There was a tall, bespectacled guy with his own podcast, who was walking the streets of New York City during those early weeks & interviewing ambulance drivers, the police, & people walking in and out of hospitals. All of the ones willing to talk to him essentially said that nothing out of the ordinary was happening, and, in fact, things were a bit slow. I just went through my emails and found some links to his work, but they were all on YouTube, and have, of course, since been pulled down. I drove around to hospitals here in SF, and found the same level of (non-) activity. If I can somehow find his name or other links, I'll post them.
Legitimate questions. Given that alleged Chinese crisis acting propaganda was used to create hysteria in the US + world, why should we believe 'official' numbers without verification? (I say alleged because how do we know where those videos of people falling over in the streets really came from or why?) No one I know has died with or from covid or even been hospitalized. My former doctor was blogging about how he was treating the respiratory symptoms showing up in his patients in spring 2020, and was ordered to cease and desist by the FTC. His treatment was the same as how he would treat ANY respiratory illness and he was urging people to not let it turn into pneumonia since that can kill you. Our govt did not want his info out there. There are still too many questions and it's disappointing how almost no one is interested in finding out what really happened. Thanks for persisting.
Wondering if they "padded" the numbers early on (for propaganda purposes) expecting that many (or more) to eventually die - kinda pre-dating what they expected would die, but then the surge in deaths never came and they had no way to "back out" the padded numbers.
I was living and working in NYC at a very large organization at the time. Supposedly a couple people at my workplace passed (who I didn’t know) but we were remote and I never went back to the office after lockdown so I never verified it. I don’t know a single person directly who died from COVID. I had lived and worked there for several years, so it’s not like I didn’t know anyone.
The dead body trucks that the City set up on Randall Island really shocked me when I went on a leisurely run there in lockdown. However, in retrospect they were ALL EMPTY... as was the Navy hospital ship and the Javits Center...
Outstanding work and questions. Thanks, Jessica. I've reported that school closings "for illnesses" were way up compared to the previous 10 or 20 flu seasons (possible exception January 2018) in the pre-Covid months and weeks. Why would this be the case? My first "early spread" article was on the December 2019 cases of Tim and Brandie McCain of rural Sylacauga, Alabama. Brandie McCain told me that it seemed like "half" her town was sick at the same time that FIVE people in her house were sick.
My wife is a school teacher of a school that did not shut down in January 2020. However, I was sick and both my kids were sick in January 2020. One day when I was in bed with what I still think was Covid, my wife came home and told me that "half" of her students in one of her classes were out sick. My own doctor told me his "gut instinct" was that Covid was here earlier. An administrator at the big medical clinic that treated me told me everyone who works at this clinic (which serves 12 counties) "thought there was something wrong with the flu tests." Huge numbers of people were coming in sick, and getting flu tests ... that were negative.
Nobody I'm aware of in Troy, Alabama had "flu-like symptoms" in April 2020. But probably 25 percent of the population did between late November and early February. Do the anecdotes matter? Do "symptoms" matter?
In case this is confusing: "That’s close to 10,000 dead patients in three weeks that normally see ~2,000," refers to March 21 to April 11. 9,815 deaths I believe. Not the three peak weeks, but the first three "pandemic" weeks.
SOOOO interesting! Don’t give up! The people I know who were in NYC at the time were traumatized by the sound of sirens. How strange that ambulance-transported numbers are down 🤔. I also know the people who started “Feed the Frontlines” but they are adamant CDC supporters so I haven’t bothered to ask them what they think. Any response from morgues or funeral directors? And on an earlier graph linked in the footnotes, why does the black line for ICU occupied beds only start mid Feb (about)? No data from before?
I can’t wait for more to be revealed on this! Any chance we can expect real death certificates?
The data exists. The death certificates, the medical records. Clearly, they are being suppressed/withheld. Seems absolutely at odds with any desire to figure out what happened. One would think it would be priority one to dig and try to understand what happened, and how, given what an outlier the events around the time period in question are.
Anecdotal responses to your questions can be extremely valuable, especially from people who were in situations to observe and recount their first hand experiences. In some respects, even more valuable than numbers. Here’s hoping you get some responses of value.
"Ambulance dispatches were very high for 2-3 weeks, which makes sense with the high volume of 911 calls. But the data a lower-than-normal proportion of dispatches transported patients."
This should say "But the data show a lower-than-normal proportion..." or maybe "But a lower-than-normal proportion..."
Can Substack readers increase the “paid” ratio of Substack writers to, say, 10 percent? Right now it’s about 1 to 4 percent paid. What we have is about 100 fairly well-known “Covid writers” taking on 40,000 salaried MSM “journalists” …. It’s the “1 percent of the 1 percent” who are actually subsidizing the world’s “freedom” writers.
There was a tall, bespectacled guy with his own podcast, who was walking the streets of New York City during those early weeks & interviewing ambulance drivers, the police, & people walking in and out of hospitals. All of the ones willing to talk to him essentially said that nothing out of the ordinary was happening, and, in fact, things were a bit slow. I just went through my emails and found some links to his work, but they were all on YouTube, and have, of course, since been pulled down. I drove around to hospitals here in SF, and found the same level of (non-) activity. If I can somehow find his name or other links, I'll post them.
