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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10.27.25 Board Correspondence - FW_ You DESTROYED our county. Do not steal our hard earned tax dollars. More Government Deception in COVID Deaths.ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening attachments, clicking on links, or replying.. From:Clerk of the Board To:Mutony, Heather Cc:Lee, Lewis Subject:Board Correspondence - FW: You DESTROYED our county. Do not steal our hard earned tax dollars. More Government Deception in COVID Deaths, and Rise in Unexpected Excess Deaths Date:Tuesday, October 28, 2025 8:45:04 AM Attachments:https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FLucideHeart%3Fv%3D4%26height%3D36%26fill%3Dnone%26stroke%3D%2523808080%26strokeWidth%3D2 https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FLucideComments%3Fv%3D4%26height%3D36%26fill%3Dnone%26stroke%3D%2523808080%26strokeWidth%3D2 https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FLucideShare2%3Fv%3D4%26height%3D36%26fill%3Dnone%26stroke%3D%2523808080%26strokeWidth%3D2 https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FNoteForwardIcon%3Fv%3D4%26height%3D36%26fill%3Dnone%26stroke%3D%2523808080%26strokeWidth%3D2 https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2Ficon%2FLucideArrowUpRight%3Fv%3D4%26height%3D36%26fill%3Dnone%26stroke%3D%2523808080%26strokeWidth%3D2 https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F520c1bf6-8e54-44a0-8cc4-c097050bd9fc_1864x600.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92c46b26-a575-4735-bfc9-625a9b739e78_749x503.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F538fa073-2eb7-4db5-a178-906ed00fe085_577x96.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4c358bf-2374-4152-98ae-2cfb9aa0c950_577x96.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1cf74ee-f51a-41b3-8e07-262ea85d03c4_768x397.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf35a18f-f60c-4037-ae1b-2b28838f026b_388x351.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40c376-4731-4216-b55c-e9e919d5f768_954x162.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faca5cd1f-97e1-4a89-91ee-202aad6564b5_364x351.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac9e497b-fa9e-4596-93c4-647cb5c628a5_672x353.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00df68e0-fe3e-4a54-9f24-755f74806371_464x371.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16423c62-fc7b-4c62-8d5d-7cc2afd7fa8c_365x202.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20f7ff4a-27ac-4296-b594-fbdd20f3c585_498x259.png https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73873226-3839-436e-97dd-0e0cef2c9c7c_893x429.png Please see Board Correspondence - From: lance dreiss <lancedreiss@att.net> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2025 8:41 PM To: Shared Mailbox Clerk of the Board <pcbs@countyofplumas.com>; Soderstrom, Monica <msoderstrom@buttecounty.net>; Assemblymember.Gallagher@assembly.ca.gov; Senator.Dahle@senate.ca.gov; davidhollister@countyofplumas.com; sheriff@countyofplumas.com; District Attorney <DA@buttecounty.net>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.net>; Pickett, Andy <APickett@buttecounty.net>; Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.net>; Teeter, Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net>; Julie Threet <julie4butte5@gmail.com>; Waugh, Melanie <mwaugh@buttecounty.net>; Kitts, Melissa <mkitts@buttecounty.net>; Durfee, Peter <pdurfee@buttecounty.net>; Ritter, Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.net>; Teri DuBose <Teri.DuBose@mail.house.gov>; Congressman Doug LaMalfa <CA01DL.Outreach@mail.house.gov>; Stephens, Brad J. <BStephens@buttecounty.net>; Clerk of the Board <ClerkoftheBoard@buttecounty.net> Subject: You DESTROYED our county. Do not steal our hard earned tax dollars. More Government Deception in COVID Deaths, and Rise in Unexpected Excess Deaths Public Record Dishonesty, deceit, and duplicity... the devil is in the details ROXANNE HALVERSON OCT 27 READ IN APP Canadians should never forget what their governments put them through in the dystopian nightmare that was the ‘pandemic.’ Their soul destroying authoritarian COVID 19 ‘public health’ mandates and restrictions wrought dark times for many people. That is why it is never too late to take notice when new information or perspectives emerge that underscore or shed new light on just how deliberately unscrupulous and treacherous governments were in propagandizing Canadians into submission using tactics of fear, fraud and subterfuge. A report issued by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), this September does just that in revealing how Canadian governments distorted definitions and skewed data to justify its pandemic response actions and policies. Response actions and policies that infringed on civil liberties, while doing little, if anything to stop the spread of COVID or ‘save lives’ and, as this report’s findings demonstrate, did more harm than good, on all fronts. The findings rely on actual data from Statistics Canada and Health Canada and lay bare how governments were able to inflate COVID death statistics while, at the same time, downplaying the injuries and deaths caused by the lockdowns and COVID 19 vaccines, including an alarming continuing trend of unexplained excess deaths that are still occurring. The Intrepid Viking is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Given that mainstream media were complicit in supporting the government’s propaganda enterprise, it is no surprise that they have ignored this report. Not only did they not question the government’s heavy-handed response actions, they gave them their full-throated support — endorsing everything from the lockdowns to the vaccine mandates. Even in the