Three days ago Dr. Aleksandr Myasnikov, cardiologist and chief doctor of Moscow hospital, was appointed as the official representative of Russia's coronavirus information center. His new job is to inform Russian citizens of the official data and recommendations on a daily basis.

Dr. Myasnikov's personal opinion on coronavirus is as follows:
  • COVID19 is not much more dangerous than flu and kills only those who would die anyway;
  • he thinks that the churches should have remained open in one form or another for people during Easter, because despite the danger, our soul and faith are still very important;
  • he thinks that this whole situation has been intentionally orchestrated.
Here is his exact quote:

"This panic, which is developing in the media, is inflated by people, it a) makes the authorities of other countries to make mistakes and act incorrectly, because they too succumb: people are panicking, so something has to be done. <...> And the second thing: it is a hundred percent orchestrated. It cannot be this way. All this requires a certain boost. To inflate panic in this way, to press so competently - everything is done with a certain purpose. I don't know what it is. It's either money or politics. <...> Somebody made billions, somebody benefited."

Interesting that Russia has appointed Dr. Myasnikov to address the nation on a daily basis, considering his somewhat revolutionary opinions.

Seems like Putin was indeed playing the long game when he agreed to (cautious, limited) lockdown measures.
 
I think being reminded about these virtues and reflecting on them can be most useful and as we have learned, then the concept of mercy came about thanks to Ceasar.

Asking ourselves WWCD is an extremely valuable reminder - not just to practice mercy and compassion, but to be virtuous in all ways.

One thing I owe this forum a debt of gratitude for is introducing me to the ideas of Francisco Carotta. That was several years ago, but it's only in the last few months that I really dived in, reading Goldsworthy's Caesar, Life of a Colossus, Carotta's Jesus Was Caesar, and now working my way through Caesar's own Commentaries.

To stay on-topic: WWCD in the current situtation?

Well, he would have placed as his first priority the well-being of the common people. Since he would have seen right through the deception, he would have known that the main threat to them was the over-reaction of the elite classes. But since he was also extremely politically sharp, he would have realized that just coming out and saying, "this is all stupid" would have been political suicide, as the elites would have been easily able to mobilize those they'd successfully hypnotized against him. So he would have pretended to think the viral crisis was real; while working to mitigate the worst effects of the lockdown; and positioning himself such that, when the hypnosis wore off as reality reasserted itself, he would be perceived as having done everything in his power to make sure people were fed and housed, while the psychopaths in the elite bore the full brunt of the public blame for the worst economic consequences of the lockdown.

In other words pretty much what Putin and Trump seem to be doing.
 
There seems to be another aspect to the virus that as far as I know was not mentioned so far and is not much present in the media. Some researchers found that it attacks the nervous system, sometimes even before causing any flu-like problems. A few related studies are quoted below. I really don't know how important the finding is, what it may mean, etc., so I just put it here for those more knowledgeable to perhaps have a look at it. I'm wondering if it can explain, even if only in part, the ventilation / respiratory problems that have lead to bringing up the analogy to ‘high-altitude illness’ or 'decompression syndrom' here and here?

Nervous system involvement after infection with COVID-19 and other coronaviruses
[PDF here]


Yan-Czao Li et al.:
The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2 may play a role in the respiratory failure of COVID-19 patients



and a follow up:
Response to Commentary on “The neuroinvasive potential of SARS‐CoV‐2 may play a role in the respiratory failure of COVID‐19 patients”
 
Over the years of the forum there have been some really insightful threads and Laura mentioned at the time that a book based on the posts of the thread might be interesting and worthwhile to put together.

Although the thread hasn't slowed down much, I feel the same about this thread. Much more so actually. I wish I had a book of many of the insightful posts and personal reflections to reread, reflect on and reference easily, etc. Although it is hard to keep up with the thread, I find the sharing/networking from the personal experiences on up to how it relates to the Cassiopaean material and cosmology and philosophical understandings pretty amazing. Oftentimes I print out the most interesting posts to me for the day just so I can reflect on them more deeply and my one wish is that I had many more hours in a day just to follow along more closely.

