Great News! COVID-19 Added No New Deaths in 2020

COVID-19 has had no effect on death in the United States. That’s right – not only has COVID-19 not added to overall mortality, but it also has not added to mortality among older populations.

How is this possible? After all, politicians and the media have been pounding the drum of COVID-19 for eight months, scaring Americans silly with near-constant panic porn, mask shaming, and blaming Donald Trump for every death attributed to the virus.

Thank God for the internet. The John Hopkins University News-Letter published an article outlining research conducted by Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Hopkins on November 22nd. The article was promptly pulled down (presumably censored for going against the prevailing political winds) but was retrieved using Wayback Machine. Notably, the News-Letter said they pulled the article “because it was being used to support false and dangerous inaccuracies about the impact of the pandemic.” They didn’t deny its truthfulness, only that it was endangering the government’s ability to keep the public scared and in line.

The article outlines the relatively simple process of looking at mortality in different age groups before and after the COVID-19 pandemic (and compared to previous years), expecting to see excess mortality in all groups – especially older people who are much more likely to be counted as COVID-19 deaths. The data demonstrates that not only has COVID-19 not increased mortality in older age groups, but it also has not increased mortality at all. The reason COVID-19 affects older people much more than younger people is because everything affects older people more than younger people. The more this simple truth becomes apparent, the more obvious it becomes that COVID-19 is a paper tiger. In fact, COVID-19 deaths among age groups almost perfectly mirror all medical deaths in various age groups, which may very well be explained by the fact that we classify anyone dying with the virus as dying because of the virus.

From the article:

Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same. 

“The reason we have a higher number of reported COVID-19 deaths among older individuals than younger individuals is simply because every day in the U.S. older individuals die in higher numbers than younger individuals,” Briand said.

Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19, indicating that this number of deaths was normal long before COVID-19 emerged. Therefore, according to Briand, not only has COVID-19 had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people, but it has also not increased the total number of deaths. 

These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.

This comes as a shock to many people. How is it that the data lie so far from our perception? 

To answer that question, Briand shifted her focus to the deaths per causes ranging from 2014 to 2020. There is a sudden increase in deaths in 2020 due to COVID-19. This is no surprise because COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in early 2020, and thus COVID-19-related deaths increased drastically afterward.

Analysis of deaths per cause in 2018 revealed that the pattern of seasonal increase in the total number of deaths is a result of the rise in deaths by all causes, with the top three being heart disease, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia.

“This is true every year. Every year in the U.S. when we observe the seasonal ups and downs, we have an increase of deaths due to all causes,” Briand pointed out.

Briand also noticed that during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, deaths from causes like heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia dropped by ALMOST EXACTLY the same number as the increases in deaths attributed to COVID-19. This suggests that a categorization change is responsible for the so-called deadly pandemic – that is, coronavirus-attributed deaths were primarily people that were dying of something else, or did die from something else before COVID-19 was given the credit.

The American Institute for Economic Research, in an article discussing the now-removed John Hopkins piece and confirming its conclusions, noted:

Lockdowns have resulted in severe damage to our capacity to improve the general health of society. From the catastrophic economic damage that lowers the standard of living for everyone to surgeries being deemed “unessential,” our current policies are not helping in preventing deaths in general; they are likely leading to more. Suicides and substance abuse are up, mental and physical health are down, all due to lockdowns. 

The late Dr. Donald Henderson, who led the eradication of smallpox, noted in 2006 that 

“Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.”

The hysteria over Covid-19 has likely led to the alleged accounting error noted in Briand’s study, the reclassification of expected deaths from all causes into Covid deaths. That accounting error has likely led to a number of policy decisions that have drastically crippled our ability to support the general welfare of society, economically, socially, and spiritually. Going forward these findings should give us pause and reconsideration over the threat Covid-19 actually poses and realize how much avoidable damage we have done to ourselves as a result.

Perhaps this is why government and media officials are so desperate to continue the illusion that COVID-19 is roaring back to life – they are complicit in destroying the economy and the livelihoods of millions of Americans and they need you to blame the virus, not them.

Although it should go without saying, every life is precious and every death is tragic. Yet millions of Americans die every year and there’s nothing we can do about it. Despite the massive lie continuing to be perpetrated, and the sociological destruction still evident in Americans who refuse to let go of the “coronavirus could kill me” myth, we are thankful that the virus did not actually cause additional death in the United States. How long it will take for Americans to figure this out will depend on our ability to get around heavy government-media-academia censorship.