Legitimate questions. Given that alleged Chinese crisis acting propaganda was used to create hysteria in the US + world, why should we believe 'official' numbers without verification? (I say alleged because how do we know where those videos of people falling over in the streets really came from or why?) No one I know has died with or from covid or even been hospitalized. My former doctor was blogging about how he was treating the respiratory symptoms showing up in his patients in spring 2020, and was ordered to cease and desist by the FTC. His treatment was the same as how he would treat ANY respiratory illness and he was urging people to not let it turn into pneumonia since that can kill you. Our govt did not want his info out there. There are still too many questions and it's disappointing how almost no one is interested in finding out what really happened. Thanks for persisting.
Wondering if they "padded" the numbers early on (for propaganda purposes) expecting that many (or more) to eventually die - kinda pre-dating what they expected would die, but then the surge in deaths never came and they had no way to "back out" the padded numbers.
I was living and working in NYC at a very large organization at the time. Supposedly a couple people at my workplace passed (who I didn’t know) but we were remote and I never went back to the office after lockdown so I never verified it. I don’t know a single person directly who died from COVID. I had lived and worked there for several years, so it’s not like I didn’t know anyone.
The dead body trucks that the City set up on Randall Island really shocked me when I went on a leisurely run there in lockdown. However, in retrospect they were ALL EMPTY... as was the Navy hospital ship and the Javits Center...
Outstanding work and questions. Thanks, Jessica. I've reported that school closings "for illnesses" were way up compared to the previous 10 or 20 flu seasons (possible exception January 2018) in the pre-Covid months and weeks. Why would this be the case? My first "early spread" article was on the December 2019 cases of Tim and Brandie McCain of rural Sylacauga, Alabama. Brandie McCain told me that it seemed like "half" her town was sick at the same time that FIVE people in her house were sick.
My wife is a school teacher of a school that did not shut down in January 2020. However, I was sick and both my kids were sick in January 2020. One day when I was in bed with what I still think was Covid, my wife came home and told me that "half" of her students in one of her classes were out sick. My own doctor told me his "gut instinct" was that Covid was here earlier. An administrator at the big medical clinic that treated me told me everyone who works at this clinic (which serves 12 counties) "thought there was something wrong with the flu tests." Huge numbers of people were coming in sick, and getting flu tests ... that were negative.
Nobody I'm aware of in Troy, Alabama had "flu-like symptoms" in April 2020. But probably 25 percent of the population did between late November and early February. Do the anecdotes matter? Do "symptoms" matter?
Thanks for writing this up.
"the federal government sent 291 military medical personnel to be dispatched to NYC Health+ Hospitals"
Would it be worth FOI'ing what type of military medical personnel they had sent?
In case this is confusing: "That’s close to 10,000 dead patients in three weeks that normally see ~2,000," refers to March 21 to April 11. 9,815 deaths I believe. Not the three peak weeks, but the first three "pandemic" weeks.
SOOOO interesting! Don’t give up! The people I know who were in NYC at the time were traumatized by the sound of sirens. How strange that ambulance-transported numbers are down 🤔. I also know the people who started “Feed the Frontlines” but they are adamant CDC supporters so I haven’t bothered to ask them what they think. Any response from morgues or funeral directors? And on an earlier graph linked in the footnotes, why does the black line for ICU occupied beds only start mid Feb (about)? No data from before?
I can’t wait for more to be revealed on this! Any chance we can expect real death certificates?
Very good thinking Jessica. It seems unlikely. Only death certificates can offer an answer.
The questions are excellent.
The data exists. The death certificates, the medical records. Clearly, they are being suppressed/withheld. Seems absolutely at odds with any desire to figure out what happened. One would think it would be priority one to dig and try to understand what happened, and how, given what an outlier the events around the time period in question are.
Anecdotal responses to your questions can be extremely valuable, especially from people who were in situations to observe and recount their first hand experiences. In some respects, even more valuable than numbers. Here’s hoping you get some responses of value.
Keep going!
"Ambulance dispatches were very high for 2-3 weeks, which makes sense with the high volume of 911 calls. But the data a lower-than-normal proportion of dispatches transported patients."
This should say "But the data show a lower-than-normal proportion..." or maybe "But a lower-than-normal proportion..."
Thanks,
Jeremy
“Spectacular commitment to lies...”
It can't be so hard to find doctors who were practicing on covid wards back then and are willing to give you their impressions.
Maybe someone who goes out to interview staff could yield results?
Can Substack readers increase the “paid” ratio of Substack writers to, say, 10 percent? Right now it’s about 1 to 4 percent paid. What we have is about 100 fairly well-known “Covid writers” taking on 40,000 salaried MSM “journalists” …. It’s the “1 percent of the 1 percent” who are actually subsidizing the world’s “freedom” writers.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/substacks-paid-subscribers-are-the?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
"Do these hospital death numbers ring true with what you handled/were ask to handle in those weeks (or thereafter)?"
This should say "were asked to handle"