It may be premature and who knows if things will slow down and having the thread is enough, but maybe a book based on the posts of the thread is an idea - 'The Book of Corona – information and reflections on life, humanity, reality, the corona virus, the Cassiopaean cosmology and philosophical understandings and the future ahead.’

edit added: I forgot to add that for me personally, so much information and perspectives are being taken in that I have a hard time digesting it and keeping it in mind. And also, maybe it would be a 'gift' of sorts to humanity at large.

That sounds like a good idea @Mike, I think you should go for it! At the very least I bet it would be a great learning experience for you and anyone else who chooses to help you with the project.

There seems to be a side effect, a scar at the injection site on the upper arm.

Yes I'm sure there are potentially other side effects as well, I'm not suggesting that a vaccine might be "safe" or "good" in that it has 0 adverse effects and 100% positive effects, rather I was questioning the premise that "all vaccines are dangerous and detrimental". Perhaps there are certain vaccines that may have positive effects that outweigh their risks, even though for most modern vaccines it seems to be the other way around.


I think one of the major things that I need to do to be of service on this forum is to show people what I have learned about vaccinations, their history, and why I now believe that they are entirely unnecessary - and even, ultimately, detrimental to health.

Using the search function I found several threads that mention the name, "Antoine Bechamp", and the best I've seen was a post by hiker in this very thread way back on page #209, post #3122:


Has anyone here ever really researched the theory of pleomorphism? hiker writes a good intro. Louis Pasteur was a contemporary of Bechamp, and his "germ theory" of disease was eventually elevated over Bechamp's assertions that if one simply takes care of oneself, gets the proper nutrition and physical care, then they will never get sick in the first place because their immune system is designed to prevent illness at all times.

In retrospect it's easy to see why Pasteur won out. It's pretty hard to make money off of people who never get sick.

I recently read an excellent book, which I would say is a "must read" (and which I will write a review for one day), that details what happened to Bechamp, Royal Raymond Rife, Dr. Wilhelm Reich, and Gaston Naessens – four men, over a century apart in time, who made the same discoveries using ultra-powerful light microscopes they designed; and based on their very similar findings with those microscopes they developed cures for diseases that, instead of changing the world for the better, made the Medical Industrial Complex go out of their way to destroy THEM:


That book is one of the best red-pills ever written, especially for doctors. The author was Christopher Bird, who wrote “The Secret Life of Plants” in the 70’s.

And as for the ultra-powerful light microscopes that those four people designed that supposedly broke the laws of physics? They exist even now, and are for sale. Here's a link to Grayfield Optical, which makes light microscopes capable of resolutions as great as 8000x (Naessen's, as well as Rife's, scopes were capable of far more than that):


With these microscopes, it is possible to view living organisms in real time at resolutions previously only achieved by electron microscopes. What those four scientists discovered was a whole other world, and what they saw was consistent among them. Basically, what they saw was the interface where thought becomes manifest in reality. Get Naessen's book. Heck, I have an extra copy I'll gladly donate to the farm's library if asked!

The west has been wrong about the cause of disease ever since the days of Antoine Bechamp and Louis Pasteur. This is an excerpt from an excellent two-part article that explains what has happened to the medical field, and why it won’t change until the current medical establishment is exposed for what it is:

“…in a compromised terrain (e.g. human body), today’s bacterium can be tomorrow’s terrain-poisoning yeast, fungus, or mold. Pasteur denied that bacteria could change their form. Only the unchanging, specific germs of the air were the cause of disease, he said. Béchamp, on the other hand, never denying that the air carried germs, maintained that airborne forms were not necessary for disease. Pasteur wished to establish that we must be invaded (and therefore be protected by profitable vaccination). But the true scientist showed that an independently living element, which could morbidly evolve, already exists in all cells of the body, and showed evidence that it is all that is needed for the appearance of symptogenic organisms. The body naturally has within it the factors and potential necessary to produce the symptoms of disease, including microorganisms. It means we also have the innate ability to become, and to stay, healthy.

