offguardian--2020-06-30--US Gov website falsely inflating Care Home Covid deaths

Official monitor exaggerated care homes ’ cases and deaths by orders of magnitude on new monitoring website Early this month the US CDC launched their Covid19 “ care home tracker ” website , which claims to list all the care homes in the US which receive government aid , along with the numbers of Covid19 cases and deaths for each .
The trouble was , as an article for MedPage Today pointed out , at least some of the recorded numbers were “ insanely inaccurate ” .
Here are some notable examples : • The Saugus Rehab and Nursing Center @ @ @ @ @ @ @ having 794 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in residents and 281 cases in staff .
The facility only has room for 80 patients , maximum .
Of which 45 tested positive along with 19 staff .
• Southern Pointe Living Center in Colbert , Oklahoma is listed as having 339 residents die of COVID-19 despite only having a 95 bed capacity , and officially reporting not one single case of covid19 , let alone a death .
• Dellridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Paramus , New Jersey is listed as the worst affected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deaths .
The reality , according to their marketing director , is they have a 90 patient capacity , and have had only 20 deaths .
These are the three listed examples in the article , but it would be foolish to assume they are the only three care homes – out of the roughly 15,000 listed on the site – whose numbers are inaccurate .
So , how was this allowed to happen ?
The data for the site was allegedly collected and reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves , and since they receive hefty fines for refusing to do so , for being late or supplying false information , it ’ s hardly likely they would supply inaccurate data .
It ’ s especially unlikely they would forget their maximum patient capacity or seek to hurt their reputations and future business by overstating the number of deaths they had .
There is the possibility of simple data-entry errors – but these are enormous mistakes , not mistyped numbers , or extra zeroes , but exaggerations by orders of magnitude .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , blamed a form which turned their total cases for May into “ daily cases ” for May , thus multiplying the total by 31 .
But that doesn ’ t reasonably account for all incorrect data .
No form , however badly designed the mathematics , can turn “ zero ” into “ three hundred and thirty-nine ” .
Either there is a deliberate intent to deceive here , or incompetence so gross it baffles the mind .
And , either way , it calls into question the reliability of ALL their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that report was published , the website has been updated and the cited examples now list the “ corrected ” numbers , but the whole situation raises several questions : • If it was purely a matter of “ making mistakes ” , why were all of the reported numbers over-estimates ?
• Would they ever have been corrected had it not appeared in the press ?
• How many other care homes on the database have incorrect numbers listed , but don ’ t know it ?
• Are these false numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Covid cases/deaths ?
• Can we trust ANY “ official statistic ” supplied by the CDC , CMS or other government body ?
Many thanks to commenter Maxwell , who brought this to our attention .

Official monitor exaggerated care homes’ cases and deaths by orders of magnitude on new monitoring website
Early this month the US CDC launched their Covid19 “care home tracker” website, which claims to list all the care homes in the US which receive government aid, along with the numbers of Covid19 cases and deaths for each.
The trouble was, as an article for MedPage Today pointed out, at least some of the recorded numbers were “insanely inaccurate”. Here are some notable examples:
The Saugus Rehab and Nursing Center in Saugus, Massachusetts was listed as having 794 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in residents and 281 cases in staff. The facility only has room for 80 patients , maximum. Of which 45 tested positive along with 19 staff.
in residents and 281 cases in staff. The facility , maximum. Of which 45 tested positive along with 19 staff. Southern Pointe Living Center in Colbert, Oklahoma is listed as having 339 residents die of COVID-19 despite only having a 95 bed capacity , and officially reporting not one single case of covid19 , let alone a death.
despite , and officially reporting , let alone a death. Dellridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Paramus, New Jersey is listed as the worst affected carehome in the US, with 753 deaths. The reality, according to their marketing director, is they have a 90 patient capacity, and have had only 20 deaths.
These are the three listed examples in the article, but it would be foolish to assume they are the only three care homes – out of the roughly 15,000 listed on the site – whose numbers are inaccurate.
So, how was this allowed to happen?
The data for the site was allegedly collected and reported to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by the care homes themselves, and since they receive hefty fines for refusing to do so, for being late or supplying false information, it’s hardly likely they would supply inaccurate data.
It’s especially unlikely they would forget their maximum patient capacity or seek to hurt their reputations and future business by overstating the number of deaths they had.
There is the possibility of simple data-entry errors – but these are enormous mistakes, not mistyped numbers, or extra zeroes, but exaggerations by orders of magnitude.
One home, Smith Village in Chicago, blamed a form which turned their total cases for May into “daily cases” for May, thus multiplying the total by 31. But that doesn’t reasonably account for all incorrect data. No form, however badly designed the mathematics, can turn “zero” into “three hundred and thirty-nine”.
Either there is a deliberate intent to deceive here, or incompetence so gross it baffles the mind. And, either way, it calls into question the reliability of ALL their claims, data and reports.
Since that report was published, the website has been updated and the cited examples now list the “corrected” numbers, but the whole situation raises several questions:
If it was purely a matter of “making mistakes”, why were all of the reported numbers over-estimates?
Would they ever have been corrected had it not appeared in the press?
How many other care homes on the database have incorrect numbers listed, but don’t know it?
Are these false numbers still cited in “official counts” for Covid cases/deaths?
Can we trust ANY “official statistic” supplied by the CDC, CMS or other government body?
Many thanks to commenter Maxwell, who brought this to our attention.


offguardian--2020-06-29--The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism

The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism

It was always going to come to this … mobs of hysterical , hate-drunk brownshirts hunting down people not wearing masks and trying to get them fired from their jobs , “ no mask , no service ” signs outside stores , security staff stopping the mask-less from entering , paranoid pod people pointing and shrieking at the sight of mask-less shoppers in their midst , goon squads viciously attacking and arresting them… Welcome to the Brave New Normal .
And it isn ’ t just the Maskenpflicht-Sturmabteilung .
The new official narrative is omnipresent .
The corporate media are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ( i.e.
, anyone admitted to a hospital for anything who tested positive for the coronavirus ) and “ major incidents ” ( i.e.
, people at the beach ) .
Police are manning makeshift social-distancing-monitoring watchtowers in London .
There are propaganda posters and billboards everywhere , repeating the same neo-Goebbelsian slogans , reinforcing the manufactured mass hysteria .
Dissent and nonconformity are being pathologized , “ diagnosed ” as psychopathy and paranoia .
Mandatory vaccinations are coming .
You didn ’ t think they were kidding , did you , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Normal official narrative back in March ?
They told us , clearly , what was coming .
They told us life was going to change … forever .
They locked us down inside our homes .
They ordered churches and synagogues closed .
They ordered the police to abuse and arrest us if we violated their arbitrary orders .
They closed the schools , parks , beaches , restaurants , cafés , theaters , clubs , anywhere that people gather .
They ripped children out of their mother ’ s arms , beat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of “ wearing their masks improperly , ” dragged mask-less passengers off of public buses , gratuitously beat and arrested people for not “ social-distancing ” on the sidewalk , shackled people with ankle monitors , and intimidated everyone with robots and drones .
They outlawed protests , then hunted down people attending them and harassed them at their homes .
They started tracking everyone ’ s contacts and movements .
They drafted new “ emergency ” laws to allow them to forcibly quarantine people .
They did this openly .
They publicized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were hiding anything .
No , they told us exactly what was coming , and advised us to shut up and follow orders .
Tragically , most people have done just that .
In the space of four months , GloboCap has successfully imposed totalitarianism — pathologized totalitarianism — on societies all across the world .
It isn ’ t traditional totalitarianism , with a dictator and a one-party system , and so on .
It is subtler and more insidious than that .
But it is totalitarianism nonetheless .
GloboCap could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( or at least the acquiescence ) of the vast majority of the masses .
The coronavirus mass hysteria was a masterstroke of propaganda , but propaganda isn ’ t everything .
No one is really fooled by propaganda , or not for long , in any event .
As Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari noted in the opening of Anti-Oedipus : I am not going to try to account for the “ perversion of the desire of the masses ” here in this essay , but I do want to dig into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Now , I ’ m going to assume that you understand that the official “ apocalyptic pandemic ” narrative is predicated on propaganda , wild speculation , and mass hysteria , and that by now you are aware that we are dealing with a virus that causes mild to moderate symptoms ( or absolutely no symptoms at all ) in 95 % of those infected , and that over 99.5 % survive … thus , clearly , no cause for widespread panic or justification for the totalitarian “ emergency measures ” that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to assume that you watched as GloboCap switched off the “ deadly pandemic ” to accommodate the BLM protests , then switched it back on as soon as they subsided , and that you noted how their propaganda shifted to “ cases ” when the death count finally became a little too embarrassing to continue to hype .
So , I won ’ t waste your time debunking the hysteria .
