The statistics are in. New Zealanders are dying at a rate not experienced for over a quarter of a century.
Why is this not headline news? Why are politicians and health authorities not holding urgent inquiries as to what’s happening to the health and lives of the people they work for?
(The numbers are to the end of June in the year referenced)
Fifty years ago we popped our clogs quite often. A combination of too many smokers and too many car accidents - the road toll that year was a mind blowing 843 - meant that our death rate per thousand of population in 1973 was 8.47.
In the next two decades we worked hard to become healthier, live longer and not die at such a high rate.
By 1983 we were down to 8.10 and by 1993, by which time we were really serious about getting off the smokes, the rate had dropped significantly to 7.59 deaths per thousand of population.
Into the new millennium and the quest for healthier lives continued successfully. By 2003 the death rate was under 7, officially 6.96 and ten years later it had dropped to 6.78.
From 2013 and through the first year and a half of the Covid era we still maintained a consistent number of deaths in proportion to the population, in the 6.7 to 6.9 per thousand range.
In the years to June 2020 and 2021 we had two of our lowest death rates on record, 6.71 and 6.56 respectively.
We’re pretty sure we know why. The lockdowns kept us away from other people and therefore the chance of picking up contagious illness decreased.
But the trend has dramatically reversed in the past two years.
In 2022 it was above 7 for the first time in 22 years. The number was 7.18 deaths per thousand of population.
This past year has been even more disturbing. The rate shot up to 7.43, the highest since 1997 and 9.5 percent higher than ten years ago.
So why? What has happened in this country in the last two years which sees our death rate increasing so much?
In actual numbers 38,346 New Zealanders died in the year to June 30 this year. The average in the five years immediately before Covid (2015 - 2019) was 32,483. That’s a huge difference of 5863 on average annually, or 18 percent.
Stats NZ, whose job I always thought was to collect data and not interpret it, commented in its press release this week that the higher number of deaths reflects New Zealand’s ageing population and the impacts of the Covid pandemic.
Can a major increase in the number of New Zealanders dying and a significant spike in our death rate to a number not seen for more than 25 years just be glibly passed off as due to an “ageing” population?
We’ve had one of those for some time. Even pre-Covid in 2019 there were more than three quarters of a million of us on the pension.
Then there are the “impacts of the Covid pandemic.” Yes, over 3000 deaths have been attributed to Covid in the last 3 years but that still comes nowhere near accounting for the extra deaths during 2022 and 2023.
So don’t we really need to find out why so many more people are dying? What has changed in New Zealand in the last year and half?
We all know the answer to that.
It’s the elephant in the room. Millions were injected with the Covid vaccine - many thousands against their will but were coerced into having it so as to keep their job or their relationships.
When you discuss matters with data and statistics, there is always the issue of correlation and causation. A does not necessarily cause B.
This column is not saying that the stark increase in our death rate in recent times is because so many have been vaccinated.
But surely this epidemic of death must be fully investigated and all possible reasons for it examined.
Yet Sir Ashely Bloomfield insists we don’t have excess deaths. How can Stats
Peter Williams was a writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines. Peter blogs regularly on Peter’s Substack where this article was sourced.
Fifty years ago we popped our clogs quite often. A combination of too many smokers and too many car accidents - the road toll that year was a mind blowing 843 - meant that our death rate per thousand of population in 1973 was 8.47.
In the next two decades we worked hard to become healthier, live longer and not die at such a high rate.
By 1983 we were down to 8.10 and by 1993, by which time we were really serious about getting off the smokes, the rate had dropped significantly to 7.59 deaths per thousand of population.
Into the new millennium and the quest for healthier lives continued successfully. By 2003 the death rate was under 7, officially 6.96 and ten years later it had dropped to 6.78.
From 2013 and through the first year and a half of the Covid era we still maintained a consistent number of deaths in proportion to the population, in the 6.7 to 6.9 per thousand range.
In the years to June 2020 and 2021 we had two of our lowest death rates on record, 6.71 and 6.56 respectively.
We’re pretty sure we know why. The lockdowns kept us away from other people and therefore the chance of picking up contagious illness decreased.
But the trend has dramatically reversed in the past two years.
In 2022 it was above 7 for the first time in 22 years. The number was 7.18 deaths per thousand of population.