Whether Pasteur or Béchamp is correct may still be an issue for some people. It does seem unusual, though, that Antoine’s name, and the controversy itself, have been omitted from history, medical and biology books–even encyclopedias. Given the magnitude and number of Béchamp’s discoveries, it is more-than-likely that this omission is more than oversight. The historical assassination of Antoine Béchamp resulted in medical science drawing conclusions from a half-truth. This has meant untold misery for the human race, especially in the West. The resulting concept of diseases as entities that attack us is highly questionable and is a major block to resolving health care issues today.

The odd thing is, Pasteur himself was reported to have admitted on his deathbed that, “Claude Bernard was right–the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything.”


In addition to all of the above, there is yet another book that I highly recommend, by Dr. Suzanne Humphries, called "Dissolving Illusions":


That book as of this post has almost 940 reviews, almost all of them five-stars. Here is a link to Dr. Humphries' website, where she has posted several interesting articles and videos:


There is an entirely different world out there that has hardly been explored, with those who have done so having had their lives and careers ruined for exposing it, but which has consistently shown that much of what passes for supposed knowledge in the medical field these days is outright fraud.

Simply put: if you take good care of yourself, eat right and exercise, and take care of your mental acumen as well,

YOU CAN NOT GET SICK. PERIOD.

Thanks for sharing @Ketone Cop, I've read about Bechamp in different places and the books you mentioned are on my reading list, so perhaps I need to bump them up. I've read Weston Price (Nutrition and Physical Degeneration) and Francis Pottenger (Pottenger's Cats: A Study in Nutrition) and they come to similar conclusions. I am a licensed acupuncturist, so I've studied both biomedicine and Chinese medicine and I think Chinese medicine's naturalistic model of the body may be similar to Bechamp's idea of the "terrain". We look at the body as an ecosystem and we look for holistic symptom patterns and treatment typically aims to mitigate symptoms by correcting the underlying imbalance.

For instance a person with certain types of chronic digestive symptoms might be diagnosed with "Excess Dampness" based on their symptoms, and the treatment strategy would be to "Dry Dampness" or "Drain Dampness". The analogy is to soil used to grow crops: if it is too dry the crops will wilt, if it is too damp the crops will get moldy and rot, etc. The therapies that are used tend to be broad spectrum herbal formulas and acupuncture, which stimulates the body's innate healing response, so in many cases it isn't necessary to know what specific organisms are present for the therapy to be successful.

Having said that, we also make a distinction between "external causes of disease" and "internal causes of disease". So there's room for epidemic diseases that spread from person to person, even though they may manifest differently in different patients (ie it may effect one person's lungs more while attacking another person's sinuses) and in different geographical areas (in a more humid area the symptoms may be different in an arid area).

What I'm driving at is that even if Bechamp was correct and the terrain is more important than the "bugs", it seems that there is still a relationship between them. A good example might be H. Pylori. The research who discovered the relationship between H. Pylori and stomach ulcers supposedly proved his theory by drinking a cultured batch of the bacteria, developing ulcers himself and then curing himself with antibiotics.

Simply put: if you take good care of yourself, eat right and exercise, and take care of your mental acumen as well,
YOU CAN NOT GET SICK. PERIOD.

I want to believe that concept, but my personal and clinical experience doesn't support it. It's not that simple. I think that the idea that the body can be healthy and heal itself given the right nutrition and support is absolutely correct, however I haven't met anyone yet who has found the secret health formula that leads to 100% immunity to disease. I've tried all kinds of different diets, supplements, herbal formulas, etc, as has this forum as a collective and after 4+ years of school and 2+ years in practice, probably 4-5000 treatments to 3-400 patients I can tell you that EVERYONE I've met has something going on. Nutrition and lifestyle are important but it is NOT the only factor when it comes to disease.