Let ’ s talk pathologized totalitarianism .
The genius of pathologized totalitarianism is like that old joke about the Devil … @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he doesn ’ t exist .
Pathologized totalitarianism appears to emanate from nowhere , and everywhere , simultaneously ; thus , technically , it does not exist .
It can not exist , because no one is responsible for it , because everyone is .
Mass hysteria is its lifeblood .
It feeds on existential fear .
“ Science ” is its rallying cry .
Not actual science , not provable facts , but “ Science ” as a kind of deity whose Name is invoked to silence heretics , or to ease @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results from desperately trying to believe the absurdities of the official narrative .
The other genius of it ( from a GloboCap viewpoint ) is that it is inexhaustible , endlessly recyclable .
Unlike other official enemies , the “ deadly virus ” could be any virus , any pathogen whatsoever .
All they have to do from now on is “ discover ” some “ novel ” micro-organism that is highly contagious ( or that mimics some other micro-organism that we already have ) , and wave it in front of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crank up the Fear Machine , and start projecting hundreds of millions of deaths if everyone doesn ’ t do exactly as they ’ re told .
They can run this schtick … well , pretty much forever , anytime the working classes get restless , or an unauthorized president gets elected , or just for the sheer sadistic fun of it .
Look , I don ’ t mean to be depressing , but seriously , spend an hour on the Internet , or talk to one of your hysterical friends that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is the mentality of the Brave New Normal … irrationally paranoid and authoritarian .
So , no , the future isn ’ t looking very bright for anyone not prepared to behave as if the world were one big infectious disease ward .
I ’ ve interacted with a number of extremely paranoid corona-totalitarians recently ( just as a kind of social experiment ) .
They behave exactly like members of a cult .
When challenged with facts and basic logic , first , they flood you with media propaganda and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Then , after you debunk that nonsense , they attempt to emotionally manipulate you by sharing their heartbreaking personal accounts of the people their therapists ’ brother-in-laws ’ doctors had to helplessly watch as they “ died in agony ” when their lungs and hearts mysteriously exploded .
Then , after you don ’ t bite down on that , they start hysterically shrieking paranoia at you ( “ JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY INTUBATE YOU !
” … “ KEEP YOUR SPITTLE AWAY FROM ME !
” ) and barking orders and slogans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GODDAMN MASK , YOU BABY !
” … “ NO SHOES , NO SHIRT , NO MASK , NO SERVICE !
” ) Which … OK , that would be kind of funny ( or terribly sad ) , if these paranoid people were not just mouthpieces echoing the voice of the official power ( i.e.
, GloboCap ) that is transforming what is left of society into a paranoid , pathologized , totalitarian nightmare right before our eyes .
They ’ re kind of like the “ woman in red ” in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to them , you ’ re not talking to them .
You ’ re talking to the agents .
You ’ re talking to the machines .
Try it sometime .
You ’ ll see what I mean .
It ’ s like talking to a single algorithm that is running in millions of people ’ s brains .
I can ’ t lie to you .
I ’ m not very hopeful .
No one who understands the attraction ( i.e.
, the seduction ) of totalitarianism is .
Much as we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is exhilarating , and liberating , being part of the mob , surrendering the burden of personal autonomy and individual responsibility , fusing with a fanatical “ movement ” that is ushering in a new “ reality ” backed by the sheer brute force of the state … or the transnational global capitalist empire .
It is irresistible , that attraction , to most of us .
The chance to be a part of something like that , and to unleash one ’ s hatred on those who refuse to go along @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ridicule them , to humiliate them , to segregate them from normal society , to hunt them down and get them fired from their jobs , to cheer as police abuse and arrest them , to diagnose them as “ abnormal ” and “ inferior , ” these social deviants , these subhuman “ others , ” who dare to challenge the authority of the Party , or the Church , or the State , or the Reich , or Science .
Plus , in the eyes of GloboCap ( and its millions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such non-mask-wearing deviants are dangerous .
They are like a disease … an infestation .
A sickness in the social body .
If they refuse to conform , they will have to be dealt with , quarantined , or something like that .
Or they can just surrender to the Brave New Normal , and stop acting like babies , and wear a goddamn mask .
After all , it ’ s just a harmless piece of cloth .
CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright , novelist and political satirist based in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing , Inc. His dystopian novel , Zone 23 , is published by Snoggsworthy , Swaine & Cormorant .
Volume I of his Consent Factory Essays is published by Consent Factory Publishing , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content , Inc .
He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org .

CJ Hopkins
It was always going to come to this … mobs of hysterical, hate-drunk brownshirts hunting down people not wearing masks and trying to get them fired from their jobs, “no mask, no service” signs outside stores, security staff stopping the mask-less from entering, paranoid pod people pointing and shrieking at the sight of mask-less shoppers in their midst, goon squads viciously attacking and arresting them…
Welcome to the Brave New Normal.
And it isn’t just the Maskenpflicht-Sturmabteilung. The new official narrative is omnipresent. The corporate media are pumping out hysteria about “Covid-19 hospitalizations” (i.e., anyone admitted to a hospital for anything who tested positive for the coronavirus) and “major incidents” (i.e., people at the beach).
Police are manning makeshift social-distancing-monitoring watchtowers in London. There are propaganda posters and billboards everywhere, repeating the same neo-Goebbelsian slogans, reinforcing the manufactured mass hysteria. Dissent and nonconformity are being pathologized, “diagnosed” as psychopathy and paranoia. Mandatory vaccinations are coming.
You didn’t think they were kidding, did you, when they started introducing the Brave New Normal official narrative back in March?
They told us, clearly, what was coming. They told us life was going to change … forever. They locked us down inside our homes. They ordered churches and synagogues closed. They ordered the police to abuse and arrest us if we violated their arbitrary orders. They closed the schools, parks, beaches, restaurants, cafés, theaters, clubs, anywhere that people gather.
They ripped children out of their mother’s arms, beat and arrested other mothers for the crime of “wearing their masks improperly,” dragged mask-less passengers off of public buses, gratuitously beat and arrested people for not “social-distancing” on the sidewalk, shackled people with ankle monitors, and intimidated everyone with robots and drones.
They outlawed protests, then hunted down people attending them and harassed them at their homes. They started tracking everyone’s contacts and movements. They drafted new “emergency” laws to allow them to forcibly quarantine people. They did this openly. They publicized it. It’s not like they were hiding anything.
No, they told us exactly what was coming, and advised us to shut up and follow orders. Tragically, most people have done just that. In the space of four months, GloboCap has successfully imposed totalitarianism — pathologized totalitarianism — on societies all across the world. It isn’t traditional totalitarianism, with a dictator and a one-party system, and so on. It is subtler and more insidious than that. But it is totalitarianism nonetheless.
GloboCap could not have achieved this without the approval (or at least the acquiescence) of the vast majority of the masses. The coronavirus mass hysteria was a masterstroke of propaganda, but propaganda isn’t everything. No one is really fooled by propaganda, or not for long, in any event. As Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari noted in the opening of Anti-Oedipus:
The masses were not innocent dupes. At a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism, and it is this perversion of the desire of the masses that needs to be accounted for.”
I am not going to try to account for the “perversion of the desire of the masses” here in this essay, but I do want to dig into the new pathologized totalitarianism a little bit.
Now, I’m going to assume that you understand that the official “apocalyptic pandemic” narrative is predicated on propaganda, wild speculation, and mass hysteria, and that by now you are aware that we are dealing with a virus that causes mild to moderate symptoms (or absolutely no symptoms at all) in 95% of those infected, and that over 99.5% survive … thus, clearly, no cause for widespread panic or justification for the totalitarian “emergency measures” that have been imposed.
I am also going to assume that you watched as GloboCap switched off the “deadly pandemic” to accommodate the BLM protests, then switched it back on as soon as they subsided, and that you noted how their propaganda shifted to “cases” when the death count finally became a little too embarrassing to continue to hype.
So, I won’t waste your time debunking the hysteria. Let’s talk pathologized totalitarianism.
The genius of pathologized totalitarianism is like that old joke about the Devil … his greatest trick was convincing us that he doesn’t exist. Pathologized totalitarianism appears to emanate from nowhere, and everywhere, simultaneously; thus, technically, it does not exist. It cannot exist, because no one is responsible for it, because everyone is.
Mass hysteria is its lifeblood. It feeds on existential fear. “Science” is its rallying cry. Not actual science, not provable facts, but “Science” as a kind of deity whose Name is invoked to silence heretics, or to ease the discomfort of the cognitive dissonance that results from desperately trying to believe the absurdities of the official narrative.
