This book is brief on text but compellingly long on references and evidence. It is extremely persuasive, and the book can be read quickly--within two hours of reading time at most. If you have people you care about who are ready for this book, please give it to them.
There were two questions I couldn't stop thinking about while reading this book and thinking over the past few years. The first was "Could I have possibly known much sooner (and much more) about these risks, like when I and others around me were still deciding on these experimental mRNA therapies?"
The second question was "What does it mean to be informed?" We're learning now that our media plays a much different role than we would like in "informing" us, and further, we're learning that many media outlets actively suppressed important information about these therapies. As a result, millions of innocent media consumers were nearly guaranteed to get the mRNA therapy decision wrong. What does this say about the decision-making value of legacy media? Is it in our interests to depend on media that would suppress or withhold critical information--at least until they couldn't any more?
Pair with:
Dr. Robert Malone: Lies My Government Told Me
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: The Real Anthony Fauci
Notes/Thoughts:
1) It's good rhetoric to start with "factchecking the factcheckers" while noting the odd coincidence that the man who started Reuters Factcheck sits on the board of Pfizer. A critically important element of understanding the media water we swim in is to understand the role and techniques of the factchecking apparatus.
2) The reader's experience of seeing all the news stories of young athletes (athletes!) dying suddenly is deeply persuasive. It's also terribly saddening to read: so many kids, so many teenagers...
3) On how much energy and cognition we humans can waste defending against things that one should immediately accept: how there's a Kubler-Ross stages of grief component to this journey where you have "unknow" a body of beliefs that you thought were true ("there's no way all these 'died suddenlys' are real and there's no WAY it's because of the vax") and begin the process of accepting a new body of beliefs. I think this is a meta-skill for today's Fourth Turning era: you have to be able "handle the truth" as quickly as possible; you have to get through your Kubler-Ross stages of grief (particularly denial) in order to see reality accurately and navigate it effectively.
4) "Using the QR code, you can confirm right now that this suppressed story is true." Again, persuasive.
5) The excess mortality data is corroborated by regular reporting from the Society of Actuaries, and also by multiple specific group life insurance companies.
6) See also UK child excess death data, which was below baseline during lockdowns, but then went over to excess deaths, while also following the age-stratified rollout patterns of vax programs!
7) Note that the UK stopped offering COVID vaxes to under 12s on 9/8/22; several other countries had already done the same (Scandinavian countries for example) and since then the UK has now stopped recommending mRNA vaxxes for under 50 year olds (there have been more examples since). Note in the context of all these reversals, the CDC still has these experimental therapies on the schedule still for children--and even infants. (!!)
8) [I wonder how many readers will have either of these two reactions to this book:
1) "I'm aware of this, and this is a persuasive summary of deaths that should never have occurred. Our media should be talking about this--but it isn't."
or
2) "I never heard of this stuff. This can't possibly be true. I would have heard of it."
The second reaction is interesting: it's a mental defense, a dangerous one, where we systematically doubt any information we don't already have (yes, that's circular, which is part of the problem).]
9) [Also, the two reactions in note 8) represent an informational asymmetry: they represent two poles of knowing (or not knowing) what's going on. Dowd doesn't address the concept of information asymmetry in Cause Unknown, but he has repeatedly discussed the serious ramifications of it elsewhere in tweets and interviews. He's absolutely right when he says that we are, right now, in a period of tremendous informational asymmetry. Even now, I think it's safe to say many people still do not fully know about the various risks of these mRNA therapies, nor of the degree of independent, corroboration of those risks]
10) [Note also some countries figure things out a lot sooner than others, e.g. note 7) above. You want to look to healthcare recommendations of the countries that are "early" and you may want to actively ignore your own country's recs!! See Denmark, UK, other "early" countries as "tells" of what's going to happen.]
11) Further corroboration from US BLS disability surveys.
12) Note that Dowd doesn't speculate in this book as to "why" these deaths are happening, although he is far more explicit as to the role of the vax in his many talks and interviews he has given online.
Afterword by Gavin de Becker
13) Note the allegations here about FDA head Robert Califf, presiding over the FDA when it approved high dose hydrocodone drugs, as well as approved oxycodone for use in children as young as 11 as well as other rather unfortunate drug approvals; note that in each of these approvals "the FDA overrode its own advisory committee of experts, and Califf gave his approval."
14) In a second essay "Seeing is Believing" de Becker makes a very persuasive case for toxicity of mRNA vaccines using South Korea as an example, they had almost no COVID deaths before vaccine rollout, and nearly all of their COVID deaths occurred after mass vaccination. Similar patterns occur in several other countries: Thailand looks very similar, as well as Malaysia, Uganda, Nepal, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and other countries. Also Israel is actually one of the most compelling examples here of this line of argument. See also Vietnam, another very interesting (actually disturbing) example, where it began mass vaccination in March 2021 using five different vaccine products, but then in July 2021 Vietnam started giving US government-donated Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, at which point death rates rose significantly.
Compendium
15) A collection of reports on unexpected deaths in 2021 and 2022. A sample not a complete collection.
16) "When young people collapse and die at sporting events, the collapses are witnessed by spectators and thus more likely to be reported in news stories. Similarly, in small towns, a young athlete might be well known in the community making it more likely that sudden death will be reported."
17) "Our purpose is to show, in the least fortuitous and most efficient way possible, if there had been many sudden deaths of healthy young people in 2021/2022, that this is an issue of high public importance, that many sudden deaths have been reported in the news, and that these stories and incidents are widespread."
18) [Again, it is tremendously disturbing to read this, page after page after page of all these people suddenly passing.]
Appendix 1: A sampling of scholarly and scientific studies on sudden cardiac death and athletes
19) Note for example that there were a grand total of 69 deaths from cardiac arrest among high school athletes across the entire period of 2007-2013 (!!) Vanishingly rare, <10 per year.
Appendix 2: Why deaths moved from the elderly to younger healthier Americans
20) On pushback against the working age excess death data: people contesting that it was mRNA therapy related, and instead claiming it was due to suicide/drug overdose/missed medical treatments. etc, "I have already argued that the obvious three-month temporal rate of change increase in August, September and October can't be explained by the three above mentioned potential causes."
21) The Society of Actuaries report showed that the group life population died at higher rates than the general US population: this is absolutely not the case historically, typically they will die at only 30-40% of the overall population mortality rate.
22) Did the virus decide to disproportionately target the employed rather than the unemployed? Or did the virus initially target old people... and then switch to young people?, Obviously this is strong evidence that "something new and novel" happened to insured working employees in 2021 that did not happen in years prior, nor when COVID was raging in 2020.
23) Finally, I'd also like to recommend four excellent Substack authors to any curious and rigorous reader who wants to learn more, or who would like to corroborate/crosscheck some of the findings in this book:
* Coquin de Chien's substack: See in particular his tremendously rigorous analysis of death data from the state of Massachusetts, which corroborates Dowd's book.
* The Forgotten Side of Medicine: discusses many aspects of medicine in (very) long but worthwhile posts.
* Igor Chudov's substack: covers with an engineer's rigor many of these same issues.
* Pierre Kory's substack: see Dr. Kory's extended (and sobering) discussion on Ivermectin; see also his discussions of the nature of iterative "field medicine" vs top down protocols handed down by governments and large corporate healthcare bureaucracies.