Covid didn’t cause the surge in excess deaths — the ‘pandemic’ response did [11/12/24]

MOST excess deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic can be linked to biological stress brought on by coordinated and large-scale mandates and medical assaults — ranging from lockdowns to vaccination to denial of antibiotics and antivirals — according to a paper released Monday by excess mortality researcher Denis Rancourt PhD.

The theory that the novel virus and its variants spread globally, causing cascading pandemics and massive numbers of related deaths, cannot account for the actual patterns of excess death worldwide during the 2020-2023 covid period, Rancourt argues.

That narrative has been used to justify permanent vaccination campaigns to repeatedly boost national immunity against new variants. However, it can’t explain what caused 31million global excess deaths during the pandemic period according to Rancourt, a lead scientist for 20-plus years at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

Instead, he argues excess deaths between 2020-2023 can largely be attributed to illnesses including certain types of bacterial pneumonia, also known as aspiration pneumonia, that were often misdiagnosed on death certificates as covid.

He says such illnesses typically occur when biological stress affects the immune system making people more susceptible to infections that come from the microbes and parasites in their own bodies, a phenomenon more common among the elderly and immunocompromised.

Rancourt concludes: ‘Within the present state of knowledge, it is possible that the declared covid pandemic (2020-2023) was entirely caused by the coordinated and largescale mandates, measures, so-called responses, and medical assaults including testing, diagnostic bias, isolation, denial of treatment (especially antibiotics for pneumonia), mechanical ventilation, sedation, experimental and improper treatments, and vaccination.’

If that is the case, Rancourt says, the medical establishment has ‘vastly underestimated and largely disregarded’ the impact of biological — including psychological — stress on health and mortality.

Rancourt also suggests that this theory of stress-induced mortality could account for ‘all pandemics within recorded history’ because most have occurred amid major societal and environmental crises.

The paper builds on extensive research into covid pandemic-related all-cause mortality by Rancourt and his colleagues at the Canadian nonprofit Correlation Research in the Public Interest over the last several years. It is published on the organisation’s website.

Rancourt and his colleagues have argued that key characteristics of excess mortality during the pandemic period contradict the argument that the covid virus was responsible for that mortality.

For example, excess mortality varied significantly from country to country, but didn’t cross jurisdictional borders — so there wasn’t evidence that a virus with consistent virulence was spreading from one place to another.

Rancourt also noted that none of the excess mortality peaks preceded the World Health Organization’s announcement on March 11, 2020, that covid was a global pandemic. Instead, excess mortality peaks followed vaccine and booster rollouts in many countries.

Citing US data, Rancourt found strong evidence that respiratory infections were the primary condition associated with excess all-cause mortality. However those deaths may have been designated on death certificates as covid, when the primary cause of death was actually something else, he wrote.

For example, Rancourt and colleagues previously found that more than half of the deaths attributed to covid likely included co-occurring bacterial pneumonia. They concluded that PCR testing schemes led to many bacterial pneumonia infections being misdiagnosed as covid during a time when key treatments such as antibiotics and ivermectin were withdrawn.

Research shows that social and environmental stressors are a major determinant of health, including death, according to Rancourt. Psychological stress and social isolation have particularly strong associations with respiratory infections and their severity, as does age.

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