[Part 2]
Next up, is Latvia …
Latvia (pre-vaccine)
Before vaccines rolled out in Latvia, it was on its way to crisis-level death, but only after having remained at “below-zero” accumulated excess death for most of 2020. There was not even an impending COVID crisis in Latvia prior to September of 2020.
Latvia (post-vaccine)
The accumulation of excess death after vaccines rolled out in Latvia is so much that it dwarfs the accumulation of excess death from COVID alone (no vaccines). There were more than 7 times the accumulation of excess death after vaccines rolled out than there was before they did.
Astonishingly, the excess death rate after vaccines rolled out in Latvia even matches the overall death rate found in World War I (3800 excess deaths per million). To see World War I-level death in Latvia, using their population and the WWI death rate, would require having 7038 excess deaths in a year.
From 21 Dec 2020 (975 excess deaths) on up to 24 Jan 2022 (8019 excess deaths), Latvia had (8019-975=) 7044 excess deaths.
In Latvia at least, a statistical test to compare the relative safety of COVID vaccines to the safety of “war” would fail to find a statistically-significant difference in safety between the vaccines and outright war.
Though safety signals have led to getting medical products pulled from market, I am pretty sure that never in the history of medicine has there ever been a safety signal of potential harm that is even a third as strong as the safety signal for COVID vaccines.
Data at least suggest that COVID vaccines are more than twice as dangerous as any other medical product which has ever been produced in mass quantity and then widely distributed.
Nothing else even comes close.
Next up, is Lebanon …
Lebanon (pre-vaccine)
Lebanon spent most of 2020 with accumulated excess death below 500 total, but reached crisis-level death in the several weeks leading up to their vaccine rollout.
Lebanon (post-vaccine)
Lebanon saw more accumulation of excess death after vaccines rolled out than before.
Next up, is Malaysia …
Malaysia (pre-vaccine)
Prior to the vaccine rollout, Malaysia had nothing even remotely resembling a COVID crisis.
Malaysia (post-vaccine)
Shortly after vaccines rolled out in Malaysia on 23 Feb 2021, excess deaths began to rise, though later values were estimated, so that we cannot really tell if they reached crisis-level death by the year of 2022.
It is withing the bounds of uncertainty though (the gray lines), so it cannot be ruled out until further investigation.
Next up, is Malta …
Malta (pre-vaccine)
Prior to the vaccine rollout in Malta, they hadn’t yet reached crisis-level excess death, though the trend shows that they were on their way to reaching it soon. The first 9 months of 2020 show no (“zero”) accumulation of excess death.
Malta (post-vaccine)
Though the excess deaths kept rising after vaccines rolled out, Malta is the first region showing the possibility that vaccines might help — because the rate of rise in excess death appeared to slow down with the introduction of vaccines.
A post-vaccine, excess death “slow-down” isn’t true for any of the regions described above, as all of them either show a continuing or a worsening of the trend in excess death -- for the entire time that vaccine coverage was growing.
Next up, is Norway …
Norway (pre-vaccine)
For the year of 2020, there was nothing even remotely close to a COVID crisis in Norway. On the day before the vaccine rollout, Norway was not even a tenth of the way to crisis-level excess death.
Norway (post-vaccine)
On May 13, Norway crossed a critical threshold of vaccine uptake and 40 doses had been administered for every 100 people. Passing that level of vaccine uptake, and continuing up beyond even 100 doses for every 100 people, is something which often corresponds to an uninterrupted rise in excess mortality (as we’ve seen in other regions).
The long and steep rise in excess mortality in the graph above begins in the summer of 2021, just as would be predicted from the increases in vaccine uptake going on in the background.
The accumulation of excess death after the vaccine rollout in Norway is almost 8 times higher than it was before vaccines rolled out — even after dipping below zero in the spring of 2021.
Next up, is Portugal …
Portugal (pre-vaccine)
Portugal is another one of the few regions which had a COVID crisis before the vaccines rolled out — rather than just having the crisis after vaccines had rolled out. They have the characteristic dip in excess mortality which precedes the first COVID death.
Portugal (post-vaccine)
The accumulation of excess death in Portugal after vaccines rolled out is roughly equal to what had accumulated before vaccines, but the sharpest-ever rise in excess death in Portugal coincided with the vaccine rollout.
Next up, is Seychelles …
Seychelles (pre-vaccine)
There was nothing even remotely close to a COVID crisis in Seychelles before vaccines rolled out. The excess death was deep into negative territory and not even a single COVID death had been recorded.
Seychelles (post-vaccine)
After vaccines rolled out in Seychelles on 3 Jan 2021, COVID deaths started to occur there — and the cumulative excess death began a long and steady rise, as has been seen in so many other regions above.
[end of Part 2]