My two cents at least.

I'm not familiar with all the details of the vaccination issue, but just on the surface of things there is something deeply wrong with the very concept IMO: you get a shot, there are NO side effects, and you will be cured forever from this illness - you will never get it. In other words: free lunch! And we know that if you believe in free lunch, you gonna BE the lunch.

But maybe it's not so black and white - perhaps the concept of vaccination is just a tool among many, and in some cases, with some illnesses, it can somewhat help. If applied with lots of knowledge about lots of details. If I remember correctly from articles on Sott etc., this seems to be the case, but others who know more about these things might chime in.

Needless to say, all those additives coupled with the INSANE vaccination schedule in many countries, combined shots etc., are just pure horror.

Like I said above in response to hlat's post, I'm not looking for free lunch, just wonder if its not so black and white as you say. It could be that some vaccines effect the body's terrain, to borrow Bechamp's concept, in a positive way that makes the individual more resistant to disease in general. Gaby mentioned that some studies indicate that the BCG vaccine stimulates and strengthens the immune system in some way that has a lasting effect, so its an interesting thing to look into OSIT. And I agree with what you wrote about the insane vaccination schedules, WTH?


Hi ketone Cop! Thank you for bringing this subjet! I haven't seen hiker's post (this thread is so fast!) but I saw a short video about cytokine storm from Dr Shiva somone gave here in this thread, and from link to link, I came to pleiomorphism. As I never heard of this, though I'm doctor, I was curious and came to Bechamp. I downloaded his book but haven't yet read it (I have lots of difficulty to do the readings I'd like, as if time flew out of my hands) .
But I read some info here and there and reading about pleiomorphisme has been light for me! It makes so much sense, and you understand that Pasteur, like Darwin and like Freud are frauds!
I also understood why Rifle's treatments were effective.


Definitely not!
I also came to a book from Tissot warning against vaccines, rabies included. It has killed and handicaped lots of children. I attach his book, it's in french though.

Thanks for the links @nature

Well seen, for free lunch!
About the question if in some cases vaccins can help, I don't know; lots of serious studies are hidden to us, or destructed. Your question is interesting.
I can just give my personal experience: I had lots of vacinnes when I was a child, more than the average: DTPC (diphteria tetanos polio pertussis 4 times when I was a baby, then 4 rounds again (at 3 months and at 1 year) when I began kindergarden, then every 5 years. I had smallpox vacin at 2 yo, and rabbies (both vaccin and serum antibodies) at 8 yo when I've been bitten by the neighbors' dog without apparent reason. I also had BCG vaccine at 6yo before starting school. i can't say these vaccines protected me, I was even easily ill after that, catching easily all infections (cold, flu, measles), allergies. Then I began to have tinnitus, then progressively deafness, more apparent during teenage when I began to wear soft hearing aids, then more and more intense aids. Lots of exams have been made, without any clue for this progressive hearing impairment. Now I suspect one (or combination) of these past vaccines. I can't be sure, just have doubts when I think at it whith my current knowledge.
When at the medecine faculty, B hepatitis vaccine was recommended, so I've done it.

Today, I can't say I'm in a good shape, I also have neurological issues though not grave (concentration, memory, irritable, things like that)

The recommended books pile up more and more on my table. This week, I decided to come less here and begin to read books. i didn't know where to start, so I let the chance decide and I stumbled on a book from Rudolf Steiner on epidemics (1920). He says that we can overcome any epidemic by our spirit, by not being afraid from germs. Here is his book in attached file.
Reading Bechamp makes you understand why you mustn't fear germs, and reconciles you with the faith in the univers. Materialism and people like Pasteur, Freud, Darwin have kept us far from Nature. Medecine faculty is Pasteur, Pasteur, Pasteur. Psychology faculty is Freud Freud and Freud. And humanity has lost his spirit.
Reading these books, and Laura's work has been a deliverance for us all.
Keton cop's references, Bechamp and Steiner are must-reads in these times.