The other genius of it (from a GloboCap viewpoint) is that it is inexhaustible, endlessly recyclable. Unlike other official enemies, the “deadly virus” could be any virus, any pathogen whatsoever. All they have to do from now on is “discover” some “novel” micro-organism that is highly contagious (or that mimics some other micro-organism that we already have), and wave it in front of people’s faces. Then they can crank up the Fear Machine, and start projecting hundreds of millions of deaths if everyone doesn’t do exactly as they’re told.
They can run this schtick … well, pretty much forever, anytime the working classes get restless, or an unauthorized president gets elected, or just for the sheer sadistic fun of it.
Look, I don’t mean to be depressing, but seriously, spend an hour on the Internet, or talk to one of your hysterical friends that wants to make mask-wearing mandatory, permanently. This is the mentality of the Brave New Normal … irrationally paranoid and authoritarian. So, no, the future isn’t looking very bright for anyone not prepared to behave as if the world were one big infectious disease ward.
I’ve interacted with a number of extremely paranoid corona-totalitarians recently (just as a kind of social experiment). They behave exactly like members of a cult.
When challenged with facts and basic logic, first, they flood you with media propaganda and hysterical speculation from “medical experts.” Then, after you debunk that nonsense, they attempt to emotionally manipulate you by sharing their heartbreaking personal accounts of the people their therapists’ brother-in-laws’ doctors had to helplessly watch as they “died in agony” when their lungs and hearts mysteriously exploded.
Then, after you don’t bite down on that, they start hysterically shrieking paranoia at you (“JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY INTUBATE YOU!” … “KEEP YOUR SPITTLE AWAY FROM ME!”) and barking orders and slogans at you (“JUST WEAR THE GODDAMN MASK, YOU BABY!” … “NO SHOES, NO SHIRT, NO MASK, NO SERVICE!”)
Which … OK, that would be kind of funny (or terribly sad), if these paranoid people were not just mouthpieces echoing the voice of the official power (i.e., GloboCap) that is transforming what is left of society into a paranoid, pathologized, totalitarian nightmare right before our eyes. They’re kind of like the “woman in red” in The Matrix. When you are talking to them, you’re not talking to them. You’re talking to the agents. You’re talking to the machines. Try it sometime. You’ll see what I mean. It’s like talking to a single algorithm that is running in millions of people’s brains.
I can’t lie to you. I’m not very hopeful. No one who understands the attraction (i.e., the seduction) of totalitarianism is. Much as we may not like to admit it, it is exhilarating, and liberating, being part of the mob, surrendering the burden of personal autonomy and individual responsibility, fusing with a fanatical “movement” that is ushering in a new “reality” backed by the sheer brute force of the state … or the transnational global capitalist empire.
It is irresistible, that attraction, to most of us. The chance to be a part of something like that, and to unleash one’s hatred on those who refuse to go along with the new religion … to publicly ridicule them, to humiliate them, to segregate them from normal society, to hunt them down and get them fired from their jobs, to cheer as police abuse and arrest them, to diagnose them as “abnormal” and “inferior,” these social deviants, these subhuman “others,” who dare to challenge the authority of the Party, or the Church, or the State, or the Reich, or Science.
Plus, in the eyes of GloboCap (and its millions of fanatical, slogan-chanting followers), such non-mask-wearing deviants are dangerous. They are like a disease … an infestation. A sickness in the social body. If they refuse to conform, they will have to be dealt with, quarantined, or something like that.
Or they can just surrender to the Brave New Normal, and stop acting like babies, and wear a goddamn mask.
After all, it’s just a harmless piece of cloth.
CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volume I of his Consent Factory Essays is published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.


offguardian--2020-07-01--COVID Deaths in Canada: A Questionable Statistic

Before Canadians surrender anymore of their freedoms to COVID-19 propaganda , can we stop and ask some critical questions ?
“ COVID is unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season , ” says Dr. Allison McGeer , an infectious disease specialist at Toronto ’ s Mount Sinai Hospital , in an interview with the CBC .
McGeer cites government statistics ( as of June 17 ) showing a COVID mortality rate of 22 deaths per 100,000 Canadians .
Does this one statistic really make COVID “ unquestionably ” worse than the flu ?
Are not questions a fundamental part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theory is tested over the fires of inquiry ?
Is not the act of questioning at the heart of true journalism ?
Would you not agree that our ability to question the decisions , motives and actions of our government protects our democracy from descending into tyranny ?
I ‘ m sorry Dr. McGeer , but I do have a few critical questions .
Especially considering what is at risk .
Sir Wilfrid Laurier , our seventh Prime Minister , had a vision of Canada as a land of individual liberty and decentralized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedom is its nationality , ” he most famously said .
“ Nothing will prevent me from continuing my task of preserving at all cost our civil liberty.
” Today , being the 153rd anniversary of Confederation , I would like to follow Laurier ’ s example , exercising my freedom to question and my duty to preserve our civil liberties .
What is the Actual Infection-to-Fatality Rate for COVID-19 in Canada ?
Here in the Great White North , I ’ ve noticed that the media is avoiding what might be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the COVID-19 pandemic .
Graphs , charts and lists slice the data up in so many ways : Cases by province , date of onset , number of deaths , male versus female , old versus young , etc .
But they don ’ t talk about the infection-to-fatality rate — that is the percent of people who acquire COVID-19 and end up having that inevitable out-of-body experience we call death .
Considering all the extreme measures they ’ ve taken to control the spread of the disease ( or , more so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t they be letting us know the infection-to-fatality rate ?
After all , The World Health Organization had estimated that COVID-19 ’ s “ official ” death rate would hover around 3.4 % .
This statistic has been used to justify the loss of three million jobs in Canada and libraries being turned into food banks .
Well , I decided to calculate the infection/fatality rate for the entire country , as well as each individual province and territory .
I ’ m using the official data from The Public Health Agency of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 6 days after McGeer ’ s calculations ) : As you can see we arrive at a 0.56 % rate of death for those infected with COVID .
0.56 % is six times less than the WHO ’ s estimate of 3.4 % .
Notwithstanding , a 0.56 % infection-to-fatality rate , as Dr. McGeer ’ s says , would be “ unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season.
” Around five times as worse as a mild flu season .
But wait !
I have more questions before they finish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into a COVID-19 ( 84 ) police state… Why is COVID Six Times Deadlier in Ontario than in Manitoba ?
In the above table , take a look at the infection-to-fatality column .
You can see that a person infected with COVID is twice as likely to die if they live in Ontario ( 0.62 % ) or Quebec ( 0.65 % ) versus somebody living in Nova Scotia ( 0.32 % ) .
And Canucks are twice as likely to die in Nova Scotia rather than in Alberta ( 0.16 % ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Ontario from the equation we arrive at dramatically different results .
An infection/fatality rate of 0.17 % and only 3 deaths per 100,000 amongst the remaining 61 % of Canadians .
Is COVID-19 then more dangerous than the flu ?
It doesn ’ t seem so if you live outside of Ontario and Quebec .
“ It is unlikely that the same virus is so much more harmless in Hamburg than in New York , ” says Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg , an internist and pulmonary physician .
“ There must be other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID only killing 0.18 % of infected people in British Columbia but 0.65 % of Quebecers ?
Remember , we are looking at how many people died who were infected .
This infection/fatality is unaffected by how many people were infected or how many people live in a particular region .
This is why the infection/fatality rate is almost the same for Ontario and Quebec , even though Quebec lists 45 more deaths per 100,000 people .
Obviously , such discrepancies raise a lot of question about the real danger of COVID-19 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Why are we Including “ Probable ” Cases of COVID in the Official Figures ?
What immediately stands out on the Public Health Agency of Canada ’ s website is the footnote : If a significant number of these cases are “ probable ” should we not also consider the 0.56 % death rate as “ probable ” ( at best ) and not “ unquestionable ?
” Looking up the National surveillance case definitions for COVID-19 , I found that a “ probable ” case seems to leave much to question : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ list if they suffer the “ onset of ( or exacerbation of chronic ) cough ” coupled by participating “ in a mass gathering identified as a source of exposure.
” A Canadian can also be branded a COVID case if she has a “ fever ( over 38 degrees Celsius ) ” and “ close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19.
” When it comes to “ close contact , ” how close are we talking about ?
Not all that close in seems : “ …a single laboratory confirmed case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home ] , in a resident or staff member would trigger an outbreak and would be declared.
” says the Ontario Ministry of Health ’ s COVID-19 Outbreak Guidance for Long Term Care Homes ( LTCH ) .
In other words , if the maintenance man at a senior ’ s home of 800 residents tests positive for COVID , all 800 residents would now meet the “ close contact ” qualifier .
Ontario Health ’ s Case Definition – Novel Coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) confirms this : Just a runny nose and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ward or facility during a nosocomial outbreak of COVID-19 ” will add Grandma to the COVID case count .
“ Facility ” could include long-tern care homes , where most of the deaths have occurred .
