experts in Japan have been talking about “changes of behavior” of the viruses, in relation to an influenza epidemic that arrived 5 weeks earlier than expected in their country, in September 2025.


Japan had previously experienced her hottest summer in history.


●      Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35 deg C or more: Weather agency — August 27, 2025 (Straits Times)

 

●      Japan and South Korea record hottest summers in history — September 1, 2025 (Al Jazeera)


7.Inflammation of the brain was found in patients who died of COVID-19, but without signs of a virus


Researchers analyzed brain tissue from people who died of COVID-19. They found inflammation of the brain, but no signs of the virus.


Specifically, a study by researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) looked at autopsy brain tissue samples from 19 patients who died of COVID-19. The molecular markers of inflammation were “profound”, even though those patients didn’t have any clinical signs of neurological impairment. There was no detectable SARS-CoV-2 virus genetic material or proteins in the brain samples.


●      NIH study uncovers blood vessel damage and inflammation in COVID-19 patients’ brains but no infection — December 30, 2020 (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)


Stanford researchers analyzed brain tissue from 8 patients who died of COVID-19. It showed unmistakable signs of inflammation and impaired brain circuits.


The researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine and Saarland University in Germany reported that what they saw looks like what is typically observed in the brains of people who died of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.


They could not find signs of SARS-CoV-2 in the brain tissue of these cases.



The authors of another study, report the growing evidence of the association of encephalitis, meningoencephalitis or encephalomyelitis, with SARS-CoV-2 infection. They analyzed 182 cases in total, comprising 109 with encephalitis, 26 with meningoencephalitis, 35 with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), and 12 with acute necrotizing or hemorrhagic encephalitis. Viral particles were detected in cerebrospinal fluid of only 13 patients and autoantibodies were present in 7 patients. Every patient showed altered mental status, either in the form of impaired consciousness or a decline of psychological/cognitive abilities.


The study


Raha Zamani et al, Central neuroinflammation in Covid-19: a systematic review of 182 cases with encephalitis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, and necrotizing encephalopathies.



8.The notable effectiveness of supplements that have antioxidant and/or anti-inflammatory properties in patients during the pandemic


The topic of this paragraph has been a subject of intense debate during the pandemic, but it can’t be denied there have been conflicts of interest. Supplements or medications that people or authorities raised objections to are usually inexpensive and not patented.


A number of supplements have been found to significantly improve the condition of the patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or were hospitalized because of symptoms attributed to COVID-19. These include: Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Quercetin, Bromelain, Curcumin (in combination with black pepper), Zinc, Melatonin. All these supplements have one thing in common: their anti-inflammatory properties. The last one, powerful antioxidant Melatonin, is only available by prescription in several countries and it is not recommended before activities like driving. Two drugs that showed antiviral activity in vitro and they were in the middle of a debate during the pandemic era about their effectiveness for COVID-19, Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, also have anti-inflammatory properties. While not having a personal opinion about their efficacy against COVID-19, I will note that certain studies that concluded Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were ineffective against infection from SARS-CoV-2 have been criticized because inadvertently or deliberately, the researchers didn’t combine those two medicines with zinc. The takeaway from this paragraph is that the respiratory illness that the world has been dealing with might have been COVID-19 but not necessarily.

 


B.Lockdowns and border controls


It has been argued that the early border controls saved countries from experiencing the high mortality rate seen in the West during the first wave of the pandemic.


However, two major exceptions undermine the validity of this theory. Thailand closed its borders late, on April 3, 2020. The Alpha variant was undeniably spreading in the country in April 2020 thanks to an initial freedom of movement between provinces.


Thailand health authorities reported a total of 63 Covid-19 deaths in 2020, almost all of them in the spring season. The coronavirus variant that was supposed to be the deadliest one was barely noticeable in the spring of 2020, but a different story has unfolded with subsequent coronavirus variants since the spring of 2021, simultaneously with other countries in East Asia.


Cuba closed its border late compared to most other countries in the region. The government shut the country’s borders in late March 2020. The pandemic did not have an impact in the country in 2020 despite the fact that other Latin American countries experienced an extraordinary rise in monthly deaths from all causes.


Excess mortality in Cuba, January 2020 - December 2021. Source: Our World in Data.