This past year has been even more disturbing. The rate shot up to 7.43, the highest since 1997 and 9.5 percent higher than ten years ago.
So why? What has happened in this country in the last two years which sees our death rate increasing so much?
In actual numbers 38,346 New Zealanders died in the year to June 30 this year. The average in the five years immediately before Covid (2015 - 2019) was 32,483. That’s a huge difference of 5863 on average annually, or 18 percent.
Stats NZ, whose job I always thought was to collect data and not interpret it, commented in its press release this week that the higher number of deaths reflects New Zealand’s ageing population and the impacts of the Covid pandemic.
Can a major increase in the number of New Zealanders dying and a significant spike in our death rate to a number not seen for more than 25 years just be glibly passed off as due to an “ageing” population?
We’ve had one of those for some time. Even pre-Covid in 2019 there were more than three quarters of a million of us on the pension.
Then there are the “impacts of the Covid pandemic.” Yes, over 3000 deaths have been attributed to Covid in the last 3 years but that still comes nowhere near accounting for the extra deaths during 2022 and 2023.
So don’t we really need to find out why so many more people are dying? What has changed in New Zealand in the last year and half?
We all know the answer to that.
It’s the elephant in the room. Millions were injected with the Covid vaccine - many thousands against their will but were coerced into having it so as to keep their job or their relationships.
When you discuss matters with data and statistics, there is always the issue of correlation and causation. A does not necessarily cause B.
This column is not saying that the stark increase in our death rate in recent times is because so many have been vaccinated.
But surely this epidemic of death must be fully investigated and all possible reasons for it examined.
Yet Sir Ashely Bloomfield insists we don’t have excess deaths. How can Stats
Peter Williams was a writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines. Peter blogs regularly on Peter’s Substack where this article was sourced.
12 comments:
Aging population could be a factor be we should investigate.
Furthermore there is a clear drive by our authorities to not discuss, that is the reason I feel uneasy.
In NZ we gave them gongs and accolades... with indecent haste.
Peter, I was a healthy active pensioner who biked daily, gardened and looked after the lawns, spouting etc but last September after the covid boosters I had a heart attack, a blood clot in my lung 5 weeks later then pneumonia a month after that. The ambulance medic told me I'd probably picked up the pneumonia in hospital as it was rife there and I've been ambulanced to hospital 3 more times, the last 2 weeks ago. Prior to the vaccinations I'd never had a heart problem and was very healthy for my age. I would never trust Ardern or Bloomfield, they are both bare faced liars. Kiwialan.
Thank you for pointing out this massive great elephant in the room Peter.
The new Netfix miniseries “Painkiller” should be required viewing for every politician, for every medical professional and for every pro-covid vax person in New Zealand.
It chronicles the reality of Big Pharma’s iron vice grip on every institution that matters that naively people believe will hold Big Pharma to account - from the FDA ( a complete Patsy) right up to the pure white house on the hill.
It documents the known lies, cover ups and manipulations of the drug company Purdue in its push to create ever bigger profits for itself with zero concern about how its drug, oxycontin was ensnaring and then killing hundreds of thousands of people - people convinced to take it by their doctors, who claimed ( because of provably false “research”) that the drugs were “safe and effective”. It illustrates how those who stood up and fought for the truth to come out had liittle hope of suceeding because of the intricate web of shadowy connections between big pharma and the agencies meant to oversee it.
But its most stark lesson is, we are left in no doubt that the dirty heart of this smothering web remains in place today.
Any New Zealand doctor who brought into the lie that Pfizer’s research and that of anyone associated with it should be in any way accepted as legitimate, should hang their head in shame.
They all, every single one of them, should have known better - had been TAUGHT to know better.
These deaths are on them, and they are on the politicians who strong armed them.
As a part of any royal comission we must indeed, Follow the Money.
Why aren’t New Zealanders being told about the recent damning research out showing that those poor buggers who got supposedly ‘mild’ and ‘rare’ (though not as ‘rare’ as it is to get rheumatic fever in NZ!) ‘vaccine’ induced myocarditis are now suffering repeat attacks of extensive heart muscle inflammation and damage and noone knows why. Could it be in fact that pfizer and moderna have created their very own endless “epidemic” of “rheumatic fever” like myocarditis, whereby the immune systems of hundreds and thousands of our young have been primed by the covid “vaccine” to in effect ‘vaccinate’ us against our own hearts!!
