The Role of Iatrogenesis in Generating the 'Pandemic'

How do you deal with a pandemic of aging boomers?

In 2021, those born during the “baby boom” of 1946-1964 would have been between the ages of 57-75. This resulted in a demographically driven increase in the death rate that coincided with claims that a “novel virus” was culling the elderly and hollowing out nursing homes (Graph 1).

Graph 1: Column totals are based on change in deaths from 2010 to 2021. Excess deaths are calculated by multiplying the change in death rate (2010-2021) by the total population of the age group in 2021. Deaths attributed to change in demographics are calculated by subtracting excess deaths from the total change. Raw values are compiled on the following sources: Our Changing Population: US. USA Facts. https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-and-demographics/our-changing-population/?endDate=2021-01-01&startDate=2010-01-01. Annual death rate by age group, United States. Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-death-rate-by-age-group?time=2006. Annual deaths by age group, United States. Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-deaths-by-age?time=2010&country=~USA. COVID Deaths by Year. The Global Statistics. https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/covid-deaths-by-year/

Death rates in these age groups increased significantly in 2020 and 2021, but from a dispassionate point of view more of them would “need to die” to delay the projected critical mass of retirees that would precipitate the insolvency of social security.

Graph 2: Video still from AnimateData.

Alternative media sources associated with the “medical freedom movement” blame excess deaths on COVID-related treatments and countermeasures like Remdesivir, ventilators, and (after 2020) vaccine injury. What they overlook is the overuse of high-flow oxygen (which may have increased the likelihood of intubation) and bacterial pneumonia due to the withholding of antibiotics. I do not have statistics on hyperoxia in COVID patients, but CDC estimates of pneumonia deaths are easily accessible.

Every year, roughly 50,000 American die of “influenza”, but nearly all of these deaths are the result of secondary pneumonia. If you examine the CDC data from 2018 to 2024; Less than 1.5% of total deaths are attributed to influenza alone during each peak of the flu season (Graph 3). Note how flu deaths nearly “disappeared” during the winters of 2020-2021 and 2021-2022.

When you include pneumonia deaths concurring with the flu season (Graph 4), the proportion of deaths jumps to 8-9% prior to COVID (winters of 2018-2019), a whopping 16-18% during the alleged pandemic (winters of 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022), then returns to “pre-pandemic” levels of 8-9% after most of the countermeasures were lifted (winters of 2022-2023 and 2023-2024).

When you include COVID-19 deaths concurring with the flu season, the proportion of deaths jumps to a whopping 26-28% during the winters of 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022 (Graph 5).

Graph 3: Adapted from the “Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance” from the National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

Graph 4: Adapted from the “Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance” from the National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System. The orange peaks represent the total deaths attributed to influenza and the pneumonia associated with influenza. The linear peaks represent pneumonia deaths not associated with influenza. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

Graph 5: Adapted from the “Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance” from the National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System. The blue peaks represent total deaths attributed to COVID-19, pneumonia, and influenza. The small orange peaks represent deaths solely attributed to influenza. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

What happened? How did we lose control of pneumonia during the winters of during the winters of 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022?

If we superimpose Graphs 3 and 4 (Graph 6), COVID-associated pneumonia deaths (inner line) make up roughly two thirds of the total of COVID and COVID-associated pneumonia deaths (outer line). This indicates that pneumonia played a major role in deaths attributed to COVID-19 during these years.

Graph 6: Adapted from the “Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Surveillance” from the National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Surveillance System. The blue peaks represent total deaths attributed to COVID-19, pneumonia, and influenza. The light orange peaks represent the total deaths attributed to influenza and the pneumonia associated with influenza. The dark orange peaks represent the total deaths attributed solely to influenza. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

The surge in pneumonia deaths during the alleged pandemic concurs with a study from Northwestern University indicating that:

“Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. …It may even exceed death rates from the viral infection itself… The scientists also found evidence that COVID-19 does not cause a “cytokine storm,” so often believed to cause death. …The importance of bacterial superinfection of the lung as a contributor to death in patients with COVID-19 has been underappreciated because most centers have not looked for it…”

The “cytokine storm” is a hyperinflamatory condition that is symptomatically identical to septic shock. Septic shock is a major killer of patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Graphs 3 and 4 show how deaths from influenza-associated pneumonia always far exceeded deaths attributed the virus alone. In sharp contrast, during the “pandemic” these ratios became inverted, with deaths attributed to SARS-CoV-2 in Graph 6 adding even more deaths to the tall peaks observed in Graph 4. This inverted ratio begs the question: How many deaths attributed solely to COVID-19 were de facto instances of septic shock from untreated pneumonia…as the result of physicians who had “not looked for it”? How much of this could have been prevented with antibiotics?

The more charitable interpretation of Graph 6 is that the demographically driven surplus of boomers dying of natural causes made it harder for health professionals to discern damage from the protocols from damage attributed to an alleged “novel virus”. But even in the absence of malice, the timing of these novel protocols was remarkably convenient for policymakers pushing the narrative of an “untreatable” novel virus and bean counters concerned with the national debt. This compels us to consider the less charitable interpretation whereby powers-that-be exploited the anticipated surplus of boomers dying of natural causes to provide cover for hospital protocols designed to quietly kill off more of them.

The protocols that worsened patient outcomes could only be used for a limited amount of time before health workers would start to push back. This might explain why the acting CDC director Rochelle Wallensky begged so frantically for Americans to roll up their sleaves back in the spring of 2021: The inevitable roll-back of the protocols would improve patient outcomes. If this were to occur before mass transfection, then it would no longer be possible to credit these “vaccines” with the anticipated decline in “COVID” deaths. If this was the plan, at what level were CDC officials fully briefed? What is the litmus test for rank advancement in public health?

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The claim that malice played no role in these harmful protocols strains credulity, especially in context of the despotic and inhumane countermeasures like the closing of beaches, shuttering of small businesses, and masking of toddlers. Either way, America is slouching towards a dictatorship of the health care worker and this enslavement process will be reversed only after a critical mass of useful idiots break free from the algorithms that led them into the trap of rule by podcast*. Health care workers and public health officials who unwittingly participated in this atrocity will be hardest to free from this enchantment, but progress on this front is key to winning because they are the Achilles’ heel of this road to serfdom.

*A term coined Jonathan Couey.

Acknowledgement: I credit Jonathan Couey of Gigaohm Biological for calling attention to the uptick in pneumonia deaths during the countermeasures.