Concerning lockdowns, there are several peer-reviewed studies and meta-analyses that question how large the benefit of lockdowns really was. They are available online and they include a study concluding that inferences about the effectiveness of lockdowns are very sensitive to model choice. People including healthcare officials could argue in favor or against lockdowns depending on the country they select as an example. By the year 2021, countries with strict measures like Ireland and China had relatively low excess mortality or none at all, and countries that enforced draconian measures at the very beginning of the pandemic, like Peru in March 2020, had many deaths. In 2020, Cuba was widely regarded by the media as a success story in managing the COVID-19 pandemic, largely due to the implementation of stringent measures, which bore similarities to those adopted by China. These included extensive testing and the hospitalization of everyone that tested positive including asymptomatic individuals. However, when the Delta variant emerged in the summer of 2021, Cuba faced an overwhelming public health crisis, struggling to cope with the number of people getting sick and dying. Sweden, Norway and Finland of 2021 overall did not record excess mortality despite their relaxed measures. There can be little doubt that the lockdowns have not been the factor responsible for the extraordinary excess mortality observed in several countries worldwide. The idea behind government-imposed lockdowns was to stop the spread of the virus but they also had negative consequences that may have contributed to deaths. These included the impoverishment of societies, the deterioration of mental health during that era and the disruption of diagnosis and treatment of other diseases. The Canadian Medical Association did research on the subject and published a report in November 2021. According to the report, the rise in excess deaths was not only the result of Covid-19 but other factors may have contributed to it. They include delayed or missed healthcare, reduced willingness to seek medical help, increased mental health and substance use issues, and worsening of other health conditions influenced by the pandemic’s social and economic impacts.


C.COVID-19 vaccines


Ample evidence shows that COVID-19 vaccines were not responsible for the excess deaths observed during the pandemic. In the United States in the period of time between December 14, 2020 and March 1, 2023, VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) received 19,476 preliminary reports of death among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. Even if theoretically the deaths were underreported, they were too few compared to the excess deaths reported in the country. The excess deaths from all causes in the United States were more than a million people in 2020, a similar number in 2021, approximately 820,000 in 2022 and a bit more than 700,000 in 2023 according to the research letter below.


Jacob Bor, Rafeya V. Raquib, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic — Published May 23, 2025.


The significant increase in excess deaths observed in Latin America in early 2020 and in Eastern Europe in late 2020, before any vaccine was administered, points to a different cause of the global health crisis. A comparison between countries shows inconsistencies between the time the vaccines were deployed, the proportion of the population vaccinated and the timing of the increase in weekly or monthly all-cause deaths.


Concerning the third dose of the vaccine, a Substack writer examined the graphs of the excess deaths in South Korea and Japan as well as the time the boosters were administered and the daily share of the population that received them. He found no correlation between booster rates and excess mortality, when comparing the two countries.


●      What caused Japan’s excess deaths in early 2022? — June 20, 2022 (Guy Gin / Substack)



D.Radiation from 5G towers


So far, A, B, and C, namely COVID-19, restrictions and the vaccination program haven't provided a satisfactory explanation about the excess deaths from all causes observed worldwide. All three of them are responsible for deaths but not on such a scale. Medicine and more precisely the field of virology and epidemiology as known to mankind for decades should be good guides, and not be abandoned for new knowledge that defies reason. In this paragraph and the next one, the last possible scenario is examined, the contribution of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation to the rise in illnesses and deaths. This paragraph deals with the normal functioning of technology and the next one with its use as a weapon.


On October 31, 2019 Chinese major telecom operators announced the launch of 5G for commercial purposes in the city of Wuhan. They activated 1,580 5G base stations in the city by mid-October, with plans to expand it to 10,000 by the end of that year.


On December 31, 2019 the Wuhan Municipal Health Committee informed WHO of 27 cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology detected in Wuhan. On January 7, 2020, scientists in China announced the discovery of a new coronavirus.


Scientists published studies linking the increase in deaths to the activation of the 5G network. Two studies published on this topic in 2021 are presented below.


Study 1


Beverly Rubik, Robert R Brown. Evidence for a connection between coronavirus disease-19 and exposure to radiofrequency radiation from wireless communications including 5G — September 29, 2021.