Hope this adds to the reflexion and knowledge.

edit: sorry, Steiner's book is on paperbook not pdf. So, I'll take some photos of relevant pages and will send it here.

Yes lots to read! Thanks for sharing your personal experience. I also had my shots when I was a kid, MMR, DPT, etc. I was born in the 80s so I know that the vaccine schedule was much less aggressive back then. I never had BCG or Smallpox to my knowledge however, so I'm going to research those to vaccines and see if I want to get them.
 
Thinking about it a bit more, given Bill Gates horrible and downright ruthless, bloody and scary track record, especially in regard to vaccines and "testing them out", not seldom on human guinea pigs in the form of children in third world countries that are the poorest of the poorest, against their and their parents will, again and again, and again and again with horrible results, I think there is quite a slim chance that there is any kind of "good will" behind what he is doing, but rather the exact opposite. I mean, just search on SOTT for his name and you find an incredible abundance of really horrible things he is and was involved in. See here on german SOTT for example or on mama SOTT. His misdeeds could and do fill entire books by now.

At some point you really have to ask yourself if all that is just innocent/careless mistakes from a money driven narcissists who really means well in certain respects, or if there is indeed a concrete evil and I dare say demonic agenda behind it, of which he is at least partially aware himself. His smirks and laughs on the most inappropriate moments still give me goosebumps. I'm still on the side of him being most likely pure evil while consciously knowing that what he is actually trying to do is exactly that and nothing like what he presents it as on the surface, while maybe not being aware that he too is just a puppet whose strings are being pulled from behind the scenes. At some point you really have to ask yourself if his elitist history from birth on (his ancestors, like his father were certainly elites as well, who tried to cover that up) coupled with the concrete eugenics history and statements that his and his ancestors openly discussed in private, is just "for the good of humanity in the economic development sense as Séamas described" or if it is simply that, an elitist psychopathic personality driven by grandiose eugenic dreams of a world made in his will where all the "underlings" are either strictly controlled or killed by things like vaccines. There are certainly parts of the elite that have and are into pretty demonic eugenic thinking, and he might just be part of such a group. It is also noteworthy that he said himself that he closely studied other philanthropists and billionaires of the past and learned from them. He carefully followed the example of Rockefeller and Co and cultivated his image over the years pretty effectively from a bad person into some kind of saint by public relations. I'm on the save side and don't trust in anything the guy says or does blindly.

I agree with what you've written, it does seem that he is at least being used by powerful, dark forces and he could be directly, willingly possessed. However, he is a public-facing and very visual figure, so I was speculating that maybe he drinks his own koolaid so to speak. In other words his mask seems to be at least partly that he appears to believe in his "I'm going to save the world with vaccines" shtick and since he's one of the "elites" that we can see, I'm wondering if maybe the evil that you describe is largely working through him while he is more like a salesman who has the job of convincing everyone that its for their own good. If he believes his own BS that would make him a more effective salesman, OSIT.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think we're on the same page and arguing about the details.
 
Thank you for your fabulous message in which you recounted your journey...
Thank you, truly, respect, and peace in your heart.

I read Bird's book on plants a long time ago and it opened the door for me to study medicinal plants in the world. What a great gift, at that time

Concerning Naessens, I just found several things that can surely interest the forum:
Méthode Naessens
Naessens method: The 714X.
“Rather, 714X claims to strengthen the strength of the immune system and the body's natural defense mechanisms, which in turn will be able to fight and eliminate various diseases, particularly autoimmune and degenerative diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, lupus, AIDS, etc. .”

There is also a video of Naessens on
Les Somatides - Gaston Naessens

And an excerpt in English from the book you're talking about:
http://www.unariunwisdom.com/wp-con...al-of-Gaston-Naessens-by-Christopher-Bird.pdf

Oops, I just found the whole book in French on
Full text of "The Persecution And Trial Of Gaston Naessens"
 
I guess it's my turn to rant a bit...

