A metaphor for what I think was done to create simultaneous death spikes around the world in spring of 2020
Minor revisions 26 January 2026
There once was a damaged ship on the ocean–nearly irreparable and far from home, but not in danger of sinking immediately. She had weeks, if not months of nautical miles left in her.
Then, without warning, a plane swooped in and dropped a bomb in on the ship. The blaze consumed her and she sank.
The people who sent the plane reported the event but didn’t tell the truth about it. They said a lightning bolt from a sudden storm struck the ship and started a fire that sank the ship. Knowing this would be the reason given, they had made sure weather radars showed a storm quickly appearing and dissipating.
But there was no storm.
There was only a plane with a bomb, sent by people who needed the damaged ship to sink, and then lied about what happened.
And everyone believed the lie, because the ship belonged to the people who bombed it.
This allegory, a version of which I first told on Twitter last year, is a metaphor for what I believe happened in many cities and countries around the world in spring of 2020: A coordinated1 and intentional sinking of damaged ships.
This sinking did not happen in the open; it occurred in “locked down” hospitals, nursing homes, and (possibly) hospice facilities and ambulances. While not the only thing that contributed to the simultaneous spikes, it was a primary and critical mechanism for the staging of a deadly pandemic involving a sudden-spreading pathogen. Without it, such staging is impossible.
Consider: At all times, healthcare settings are filled with “damaged ships” who will “sink.” It’s not a matter of whether they will be discharged dead (versus alive), but when.
Hospitals and other congregate settings (homeless shelters, prisons, facilities for mentally unwell adults) also harbor “salvageable ships” who aren’t at risk of imminent sinking but are vulnerable to sudden changes in standards of care, new routines, and medical error or misadventure.
Nick Hudson and Jonathan Engler have used the term healthcare fragility to characterize what I’m describing.2
My term for the individuals who are at risk of earlier-than-anticipated death due to disruption is precipice populations.
Larger cities – especially those with certain demographics – have larger precipice populations. In other words, they have more damaged ships vulnerable to choppy seas, storms, icebergs, and unobserved bombings.
Healthcare fragility and precipice populations are key in an event like the one I assert occurred in 2020, because it means a whole country isn’t needed to contrive an emergency. The key propaganda tool in getting people to “take the virus seriously” is raw numbers.3
As long as you can produce digits on screens and in dashboards divorced from any context for the number of deaths that normally occur, this is easy to achieve. The United States is a good example of how (and where) this worked, but there is no reason to think the same thing wasn’t done in cities in many countries around the world.
Places like Bergamo, Madrid, and New York City went an “extra” mile as part of the pandemic kick-off, but I still suspect that elements of what was carried out in those locations were done elsewhere – and done repeatedly on a lesser scale in 2020 and beyond.
Precipice Populations are relatively “easy” to sink, but doing so requires planning. At minimim, the activation of existing plans. Even those who believe government officials “panicked” should concede that there are myriad response plans in place at the federal and/or local levels that are ready to be activated in emergency situations, including rare or far-fetched disasters and scenarios involving bioterrorism. It’s clear that, whatever was activated in spring 2020, it was not a Pandemic Influenza response plan. (New York City in particular appears to have been doing things that might be done in a devastating chemical attack.)4
Sinking Damaged Ships also requires leveraging things that healthcare workers and first responders have already been primed to do and think. In the allegory, the pilot of the plane would have experience dropping bombs on targets – and may have been given a reason the ship needed to be bombed that wasn’t the real reason. The same was likely true for the doctors, nurses, and ambulance crews in early and later stages of the COVID-19 operation.
Here’s the “math question” that I keep asking myself (and striving to answer): How many ships is it possible to sink all at once? Is there a limit — and what non-death parameters can be used to determine the upper bound?
Right now, through looking at data for various cities (including New York), I believe that anything more than 100% increase in all-cause death (baseline to peak) in 3-4 weeks is grounds for suspecting that data are manipulated in one or more ways.
There are only so many planes, so many bombs, and so many ships. The TechBros and Modelers would have known this (i.e., been told this) and accounted for it.
Data fraud in the digital age isn’t boundless either, but it’s also not difficult when you know people won’t suspect you bombed your own vessels.
Posted first as an article on Twitter/X via @Wood_House76, now-removed/archived. Content from tweets originally embedded in article retained as footnotes and corresponding images.
- “Coordinated response” was a clarion call beginning in January 2020. Scott Gottlieb, Pfizer Board member, and former FDA Commissioner is one of the earliest examples on Twitter. (Image 1 below) ↩︎
- Original source of term: Unpublished PANDA Open Science presentation by an academic evolutionary biologist in July 2022. ↩︎
- Table sourced from @Wood_House76 tweet ID 1721714019961028994 (image 2 below), linked in original article. It only took 11 counties to get a 50,000 death increase — the rough equivalent of one week of deaths that normally occur in the U.S. ↩︎
- Text of tweet previously linked: A follower asked, What do you consider is the cause of the deaths in New York in early 2020 if it’s not Covid?” First, in discussing deaths in this event, I say COVID-19, not Covid. It matters, because COVID-19 is a WHO ICD code and (in my current opinion) the name of a [ongoing] covert operation involving death reclassification. Second, I allege that the NYC all-cause daily death curve is fraudulent. That is, it has been manipulated in multiple ways and does not represent a real-time, on-the-ground event. So “fraud” is one “cause” of the dramatic spike, as presented. Third, I do believe that NYC experienced excess death in 2020. Whatever the actual number and timing of those deaths is, the causes were due to a) state-sponsored/blessed euthanasia and b) other iatrogenic policies/measures, including directives given to CFRs and EMTs. The flu shot delivery and (in late 2020) COVID shot could also be involved. As to the theory of a localized point-release of an agent or use of a more mundane mechanism, some data I’ve reviewed DOES allow for that possibility in a very limited, very brief, and highly controlled manner. I do have thoughts about where/how that could have occurred and who/what it may have involved but I do NOT think such a release was carried out by foreign players, involved anything virus-like, or used the subway system. ↩︎
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Source: CDC WONDER
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