Study 2


Angela Tsiang, Magda Havas. COVID-19 Attributed Cases and Deaths are Statistically Higher in States and Counties with 5th Generation Millimeter Wave Wireless Telecommunications in the United States. — 12 April 2021



One of the significant findings in the first study is the substantial overlap in pathobiology between COVID-19 and Wireless Communication Radiation (WCR) exposure. The authors add as conclusion that the 5G may have exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic through several biological mechanisms they describe in detail. In summary they state that 5G may have exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic by weakening the immunity of the host and increasing the virulence of SARS-CoV-2.


In the second study, the authors corroborate the information provided in the first study. They also state that exposure to 5G mmW is a statistically significant factor associated with higher COVID-19 case and death rates in the U.S, even after accounting for factors such as population density and latitude.


According to the authors, exposure to radiofrequency radiation (RFR) may contribute to higher infection and mortality rates by influencing biological systems in ways similar to those caused by SARS-CoV-2. Both wireless radiation and SARS-CoV-2 disrupt cellular signaling through phosphorylation pathways, elevate intracellular calcium levels by activating voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs), and interfere with the normal cell membrane functions. Radiofrequency radiation further weakens the immune system, decreases oxygen availability to blood cells and tissues, increases oxidative stress and inflammation, and lowers glutathione levels and the availability of vitamin D, factors that collectively facilitate viral infection.


Study


Lien Ai Pham-Huy, Hua He, Chuong Pham-Huy. Free Radicals, Antioxidants in Disease and Health — June 4, 2008



This is a list of Static Field/ELF-EMF Free Radical (Oxidative Damage) studies.


In summary, radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation causes the release of free radicals and oxidative stress resulting in inflammation and other potentially dangerous conditions in the body. It also causes the disruption of the immune system, and hematologic effects that could contribute to the development of hypoxia. The point of discussion is whether radiation coming from normally functioning technology could be responsible for the health crisis observed globally since 2020. The authors mentioned above answered very well that 5G installed for telecommunications could contribute to illness, but not be its primary cause. In other words, a viral or bacterial infection in the respiratory system or another system could be real, but could be facilitated by the biological conditions in the body caused by radiation, most notably inflammation. On the other hand — and here I depart from the conclusions of the scientists mentioned above — radiation could be the cause of illness that in its symptoms might be mistaken for a flu, if the system of the body affected is the respiratory system, and if the health care personnel of one country is overly focused on one disease. The major symptoms of radiation pneumonitis for instance include shortness of breath, dry cough, feeling of fullness in your chest and flu-like symptoms. Since radiation is one and the same, the pathology I just described also applies to the next paragraph E.


A closer look at the health crisis in different countries since 2020, along with their charts of excess deaths from all causes compared to previous years, shows no correlation between excess deaths and 5G rollout. I will present a few countries as examples.


The region of Latin America


In Latin America, a major health crisis occurred in 2020 at the time 5G networks were not set up. I will isolate the example of Cuba.


Source: Our World in Data.



Cuba 2020-2021


Cuba is a case study showing that highly abnormal excess mortality can occur over a prolonged period of time in a country without 5G infrastructure. Cuba as of 2022 didn’t have a 5G network and hadn’t announced plans to launch one. Their telecommunications and internet network was underdeveloped compared to the rest of the region.


To understand the full picture, it is worthwhile to examine the situation in Cuba at the height of its health crisis in July, August and September 2021, caused by the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Excess mortality in Cuba began to rise in the fall of 2020 and from December 2020 exceeded over 20% for the following 10 months (Our World in Data). There is a huge spike in excess deaths from July to the end of October 2021. The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began on May 12, 2021. Cuba relied on domestically produced vaccines, instead of negotiating for the purchase of foreign brands.


Excess mortality in Cuba, January 2020 - December 2021. Source: Our World in Data.


 

From July 14, 2021, the number of daily COVID-19 deaths consistently exceeded 50, while daily cases surpassed 6,000. These figures did not fall below those levels until the end of September 2021. The total number of deaths because of COVID-19 for the entire year of 2021 were 8,175.


Sources


1.Manuel de Jesús Verdecia Tamayo1, Eduardo Escalona Pardo and Niurka María Escalona Zaldivar, Cuban Anti-COVID-19 Vaccines Pharmaceutical Autonomy in Favor of the Population — Published February 22, 2024




In the first 15 days of August 2021, Cuba reported a daily average of 8,891 cases and 82 deaths. In those days 72 percent of those infected with COVID-19 in Havana have received all three vaccine doses. The vaccines were domestically produced.