I'm having a really hard time with "just sitting back and watch the show". Ever since this started, I've felt that I need, and I want, and that it's my 'mission' to fight these developments with every fiber I have in me. I'm angry at all of those lying and greedy bastards who are 'cooking the books' and cheating to further their evil agendas. I want my children to have the chance to grow up in a world that at least resembles how it was like before all this started (even if that wasn't perfect either). I'm reminded of the famous quote ""The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" and what Haffner described in his Defying Hitler.

There's of course not that much that I can do, but I devote a considerable amount of time every day to think deeply and theorize about the situation and the details, follow the developments, find good arguments and facts, and share those by tweeting from several accounts and translating SOTT-articles. We've been publishing on our local SOTT-page like never before, and we're slowly gaining new readers. I know that these things don't have much effect, and I sometimes wonder if it's worth the time, but as I said, I can't just sit and do nothing. Maybe I'm becoming too worked up and I should take it more easy?
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Aragorn, many of your posts have been insightful to me over the years on many different topics. In these times, remember to stay the course. Thank you for your contributions. The effort and knowledge spread is worth it.
 
There seems to be another aspect to the virus that as far as I know was not mentioned so far and is not much present in the media. Some researchers found that it attacks the nervous system, sometimes even before causing any flu-like problems. A few related studies are quoted below. I really don't know how important the finding is, what it may mean, etc., so I just put it here for those more knowledgeable to perhaps have a look at it. I'm wondering if it can explain, even if only in part, the ventilation / respiratory problems that have lead to bringing up the analogy to ‘high-altitude illness’ or 'decompression syndrom' here and here?

Nervous system involvement after infection with COVID-19 and other coronaviruses
[PDF here]

Yan-Czao Li et al.:
The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2 may play a role in the respiratory failure of COVID-19 patients

and a follow up:
Response to Commentary on “The neuroinvasive potential of SARS‐CoV‐2 may play a role in the respiratory failure of COVID‐19 patients”
Very interesting observations, PoB!
Here how I see it:
At present, clinical data have revealed that some patients with COVID-19 have symptoms similar to intracranial infections such as headache, epilepsy, and disturbed consciousness. ...
These symptoms evoque intracranial hypertension rather than infection. Infections trigger a cytokine storm, a reaction of our body to the presence of virus, which in turn gives some reactions in order to bring back cells in their normal state. Our body doesn't work against us, it tries to bring back equilibrium with the means at its disposal. Why hypertension of a fluid? To push water and minerals in the cell. Our celles lack hydratation and minerals. Hypertension in the extracellular fluids is aimed at providing cells with water, because water helps detoxify, pull toxines out of the cells. An acidic body makes cells dehydrated and unable to detoxify, thus hypertension.

From that, we can see the importance of helping our body with alkalin agents, like sodium bicarbonate. Someone brought here an info about chloroquine being a drug that decreases cells' acidity.

About other neurological conditions: As I went back to work, I confirm having seeing such problems. We are allowed, during lockdown to see only urgencies, and yes, there were several cases of anosmia. I also saw more facial palsy than usually. What is different from usually, is that these deficits recover much more easily, in shorter time. I currently don't have any explanation to why the recovery time is shorter, but as revovery is complete and rather short, we can think it's not a direct attack on neural tissue (neural disruption is much long to recover) but an inflammation: not viral encephalitis but reactional encephalitis or neuritis.
These neurological symptoms are not due to viral attack on brain or on neurons per se but to inflammatory reactions of the body triggered by the interaction between immunity system and viruses. Then the inflammation molecules (like cytokines and other molecules) released give symptoms. Anosmia is due to inflammation on olfactory neurons as they are located in nasal mucosae, in the nasal airways (at the roof), ie in the way on the entry of viruses in our body).