face of mounting evidence such response actions were not only ineffective, but harmful and based on dubious science, they continued to champion the government narrative. They did so with messaging that helped brainwash people, with a mixture of fear and coercion to believe COVID presented an extreme danger to everyone and that the so called ‘safe and effective’ vaccines, not natural or herd immunity, were the only things that could ‘end’ the pandemic and end the pandemic restrictions – which they ultimately didn’t do. COVID Death Classification versus COVID Vaccine Death Classifications The media never questioned the criteria government’s were using to categorize and record COVID deaths. Yet, what the JCCF report highlights is the fact that governments exploited the broad and vague “COVID Death Classification” guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in April of 2020 to inflate death rates. The guidelines specified that: “COVID-19 should be recorded on the medical certificate as ‘cause of death’ for ALL decedents where COVID-19 caused, or is assumed to have caused, or CONTRIBUTED to death.” This allowed for COVID to be listed as the cause of death even when it wasn’t the primary cause, but only ‘contributed’ to a death. So, for example, if a person who had a chronic heart condition died of a heart attack, their death could still be classified as a ‘COVID death’ as long as the decedent cause of death was identified such as a trauma caused by an accident, a poisoning or a drug overdose. In other words, if someone’s death was due to suffering fatal injuries in a car accident, the injuries from accident would be classified as the cause of death, regardless of whether the person tested positive for COVID. This completely contravened previous standard ‘cause of death’ guidelines, where if a patient with chronic heart disease died of a heart attack, but also contracted the flu or a cold at the time of their death, the heart attack would still be listed as the cause of death, period. One has to ask why such vague criteria was adopted other than to use it to inflate COVID death rates to drum up fear, and drum it up they did. It’s difficult to forget watching public health officers on television standing at their podiums day after day solemnly announcing COVID deaths, the television news incessantly displaying chyron banners showing an uptick in COVID deaths and the alarming headlines in national newspapers. The Globe and Mail headline to an article published in March of 2021 read: One year from Canada’s first COVID-19 deaths, what do the numbers tell us? — even as Canadiansroll up their sleeves to be inoculated, the virus continues to claims lives A month later the Globe published an article in April, 2021 with a headline that read: Canada’s COVID-19 death toll from first months of pandemic higher than thought, data show Another article in the Globe published in May of 2022, with a headline that read: Canada reaches a grim milestone — 40,000 COVID-19 The Toronto Star published an article in January of 2022 with a headline that read: Ontario’s Omicron Death Toll is on the Rise and Getting Worse In December of 2022 with the Star publish an article with a headline that read: Why in Ontario and Canada did this becomes COVID’s deadliest year — people are still suffering,people are still dying So, the question is, how many deaths were categorized as COVID deaths that were not actual COVID deaths? By way of example, in 2020-2021, the first year of the pandemic, Statistics Canada reported that 27,000 Canadians over the age of 65 died of COVID-19. But it is likely that at least 10,000 of these deaths that were attributed to COVID, were not actually ‘COVID deaths’. Analyzing certain deaths by cause in previous years explains this discrepancy. For example, there were substantially fewer than expected deaths in several common ‘cause of death’ categories in this same time period for this age group. For example, there were about 7,600 fewer deaths attributed to dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other related diseases, and about 4,000 fewer deaths from influenza, pneumonia, and other respiratory illnesses, than would have been expected under normal circumstances. It seems that many who died of these illnesses, likely had their deaths categorized as COVID deaths, simply because they tested positive for COVID at the time of their death. The only conclusion one can come to is that COVID was not as deadly for those aged 65, as the government led people to believe. It was only made to appear so, because government’s deliberately inflated death rates. What is even more devious is the stark contrast between the government’s use of WHO’s overly broad criteria to classify COVID deaths, as opposed to its use of the WHO’s very restrictive terms, for attributing deaths to COVID vaccines. For example, if a person died shortly after having a COVID vaccine, their death, under the ‘Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI)’ WHO guidelines was specified to be classified as ‘indeterminate’ if there is insufficient definitive evidence” to link the death to the vaccine. What type of ‘evidence’ that would be, other than the person dropping dead after receiving the shot, is not clear. Instead, deaths following immunizations against COVID were to be deemed coincidental or an ‘inconsistent causal association to immunization’ particularly if the deceased had an ‘underlying condition’. This included, not only physical illnesses, but mental illnesses as well. Such “coincidental” rulings would have been very frequent among the elderly, many of whom would commonly have several “underlying conditions”. Even now, deaths are still only considered ‘vaccine-related’ when all other possible explanations are ruled out. Additionally, in