From Jeff Childers

Problems for the Narrative! The New York Times ran a fiesty article yesterday headlined “U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries.” Whoops. And with all those great corporate hospitals and CMS mandates and everything. So. Weird.

But, it gets worse. The Times included a chart at the top of the article. The chart has two panels; the first shows the US at the peak with two other first-world countries for cumulative deaths since day one; the second shows the US as the ONLY first-world country above 20 Omicron deaths per 100K, by miles.

Japan is the lowest, with no injection mandates; actually it has an active anti-mandate program.

Now, lest anyone panic, 20 deaths per 100K for Omicron deaths is still one tenth the cumulative death rate of 200 deaths per 100K. But still, you’d think the US would be doing better with all our massive healthcare apparatus, freely prescribed remdesivir, and a giant Covid hospital-industrial complex. But apparently not.

An interesting side comment in the article confirms my Narrative 2.0 hypothesis, noting that “American lawmakers [are] desperate to turn the page on the pandemic, as some European leaders have already begun to[.]” Which lawmakers could the Times be referring to? It doesn’t say. But if it were Republicans, you could be sure that the Times would have pointed that out.

The Times implies that low injection and booster rates are causing the US’ woes. But that doesn’t explain Japan, an inconvenient outlier on their charts.

Nor does the Times try to explain why the US’ death rates were higher than most other first-world countries from the beginning, before injections were available. I’ve mentioned this before, but a friend of mine who is a legit genius told me this in March 2020: “if you want to survive Covid, stay out of the hospital. You’ll know I’m right when third-world countries do better; it’s because they don’t have ready access to hospital care like the first world does.”

Two years later, I still haven’t heard a better explanation for why first-world countries with all their lockdowns and mandates experienced higher Covid mortality rates than Africa.