Thus , you only need one confirmed case of COVID and all the residents in that nursing home become “ probable ” cases as soon as they show any of the broad list of COVID symptoms .
One of those COVID red flags includes a “ decrease in blood pressure ” ( a common occurrence among elderly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So someone can be totally free of COVID but still be included in the total of COVID cases .
But of course , if they do die , it would not be assumed that COVID was the cause of death .
Or would it ?
What Kind of Proof is Required to Verify a COVID Patient Actually Died from COVID ?
Consider that the Ontario Public Health ’ s Daily Epidemiologic Summary clearly states : Said another way : It doesn ’ t matter whether someone died from cancer , the flu , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , falling down the stairs , a bullet to the head… As long as it is was “ probable ” that they had COVID , they will be added to the list of COVID deaths in Canada .
Take for example the first official COVID-19 death in my Ontario town .
The Beacon Herald headlined : While Mr. Vaianis may have had COVID-19 it certainly didn ’ t sound like he died from it : “ He just had a fever though , thank God , ” his daughter reports .
“ He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ respiratory stuff and he didn ’ t seem to suffer .
He just kind of got worse and worse , as far as he was asleep the last couple of days really.
” I know I ’ m no doctor , but that doesn ’ t sound like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ( SARS-COV-2 ) to me .
I ’ ve had pneumonia once , and trust me , I suffered .
This sounds like an 86-year-old man dying peacefully in his sleep .
“ They might have had COVID and that COVID @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killed them .
So just mark them down as a COVID death , ” the guidelines seem to advise .
Does that not make you question whether COVID is “ unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season ?
” It also makes me ask… Why are We Simply Not Counting COVID Cases Who Died with Pneumonia ?
I ’ m rather baffled why the government is relying on such broad and liberal lists of symptoms and circumstances to identify whether someone has died from COVID-19 .
Reviewing the literature , it seems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ die form COVID-19 and it is fairly easy to detect .
“ By the end of 2019 , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) was informed about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan , China… ” says an article in the journal of Cellular & Molecular Immunology .
Originally known as “ Wuhan pneumonia , ” Chinese scientists later renamed the virus “ novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia ( NCIP ) ” according to the same article .
Indeed , the original name for COVID encapsulated what the disease really was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Why was pneumonia removed from the name ?
Was it because there were other ways in which COVID could kill ?
WebMD states that COVID can also cause “ a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ) .
This disease comes on quickly and causes breathing problems.
” But WebMD says this only occurs in people who already have pneumonia .
Thus , pneumonia appears to be the only accepted means by which COVID can directly kill its host .
Zahid Butt , an assistant professor at the University of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , of course , will lead to oxygen-starved internal organs , which is why we see COVID patients put on dialysis or requiring CPR .
“ But when Covid pneumonia first strikes , patients don ’ t feel short of breath , even as their oxygen levels fall , ” explains a New York emergency room doctor in The New York Times .
“ And by the time they do , they have alarmingly low oxygen levels and moderate-to-severe pneumonia ( as seen on chest X-rays ) .
” How is this any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Indeed , Statistics Canada lists “ Influenza and pneumonia ” together as the sixth leading cause of death in Canada in 2018 with 8,511 losses .
Notice how they don ’ t simply list “ influenza.
” So why are we not looking at a definite “ coronavirus and pneumonia ” death statistic rather than this catch-all “ any kind of death with probable coronavirus ” statistic ?
And , while on the subject of pneumonia-derived from the flu — how many people who have died from COVID also had an influenza @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they did , how do we know that the flu , rather than the coronavirus , was not the cause of death ?
Why is it assumed that the corona bug is to blame .
Indeed , the National surveillance case definitions for COVID-19 states that “ COVID-19 may present as a co-infection with other pathogens.
” Regardless , it goes on to say that doctors should still mark them down as a COVID case if there is a high “ index of suspicion.
” Furthermore , why are we not being told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their oxygen levels dropped below 90 % , thereby putting their lives at risk ?
“ Covid pneumonia patients I saw had oxygen saturations as low as 50 percent , ” says Richard Levitan , an emergency doctor who served in New York .
Simply having pneumonia is not proof that the pneumonia was fatal .
Only 259 of the first 12,024 cases of “ Wuhan pneumonia ” died , according to the journal Nature .
Indeed , pneumonia cases have been reported to be so mild that they are not even noticed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published in The Lancet observed : “ COVID-19 pneumonia manifests with chest CT imaging abnormalities , even in asymptomatic patients… ” So how many of these COVID deaths in Canada were found to have pneumonia ?
And how many of them had pneumonia severe enough to cause death ?
Certainly not the aforementioned COVID death in my city whose daughter reported that he didn ’ t have any “ respiratory stuff.
” The lack of pneumonia statistics in Ontario and Quebec becomes even more questionable when we look at the province of Manitoba @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infection-to-fatality rate .
According to a CBC article , Manitoba made a point of applying COVID testing to patients who had pneumonia prior to the official outbreak .
They wanted to see if these past cases of pneumonia were caused by the coronavirus .
This shows that Manitoba may be using the tighter definition of “ death-by-pneumonia with the definite presence of coronavirus ; ” unlike Ontario with its much higher 0.62 % fatality rate where the “ probable ” presence of coronavirus alone is enough to be added to COVID death list @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or not .
So if pneumonia is not the cause of all these COVID deaths might I ask… Did COVID or Cockroaches Kill The Residents of Hard-Hit Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario and Quebec ?
Back in April , with so many seniors dying , the military was called in to assist Quebec and Ontario nursing homes .
A month later the Canadian Armed Forces released a 15-page report exposing worse-than-third-world conditions in Ontario nursing homes .
Here ’ s a short list : • An infestation of “ ants and cockroaches plus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being changed in so long the contents had become foul.
” I ’ ve compiled a list of the 19 worst observations made by the military .
If you can stomach it , you can read the list here .
In Quebec , the Canadian Armed Forces did not report such graphic and inhumane conditions as witnessed in Ontario .
Nonetheless , the conditions in French Canada were still far from adequate .
The 60-page report states ( as translated by the Globe and Mail ) : • “ Prevention and control of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guidelines set by [ the local health authority ] .
” • “ …the use of PPE was a major problem… ” • “ We noticed many employees went missing without warning during their shifts.
” • Staff that did remain were : “ overwhelmed , understaffed , exhausted , [ not observing ] disinfection protocols [ which ] had a direct impact on the hygiene of the residents.
” • Residents were found “ moving between zones [ making ] the infection prevention more complicated.
” • At night there was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ According to our observations , the scope of the crisis resulted in many good practices being ignored so as to deal with more urgent problems , ” the report concludes .
So we have homes where the guidelines declare all residents “ probable ” COVID patients and any deaths ( whether from an infected feeding tube or cockroach infestation ) as a COVID death .
All the while , little is being done to stop the spread of COVID ( and any other pathogen ) in these facilities .
Indeed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nursing home blanket immunity from what might otherwise warrant charges of manslaughter .
As Rosemary Frei revealed in her well-referenced Off-Guardian article , long-term care residents are rarely transferred to a hospital setting and corpses are cremated within 24 hours without a post-mortem investigation .
In addition , because of lockdown , residents were not permitted family visitors who could oversee their care .
Seems like a good way to cover up the evidence .
95 % of COVID deaths in Canada have taken place in Ontario and Quebec .
76 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such as those described above ( complete with rotting food , forced feedings and residents crying out for help for over two hours ) .
How does this not make COVID look like a cover story for euthanizing the elderly ?
How do we dare allow this type of abuse of the disabled and cite it as evidence that COVID-19 is “ unquestionably ” worse than the flu ?
It is beyond me why anyone in Canada still took COVID statistics seriously after the military ’ s report .
“ I am a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wrong ” While the CBC boldly proclaims : “ COVID-19 is worse than a bad flu season , despite online claims to the contrary ” it has yet to provide sufficient evidence to support this claim , while seemingly unable to practice investigative journalism by asking tough ( yet obvious ) questions like : • If COVID-19 is so deadly why must we inflate the death toll by including “ probable ” cases ?
• Why are we including deaths “ whether or not COVID-19 was determined to be a contributing or underlying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counting clear and criminal neglect and abuse of seniors as deaths caused by COVID ?
• Why are we counting as a COVID death where severe ( or any ) pneumonia was not reported ?
• Are COVID numbers being inflated to protect the government ’ s reputation after they ’ ve scared , harmed and violated the freedom of 37 million Canadians ?
• Was there a financial incentive to euthanize ( under the guise of an incurable infection ) the elderly ?
Possibly to reduce government costs while eliminating a segment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revenue ?
• Have non-COVID deaths been attributed to COVID so as to justify more surveillance and lockdowns ; while selling the public on an expensive , insufficiently tested and unnecessary coronavirus vaccine ?