order for a new ‘potential causal association’ to be identified, a national database must record a pattern of similar adverse events linked to the vaccine “over time”. For a novel vaccine, such as the COVID shots, such a database takes years to establish before potential associations would be considered valid. It certainly makes one think that the government’s criteria for recognizing or classifying deaths related to COVID vaccines are designed to reduce the number of reported vaccine- related deaths. The end result is that very few vaccine related deaths have been officially recognized. As of January 2024, of the 488 COVID vaccine deaths Canadian doctors on the ground have reported, only four have been recognized and classified as COVID vaccine deaths by Canadian Public Health officials. Lockdowns Caused Increased Deaths in Younger Canadians Another area where governments have been remiss in acknowledging and taking accountability for is the very distinct correlation between the lockdowns they repeatedly imposed and deaths among younger Canadians. Even though it became increasingly clear, very early on in the pandemic, that COVID posed very little risk to healthy young Canadians, from 2020 onward, Canadians under age 45 were dying at much higher rates than previous statistical averages. Pre-pandemic, between 2015-2019, the weekly death rate for Canadians under the age of 45 was 245, yet, amounting to 12,740 deaths per year. Yet between 2020-2024 that average rose to 334 deaths per week, amounting to 17,368 per year, an increase of 4,628 annually. This means that between 2020-2025, the ‘COVID years’ an additional 18,512 young Canadians died, compared to the previous pre-COVID four-year period. Less than 1,000 of those deaths were attributed to COVID, and in regard to that number, most who were listed as dying from COVID had serious underlying pre-existing health conditions. This increased death rate in younger Canadians can be attributed to drug overdoses which increased by 55 per cent after once the lockdowns began. They rose from a pre-lockdown number of 4,440 annual deaths (2017-2019) to almost 7,000 deaths annually during lockdowns (2020-2023). These demoralizing government imposed lockdowns and stay-at-home orders and other socially restrictive measures isolated vulnerable Canadians from their workplaces, their places of learning, their places of worship, their families and their communities causing such levels of depression and despair that often the resulting effect was increased substance abuse and dependencies. For addicts, the shuttering of in-person meetings like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous shut down literal lifelines for some, contributing to many relapsing into addictions and dying. For Canadians under 65, alcohol-induced deaths increased by 27% from 2019 to 2020 and by 18 percent across all ages according to Statistics Canada. Most prominent was an increase of such alcohol related afflictions as liver disease. Deaths from liver disease jumped from 2,786 in 2019 to 3,307 in 2020, with a total of approximately 1,900 above-normal or “excess” deaths in this category. News Medical, an online medical publication, in February of 2025, also published article pointing to the increased number of alcohol-related deaths during the pandemic. Due to ongoing needless fear-mongering by the government and the media, together with job losses or financial pressures created by government pandemic response actions, many Canadians understandably experienced a great deal of stress. This was likely a causal factor in excess death numbers from diabetes and hypertension which sharply increased from the start of lockdowns and continued above the previous trend into 2023. Additionally both of these conditions were also considered to be co-morbidities that would put people at a higher risk of dying or becoming seriously ill if they were to contract COVID 19. The lockdowns and other COVID policies also had a significant impact on access to medical treatment for Canadians. During the pandemic overall medical wait times increased by 42 percent compared to pre-lockdown averages. Over the course of the pandemic hundreds of thousands of medically necessary surgeries were cancelled or postponed along the many more critical diagnostic services and tests. The result is many people now find themselves dealing with advanced stages of cancers or other illnesses that could have been prevented or treated with timely access to medical care and services. Backlogs and staff shortages as a result of the lockdowns are still impacting timely access to medical treatment for many, even in 2025. How many deaths and how much suffering can be attributed to this short-sightedness and mismanagement is difficult to fathom and perhaps even determine. Canadian federal and provincial governments have yet to explain or provide evidence for how lockdowns saved lives, despite that it is clear they did not prevent the spread of COVID even in long-term care facilities where COVID claimed about 80 percent of its victims when it comes to the COVID death statistics. Even if lock downs prevented a small number COVID deaths, when taking into account both their short-term and long-term effects, they appear to have caused many more deaths in younger Canadians than COVID did, despite the over broad categories governments were using to record COVID deaths. The JCCF is not the only organization that has issued reports on the damage done by lockdowns. The Fraser Institute released a report in January of 2023 on the subject exposing how and why mandates, vaccine passports, and lockdowns caused more harm than good. Even as early as 2020, after many countries ended the first round of lockdowns, articles and papers had already begun to surface