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A spike in the number of deaths in recent weeks has disrupted funeral arrangements and put mortuaries under unprecedented stress. An Irish Examiner analysis of death notices on the website rip.ie shows there were 9,718 published in the eight-week period from December 1, 2022, to January 25, 2023 — up 20% from 8,075 in the same period a year earlier. The figure is also considerably higher than the 8,135 death notices published in the same period to January 25, 2021, when the country was in the grip of the worst period of the Covid pandemic. Pre-pandemic, 6,802 death notices were...

The skydiving pair was spotted midair struggling to deploy their parachutes, local resident Alex Arias, who witnessed the incident, told KPRC. The male instructor was reportedly unconscious after hitting the ground while the female student was awake and calling for help. “He let off his primary and then the secondary shoot like opened halfway up so he didn’t fall like a straight fall, he was like 50 percent shoot, like a corkscrew,” Arias said, KPRC reported.

Bob Saget died after sustaining what appeared to be significant head trauma, according to a recently released autopsy report. The 65-year-old star was found unresponsive in his hotel bed in Orlando, Florida, on January 9. Last week, Saget's family announced that he had died after he "accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep." However, an autopsy report by Dr. Joshua Stephany, the chief medical examiner of Orange and Osceola counties in Florida, suggests the head injury was far more serious than one that could have been shrugged off. ... Dr....

Public Health England (PHE) is an agency of the UK Govt. One of their current functions is to publish medical statistics on Covid and the effectiveness of treatment. This post is to present critical detail from PHE's technical briefing 23 that covers the period: 1 February 2021 to 12 September 2021. At this link: SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England: technical briefing 23Please look at the top of page 20: "Deaths within 28 days of positive specimen date" All deaths: 2,542All deaths (Unvaccinated): 722All deaths (Vaccinated): 1779 - or 1820 if one includes the 'Unlinked' columnThe...

WOOD TV8 @WOODTV Coroner holding press conference on Gabby Petito's autopsy. WATCH: woodtv.com Gabby Petito autopsy update expected today A Wyoming coroner is expected to update the public on Gabby Petito’s autopsy Tuesday afternoon. 1:23 PM · Oct 12, 2021

One of the most morally revolting talking points taken up by Democrats in their effort to deflect attention from President Joe Biden's deadly incompetence in Afghanistan is to minimize the deaths of 13 troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, by pointing out that more people are dying from COVID-19 every day. First of all, if we use the standards that Democrats set during the Trump years, those COVID-19 deaths are also the responsibility of Biden. It should be said that comparing deaths caused by a faceless worldwide pandemic to the deaths of American troops who were needlessly placed in a perilous situation...

According to the CDC, 6% of the total number of folks listed in the Covid death tally actually died from Covid. The other 94% are from their co-morbidities. Basically they were already knocking on deaths door. So if you take the the number that is being noted today, we roughly have 700,000 deaths. Let's do the math shall we? The actual folks that died from Covid alone comes to 42,000. On to the Jab. According to VAERS, we roughly have 12,000 folks dead of the jab. However this number is only 1% to 10% of the actual dead from the...

I have never bought the conspiracy theories that COVID-19 was a diabolical political plot to undermine the country. But what is apparent with each passing week is that the virus has been the springboard for the left's agenda to transform America in a way that Sen. Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore or Rachel Maddow could have never imagined.Without COVID-19, President Joe Biden would never have been elected, of course. So, for the left, the virus defeated former President Donald Trump. COVID-19 is now the gateway to the left's utopian agenda of multi-trillion-dollar climate policies, hyper-regulation of the economy, the rebirth of...

As the old saying goes, “There are three kinds of lies: lie, damned lies, and statistics.” It is of the statistics I wish to address today. I’ve always said, and will continue to say, that if you can control the unit of measure, you can control everything. It’s a pretty simple concept – if you get to determine what constitutes funny, you can make yourself the funniest. Same goes for fastest, smartest, best looking, whatever you can think of – if you get to decide what makes something what it is, you have absolute power. While most people wouldn’t reconstitute...

I know what you’re thinking: This should be the world’s shortest column, right? If it comes from the “mainstream,” “legacy,” or “corporate” media—whichever term you prefer—it’s probably false. Perhaps, but there’s actually a little more to it than that. You can know something is false, but offering a cogent rebuttal for the less enlightened is another matter. First of all, the fact that we’re even talking about “narrative,” not “news” —much less “truth” or “facts”— should be instructive to anyone interested in truth and facts. Yet “narrative” has become the leftist media’s favored descriptor, one they once used only among...

It’s not a coincidence that the worst states for COVID are Democrat-run states. It’s also not news. The media could not care less that New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc., have been killing fields for elderly and vulnerable populations. Instead, we’ve been inundated with stories about how Texas and Florida WILL be deathtraps with no follow-ups about how they weren’t. Leftist establishment media is singularly focused on protecting their own at the expense of everything else, but Democrat heroes really have been awful throughout this whole thing, denying them the attention they so richly deserve.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has ruled...

Privately and publicly, I have been so thankful and blessed that I have not contracted COVID-19 and continue to travel domestically and internationally in my TV broadcasting life, without any interruption. Of course, exercising wise judgement has been critical to my narrative, given that so many friends and colleagues were violently ill, and a few died from the virus. So many of us have decided to embrace freedom over fear as the CDC continues to warn us of the dangers of variants of the virus. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have constantly interviewed physicians, scientists and victims about...

For many of us who have had ties to the scientific standards and procedures connected to recording fatalities there has been a serious sense of doubt about the numbers of Covid 19 deaths reported by the media, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers have appeared to be somewhere between marginally overstated and grossly exaggerated. Finally, these instincts have been supported by a peer-reviewed scientific paper. On October 12 of last year, a 25-page paper in Science, Public Health Policy and The Law was released that explained, in detail, the foundational reason for the publicly announced...

A 12-year-old Texas boy who felt “sad and lonely” amid the coronavirus lockdown measures hanged himself, his father revealed in a report about the tragedy. Hayden Hunstable, of Aledo, took his own life three days before his 13th birthday in April 2020 because he didn’t know how to deal with the isolation and depression when the emerging disease caused a nationwide shutdown, the UK’s Metro reported. The boy’s 9-year-old sister, Kinlee, found him hanged in his bedroom, according to the outlet. Hayden’s heartbroken dad, Brad, 42, spoke to Metro to help prevent future suicides among the nation’s youth. “COVID killed...

Herman Cain — the maverick American business czar and Republican presidential candidate who campaigned for a sweeping tax reform plan called 9-9-9 — died Thursday morning after a monthlong battle with the coronavirus. He was 74. Cain, who recently joined Newsmax TV and was set to launch a weekly show, died in an Atlanta-area hospital where he had been critically ill for several weeks.