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Hot Beer's avatar

Thanks Andrew.

Regarding your mention of utilising funeral data, I still manage the website for our local funeral operator. They are the only operator for a large swath of northern rural NSW so their data should be fairly accurate. I have had to extract ages from the funeral descriptions so I can output a Month/Year array by age since mid 2017. Following are the yearly totals;

2018 : 234

2019 : 279

2020 : 261

2021 : 260

2022 : 308

2023 : 316

2024 : 184 (to end of June)

So this year is shaping up to be even worse. When I sort by age bands, the signal is not so clear, the increase seem to be across all ages.

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Andrew Madry's avatar

Hi Hot Beer, that's useful data. I imagine rural northern NSW is an area not so highly vaccinated, apart from the oldest population and those in nursing homes. Data by age would be interesting. It seems in your data 2021 is not an outlier. 2019 was a bad flu season especially up north eg Qld. 2022 definitely see the effect of covid and/or other things.

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Hot Beer's avatar

I won't say which towns they cover but we are more inland than where you are probably thinking. I am not sure of the full vaccination coverage but I remember that the council had large LED display signs up by the road entering town which were displaying the current rate and it was over 90%. This maybe different to the full coverage rate as younger age categories were included.

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David White (Oz Dave)'s avatar

Great write-up, thank you. And yet Germany is stepping up its mRNA vaccine program: https://open.substack.com/pub/pandauncut/p/germany-creating-capacity-to-produce?r=20pd6j&utm_medium=ios

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David White (Oz Dave)'s avatar

🇦🇺⚰️ Journalist Ray Martin on the concept of ‘peak death’

A new normal?

Trailer: 3 and a half minutes - https://youtu.be/5dzfNzln8EM?si=pIe635yaUdMFvH5r

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Andrew Madry's avatar

OMG. I can't believe they feel the need to make a show like this. Thanks for pointing it out Dave. I might lead my next article with it.

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David White (Oz Dave)'s avatar

Thanks Andrew. It’s all becoming quite pathetic now. This new show, which I found on the Facebook page of Napier Park Funerals (Bendigo), complements Dr Nick Coatsworth’s ‘Do You Want to Live Forever’ series I think. I’ll be tuning in.

I was looking at a recent clip with Ed Dowd on Andrew Bridgen’s Facebook page, where Dowd states: “UK children 1 through 14 appear to be dying at an excess death rate of 22%.” Absolutely chilling.

I look forward to reading your next article.

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JB's avatar

Great write-up Andrew, looks like the anaesthetics may have taken an edge off more than just the pain through your operation!

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Clare Pain's avatar

Great, easy-to-read, compilation. How nice it is to laugh about all this nonsense at times – and you made me laugh out loud with your suggestion we might do better getting health advice from an economist. I hadn’t heard the story about Lena’s vitamin C post. As you say, a clear sign that something was very wrong.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

Oh my goodness “no evidence AZ causes bloodclots” that’s outrageous these people just make it up don’t they.

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Andrew Madry's avatar

History won’t treat them well.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I’m getting my friend to make a video out of that clip, I’ll drop it here when he’s done!

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