Sudden Death in Alberta: What in the world is happening?

3,362 unexplained deaths is not even the worrying part.

Fun fact: There has been a marked increase in the number of elephant sightings in Canada since the vaccination campaign began. These sightings have primarily in Emergency Rooms. Have no fear, though, we have been promised that vaccine manufacturers do not breed elephants, so there is nothing to be concerned over.

For example, a recently spotted elephant had 3,362 deaths written all over it. These deaths are labelled as “ill-defined or unexplained”. According to CTV News, authorities have explained that these unexplained deaths are not related to the vaccines.

Case closed?

How about we try to convince ourselves there could be another cause first? Because at first glance, the data looks absolutely chilling.

Above is a graph of mortality by age group and year. Included is 2019 as a pre-COVID baseline. Deaths are up, obviously, but we are talking about a certain kind of death. Those with unknown causes.

Let’s take a closer look, shall we?

Below is a graph of those deaths with any cause versus those with a known cause.

Note: I cut the data off at 64 years old to hopefully provide a better view of the divergence.

In short, deaths with known causes are actually quite similar year over year, but there is a massive increase in deaths with unknown causes in the young and middle aged. Interestingly, that increase does not extend to the age groups that did not have a vaccine available to them at all or until the end of the year.

What is shocking is that deaths with unknown causes were high in 2020; however, they are very high in 2021. In fact, the graph showing the raw total of deaths with unknown causes does not even tell the full story. In some age groups, mortality has nearly doubled since 2019. If we look at the number of deaths from unknown causes in 2021, those deaths make up more than 50% of all deaths in some age groups.

This is shocking. There are twice the deaths in some age groups compared to previous years and no cause attributed to any of the increase in deaths.

Throughout the pandemic, all cause mortality has been used to estimate “true COVID deaths” by some insane commentators. But it is extremely unlikely any of these excess deaths can be attributed to COVID.

Why do I believe that?

Simply put, there is a distributional misalignment in terms of age. The distribution of COVID deaths around the world is quite similar. Basically, the old die in high numbers relative to the young who are barely touched at all. For example, in 2020, deaths were extremely right skewed with nearly 30% of the “COVID” deaths coming from those 90+. In 2021, COVID deaths closely followed deaths in the general population albeit deaths still occurred much more frequently in older age groups and infrequently in young age groups.

In the graph above, I present the deaths in various years by age as a percentage of total annual mortality. Furthermore, I have put special lines in for COVID deaths (for 2020 and 2021) and deaths with unknown causes (for 2021) as a percentage of annual COVID or unknown cause mortality respectively.

Where the COVID deaths occur tells us a lot about the disease. People are dying in age-cohorts where deaths due to diseases that often have the same general symptoms as COVID are common. This increases the likelihood that COVID as a cause of death is overcounted and misallocated.

Further to the point, Alberta no longer provides information on comorbidities. But when they did, it was quite clear that almost every death involved a comorbidity of some sort. How many of these were “with” vs “from” the virus? How many were misallocated?

Indeed, the death data shows a dramatic drop off for influenza, pneumonia, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) amongst others.

• There was not a single influenza death recorded in 2021. Between 2014 and 2020, there have been 60-130 influenza deaths per year.

• There were only 309 deaths caused by “pneumonia due to other unspecified organisms” — generally there are over 400.

• There were 1028 COPD deaths in 2021 (130 less than in 2019), a disease where there have been an increasing number of deaths for years.

Basically, there are many places where COVID deaths can be misallocated and it essentially becomes a numbers game. I’m not really interested in looking too deep into that rabbit hole right now, though. My point is merely that COVID deaths are likely overestimated, rather than underestimated, and the deaths with unknown causes are too young to be attributed to COVID.

A more likely cause of the unknown deaths are deaths due to diseases of despair. Due to extremely aggressive public health measures, these may have increased significantly. Public health officials are unlikely to want to highlight this possibility as the fault would clearly lie on the pandemic response.

If this increase in deaths is due to anything but the vaccines, diseases of despair are a likely possibility. There may be some there there.

• Accidental poisoning by and exposure to drugs was at an all time high of 920 in 2020, up from 749 in 2018 and 677 in 2019. In 2021, there were only 604.

• Alcoholic liver disease is at an all time high of 298 in 2021. Are the toxicology reports easier to deal with than exposure to drugs or is this sort of death going to rise even higher?

• There were 441 suicides in 2021 or about 150 lower than precious years — some of that was driven by a lower than expected numbers of drug related suicides.

Indeed, diseases of despair may account for a fraction of the unknown deaths, but not 3,300.

Looking at age cohorts instead of total doesn’t provide much more in the way of clarity. In 2019, the top 10 leading causes of death in the 35-39 age group (the age group with the largest number of unknown deaths in 2021) were:

• Accidental poisoning by and exposure to drugs and other biological substances: 91

• Intentional self-harm(suicide) by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation: 36

• Other ill-defined and unknown causes of mortality: 30

• All other and unspecified accidents and their sequelae: 8

• Intentional self-poisoning(suicide) by and exposure to drugs and other biological substances: 8

• Malignant neoplasm of breast: 7

• Diabetes mellitus: 7

• Alcoholic liver disease: 7

• Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, so described: 5

• Other and unspecified motor vehicle accidents: 5

In 2021, the same number of deaths for those causes were:

• Accidental poisoning by and exposure to drugs and other biological substances: 98

• Intentional self-harm(suicide) by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation: 22

• Other ill-defined and unknown causes of mortality: 323

• All other and unspecified accidents and their sequelae: 8

• Intentional self-poisoning(suicide) by and exposure to drugs and other biological substances: 1

• Malignant neoplasm of breast: 7

• Diabetes mellitus: 7

• Alcoholic liver disease: 20

• Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, so described: 3

• Other and unspecified motor vehicle accidents: 5

Tell me, where do those extra 300 deaths labelled as ill-defined or unknown causes come from in that age group?

Notably absent from the data is the 591 medically assisted deaths. Could those be ill-defined? I doubt it. Most of those deaths would be in older individuals with terminal conditions and are probably listed under said conditions.

Frankly, I do not know what is causing the vast majority of the enormous increase in deaths with unknown causes in Alberta. But I know the two most likely killers are the vaccine and/or the public health response. What are the alternatives?