Government data exposes pandemic lies by Anonymous UBC Scientist
COVID-19: One Year of the Pandemic in BC
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n March 11, 2021, the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) published a PDF of a Powerpoint presentation titled “COVID-19: One Year of the Pandemic in BC”.* This government document reveals that COVID-19 (the disease) had very little impact on the well-being of British Columbians overall, yet the official reaction (lockdowns, business closures, social isolation) may have caused significant harm and death. This article uses the BC CDC’s own reporting to expose the lack of justification for restrictive public health orders. * Their document is available at https://bit. ly/35EV6Rk, or found on the BC CDC website by searching for the title. It is the source of data and images used here. If the document gets moved, it should still be on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
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Pandemics not a threat The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of a pandemic once referred to simultaneous epidemics worldwide “with enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses”. However, in 2009, just before the H1N1 Swine Flu was deemed a pandemic, this definition was changed to ignore amount of illness and death. From the Swine Flu in 2009 to today, the official meaning of “pandemic” has only referred to something widespread, whether it harms anyone or not. In other words, officially, a pandemic may pose no threat to public health at all. This updated definition allowed the WHO to declare COVID-19 a pandemic, with no evidence of threat. COVID-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. That virus is a new strain of the SARS-CoV-1 virus (also first identified in China), which killed only a few hundred people worldwide. Page 12 of the BC CDC report (figure 1) compares All-Cause Mortality Rates in BC for 2009-2020.
Pandemics were declared in 2009 (Swine Flu) and 2020 (COVID-19), yet those years showed less overall death than in 2017, a non-pandemic year. This illustrates how the word “pandemic” no longer designates a exceptional public health threat. You may have heard (figure 3) media reports discussing the number of “cases” of COVID-19. A “case” merely means a positive test for the virus, not risk of disease. Thus, according to official definitions, it is entirely possible to have a pandemic with millions of cases yet little or no disease. The BC CDC briefing referenced here is consistent with those definitions. Page 10 of the report breaks down cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths by age. Note the brown bars which indicate the general population distribution by age, as reference. People under age 30 had the most cases yet the least disease (hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths). Conversely, people age 70 and over had the least cases yet the most disease. This demonstrates that, ironically, testing positive for COVID-19 was associated with less disease. Nonetheless, both mainstream media and public health officials consistently reported number of cases as an indicator of threat to our health. This emphasis was not just inaccurate, but deceptive. The graph below (figure 2) also reveals that risk from COVID-19 was negligible for people under age 30, and virtually non-existent for youth and children. The strong relationship between age and risk is especially important when considering the data below.
COVID-19 had minimal impact Page 13 (figure 3) of the report compares the impact
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of COVID-19 with other causes of loss of life. The center graph shows that cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes accounted for more than half of deaths in BC for 2020. Those diseases have lifestyle and environmental precursors, meaning that public health measures could lessen their impact. In contrast, death attributed to COVID-19 accounted for about 3% of deaths, less than seven other causes. Most of these causes of death predominantly affect the elderly. This was true for COVID-19, for which median age of death was 86, older than the average BC life expectancy of 84. A more appropriate analysis of disease impact is displayed in the rightmost graph, ranking causes by potential years of life lost (YLL). This considers age of death because (for example) death from suicide or overdose steals away decades more life than does death from Alzheimer’s. Life lost from COVID-19 ranks 11th, below cancer, overdoses, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, lower respiratory disease, liver disease, suicide, accidents, and even seasonal flu. Any measures taken to lessen the impact of COVID-19 would similarly affect seasonal flu. Regardless of how effective those measures were, they don’t change the reality that the impact of the “pandemic” was no more than a typical flu season. Unfortunately, those exceptional continued p.23…