noting their harms, yet governments ignored them and locked down longer and harder as the pandemic continued. Unexplained Excess Deaths — Post Pandemic and Post Vaccines While the previous findings of the JCCF report are disturbing and tragic, its findings related to excess and unexplained deaths, particularly among young Canadians, post vaccine, and post pandemic are perhaps the most alarming, and unsettling. What is even more alarming is that the highest numbers of these deaths began when COVID cases began to taper off and vaccine rates were at their highest. For example by mid-2022, with more than 80 percent of Canadians considered ‘fully vaccinated’ and when COVID cases were down substantially and lockdowns lessening — 2022 reported the highest number of excess deaths during what one might still consider the ‘COVID era’. More excess deaths occurred in 2022 than in 2020, when the pandemic was at its height, and no vaccines were available; and when governments deemed excess deaths high enough to impose lockdowns. In 2022 an estimated 31,370 or 10.3 percent more Canadians died than the previous five-year trend would have projected, compared to only 14,950 excess deaths in 2020. This included an increase in non-COVID death rates in Canadian children, aged one to 14, which increased by 16 percent in 2022. Deaths among children in this age group, rose to 14 percent per 100,000 in 2022, and 13.5 percent per 100,000 in 2023 from the previous five years average of 11.8 per 100,000. Death rates by others specific age groups show similar trends. For Canadians aged 45 and above (45 to 64, 65 to 84, and 85 and above), death rates were highest in 2022, after more than 80 percent of Canadians had received at least two COVID vaccines. For Canadians under 45, death rates peaked in 2021 (not 2020) and then declined only slightly in 2022 and 2023. There were over 4,230 additional and unexpected (excess) deaths for Canadians under 45 in 2022 and 2023 combined, with only a very small minority having died of COVID 19. For those aged under 45, there are more than 10,000 deaths from 2020 to 2023 that still remain uncategorized, of which about 6,400 are from 2022 and 2023 alone. For those aged 45 to 65, there were over 7,460 excess deaths in 2022 and 2023, with less than half of those being attributed to COVID. There were significant increases in several causes of deaths for these groups, but those increases did not account for all of these excesses. This is largely due to deaths that were uncategorized, or rather, categorized as “cause unknown.” The year 2022 was the deadliest for seniors, over the age of 65, despite 95 percent of them having received two or more COVID vaccines by then — yet 2022 reported approximately 24,000 excess or unexpected deaths. That is two and half times the number of deaths that occurred in 2020, at the height of the pandemic. Only 18,000 of the 24,000 deaths in 2022 were attributed to COVID, however, the actual number of COVID deaths was likely much lower due to government’s trend of over-attributing deaths to COVID. The rise in excess deaths in these age categories, beginning especially in 2022, demonstrate a strong correlation between excess deaths and the vaccines. Other data, most notably the high rate of deaths for‘unknown causes’, especially in 2022, indicates that health officials were unprepared to assign cause of death classifications to many deaths. The proportion of deaths with an “unknown cause” is greatest among young Canadians under age 45, ranging between 15 to 25 percent from 2019 to 2023. For the most elderly, those over 85, the unknown cause range is much lower only — 1.7 to 2.3 percent. For Canadians aged 45 and under 25 percent of deaths were listed as ‘unclassified’ when Statistics Canada first released its death data in November 2023. In total, more than 10,000 deaths from 2020 to 2023 still remain uncategorized in this group, about 6,400 of which are from 2022 and 2023 alone. Shattering the Government’s COVID Narrative Studies and reports like this continue to shatter the narrative that the government and the media spun throughout the pandemic — that being that the virus was deadly and the actions they took to ‘protect’ Canadians were warranted and successful. The ends that they went to to protect their narrative included not just skewing data and distorting definitions that inflated death rates to generate fear of the virus, but by censoring, firing and defaming anyone who challenged that narrative. Doctors and nurses who questioned the vaccines or tried alternative treatments such as Ivermectin, or questioned mask or vaccine mandates were fired and/or had their licenses to practice pulled. It is only now that some of those people are able to speak again, and work again. Another example of the lengths the Canadian government — the Trudeau government went to protect its narrative, is demonstrated plan it enacted when it discovered early in 2021, that the vaccines were causing harmful injuries to some people. Worried that making this public might cause ‘vaccine hesitancy’, they implemented carefully managed ‘winning communications strategies’ to bolster confidence in COVID 19 vaccines in Canadians, complete with promotional materials. They also skewed statistics on the frequency and types of vaccine related deaths or injuries. This was clearly outlined in a Privy Council Office memo, dated May 2021, obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter through an Access to Information (ATIP) request, titled: Testing Behaviourally-Informed Messaging in Response to Severe Adverse Events Following Immunization. Another example of this type of chicanery on the part of the Trudeau government was its contracting Dr. David Fisman, a professor of epidemiology a the University of Toronto and