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Finally, treatment should focus on helping cells: especially detox, i.e. alkalinize, hydrate, mineralize. Many of you reported articles about doctors treating with vit C, or chloroquine+zinc. Zinc helps alkalin agents go inside cells. These observations go in the sense of helping cells rather making war to viruses.
Having at home vit C, sodium bicarbonates, zinc, herbs (elderberry, aronia, astragalus, etc) is life saving for futur epidemics and for avoiding going in doctors' hands (unless gravity signs).
 
Here is one source about Belgium:

they can't test in a Belgian nursing home for the simple reason that there aren't enough tests...
the Belgian Prime Minister gave the authorization this week to open retirement homes to families!!!!!
She had to give up this new derogation because the old people's homes do not agree and continue to close their doors to families because there is no test and not enough staff to control everything.
 
This morning I was sent an article from the NYT about the increased number of dead in New York relative to other years, which I am trying to debunk.

Deaths in New York City Are More Than Double the Usual Total
By Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-KatzApril 10, 2020

But even if the current count is perfect, roughly 9,780 people have died of all causes over the past month in New York City, about 5,000 more than is typical.

The numbers for the last two weeks of the period are even more stark: nearly 7,000 dead, more than three times as many deaths as would normally be expected this time of year.

As our charts show, deaths are strongly seasonal: On average, more people die in winter and fewer in summer. These fluctuations aren’t just related to the flu. In a typical year, the vast majority of the variation in mortality is driven by seasonal variation in the number of heart disease deaths.

But the deaths over the last month dwarf what would be expected from seasonal variations, and look more like a mass casualty event. The city’s medical examiner’s office is holding bodies in refrigerated trailers outside of hospitals. City emergency medical technicians are declaring deaths in homes and on the streets instead of bringing people to hospitals.

Since they were kind enough to list methodology:

Our calculations rely on four slightly different measurements of deaths in New York City over the past two decades.

Two C.D.C. data sets measure deaths in close to real time. One is the FluView system, which provides weekly all-cause mortality figures to help local officials evaluate flu seasons. The second is a new coronavirus dashboard of provisional death counts, which provides partly counted totals for all deaths that happened from Jan. 26 through the most recent Saturday. Both of these data sets measure all deaths that occur in the city.

The city’s health department also measures deaths that occur in the city, and provided monthly data for 2010 through 2017. We supplemented these numbers with data from the C.D.C., which keeps statistics on deaths among all people whose homes are in the city, regardless of where the deaths occur. The resident and nonresident numbers differ by small but consistent ways over time, so we adjusted the C.D.C. figures to approximate the city health data.

In general, provisional data on deaths understates the final totals because it takes time for local authorities to count and report all deaths to the C.D.C. This means that our recent total, as high as it is, is probably smaller than the real number.

To partly account for this lag, we added the 1,396 coronavirus deaths that occurred through April 4 that have been reported by the city, but that have not yet been added to the C.D.C. data, to the total deaths counted figure.

About the provisional data:
The provisional data presented on this page include the weekly provisional count of deaths in the United States due to COVID-19, deaths from all causes and percent of expected deaths (i.e., number of deaths received over number of deaths expected based on data from previous years), pneumonia deaths (excluding pneumonia deaths involving influenza), pneumonia deaths involving COVID-19, and influenza deaths;

Pneumonia and influenza deaths are included to provide context for understanding the completeness of COVID-19 mortality data and related trends. Deaths due to COVID-19 may be misclassified as pneumonia or influenza deaths in the absence of positive test results, and these conditions may appear on death certificates as a comorbid condition. Thus, increases in pneumonia or influenza deaths may be an indicator of excess COVID-19-related mortality. Additionally, estimates of completeness for influenza or pneumonia deaths may provide context for understanding the lag in reporting for COVID-19 deaths, as it is anticipated that these causes would have similar delays in reporting, processing, and coding.