The 28-day report of September 29, 2021 recorded 213,953 cases and 2,027 deaths, which means a daily average of 7,641 cases and 72 deaths. The total deaths because of Covid-19 for the whole year 2021 were 8,175.


The population of Cuba in 2021 was 11 million people.


Sources:

●      Cuba struggles to get oxygen to the sick, vaccines to the healthy — August 18, 2021 (Reuters)

●      Cuba’s COVID mortality and vaccination, myth and reality — September 30, 2021 (Cuba Archive)

●      Cuántos médicos cubanos han fallecido por coronavirus? (How many Cuban doctors have died from coronavirus?) — September 25, 2021 (CiberCuba)


According to an article of June 10, 2021, Cuba recorded among the region’s lowest mobile phone and internet penetration levels, with similarly low fixed-line teledensity.

Telecommunication services, both fixed and mobile, are monopolised by the state-owned Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA Cubacel). At the time, Cuba had 4G but limited access to it. As of 2025, 5G is still not available. According to another source, simulations of SpaceX company’s published plans, indicated they should provide coverage across Cuba by about the middle of the year 2020, with capacity expanding progressively as additional satellites would be launched.


Jordan 2020


The unprecedented heatwave that has gripped Jordan since August 29, 2020, followed a month later by an extraordinary increase in mortality, further confirms that 5G infrastructure is unnecessary in case radiation is to be used as a weapon against a nation.


I am repeating the weather news from Jordan in September 2020 as well as the chart indicating a huge spike of deaths between October and December 2020.


Amman had been experiencing unusually high temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius for ten days starting on  August 29, 2020, with overnight lows in the 30s and high 20s.

According to the Jordan Meteorological Department, this heatwave—which began on August 29 and was expected to last through September 10, was both the longest and hottest ever recorded since temperature tracking began in 1922.


Excess mortality in Jordan, January 2020 - January 2021. Source: Our World in Data.


 

E.Radiation weaponized


As an introduction, I stress that whatever I describe as peculiarity or anomaly, does not preclude the possibility of coincidence. Since this study examines all possibilities, I will include the following observations.


Peculiarities during the pandemic


1.The first is the synchronization of the health crisis of countries far from each other, and the great difference in the impact of the pandemic between two neighboring nations, or two regions inhabited by people of different descent.


Eastern Europe had a different experience from Western Europe in regard to COVID-19 and the resulting death rate, as well as the timing of the deaths. The following graphs allow us to compare both situations between two different regions.


I examine the chart “Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people” on Our World in Data website.


If two lists of countries are created, from the Balkans and Western Europe, the difference between them in terms of COVID-19 deaths and their timing is impressive. Was a virus behaving differently to a different race of people, or what has been happening had little to do with virology?


1.Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.


2.Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland.




I note the synchronization of the excess deaths in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary and Poland despite their different geographical locations.


Excess mortality: Deaths from all causes compared to average over previous years. Source: Our World in Data.



There was no similarity to what was happening in two countries that share a border of 467 of kilometers, Poland and Germany. However there was an extraordinary synchronization of excess deaths at that time in the following group of countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Netherlands.


Excess mortality: Raw number of deaths from all causes compared to projection based on previous years. Source Our World in Data.




On March 25, 2021 it was reported that in Bulgaria, 4.19% of the population received at least one dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, while only 0.99% of the Bulgarian population was fully vaccinated. Meanwhile on March 31, it was reported in Hungary that 23.7% of adults have received their first dose of the vaccine, while 8.6% have been fully vaccinated with two doses. At that time, their charts of excess deaths were similar.



Cyprus and Greece had the same crisis of excess deaths at the same time in July and August of 2021 unlike all other European countries with the exception of Malta. The geographical locations of two countries differ. It just happens for both to have Greek inhabitants. They continued having high numbers of mortality throughout the rest of the year.


Percentage of monthly additional deaths in 2020-2021 compared to average monthly deaths in 2016-2019.



Source: Eurostat, © European Union, 1995–2025. Reuse is authorised under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.





Excess mortality in Greece and Cyprus until the end of 2021. Source: Our World in Data.