I ’ m sorry , Dr. McGeer , those of us who refuse to be told what to think or question , do not find COVID “ unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season.
” Instead , I find it questionable that our freedom , livelihood and well-being has been violated under the justification of such questionable data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seem so willing to surrender their freedom to frightening and belittling COVID propaganda , I think we should remember the words of John Diefenbaker , our 13th prime minister : John C. A. Manley has spent over a decade ghostwriting for medical doctors , as well as naturopaths , chiropractors and Ayurvedic physicians .
He publishes the COVID-19 ( 84 ) Red Pill Daily Briefs – at emaild-based newsletter dedicated to preventing the governments of the world from using an exaggerated pandemic as an excuse to violate our freedom , health , privacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also writing a novella , COVID-27 : A Dystopian Love Story .
Visit his website at : MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca

Before Canadians surrender anymore of their freedoms to COVID-19 propaganda, can we stop and ask some critical questions?
John C. A. Manley
“COVID is unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season,” says Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, in an interview with the CBC.
McGeer cites government statistics (as of June 17) showing a COVID mortality rate of 22 deaths per 100,000 Canadians.
By comparison, the death rate for influenza in Canada on an annual basis is usually between nine and 13 deaths per 100,000 people…”
Does this one statistic really make COVID “unquestionably” worse than the flu?
Are not questions a fundamental part of the scientific process, whereby a theory is tested over the fires of inquiry?
Is not the act of questioning at the heart of true journalism?
Would you not agree that our ability to question the decisions, motives and actions of our government protects our democracy from descending into tyranny?
I‘m sorry Dr. McGeer, but I do have a few critical questions. Especially considering what is at risk.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, our seventh Prime Minister, had a vision of Canada as a land of individual liberty and decentralized federalism. “Canada is free and freedom is its nationality,” he most famously said. “Nothing will prevent me from continuing my task of preserving at all cost our civil liberty.”
Today, being the 153rd anniversary of Confederation, I would like to follow Laurier’s example, exercising my freedom to question and my duty to preserve our civil liberties.
Let’s start with…
What is the Actual Infection-to-Fatality Rate for COVID-19 in Canada?
Here in the Great White North, I’ve noticed that the media is avoiding what might be the most important statistic when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Graphs, charts and lists slice the data up in so many ways: Cases by province, date of onset, number of deaths, male versus female, old versus young, etc. But they don’t talk about the infection-to-fatality rate — that is the percent of people who acquire COVID-19 and end up having that inevitable out-of-body experience we call death.
Considering all the extreme measures they’ve taken to control the spread of the disease (or, more so, control law-abiding citizens) shouldn’t they be letting us know the infection-to-fatality rate?
After all, The World Health Organization had estimated that COVID-19’s “official” death rate would hover around 3.4%. This statistic has been used to justify the loss of three million jobs in Canada and libraries being turned into food banks.
Well, I decided to calculate the infection/fatality rate for the entire country, as well as each individual province and territory. I’m using the official data from The Public Health Agency of Canada as of June 23, 2020 (6 days after McGeer’s calculations):
As you can see we arrive at a 0.56% rate of death for those infected with COVID. 0.56% is six times less than the WHO’s estimate of 3.4%. Notwithstanding, a 0.56% infection-to-fatality rate, as Dr. McGeer’s says, would be “unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season.” Around five times as worse as a mild flu season.
But wait! I have more questions before they finish turning the true north strong and free into a COVID-19(84) police state…
Why is COVID Six Times Deadlier in Ontario than in Manitoba?
In the above table, take a look at the infection-to-fatality column. You can see that a person infected with COVID is twice as likely to die if they live in Ontario (0.62%) or Quebec (0.65%) versus somebody living in Nova Scotia (0.32%). And Canucks are twice as likely to die in Nova Scotia rather than in Alberta (0.16%).
Indeed, if you eliminate Quebec and Ontario from the equation we arrive at dramatically different results. An infection/fatality rate of 0.17% and only 3 deaths per 100,000 amongst the remaining 61% of Canadians.
Is COVID-19 then more dangerous than the flu? It doesn’t seem so if you live outside of Ontario and Quebec.
“It is unlikely that the same virus is so much more harmless in Hamburg than in New York,” says Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, an internist and pulmonary physician. “There must be other reasons for this.”
So why is COVID only killing 0.18% of infected people in British Columbia but 0.65% of Quebecers? Remember, we are looking at how many people died who were infected. This infection/fatality is unaffected by how many people were infected or how many people live in a particular region. This is why the infection/fatality rate is almost the same for Ontario and Quebec, even though Quebec lists 45 more deaths per 100,000 people.
Obviously, such discrepancies raise a lot of question about the real danger of COVID-19 to Canadians. It also makes me ask…
Why are we Including “Probable” Cases of COVID in the Official Figures?
What immediately stands out on the Public Health Agency of Canada’s website is the footnote:
The total number [of COVID cases] includes publicly reported confirmed and probable cases.”
If a significant number of these cases are “probable” should we not also consider the 0.56% death rate as “probable” (at best) and not “unquestionable?”
Looking up the National surveillance case definitions for COVID-19, I found that a “probable” case seems to leave much to question: One can be added to the COVID list if they suffer the “onset of (or exacerbation of chronic) cough” coupled by participating “in a mass gathering identified as a source of exposure.” A Canadian can also be branded a COVID case if she has a “fever (over 38 degrees Celsius)” and “close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19.”
When it comes to “close contact,” how close are we talking about? Not all that close in seems: “…a single laboratory confirmed case of COVID-19 in a [long-term care home], in a resident or staff member would trigger an outbreak and would be declared.” says the Ontario Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 Outbreak Guidance for Long Term Care Homes (LTCH).
In other words, if the maintenance man at a senior’s home of 800 residents tests positive for COVID, all 800 residents would now meet the “close contact” qualifier.
Ontario Health’s Case Definition – Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) confirms this: Just a runny nose and “being a patient in the same ward or facility during a nosocomial outbreak of COVID-19” will add Grandma to the COVID case count. “Facility” could include long-tern care homes, where most of the deaths have occurred.
Thus, you only need one confirmed case of COVID and all the residents in that nursing home become “probable” cases as soon as they show any of the broad list of COVID symptoms. One of those COVID red flags includes a “decrease in blood pressure” (a common occurrence among elderly using blood pressure lowering medication).
So someone can be totally free of COVID but still be included in the total of COVID cases. But of course, if they do die, it would not be assumed that COVID was the cause of death.
Or would it?
What Kind of Proof is Required to Verify a COVID Patient Actually Died from COVID?
Consider that the Ontario Public Health’s Daily Epidemiologic Summary clearly states:
Any case marked ‘Fatal’ is included in the deaths data. Deaths are included whether or not COVID-19 was determined to be a contributing or underlying cause of death…”
Said another way: It doesn’t matter whether someone died from cancer, the flu, heart disease, a ventilator, medication, falling down the stairs, a bullet to the head… As long as it is was “probable” that they had COVID, they will be added to the list of COVID deaths in Canada.
Take for example the first official COVID-19 death in my Ontario town. The Beacon Herald headlined:
Giuseppe ‘Joe’ Vaianisi, 86, died at Greenwood Court [Retirement Home] in Stratford Saturday after testing positive for COVID-19 on April 3.”
While Mr. Vaianis may have had COVID-19 it certainly didn’t sound like he died from it: “He just had a fever though, thank God,” his daughter reports. “He didn’t have any of the respiratory stuff and he didn’t seem to suffer. He just kind of got worse and worse, as far as he was asleep the last couple of days really.”
I know I’m no doctor, but that doesn’t sound like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-COV-2) to me. I’ve had pneumonia once, and trust me, I suffered. This sounds like an 86-year-old man dying peacefully in his sleep.
“They might have had COVID and that COVID they might have had, might have killed them. So just mark them down as a COVID death,” the guidelines seem to advise.
Does that not make you question whether COVID is “unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season?”
It also makes me ask…
Why are We Simply Not Counting COVID Cases Who Died with Pneumonia?
I’m rather baffled why the government is relying on such broad and liberal lists of symptoms and circumstances to identify whether someone has died from COVID-19. Reviewing the literature, it seems like there is only one way to die form COVID-19 and it is fairly easy to detect.
“By the end of 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China…” says an article in the journal of Cellular & Molecular Immunology. Originally known as “Wuhan pneumonia,” Chinese scientists later renamed the virus “novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP)” according to the same article.
Indeed, the original name for COVID encapsulated what the disease really was: pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus.
WebMD confirms this:
The illness tied to the new coronavirus was originally called novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP). The World Health Organization renamed it COVID-19, which is short for coronavirus disease 2019.”
Why was pneumonia removed from the name? Was it because there were other ways in which COVID could kill?