To respond to every future exposure to the sars cov 2 virus or one of its many mutations, with a massive flood of useless anti-covid antibodies that unfortunately just happen to recognise heart muscle as foreign and therefore set about destroying it.
The only thing warped by operation warp speed was the thinking in our supposedly objective public health puppets.
We are facing a potential iatrogenic epidemic that will make our current rheumatic fever epidemic look like a dolls’ picnic.
The damage done by our health nazis’ deliberate head-in-the-sand approach to big pharma and its associated medical “research” is perilously close to becoming common knowledge, and that day can’t come soon enough.
From the figures, it is easy to relate increased death rates to COVID vaccines.
If that is the only variable over the period looked at, it's probably accurate.
Would be interesting to match NZ figures with other countries, particularly those who had a COVID vaccination regime.
Bioweapon - Democide - By design.
Worldwide official sourced figures (which will be conservative) show 20 million dead from jab and 2.2 billion injured from jab to date
Very well put together Peter Williams.
Two of the greatest lies ever told. Safe and Effective and the Climate Change Emergency. Confirmation of these two giant fibs is born out by the MSM’s silence and their refusal to debate. What is worse, not a single politician, whose very actions should be in our best interests, has ever challenged these two lies.
We were told new vaccines to a new virus were tested and safe. I am as confused now as I was then as to how this could be asserted so confidently in such little time. In fact the safety results are likely just coming in now - but these will be disregarded as anecdotal (at best).
Injecting foreign toxic substances directly into the body is inherently dangerous. But call it medicine and it is all ok.
For Kiwialan , I suggest listening to Reality Check Radio's interview with high profile cardiologist Dr Peter McCUllough entitled ;'Systematic Review of Autopsy Findings, The Wilful Ignorance of Doctors and Turbo Cancers'. In this interview he gives advice on detoxification of the spike molecule which accumulates and grows after every vaccination. The molecule causes paralysis, strokes and heart attacks. Also Guy Hatchet has written material on excess deaths on Waikanae Watch today.
This makes horror science fiction stories of alien invasion look like child's play. May the day of revelation of the whole medical bio pharmaceutical nightmare unravel soon!
Thanks Peter.
I read your article entitled Epidemic of Death. It involves slight statistical variation in the number of NZ deaths per thousand, per year, over the last 50 year period:
In 1973 it was 8.4
in 2013 it was 6.7
and it is now increased again to 7.4. The suggested downswing is I believe illusionary.
The percentages themselves have not substantially changed.
What has changed in the last 50 years is a 40% increase in the population of New Zealand, many coming from overseas.
(27% of population now born outside New Zealand)
All sorts of things can affect longevity of these include many new variables:
* increasing numbers on
contraception since the 1960s
* abortion introduced in 1977
* increasing suicide rates
* Drug usage — legal & illegal
*CoVid, Yes! It will have some effect.
A comparison of the same population, over 50 years, does not necessarily mean a comparison of like and like.
This has to be taken into account!
“If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn’t be able to reach a conclusion.”
.…George Bernard Shaw
How about somebody giving us the real stats. As in which age groups show up as being in the increased deaths cohort. Plus were all of whichever cohort vaccinated or not? How many died long after having had ACTUAL Covid.
I had one vaccination about 18 months ago. Then around Christmas 2022 was struck with a real dose of Covid – test confirmed. Not the worst. A couple of weeks to shake it off then a couple of months for the energy levels to return. So far so good, have survived the winter with just a standard sinus head cold - touch wood and all of that.
Here’s a thought or two:
How many Americans died from Covid through listening to the no precautions garbage spouted by Trump? Don’t forget he once recommended that household bleach could be a remedy. I think some people died through treating themselves with bleach.
Did Trump himself actually have Covid? Or was his hospital visit and smiley face motorcade during that visit simply a gigantic Con to show a gullible public just how “tough” he was?
Thank you Erica, I will listen to the interview today. I have read many overseas reports and studies regarding the truth of what damage the vaccines have done, the lies told by our government is disgusting. Kiwialan.
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