 

Another even more irrational coincidence happened in Asia in 2022. This involves the matching excess deaths statistics between Hong Kong and South Korea in February to May 2022. Source: Our World in Data.




2.The strange case of Bulgaria and Romania


Since the beginning of the pandemic, countries around the globe and mostly the developed ones, were expected to follow specific guidelines. They were expected to follow policies set by global authorities and not only, in order to save the maximum number of lives during the pandemic. The World Health Organization was a leading authority recommending policies to all countries in the world. The European Commission had its own policies in coordination with the WHO.


Unlike the policies announced by the WHO, which were more flexible, the EC’s policies were strongly worded recommendations on what the governments of the member-states of the EU “should” do, and set concrete targets for its Member States that had to be met. They were not legally binding acts. One exception was the EU Digital COVID Certificate, created to facilitate free movement across borders during the COVID-19 pandemic, a regulation that all Member States were legally obliged to follow.

A primary example of European Commission recommendations is the Communication of January 2021 (here and here). The EC called on Member States to aim for vaccinating at least 80% of people aged 80 years+ and health/social care professionals by March 2021, and 70% of the adult population by summer 2021. The same Communication set out guidelines about other aspects of the response to the pandemic, like travel restrictions, social distancing, testing and contact tracing, and they were not legally binding obligations. However Bulgaria and Romania rose nowhere near the standards of the EU, due to a population that opposed the vaccination program and the laxity of their governments in imposing rules and restrictions. In other words the two countries were swimming against the current in the developed world. What happened after the summer of 2021 was very interesting.


Anyone would suppose that nature was punishing the Bulgarians and Romanians because they refused to be vaccinated for their own protection. It’s an incredible hypothesis if examples of other countries with almost the entire adult population being fully vaccinated are taken into consideration.


According to an article in the Wall Street Journal of December 16, 2021, 81.5% of South Korea’s population of about 52 million were fully vaccinated at the time. The data were provided by Our World in Data. It did not prevent hospitalizations and deaths in the following days as it was reported in several articles.


●      Highly vaccinated South Korea can’t slow down COVID-19 — December 16, 2021 (Wall Street Journal)

●      South Korea marks deadliest day of pandemic as hospitals buckle — December 14, 2021 (Arab News)

●      Korea reports record highs of new COVID-19 infections and critical cases — December 15, 2021 (Korea Times)

●      South Korea marks deadliest day of pandemic as omicron looms — December 23, 2021 (Arab News)


The marked increase in COVID-19 incidence and mortality was observed in early 2022, according to the study “Excess mortality during the Coronavirus disease pandemic in Korea”, published on September 2, 2023. The authors are Changwoo Han, Hoyeon Jang and Juhwan Oh.



In late March 2022, at the time South Korea’s health authorities were announcing a peak of nearly 400,000 new cases a day, CNN reported that 87% of South Korea's 52 million residents were fully vaccinated and 63% of residents had received booster shots. Similarly the surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths in 2022 in Australia and New Zealand happened to fully vaccinated populations. The comprehensive Australian report The impact of a new disease: COVID-19 from 2020, 2021 and into 2022 shows that COVID-19 had an impact on a population that was fully vaccinated. A significant proportion of the population received a booster dose. By the end of April 2022, nearly 70% of Australians had received a third dose. In 2022, 9,859 people died of COVID-19 in Australia in a population of 26 million people. New Zealand’s Health and Independence Report 2022, notes that 2.1 million COVID-19 cases were identified in the community in 2022. Over the course of the year, 22,909 people were hospitalized for COVID-19, and 2,358 died from it. Another report of the New Zealand Royal Commission states that New Zealand had 26, 24 and 2,776 deaths from COVID-19 in 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively. The 2022 population of New Zealand was 5.12 million people.


Daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, South Korea.



By May 2022, there was no evidence that in the top seven countries with the highest triple vaccinated rates, the vaccine had a positive contribution to the health of their populations. Excess-death trends were still concerning, and these countries did not escape further COVID-19 surges.


Hungary’s population was vaccinated significantly faster than the population of Bulgaria in early 2021. It didn’t make a difference in the spring of 2021 as the following articles show.