known supporter of the government’s COVID response policies, to prepare a report using falsified data to sanction its vaccine mandates and to vilify the unvaccinated by maintaining that they were responsible for the continued spread of the virus. This scheme was exposed in the book, Fisman’s Fraud: The Rise of Canadian Hate Science researched and written Dr. Regina N. Watteel, PhD, Statistics, and BSc, Mathematics and Physics. In summary, the Canadian government’s own data shows that COVID 19 was not nearly as dangerous as governments and public health officials claimed. Given this their over-zealous response to control the virus with lock downs, and the shutting down of schools, restaurants, small businesses, recreation facilities and places of worship and the introduction of untested vaccines, coupled with coercive vaccine mandates, and other forms of manipulation, significantly contributed to the rise and ongoing trend of excess deaths in Canada. Rather than addressing these findings, governments and public health officials continue to avoid acknowledging their potential policy errors and quite frankly their outright deception and duplicity in how they manipulated data and messaging to manipulate and coerce Canadians into accepting the what is now clear were damaging and harmful mandates, restrictions and policies. The danger in their refusal to accept their accountability in this debacle, is that should another ‘health emergency’ arise, they will use the same playbook again.” diana dreiss Begin forwarded message: From: TheyLied from Substack <theylied@substack.com> Date: October 27, 2025 at 2:45:24 PM PDT To: lancedreiss@att.net Subject: More Government Deception in COVID Deaths, and Rise in Unexpected Excess Deaths Reply-To: TheyLied from Substack <reply+2xkh10&kcryl&&fadc845be1bf3cd0eaf4778e0d5323bd61e0b320681b4aed5298df0910bc24e9@mg1.substack. com>  TheyLied Substack cross-posted a post from The Intrepid Viking TheyLiedOct 27 · TheyLied Substack . More Government Deception in COVID Deaths,and Rise in Unexpected Excess Deaths Dishonesty, deceit, and duplicity... the devil is in the details ROXANNE HALVERSON OCT 27 READ IN APP Canadians should never forget what their governments put them through in the dystopian nightmare that was the ‘pandemic.’ Their soul destroying authoritarian COVID 19 ‘public health’ mandates and restrictions wrought dark times for many people. That is why it is never too late to take notice when new information or perspectives emerge that underscore or shed new light on just how deliberately unscrupulous and treacherous governments were in propagandizing Canadians into submission using tactics of fear, fraud and subterfuge. A report issued by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), this September does just that in revealing how Canadian governments distorted definitions and skewed data to justify its pandemic response actions and policies. Response actions and policies that infringed on civil liberties, while doing little, if anything to stop the spread of COVID or ‘save lives’ and, as this report’s findings demonstrate, did more harm than good, on all fronts. The findings rely on actual data from Statistics Canada and Health Canada and lay bare how governments were able to inflate COVID death statistics while, at the same time, downplaying the injuries and deaths caused by the lockdowns and COVID 19 vaccines, including an alarming continuing trend of unexplained excess deaths that are still occurring. The Intrepid Viking is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Given that mainstream media were complicit in supporting the government’s propaganda enterprise, it is no surprise that they have ignored this report. Not only did they not question the government’s heavy-handed response actions, they gave them their full-throated support — endorsing everything from the lockdowns to the vaccine mandates. Even in the face of mounting evidence such response actions were not only ineffective, but harmful and based on dubious science, they continued to champion the government narrative. They did so with messaging that helped brainwash people, with a mixture of fear and coercion to believe COVID presented an extreme danger to everyone and that the so called ‘safe and effective’ vaccines, not natural or herd immunity, were the only things that could ‘end’ the pandemic and end the pandemic restrictions – which they ultimately didn’t do. COVID Death Classification versus COVID Vaccine Death Classifications The media never questioned the criteria government’s were using to categorize and record COVID deaths. Yet, what the JCCF report highlights is the fact that governments exploited the broad and vague “COVID Death Classification” guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in April of 2020 to inflate death rates. The guidelines specified that: “COVID-19 should be recorded on the medical certificate as ‘cause of death’ for ALL decedents where COVID-19 caused, or is assumed to have caused, or CONTRIBUTED to death.” This allowed for COVID to be listed as the cause of death even when it wasn’t the primary cause, but only ‘contributed’ to a death. So, for example, if a person who had a chronic heart condition died of a heart attack, their death could still be classified as a ‘COVID death’ as long as the decedent tested positive for the virus before or after they died. The only time this would not occur was if a clear alternative for the cause of death was identified such as a trauma caused by an accident, a poisoning or a drug overdose. In other words, if someone’s death was due to suffering fatal injuries in a car accident, the injuries from accident would be classified as the cause of death, regardless of whether the person tested positive for COVID. This completely