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3 things:

Swallowing a tiny cube of raw ginger like a pill can be great for nausea, and hope you feel better soon.

There were more divorced people in 2021 than in 2020, so numbers may need to be adjusted somewhat. A close friend of mine was a "lockdown divorce" and when I mentioned her situation to another friend, that friend said "Oh my gosh -- she needs to get a lawyer immediately -- so many people are getting divorced, most of the lawyers are completely booked already." This was in May 2020 in a hard lockdown state. (Come to think of it... would be interesting to compare divorce increases in hard lockdown states vs. Florida.)

Doesn't accidents include accidental overdoses? Could some of these be deaths of despair or actual suicide but without sufficient evidence they are just classed as accidents? That's my thought about the 2020 accidents.

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I'm too woozy to respond to all your points at the moment, but I did start looking through the individual accidents, it's a bit harder to tally cuz there are so many different individual CoD's behind accidents

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Accident rise is driven largely by drug ODs. Motor vehicle accident deaths were up too.

Fall deaths are always a pretty big source of accident deaths among the elderly. If I’m not mistaken, those were up in 2021, nationally

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So I just looked, you/freelearner are right, accidental deaths excess is mostly Fentanyl, but there is still a signal for non-Fentanyl excess accident deaths, just not as monumental.

Falls and the like is what I thought might be a lurking vax signal ;)

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Did they make use of the Obama era, new-fangled diagnosis code of “shark bite while

windsurfing, left thigh”? Because that’s the statistic I want to see compared.

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Theory: the widowers are older gentleman (men from a bygone era) who aren't being pressured by their wives to get a vaccine they are skeptical of! I know my dad has virtually no choice on these issues if he wishes to remain happily married to my mom. The now-single men are staying vax-free and might yet have the oppty to supply vax-free sperm to younger ladies (also vax-free) who need a partner for reproduction ;).

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Great analysis.

Curious, does your sheet contain vaxx info and/or ICD-10 codes? If latter, does it contain multiple ICD-10 in the case of I07.1 (COVID-19)? Thanks!

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Nov 23, 2022·edited Nov 23, 2022Author

nope, unfortunately it doesn't have either, Vermont doesn't input ICD's for their DC's the CDC does with a fancy algorithm / a bit of manual assignments (I confirmed with Vermont chief Health statistician)

State immunization registry as far as I know is not public records

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Wow interesting, so even the ICD-10 covid-19 are based on an algorithmic assignment?

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This is all very interesting. What stands out to me though is just the simple chart that shows "all cause mortality" for the past five or six years. 2021 was 6,648 total deaths and the average from the pre-pandemic years was about 5,700. So there was an increase in all deaths of almost 1,000 deaths. This was AFTER people started getting the Covid vaccine (the "vaccine" that is at least supposed to protect against death). It's a massive increase that shouldn't be there.

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Get well soon! And a great article!

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Thanks :) 💖

You too! you're probably in worse shape than I am all things considered lol

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What constitutes an accidental death? I wonder how accurate these data gathering systems really are. Crunching numbers means nothing if the data bases are flawed. As we have seen throughout the last almost 3 years, any numbers related to covid anything are highly suspect. But I see the trends and no one (trusted medical authority, if these is such an animal) has any truthful explanations. Thanks for the info.

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100%, there is a tremendous amount of errors, incompetence, and possibly outright fraud. But it doesn't kill the usefulness or render meaningless the data. Will write article explaining utility of DC data soon hopefully (when I feel up to it).

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Can you separate widows from widowers? I see them as being potentially different.

Similar in that they were capable of stable-enough relationships and orderly-enough households to remain married until death. (not exact, some remain while being very unhappy, but still)

Possibly different in that the women are likely to be somewhat younger than their husbands, with longer statistical life expectancies, so more likely on those bases and because of sex roles to be a direct caregiver of an ill husband. She likely has the characteristics from the 'similarity' comparison above and upon the death of her husband is now free to care for herself alone, likely successfully. (generalizing, but there's often truth in stereotypes, and I've had some relatives and patients to observe over the years)

I'm sorry for your illness and hope you recover quickly. (Did you and Igor share a meal or other exposure?)

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This was one of the next steps planned :)

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Nov 23, 2022Liked by Ashmedai

In most cases, it doesn't appear to me that the numbers of "excess" deaths are statistically significant. Certainly not for accidental deaths over again 65, for example. Excel will do that test for you, btw.

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You can't disaggregate into tiny cohorts until you void statistical significance and then put it back together again ;))

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Not to put too fine a point on it but lockdown (isolation) could also influence consciousness in a way that causes accident.

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VAERS data indicates a low, but non-trivial, risk of syncope (loss of consciousness) following high reactogenicity vaccines. Syncope is counter indicated for driving, operating heavy machinery, being in high places (e.g., roofing) for a minimum for at least one to two days. The same pattern also occurs in VAERS for other serious adverse events (see topic of this post), etc.

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Fauci says he never imagined Covid would kill million Americans

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/22/fauci-says-he-never-imagined-covid-would-kill-million-americans.html

Ins companies won't pick up the cost. Makes them Liable to.

Pfizer CEO claims 400% price hike on COVID vaccines will be “free”

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla claimed at a news event last week that the company's COVID-19 vaccines will continue to be "free to all Americans," despite the company's plan to raise the price of the vaccine roughly 400 percent—a price difference that will be picked up by health insurers.

The company said in October that it plans to raise the price of a dose of its COVID-19 vaccine from about $30 to somewhere between $110 and $130 as it moves the shots to the commercial market next year.

BERENSON MENTIONED

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/covid-vaccines-will-still-be-free-despite-400-price-hike-pfizer-ceo-says/amp/ A“American Airlines Pilot Dies ‘Suddenly’ During Flight” https://truthpress.com/news/american-airlines-pilot-dies-suddenly-during-flight/

Police: 4 dead at pot farm were ‘executed,’ Chinese citizens

https://share.newsbreak.com/2d2yfwf

South Korean firm to spend $3.2B in TN, create 1,000 jobs in what governor calls historic investment, WILL THEY LEASE OR BUY THE LAND. JOBS WELCOME, FOREIGN LAND OWNERS NO! https://share.newsbreak.com/2d2xxjll

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