●      Hungary First in European Union for Vaccinations, and Deaths — March 29, 2021 (U.S. News)

 

In the United States, Humetrix Cloud Services conducted an observational study in 2021 as part of a Department of Defense project. They analyzed data from a cohort of 17 million Medicare beneficiaries, including 5.7 million fully vaccinated individuals, to monitor COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness.


For the week ending July 31, 2021, post-vaccination COVID-19 cases accounted for 73% of total cases among people 65 and older, a demographic that was 80% fully vaccinated at the time. In the same week, 63% of COVID-19 hospitalizations in seniors were among those who were fully vaccinated.


More about it in the two articles here and here. It appears that the mobilization of people to take the vaccine was based on disinformation.


Study 1


Bettina Experton, Adrien Elena, Christopher S Hein, Dale Nordenberg, Peter Walker, Blake Schwendiman, Christopher R Burrow. Enhanced Vaccine Effectiveness during the Delta Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Medicare Population Supports a Multilayered Prevention Approach, November 24, 2022.


 

Peer reviewed studies like the two presented below, show that vaccinations didn’t stop COVID-19.


Study 2


S. V. Subramanian & Akhil Kumar. Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States. — Published: 30 September 2021, European Journal of Epidemiology



Study 3


Kasen K Riemersma et al. Shedding of infectious SARS-CoV-2 despite vaccination — Published: September 30, 2022



The authors of this study found that a large proportion of people infected had high levels of virus in their bodies despite being fully vaccinated. The vaccinated and unvaccinated infected individuals had similar upper-respiratory viral RNA loads at the time of testing, and people could spread the virus despite vaccination. The study had been conducted at the time the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant was prevalent.


Bulgaria and Romania faced a health crisis in September and for the following three months in 2021. It was the third major wave of hospitalizations and deaths in a year and arguably the longest. Some obvious questions are: why did the coronavirus start infecting people in August, and where was the immunity of the populations because of the previous waves? Why was the fourth wave of COVID-19 so deadly? It was the fourth wave according to sources in both Bulgaria and Romania. Was it a virus running its course, or Bulgaria and Romania were receiving a punishment beating because of the low vaccination rates and the more relaxed restrictions? Adding to the puzzle was the anomalous weather from late July to early August, with daily temperatures rising to 40-42 °C in the beginning of August, which is roughly 15°C above the seasonal average. The countries affected were Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria.


There is more to consider. As mentioned earlier, a study from Turkey published on July 25, 2022 shows the excess mortality rate in Istanbul up to the end of 2021 as shown in Figure 1. If Istanbul is compared to Bulgaria, there is a similarity in the massive wave of excess deaths in the autumn of 2020. The next wave of excess deaths in the spring of 2021 is also nearly identical in both regions but they differ from August 2021 to the end of the year. Istanbul experienced higher-than-expected mortality beginning in early August, but no health crisis occurred, unlike what happened in Bulgaria during the same period. This further supports the view that the situation in Bulgaria was not a random occurrence.


●      A. Ucar. Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in Istanbul, Turkey — July 25, 2022 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.888123/full


I present articles describing the health crisis in both Bulgaria and Romania in the fall of 2021.


Bulgaria


●      Bulgaria extends COVID‑19 emergency as low vaccinations take toll  — November 25, 2021 (Anadolu Agency)

●      Deaths 50% above normal in Bulgaria, EU’s least vaccinated country — November 16, 2021 (Reuters)

●      Bulgaria’s hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 infection surge — October 29, 2021 (Medical Xpress)

●      Bulgaria, EU’s least vaccinated nation, faces deadly surge — September 8, 2021 (The Independent)

●      How Will Bulgaria Vaccinate A Skeptical Public When It Can't Even Convince Its Doctors To Get The Shot? — November 9, 2021 (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

●      Bulgaria sees record COVID-19 deaths amid low vaccinations  — November 9, 2021 (ABC News)

●      Bulgaria, with the E.U.’s lowest vaccination rate, faces a surge in cases — October 21, 2021 (The New York Times)


Romania


●      Morgues, hospitals struggle with COVID-19 deaths in Romania — November 9, 2021 (Al Jazeera)

●      Covid: Romania's health system torn apart by pandemic — October 23, 2021 (BBC News)

●      Two Europes: Low vaccine rates in east overwhelm ICUs — September 28, 2021 (Associated Press)

●      From Baltic to Balkans, Covid crisis engulfs central and eastern Europe — October 23, 2021 (Financial Times)


Excess mortality in Bulgaria and Romania, January 2020 - June 2022. Source: Our World in Data.