contravened previous standard ‘cause of death’ guidelines, where if a patient with chronic heart disease died of a heart attack, but also contracted the flu or a cold at the time of their death, the heart attack would still be listed as the cause of death, period. One has to ask why such vague criteria was adopted other than to use it to inflate COVID death rates to drum up fear, and drum it up they did. It’s difficult to forget watching public health officers on television standing at their podiums day after day solemnly announcing COVID deaths, the television news incessantly displaying chyron banners showing an uptick in COVID deaths and the alarming headlines in national newspapers. The Globe and Mail headline to an article published in March of 2021 read: One year from Canada’s first COVID-19 deaths, what do the numbers tell us? — even asCanadians roll up their sleeves to be inoculated, the virus continues to claims lives A month later the Globe published an article in April, 2021 with a headline that read: Canada’s COVID-19 death toll from first months of pandemic higher than thought, datashow Another article in the Globe published in May of 2022, with a headline that read: Canada reaches a grim milestone — 40,000 COVID-19 The Toronto Star published an article in January of 2022 with a headline that read: Ontario’s Omicron Death Toll is on the Rise and Getting Worse In December of 2022 with the Star publish an article with a headline that read: Why in Ontario and Canada did this becomes COVID’s deadliest year — people are stillsuffering, people are still dying So, the question is, how many deaths were categorized as COVID deaths that were not actual COVID deaths? By way of example, in 2020-2021, the first year of the pandemic, Statistics Canada reported that 27,000 Canadians over the age of 65 died of COVID-19. But it is likely that at least 10,000 of these deaths that were attributed to COVID, were not actually ‘COVID deaths’. Analyzing certain deaths by cause in previous years explains this discrepancy. For example, there were substantially fewer than expected deaths in several common ‘cause of death’ categories in this same time period for this age group. For example, there were about 7,600 fewer deaths attributed to dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other related diseases, and about 4,000 fewer deaths from influenza, pneumonia, and other respiratory illnesses, than would have been expected under normal circumstances. It seems that many who died of these illnesses, likely had their deaths categorized as COVID deaths, simply because they tested positive for COVID at the time of their death. The only conclusion one can come to is that COVID was not as deadly for those aged 65, as the government led people to believe. It was only made to appear so, because government’s deliberately inflated death rates. What is even more devious is the stark contrast between the government’s use of WHO’s overly broad criteria to classify COVID deaths, as opposed to its use of the WHO’s very restrictive terms, for attributing deaths to COVID vaccines. For example, if a person died shortly after having a COVID vaccine, their death, under the ‘Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI)’ WHO guidelines was specified to be classified as ‘indeterminate’ if there is insufficient definitive evidence” to link the death to the vaccine. What type of ‘evidence’ that would be, other than the person dropping dead after receiving the shot, is not clear. Instead, deaths following immunizations against COVID were to be deemed coincidental or an ‘inconsistent causal association to immunization’ particularly if the deceased had an ‘underlying condition’. This included, not only physical illnesses, but mental illnesses as well. Such “coincidental” rulings would have been very frequent among the elderly, many of whom would commonly have several “underlying conditions”. Even now, deaths are still only considered ‘vaccine-related’ when all other possible explanations are ruled out. Additionally, in order for a new ‘potential causal association’ to be identified, a national database must record a pattern of similar adverse events linked to the vaccine “over time”. For a novel vaccine, such as the COVID shots, such a database takes years to establish before potential associations would be considered valid. It certainly makes one think that the government’s criteria for recognizing or classifying deaths related to COVID vaccines are designed to reduce the number of reported vaccine-related deaths. The end result is that very few vaccine related deaths have been officially recognized. As of January 2024, of the 488 COVID vaccine deaths Canadian doctors on the ground have reported, only four have been recognized and classified as COVID vaccine deaths by Canadian Public Health officials. Lockdowns Caused Increased Deaths in Younger Canadians Another area where governments have been remiss in acknowledging and taking accountability for is the very distinct correlation between the lockdowns they repeatedly imposed and deaths among younger Canadians. Even though it became increasingly clear, very early on in the pandemic, that COVID posed very little risk to healthy young Canadians, from 2020 onward, Canadians under age 45 were dying at much higher rates than previous statistical averages. Pre-pandemic, between 2015-2019, the weekly death rate for Canadians under the age of 45 was 245, yet, amounting to 12,740 deaths per year. Yet between 2020-2024 that average rose to 334 deaths per week, amounting to 17,368 per year, an increase of 4,628 annually. This means that between 2020-2025, the ‘COVID years’ an additional 18,512 young Canadians died, compared to the previous pre-COVID four-year period. Less than 1,000 of those deaths were