WebMD states that COVID can also cause “a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This disease comes on quickly and causes breathing problems.” But WebMD says this only occurs in people who already have pneumonia.
Thus, pneumonia appears to be the only accepted means by which COVID can directly kill its host. Zahid Butt, an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo explained to Global News:
Once the [corona]virus reaches the lungs, it causes inflammation which results in fluid accumulating in the lung and difficulty breathing. This fluid fills the lung’s air sacs… [then] blood oxygen levels fall below normal, a condition known as pneumonia.”
This, of course, will lead to oxygen-starved internal organs, which is why we see COVID patients put on dialysis or requiring CPR.
“But when Covid pneumonia first strikes, patients don’t feel short of breath, even as their oxygen levels fall,” explains a New York emergency room doctor in The New York Times. “And by the time they do, they have alarmingly low oxygen levels and moderate-to-severe pneumonia (as seen on chest X-rays).”
How is this any different than pneumonia derived from the flu? Indeed, Statistics Canada lists “Influenza and pneumonia” together as the sixth leading cause of death in Canada in 2018 with 8,511 losses. Notice how they don’t simply list “influenza.”
So why are we not looking at a definite “coronavirus and pneumonia” death statistic rather than this catch-all “any kind of death with probable coronavirus” statistic?
And, while on the subject of pneumonia-derived from the flu — how many people who have died from COVID also had an influenza virus in their system? And if they did, how do we know that the flu, rather than the coronavirus, was not the cause of death? Why is it assumed that the corona bug is to blame.
Indeed, the National surveillance case definitions for COVID-19 states that “COVID-19 may present as a co-infection with other pathogens.” Regardless, it goes on to say that doctors should still mark them down as a COVID case if there is a high “index of suspicion.”
Furthermore, why are we not being told among those COVID patients with pneumonia whether their oxygen levels dropped below 90%, thereby putting their lives at risk? “Covid pneumonia patients I saw had oxygen saturations as low as 50 percent,” says Richard Levitan, an emergency doctor who served in New York.
Simply having pneumonia is not proof that the pneumonia was fatal. Only 259 of the first 12,024 cases of “Wuhan pneumonia” died, according to the journal Nature. Indeed, pneumonia cases have been reported to be so mild that they are not even noticed by the patient. A Chinese study published in The Lancet observed: “COVID-19 pneumonia manifests with chest CT imaging abnormalities, even in asymptomatic patients…”
So how many of these COVID deaths in Canada were found to have pneumonia? And how many of them had pneumonia severe enough to cause death? Certainly not the aforementioned COVID death in my city whose daughter reported that he didn’t have any “respiratory stuff.”
The lack of pneumonia statistics in Ontario and Quebec becomes even more questionable when we look at the province of Manitoba. Manitoba has a low 0.9% infection-to-fatality rate.
According to a CBC article, Manitoba made a point of applying COVID testing to patients who had pneumonia prior to the official outbreak. They wanted to see if these past cases of pneumonia were caused by the coronavirus. This shows that Manitoba may be using the tighter definition of “death-by-pneumonia with the definite presence of coronavirus;” unlike Ontario with its much higher 0.62% fatality rate where the “probable” presence of coronavirus alone is enough to be added to COVID death list, regardless of whether they had pneumonia or not.
So if pneumonia is not the cause of all these COVID deaths might I ask…
Did COVID or Cockroaches Kill The Residents of Hard-Hit Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario and Quebec?
Back in April, with so many seniors dying, the military was called in to assist Quebec and Ontario nursing homes. A month later the Canadian Armed Forces released a 15-page report exposing worse-than-third-world conditions in Ontario nursing homes. Here’s a short list:
An infestation of “ants and cockroaches plus unknown.”
“Significant gross fecal contamination was noted in numerous patient rooms…”
“Nearly a dozen incidents of bleeding fungal infections.”
Feeding tubes “not being changed in so long the contents had become foul.”
“High risk of dosing errors” with expired medications.
Underfeeding.
“Bed bound for several weeks.”
Unsterile supplies.
I’ve compiled a list of the 19 worst observations made by the military. If you can stomach it, you can read the list here.
In Quebec, the Canadian Armed Forces did not report such graphic and inhumane conditions as witnessed in Ontario. Nonetheless, the conditions in French Canada were still far from adequate. The 60-page report states (as translated by the Globe and Mail):
“Prevention and control of the contamination didn’t follow the guidelines set by [the local health authority].”
“…the use of PPE was a major problem…”
“We noticed many employees went missing without warning during their shifts.”
Staff that did remain were: “overwhelmed, understaffed, exhausted, [not observing] disinfection protocols [which] had a direct impact on the hygiene of the residents.”
Residents were found “moving between zones [making] the infection prevention more complicated.”
At night there was a lack of staff to change incontinence diapers.
“According to our observations, the scope of the crisis resulted in many good practices being ignored so as to deal with more urgent problems,” the report concludes.
So we have homes where the guidelines declare all residents “probable” COVID patients and any deaths (whether from an infected feeding tube or cockroach infestation) as a COVID death. All the while, little is being done to stop the spread of COVID (and any other pathogen) in these facilities. Indeed, the COVID guidelines practically serve to give nursing home blanket immunity from what might otherwise warrant charges of manslaughter.
As Rosemary Frei revealed in her well-referenced Off-Guardian article, long-term care residents are rarely transferred to a hospital setting and corpses are cremated within 24 hours without a post-mortem investigation. In addition, because of lockdown, residents were not permitted family visitors who could oversee their care. Seems like a good way to cover up the evidence.
95% of COVID deaths in Canada have taken place in Ontario and Quebec. 76% of which have happened in long-term care homes such as those described above (complete with rotting food, forced feedings and residents crying out for help for over two hours).
How does this not make COVID look like a cover story for euthanizing the elderly?
How do we dare allow this type of abuse of the disabled and cite it as evidence that COVID-19 is “unquestionably” worse than the flu? It is beyond me why anyone in Canada still took COVID statistics seriously after the military’s report.
“I am a Canadian… Free to Oppose What I Believe Wrong”
While the CBC boldly proclaims: “COVID-19 is worse than a bad flu season, despite online claims to the contrary” it has yet to provide sufficient evidence to support this claim, while seemingly unable to practice investigative journalism by asking tough (yet obvious) questions like:
If COVID-19 is so deadly why must we inflate the death toll by including “probable” cases? Why are we including deaths “whether or not COVID-19 was determined to be a contributing or underlying cause?” Why are we counting clear and criminal neglect and abuse of seniors as deaths caused by COVID? Why are we counting as a COVID death where severe (or any) pneumonia was not reported? Are COVID numbers being inflated to protect the government’s reputation after they’ve scared, harmed and violated the freedom of 37 million Canadians? Was there a financial incentive to euthanize (under the guise of an incurable infection) the elderly? Possibly to reduce government costs while eliminating a segment of the population that produces no tax revenue? Have non-COVID deaths been attributed to COVID so as to justify more surveillance and lockdowns; while selling the public on an expensive, insufficiently tested and unnecessary coronavirus vaccine?
I’m sorry, Dr. McGeer, those of us who refuse to be told what to think or question, do not find COVID “unquestionably much worse than a bad flu season.”
Instead, I find it questionable that our freedom, livelihood and well-being has been violated under the justification of such questionable data.
At this time, when Canadians seem so willing to surrender their freedom to frightening and belittling COVID propaganda, I think we should remember the words of John Diefenbaker, our 13th prime minister:
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
John C. A. Manley has spent over a decade ghostwriting for medical doctors, as well as naturopaths, chiropractors and Ayurvedic physicians. He publishes the COVID-19(84) Red Pill Daily Briefs – at emaild-based newsletter dedicated to preventing the governments of the world from using an exaggerated pandemic as an excuse to violate our freedom, health, privacy, livelihood and humanity. He is also writing a novella, COVID-27: A Dystopian Love Story. Visit his website at: MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca


offguardian--2020-07-02--“No one has died from the coronavirus”

“No one has died from the coronavirus”

A high-profile European pathologist is reporting that he and his colleagues across Europe have not found any evidence of any deaths from the novel coronavirus on that continent .
Dr. Stoian Alexov called the World Health Organization ( WHO ) a “ criminal medical organization ” for creating worldwide fear and chaos without providing objectively verifiable proof of a pandemic .
Another stunning revelation from Bulgarian Pathology Association ( BPA ) president Dr. Alexov is that he believes it ’ s currently “ impossible ” to create a vaccine against the virus .
He also revealed that European pathologists haven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ specific for SARS-CoV-2 .
These stunning statements raise major questions , including about officials ’ and scientists ’ claims regarding the many vaccines they ’ re rushing into clinical trials around the world .
They also raise doubt about the veracity of claims of discovery of anti-novel-coronavirus antibodies ( which are beginning to be used to treat patients ) .