 

3.Strange diseases in animals, and changes in their behavior


The longer than expected symptoms of an unidentified respiratory illness were reported in dogs in the United States in 2023.



In Cyprus, a significant proportion of the cat population was annihilated because of mysterious illness in 2023.


In the same country, symptoms of respiratory infections like cough, lasting abnormally long, have been repeatedly observed in recent winter seasons regardless of the responsible pathogen.


The article in the Greek language describes the situation in the winter of 2024/2025, but anomalies in respiratory diseases have already been observed two winters prior. In January 2023 the most prevalent virus infecting people was influenza A.


Diana Kordas, an inhabitant of the island of Samos in Greece, gave testimony about changes in animals, in terms of both population or behavior, as well as changes in plants, in the year 2021. The population of insects, birds and small mammals dropped, and the behavior of animals changed visibly as well. In another case, an outbreak of bird disease and deaths of birds in a region of Germany in the spring of 2020 coincided with the expansion of the 4G LTE cell tower network. Diana Kordas submitted her testimony to the Federal Communications Commission in October 2021. Since it is no longer available on the FCC website, I present other sources that include the testimony.


●      The most dangerous technology ever invented — September-October 2021 (Arthur Firstenberg)

●      Blaumeisensterben durch bakterielle Infektion (Blue tit deaths due to bacterial infection) — April 28, 2020

 


4.Climate change


Unusual heatwaves, abnormal rain or cold, unusual months they happen and abnormal natural disasters have been observed in various countries around the world. They are commonly attributed to “global warming” or “climate change” because of the increase of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The weather indeed changed based on observation, but a key point of discussion is the sudden onset of weather changes in countries and not the gradual shift in the weather. The contribution of carbon dioxide to climate change, while it makes up only 0.04% of the atmosphere, is disputed by part of the scientific community, and not only for this reason.


Most countries in East Asia began to feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic not in 2020, but in 2021 or 2022, and it raises an obvious question. Why did the populations of South Korea and Japan suddenly become vulnerable to the virus at the beginning of 2022? Similarly, all-cause mortality began to rise significantly in East Asian countries in the same period of time as COVID-19 infections. In Thailand, the onset of the surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths in the spring of 2021 coincided with the beginning of new weather patterns. The country experienced rainfall in the first days of April 2021 and April 2022. Rainfall typically occurs with the start of the rainy season in May. Equally unusual was the light rain in Thailand over two extended periods in February and March 2022, during the dry season. Subsequent dry seasons were also characterized by cloudy skies and abnormal rainfall. If there’s difficulty to find articles for these events, especially in comparison to pre-pandemic years, it is because they haven’t been published.


It is worth mentioning here the following statements by Bill Gates and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as they link global warming with diseases and deaths.


In early August 2020, Bill Gates, while comparing the mortality rate of coronavirus, which is around 14 deaths per 100,000, said that the mortality rate due to rising global temperatures is expected to reach the same percentage. He cited a study published by Climate Impact Lab, and added that the death rates in poor countries near or below the Equator would increase dramatically. I find it interesting that the figures he presented on mortality from the coronavirus and mortality from global warming in a later period are identical.


WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus linked the climate crisis and extreme temperatures to diseases in his X message on October 28, 2023.


5.Statements that allow for different readings


Depopulation as a necessity, based on the theory that people inhabiting the earth are too many and there are not enough resources to sustain us all is a goal openly expressed in the past by certain individuals. Changes in the behavior of nations, meaning a change in lifestyles that has to take place in order to save the planet, is another open objective of certain individuals or authorities. In the past, wars were waged in part due to hatred of a particular race, and the theory of the superior Aryan race is a disturbing reminder and example from the 20th century. What would happen if people concerned about the earth were tempted to use new technologies to achieve these goals, whether it be reduction of the population or compliance to an agenda? Would they resist or would they seize the opportunity? I will approach the topic from another perspective. Some people may not view global warming as an emergency, but as an opportunity. They could benefit in various ways from it. Anyone could try to guess what those ways would be if the group of people in question are businesses or rulers over the lives of people.

 
 
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