attributed to COVID, and in regard to that number, most who were listed as dying from COVID had serious underlying pre-existing health conditions. This increased death rate in younger Canadians can be attributed to drug overdoses which increased by 55 per cent after once the lockdowns began. They rose from a pre-lockdown number of 4,440 annual deaths (2017- 2019) to almost 7,000 deaths annually during lockdowns (2020-2023). These demoralizing government imposed lockdowns and stay-at-home orders and other socially restrictive measures isolated vulnerable Canadians from their workplaces, their places of learning, their places of worship, their families and their communities causing such levels of depression and despair that often the resulting effect was increased substance abuse and dependencies. For addicts, the shuttering of in-person meetings like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous shut down literal lifelines for some, contributing to many relapsing into addictions and dying. For Canadians under 65, alcohol-induced deaths increased by 27% from 2019 to 2020 and by 18 percent across all ages according to Statistics Canada. Most prominent was an increase of such alcohol related afflictions as liver disease. Deaths from liver disease jumped from 2,786 in 2019 to 3,307 in 2020, with a total of approximately 1,900 above-normal or “excess” deaths in this category. News Medical, an online medical publication, in February of 2025, also published article pointing to the increased number of alcohol-related deaths during the pandemic. Due to ongoing needless fear-mongering by the government and the media, together with job losses or financial pressures created by government pandemic response actions, many Canadians understandably experienced a great deal of stress. This was likely a causal factor in excess death numbers from diabetes and hypertension which sharply increased from the start of lockdowns and continued above the previous trend into 2023. Additionally both of these conditions were also considered to be co-morbidities that would put people at a higher risk of dying or becoming seriously ill if they were to contract COVID 19. The lockdowns and other COVID policies also had a significant impact on access to medical treatment for Canadians. During the pandemic overall medical wait times increased by 42 percent compared to pre-lockdown averages. Over the course of the pandemic hundreds of thousands of medically necessary surgeries were cancelled or postponed along the many more critical diagnostic services and tests. The result is many people now find themselves dealing with advanced stages of cancers or other illnesses that could have been prevented or treated with timely access to medical care and services. Backlogs and staff shortages as a result of the lockdowns are still impacting timely access to medical treatment for many, even in 2025. How many deaths and how much suffering can be attributed to this short-sightedness and mismanagement is difficult to fathom and perhaps even determine. Canadian federal and provincial governments have yet to explain or provide evidence for how lockdowns saved lives, despite that it is clear they did not prevent the spread of COVID even in long-term care facilities where COVID claimed about 80 percent of its victims when it comes to the COVID death statistics. Even if lock downs prevented a small number COVID deaths, when taking into account both their short-term and long-term effects, they appear to have caused many more deaths in younger Canadians than COVID did, despite the over broad categories governments were using to record COVID deaths. The JCCF is not the only organization that has issued reports on the damage done by lockdowns. The Fraser Institute released a report in January of 2023 on the subject exposing how and why mandates, vaccine passports, and lockdowns caused more harm than good. Even as early as 2020, after many countries ended the first round of lockdowns, articles and papers had already begun to surface noting their harms, yet governments ignored them and locked down longer and harder as the pandemic continued. Unexplained Excess Deaths — Post Pandemic and Post Vaccines While the previous findings of the JCCF report are disturbing and tragic, its findings related to excess and unexplained deaths, particularly among young Canadians, post vaccine, and post pandemic are perhaps the most alarming, and unsettling. What is even more alarming is that the highest numbers of these deaths began when COVID cases began to taper off and vaccine rates were at their highest. For example by mid-2022, with more than 80 percent of Canadians considered ‘fully vaccinated’ and when COVID cases were down substantially and lockdowns lessening — 2022 reported the highest number of excess deaths during what one might still consider the ‘COVID era’. More excess deaths occurred in 2022 than in 2020, when the pandemic was at its height, and no vaccines were available; and when governments deemed excess deaths high enough to impose lockdowns. In 2022 an estimated 31,370 or 10.3 percent more Canadians died than the previous five-year trend would have projected, compared to only 14,950 excess deaths in 2020. This included an increase in non-COVID death rates in Canadian children, aged one to 14, which increased by 16 percent in 2022. Deaths among children in this age group, rose to 14 percent per 100,000 in 2022, and 13.5 percent per 100,000 in 2023 from the previous five years average of 11.8 per 100,000. Death rates by others specific age groups show similar trends. For Canadians aged 45 and above (45 to 64, 65 to 84, and 85 and above), death rates were highest in 2022, after more than 80 percent of Canadians had received at least two COVID vaccines. For Canadians