Novel-coronavirus-specific antibodies are supposedly the basis for the expensive serology test kits being used in many countries ( some of which have been found to be unacceptably inaccurate ) .
And they ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coveted by Bill Gates that are about to go into widespread use — in the form of the COVI-PASS — in 15 countries including the UK , US , and Canada .
Dr. Alexov made his jaw-dropping observations in a video interview summarizing the consensus of participants in a May 8 , 2020 , European Society of Pathology ( ESP ) webinar on COVID-19 .
The May 13 video interview of Dr. Alexov was conducted by Dr. Stoycho Katsarov , chair of the Center for Protection of Citizens ’ Rights in Sofia and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The video is on the BPA ’ s website , which also highlights some of Dr. Alexov ’ s main points .
We asked a native Bulgarian speaker with a science background to orally translate the video interview into English .
We then transcribed her translation .
The video is here and our English transcript is here .
Among the major bombshells Dr. Alexov dropped is that the leaders of the May 8 ESP webinar said no novel-coronavirus-specific antibodies have been found .
The body forms antibodies specific to pathogens it encounters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ monoclonal antibodies and are a key tool in pathology .
This is done via immunohistochemistry , which involves tagging antibodies with colours and then coating the biopsy- or autopsy-tissue slides with them .
After giving the antibodies time to bind to the pathogens they ’ re specific for , the pathologists can look at the slides under a microscope and see the specific places where the coloured antibodies — and therefore the pathogens they ’ re bound to – are located .
Therefore , in the absence of monoclonal antibodies to the novel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SARS-CoV-2 is present in the body , or whether the diseases and deaths attributed to it indeed were caused by the virus rather than by something else .
It would be easy to dismiss Dr. Alexov as just another crank ‘ conspiracy theorist.
’ After all many people believe they ’ re everywhere these days , spreading dangerous misinformation about COVID-19 and other issues .
In addition , little of what Dr. Alexov alleges was the consensus from the May 8 webinar is in the publicly viewable parts of the proceedings .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alone because the vast majority of people are afraid to speak out publicly .
Also , Dr. Alexov has an unimpugnable record and reputation .
He ’ s been a physician for 30 years .
He ’ s president of the BPA , a member of the ESP ’ s Advisory Board and head of the histopathology department at the Oncology Hospital in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia .
On top of that , there ’ s other support for what Dr. Alexov is saying .
For example , the director of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany said in media interviews that there ’ s a striking dearth of solid evidence for COVID-19 ’ s lethality .
“ COVID-19 is a fatal disease only in exceptional cases , but in most cases it is a predominantly harmless viral infection , ” Dr. Klaus Püschel told a German paper in April .
Adding in another interview : Also , one of us ( Rosemary ) and another journalist , Amory Devereux , documented in a June 9 Off-Guardian article that the novel coronavirus has not fulfilled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are scientific steps used to prove whether a virus exists and has a one-to-one relationship with a specific disease .
We showed that to date no one has proven SARS-CoV-2 causes a discrete illness matching the characteristics of all the people who ostensibly died from COVID-19 .
Nor has the virus has been isolated , reproduced and then shown to cause this discrete illness .
In addition , in a June 27 Off-Guardian article two more journalists , Torsten Engelbrecht and Konstantin Demeter , added to the evidence that “ the existence of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not fact.
” The pair also confirmed “ there is no scientific proof that those RNA sequences [ deemed to match that of the novel coronavirus ] are the causative agent of what is called COVID-19.
” Dr. Alexov stated in the May 13 interview that : Dr. Alexov also observed there is no proof from autopsies that anyone deemed to have been infected with the novel coronavirus died only from an inflammatory reaction sparked by the virus ( presenting as interstitial pneumonia ) rather than from other potentially fatal diseases .
Another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pointed to above , the inability to identify monoclonal antibodies for the virus suggests there is no basis for the vaccines , serological testing and immunity certificates being rolled out around the globe at unprecedented speed and cost .
In fact , there is no solid evidence the virus exists .
Dr. Alexov made still more important points .
For example , he noted that , in contrast to the seasonal influenza , SARS-CoV-2 hasn ’ t been proven to kill youth : Among the myriad ways the WHO is creating that chaos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people deemed to have died from COVID-19 .
As a result , reported Dr. Alexov , by May 13 only three such autopsies had been conducted in Bulgaria .
Also , the WHO is dictating that everyone said to be infected with the novel coronavirus who subsequently dies must have their deaths attributed to COVID-19 .
“ That ’ s quite stressful for us , and for me in particular , because we have protocols and procedures which we need to use , ” he told Dr. Katsarov .
“ …And another pathologist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say , ‘ Hey , those pathologists didn ’ t know what they were doing [ when they said the cause of death was COVID-19 ] !
’ So we need to be really strict with our diagnoses , because they could be proven [ or disproven ] , and they could be checked again later.
” He disclosed that pathologists in several countries in Europe , as well as in China , Australia and Canada are strongly resisting the pressure on them to attribute deaths to COVID-19 alone : Drs .
Alexov @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the WHO-caused chaos and its fatal consequences is many people are likely to die soon from diseases such as cancer because the lockdowns , combined with the emptying of hospitals ( ostensibly to make room for COVID-19 patients ) , halted all but the most pressing procedures and treatments .
They also observed these diseases are being exacerbated by the fear and chaos surrounding COVID-19 .
In addition , posited Dr. Alexov , as another direct and dire result of the pandemic panic many people are losing faith in physicians .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asking why he believes it ’ s impossible to create a vaccine against COVID-19 .
He didn ’ t answer the questions directly .
Dr. Alexov instead responded : We also emailed five of Dr. Alexov ’ s colleagues in the European Pathology Society asking them to confirm Dr. Alexov ’ s revelations .
We followed up by telephone with two of them .
None responded .
Why didn ’ t Dr. Alexov or his five colleagues answer our questions ?
We doubt it ’ s due to lack of English proficiency .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pressure on pathologists to follow the WHO ’ s directives and not speak out publicly .
( And , on top of that , pathology departments depend on governments for their funding . )
Nonetheless , pathologists like Drs .
Alexov and Püschel appear to be willing to step out and say that no one has died from a novel-coronavirus infection .
Perhaps that ’ s because pathologists ’ records and reputations are based on hard physical evidence rather than on subjective interpretation of tests , signs and symptoms .
And there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is deadly .
Rosemary Frei has an MSc in molecular biology from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary , was a freelance medical writer and journalist for 22 years and now is an independent investigative journalist .
You can watch her June 15 interview on The Corbett Report , read her other Off-Guardian articles and follow her on Twitter .
Patrick Corbett is a retired writer , producer , director and editor who ’ s worked for every major network in Canada and the US except for Fox .
His @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s W-5 and the CTV documentary unit where he wrote and directed ‘ Children ’ s Hospital ’ , the first Canadian production to be nominated for an International Emmy .
You can follow Patrick on Twitter .

Rosemary Frei and Patrick Corbett
A high-profile European pathologist is reporting that he and his colleagues across Europe have not found any evidence of any deaths from the novel coronavirus on that continent.
Dr. Stoian Alexov called the World Health Organization (WHO) a “criminal medical organization” for creating worldwide fear and chaos without providing objectively verifiable proof of a pandemic.
Another stunning revelation from Bulgarian Pathology Association (BPA) president Dr. Alexov is that he believes it’s currently “impossible” to create a vaccine against the virus.
He also revealed that European pathologists haven’t identified any antibodies that are specific for SARS-CoV-2.
These stunning statements raise major questions, including about officials’ and scientists’ claims regarding the many vaccines they’re rushing into clinical trials around the world.
They also raise doubt about the veracity of claims of discovery of anti-novel-coronavirus antibodies (which are beginning to be used to treat patients).
Novel-coronavirus-specific antibodies are supposedly the basis for the expensive serology test kits being used in many countries (some of which have been found to be unacceptably inaccurate).
And they’re purportedly key to the immunity certificates coveted by Bill Gates that are about to go into widespread use — in the form of the COVI-PASS — in 15 countries including the UK, US, and Canada.
Dr. Alexov made his jaw-dropping observations in a video interview summarizing the consensus of participants in a May 8, 2020, European Society of Pathology (ESP) webinar on COVID-19.
The May 13 video interview of Dr. Alexov was conducted by Dr. Stoycho Katsarov, chair of the Center for Protection of Citizens’ Rights in Sofia and a former Bulgarian deputy minister of health. The video is on the BPA’s website, which also highlights some of Dr. Alexov’s main points.
We asked a native Bulgarian speaker with a science background to orally translate the video interview into English. We then transcribed her translation. The video is here and our English transcript is here.
Among the major bombshells Dr. Alexov dropped is that the leaders of the May 8 ESP webinar said no novel-coronavirus-specific antibodies have been found.