As reported here this includes cases where a body merely tested positive for Covid-19, not whether it had anything to do with its death.

Then there was this RT article (reposted to Sott)

Coronavirus deaths in New York City have spiked by over 3,700 after officials tacked on a group of victims merely suspected of having the virus. The city joins a growing list of sites counting "probable" cases as infected.

The additional deaths - 3,778, to be exact - include people who are "presumed to have been infected because of their symptoms and medical history," according to two sources cited by the New York Times, which reported the deaths on Tuesday. These "probables" bring the total number of casualties for New York City to 10,367 and raise the nation's total death toll by a whopping 17 percent. Over 26,000 people are now considered to have died with the coronavirus in the US, according to the Times.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had initially declined to include the "probables" as coronavirus deaths but reportedly changed his mind after a weekend briefing, the sources said, adding that most of the presumed deaths took place in hospitals. While New York has tested more people per capita for coronavirus than anywhere else in the US, it joins several other sites - city health commissioner Oxiris Barbot named Connecticut, Ohio, Maryland, and Delaware - that began reporting "probable" cases as coronavirus deaths this week. Other sites, including California and Seattle, have limited their casualty counts to those that can be confirmed by testing.Disagreements between local and regional health authorities over the number of coronavirus deaths have also been blamed on the use of "different data systems." New York City authorities have complained that the state has dragged its feet sharing data from hospitals and nursing homes.

A similar decision to classify cases that haven't tested positive as coronavirus was reported by the Times earlier this month. The oddly-worded piece claimed "experts said" that "a vast majority of people visiting emergency rooms with flu-like symptoms probably have the coronavirus." Some city hospitals were no longer even bothering to test for influenza, instead assuming that everyone with flu-like symptoms was a coronavirus patient, an infectious disease specialist told the outlet.

It's likely a large number those dying are also dying because they are being told to stay away from clinics and hospitals unless it's absolutely necessary (which of course delays treatment of health conditions which may escalate rapidly). This was demonstrated here:
Exclusive: New evidence of child deaths linked to ‘stay at home’ COVID warnings
Government's plea as people with serious medical issues are avoiding going to hospital - Cornwall Live

So from this it's clear there's a number of reasons we would expect to see an increase in the number of deaths related to health conditions and a decrease in the number of deaths due to road activity on account of the lockdown. Still a net rise though, with that mass of presumptive cases added to Covid-19's death toll.

I would like to see what they do with such cases in previous years.

It's still a bit harder for me to dismiss some of the information surrounding an increase in the number of pneumonia or influenza deaths relative to other flu seasons. Is it just that we have a flu strain and a coronavirus strain both at large? It appears within the range of the 2017/2018 flu season so that still places coronavirus within the range of a flu mortality, even going by the CDC's P+I expected deaths. Definitely not something to lock down a country over.

It's also possible that NY is an anomalous situation. An increase in mortality may have nothing to do with how deadly the virus itself is but maybe more to do with how contagious it is. A the C's have said, for those who choose to leave the virus is not so deadly. Maybe there are simply larger numbers of people deciding to check out at this time, and the seasonal viruses are just an efficient way to do that?

Antibody study suggests coronavirus is far more widespread than previously thought | World news | The Guardian
 
they can't test in a Belgian nursing home for the simple reason that there aren't enough tests...
the Belgian Prime Minister gave the authorization this week to open retirement homes to families!!!!!
She had to give up this new derogation because the old people's homes do not agree and continue to close their doors to families because there is no test and not enough staff to control everything.

If the retirement homes were closed and the people were still dying that means that either the quarantine is not working or the numbers cannot be trusted. The number of unconfirmed cases is just too much:

Of the total of 5,683 people, 47% died in hospital, 51% in a residential care centre, 0.4% at home and 0.4% elsewhere. The hospital deaths are all confirmed cases. The deaths in residential care centres were both confirmed (4.1%) and suspected (96%) cases.

 
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