under 45, death rates peaked in 2021 (not 2020) and then declined only slightly in 2022 and 2023. There were over 4,230 additional and unexpected (excess) deaths for Canadians under 45 in 2022 and 2023 combined, with only a very small minority having died of COVID 19. For those aged under 45, there are more than 10,000 deaths from 2020 to 2023 that still remain uncategorized, of which about 6,400 are from 2022 and 2023 alone. For those aged 45 to 65, there were over 7,460 excess deaths in 2022 and 2023, with less than half of those being attributed to COVID. There were significant increases in several causes of deaths for these groups, but those increases did not account for all of these excesses. This is largely due to deaths that were uncategorized, or rather, categorized as “cause unknown.” The year 2022 was the deadliest for seniors, over the age of 65, despite 95 percent of them having received two or more COVID vaccines by then — yet 2022 reported approximately 24,000 excess or unexpected deaths. That is two and half times the number of deaths that occurred in 2020, at the height of the pandemic. Only 18,000 of the 24,000 deaths in 2022 were attributed to COVID, however, the actual number of COVID deaths was likely much lower due to government’s trend of over-attributing deaths to COVID. The rise in excess deaths in these age categories, beginning especially in 2022, demonstrate a strong correlation between excess deaths and the vaccines. Other data, most notably the high rate of deaths for ‘unknown causes’, especially in 2022, indicates that health officials were unprepared to assign cause of death classifications to many deaths. The proportion of deaths with an “unknown cause” is greatest among young Canadians under age 45, ranging between 15 to 25 percent from 2019 to 2023. For the most elderly, those over 85, the unknown cause range is much lower only — 1.7 to 2.3 percent. For Canadians aged 45 and under 25 percent of deaths were listed as ‘unclassified’ when Statistics Canada first released its death data in November 2023. In total, more than 10,000 deaths from 2020 to 2023 still remain uncategorized in this group, about 6,400 of which are from 2022 and 2023 alone. Shattering the Government’s COVID Narrative Studies and reports like this continue to shatter the narrative that the government and the media spun throughout the pandemic — that being that the virus was deadly and the actions they took to ‘protect’ Canadians were warranted and successful. The ends that they went to to protect their narrative included not just skewing data and distorting definitions that inflated death rates to generate fear of the virus, but by censoring, firing and defaming anyone who challenged that narrative. Doctors and nurses who questioned the vaccines or tried alternative treatments such as Ivermectin, or questioned mask or vaccine mandates were fired and/or had their licenses to practice pulled. It is only now that some of those people are able to speak again, and work again. Another example of the lengths the Canadian government — the Trudeau government went to protect its narrative, is demonstrated plan it enacted when it discovered early in 2021, that the vaccines were causing harmful injuries to some people. Worried that making this public might cause ‘vaccine hesitancy’, they implemented carefully managed ‘winning communications strategies’ to bolster confidence in COVID 19 vaccines in Canadians, complete with promotional materials. They also skewed statistics on the frequency and types of vaccine related deaths or injuries. This was clearly outlined in a Privy Council Office memo, dated May 2021, obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter through an Access to Information (ATIP) request, titled: Testing Behaviourally-Informed Messaging in Response to Severe Adverse Events Following Immunization. Another example of this type of chicanery on the part of the Trudeau government was its contracting Dr. David Fisman, a professor of epidemiology a the University of Toronto and known supporter of the government’s COVID response policies, to prepare a report using falsified data to sanction its vaccine mandates and to vilify the unvaccinated by maintaining that they were responsible for the continued spread of the virus. This scheme was exposed in the book, Fisman’s Fraud: The Rise of Canadian Hate Science researched and written Dr. Regina N. Watteel, PhD, Statistics, and BSc, Mathematics and Physics. In summary, the Canadian government’s own data shows that COVID 19 was not nearly as dangerous as governments and public health officials claimed. Given this their over-zealous response to control the virus with lock downs, and the shutting down of schools, restaurants, small businesses, recreation facilities and places of worship and the introduction of untested vaccines, coupled with coercive vaccine mandates, and other forms of manipulation, significantly contributed to the rise and ongoing trend of excess deaths in Canada. Rather than addressing these findings, governments and public health officials continue to avoid acknowledging their potential policy errors and quite frankly their outright deception and duplicity in how they manipulated data and messaging to manipulate and coerce Canadians into accepting the what is now clear were damaging and harmful mandates, restrictions and policies. The danger in their refusal to accept their accountability in this debacle, is that should another ‘health emergency’ arise, they will use the same playbook again. The Intrepid Viking is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid LIKE COMMENT RESTACK Originally posted on The Intrepid Viking Roxanne Halverson Subscribe A intrepid warrior exploring issues in today's strange new world. © 2025 TheyLied Unsubscribe