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Jun 6, 2023Liked by Fabian Spieker

I'm sure this is a stupid question but what is the difference between excess death and excess mortality?

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Do you have the raw numbers in a file?

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Now do by county and place.x That’s where you’ll see where the real issues were

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Heard a SelectQuote Life Insurance radio ad. They see it.

Woman voice actor says her relative "died suddenly" and going from there so it will catch the ear of the listener who will hopefully think ... oh, that's like me, they understand me, I'll call them.

Obviously they are seeing high "died suddenly" numbers to leverage in marketing.

The extra deaths are critically important of course but folks, I'm grinding an odd axe, that we also need to consider a little bit more what's beyond the glaring lights in our face i.e. the deaths. It would take 80 million dead bodies to be back to last year's world population on today's date so if it is depop by direct kill, so far they're pretty poor at it. Time bomb? Perhaps. You decide.

On the other hand, or additionally, what if they're smart and said hey, we don't have to kill anyone directly, all we have to do is reduce baby count. And they saw the mammal immunocontraceptives with stellar reputations for 20 years on over 80 mammals successfully sterilizing them and called it good. Then roops well crud, it turns out those mammals weren't on pharma drugs and sugar substitutes and caffeine and whatever else might be throwing a wrench into the works causing some human mammals to die suddenly and making the plan look bad. I'm referring to pzp and gonacon, the brontosaurus in the room no one can see.

Feels at times as if I have special glasses like in They Live.

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