The body forms antibodies specific to pathogens it encounters. These specific antibodies are known as monoclonal antibodies and are a key tool in pathology. This is done via immunohistochemistry, which involves tagging antibodies with colours and then coating the biopsy- or autopsy-tissue slides with them. After giving the antibodies time to bind to the pathogens they’re specific for, the pathologists can look at the slides under a microscope and see the specific places where the coloured antibodies — and therefore the pathogens they’re bound to – are located.
Therefore, in the absence of monoclonal antibodies to the novel coronavirus, pathologists cannot verify whether SARS-CoV-2 is present in the body, or whether the diseases and deaths attributed to it indeed were caused by the virus rather than by something else.
It would be easy to dismiss Dr. Alexov as just another crank ‘conspiracy theorist.’ After all many people believe they’re everywhere these days, spreading dangerous misinformation about COVID-19 and other issues.
In addition, little of what Dr. Alexov alleges was the consensus from the May 8 webinar is in the publicly viewable parts of the proceedings.
But keep in mind that whistleblowers often stand alone because the vast majority of people are afraid to speak out publicly.
Also, Dr. Alexov has an unimpugnable record and reputation. He’s been a physician for 30 years. He’s president of the BPA, a member of the ESP’s Advisory Board and head of the histopathology department at the Oncology Hospital in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
On top of that, there’s other support for what Dr. Alexov is saying.
For example, the director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany said in media interviews that there’s a striking dearth of solid evidence for COVID-19’s lethality.
“COVID-19 is a fatal disease only in exceptional cases, but in most cases it is a predominantly harmless viral infection,” Dr. Klaus Püschel told a German paper in April. Adding in another interview:
In quite a few cases, we have also found that the current corona infection has nothing whatsoever to do with the fatal outcome because other causes of death are present, for example, a brain hemorrhage or a heart attack […] [COVID-19 is] not particularly dangerous viral disease […] All speculation about individual deaths that have not been expertly examined only fuel anxiety.”
Also, one of us (Rosemary) and another journalist, Amory Devereux, documented in a June 9 Off-Guardian article that the novel coronavirus has not fulfilled Koch’s postulates.
These postulates are scientific steps used to prove whether a virus exists and has a one-to-one relationship with a specific disease. We showed that to date no one has proven SARS-CoV-2 causes a discrete illness matching the characteristics of all the people who ostensibly died from COVID-19. Nor has the virus has been isolated, reproduced and then shown to cause this discrete illness.
In addition, in a June 27 Off-Guardian article two more journalists, Torsten Engelbrecht and Konstantin Demeter, added to the evidence that “the existence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA is based on faith, not fact.”
The pair also confirmed “there is no scientific proof that those RNA sequences [deemed to match that of the novel coronavirus] are the causative agent of what is called COVID-19.”
Dr. Alexov stated in the May 13 interview that:
the main conclusion [of those of us who participated in the May 8 webinar] was that the autopsies that were conducted in Germany, Italy, Spain, France and Sweden do not show that the virus is deadly.”
He added that:
What all of the pathologists said is that there’s no one who has died from the coronavirus. I will repeat that: no one has died from the coronavirus.”
Dr. Alexov also observed there is no proof from autopsies that anyone deemed to have been infected with the novel coronavirus died only from an inflammatory reaction sparked by the virus (presenting as interstitial pneumonia) rather than from other potentially fatal diseases.
Another revelation of his is that:
“We need to see exactly how the law will deal with immunization and that vaccine that we’re all talking about, because I’m certain it’s [currently] not possible to create a vaccine against COVID. I’m not sure what exactly Bill Gates is doing with his laboratories – is it really a vaccine he’s producing, or something else?”
As pointed to above, the inability to identify monoclonal antibodies for the virus suggests there is no basis for the vaccines, serological testing and immunity certificates being rolled out around the globe at unprecedented speed and cost. In fact, there is no solid evidence the virus exists.
Dr. Alexov made still more important points. For example, he noted that, in contrast to the seasonal influenza, SARS-CoV-2 hasn’t been proven to kill youth:
[With the flu] we can find one virus which can cause a young person to die with no other illness present […] In other words, the coronavirus infection is an infection that does not lead to death. And the flu can lead to death.”
(There have been reports of severe maladies such as Kawasaki-like disease and stroke in young people who were deemed to have a novel-coronavirus infection. However, the majority of published papers on these cases are very short and include only one or only a small handful of patients. Moreover, commenters on the papers note it’s impossible to determine the role of the virus because the papers’ authors did not control sufficiently, if at all, for confounding factors. It’s most likely that children’s deaths attributed to COVID-19 in fact are from multiple organ failure resulting from the combination of the drug cocktail and ventilation that these children are subjected to.)
Dr. Alexov therefore asserted that:
the WHO is creating worldwide chaos, with no real facts behind what they’re saying.”
Among the myriad ways the WHO is creating that chaos is by prohibiting almost all autopsies of people deemed to have died from COVID-19. As a result, reported Dr. Alexov, by May 13 only three such autopsies had been conducted in Bulgaria.
Also, the WHO is dictating that everyone said to be infected with the novel coronavirus who subsequently dies must have their deaths attributed to COVID-19.
“That’s quite stressful for us, and for me in particular, because we have protocols and procedures which we need to use,” he told Dr. Katsarov. “…And another pathologist 100 years from now is going to say, ‘Hey, those pathologists didn’t know what they were doing [when they said the cause of death was COVID-19]!’ So we need to be really strict with our diagnoses, because they could be proven [or disproven], and they could be checked again later.”
He disclosed that pathologists in several countries in Europe, as well as in China, Australia and Canada are strongly resisting the pressure on them to attribute deaths to COVID-19 alone:
I’m really sad that we need to follow the [WHO’s] instructions without even thinking about them. But in Germany, France, Italy and England they’re starting to think that we shouldn’t follow the WHO so strictly, and [instead] when we’re writing the cause of death we should have some pathology [results to back that up] and we should follow the protocol. [That’s because] when we say something we need to be able to prove it.”
(He added that autopsies could have helped confirm or disprove the theory that many of the people deemed to have died of COVID-19 in Italy had previously received the H1N1 flu vaccine. Because, as he noted, the vaccine suppresses adults’ immune systems and therefore may have been a significant contributor to their deaths by making them much more susceptible to infection.)
Drs. Alexov and Katsarov agreed that yet another aspect of the WHO-caused chaos and its fatal consequences is many people are likely to die soon from diseases such as cancer because the lockdowns, combined with the emptying of hospitals (ostensibly to make room for COVID-19 patients), halted all but the most pressing procedures and treatments.
They also observed these diseases are being exacerbated by the fear and chaos surrounding COVID-19.
We know that stress significantly suppresses the immune system, so I can really claim 200% that all the chronic diseases will be more severe and more acute per se. Specifically in situ carcinoma – over 50% of these are going to become more invasive […] So I will say that this epidemic isn’t so much an epidemic of the virus, it’s an epidemic of giving people a lot of fear and stress.”
In addition, posited Dr. Alexov, as another direct and dire result of the pandemic panic many people are losing faith in physicians.
Because in my opinion the coronavirus isn’t that dangerous, and how are people going to have trust in me doing cancer pathology, much of which is related to viruses as well? But nobody is talking about that.”
We emailed Dr. Alexov several questions, including asking why he believes it’s impossible to create a vaccine against COVID-19.
He didn’t answer the questions directly. Dr. Alexov instead responded:
We also emailed five of Dr. Alexov’s colleagues in the ESP asking them to confirm Dr. Alexov’s revelations. We followed up by telephone with two of them. None responded.
Why didn’t Dr. Alexov or his five colleagues answer our questions?
We doubt it’s due to lack of English proficiency.
It’s more likely because of the pressure on pathologists to follow the WHO’s directives and not speak out publicly. (And, on top of that, pathology departments depend on governments for their funding.)
Nonetheless, pathologists like Drs. Alexov and Püschel appear to be willing to step out and say that no one has died from a novel-coronavirus infection.
Perhaps that’s because pathologists’ records and reputations are based on hard physical evidence rather than on subjective interpretation of tests, signs and symptoms. And there is no hard physical evidence that COVID-19 is deadly.
Rosemary Frei has an MSc in molecular biology from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary, was a freelance medical writer and journalist for 22 years and now is an independent investigative journalist. You can watch her June 15 interview on The Corbett Report, read her other Off-Guardian articles and follow her on Twitter.
Patrick Corbett is a retired writer, producer, director and editor who’s worked for every major network in Canada and the US except for Fox. His journalistic credits include Dateline NBC, CTV’s W-5 and the CTV documentary unit where he wrote and directed ‘Children’s Hospital’, the first Canadian production to be nominated for an International Emmy. You can follow Patrick on Twitter.