Segment and transcript from a 9 September 2023 presentation to The Israeli Public Emergency Council for the Covid-19 Crisis (PECC)

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Hockett: I have five things that are part of this underlying narrative that people keep promoting about New York that I question and I think the data and evidence pokes holes in. So, I’ll start with this one…

People still believe that there was sudden spread of a deadly novel corona virus that didn’t show up in mortality data anywhere and I don’t have it in this presentation, but I have, we don’t see creeping deadly virus in flu and pneumonia. We don’t see flu and pneumonia starting to creep up or or really being that much higher than previous seasons.

We don’t see an increase in heart disease deaths. We don’t see increases by different age sgroups. It’s just, it’s nowhere to be seen in the mortality data. What we see instead of any sign of spreading disease before the government interventions is we see sudden spread of mass testing. And the best illustration I think from of this is actually a study that a lot of people haven’t haven’t looked at that was done by the Northwell Health System in the big big system in the New York City metro area.

And there’s some really interesting in data in there I just want to highlight for you. But they they showed that they were giving a lot of tests like a lot of tests. It’s kind of a myth that, oh, New York didn’t have any tests or we didn’t have any tests. They had tests.

They were doing way more tests than they ever do in a flu season. Right. Right off the bat. Testing in hospitals, testing in nursing homes, testing in outpatient. And with thousands of tests being given every every day, they were reaching a percent positivity level of 70%. That’s really high. That That’s really high. Most flu seasons reach about 30 to 40%. You could argue that a lot of, you know, sick people, like it’s mostly the sickest people that that go. There were a lot of people in New York going to these tents that were set up outside some of the hospitals, you know, sort of some kind of panic testing, I would call it.

But another thing that was going on, I can get more to get into this more later is that these hospitals were testing people that were already in the hospital. Just testing everybody, right? To see.

So we have this really, really, really high positivity rate right off the bat, but not really too many people asking questions about why that rate is so high.

The researchers, funny enough, have an have a little animation in their in their study in the online version that I think is really helpful. This they they show uh by size of the circle, but they they show the really the prevalence of testing and and positive tests. We don’t see an epicenter that okay, start in the, you know, the Bronx or in Queens and then it spreads out. What we see is Northwell Health System testing different places and there’s some good positivity showing up all over.

What’s funny about it is the researchers said…in this study:

Our data reveal that SARS-CoV-2 incidence emerged rapidly and almost simultaneously across a broad demographic population in the region. These findings support the premise that SARS CO2 infection was widely distributed to virus prior to virus testing availability.

So in other words, this was everywhere.

But the punchline for that, or the flip side is, it’s everywhere, but it wasn’t creating excess death.

It wasn’t showing up everywhere [in relevant data].

Now, that doesn’t mean that no that nobody was necessarily being infected and and suffering some effects, but whatever those were were being treated or they just they weren’t super high incidence in a way that was risk-additive, I would say, beyond the flu.

Here’s the testing data for the city at large, not just Northwell system, although Northwell system is pretty big.

But again, you know, end of end of March, beginning of April, we see a very, very high positivity rate. And that, really, alone should raise some questions about what this pathogen was, what was being tested, if some other things were lighting up thetest, right? But no, no real impact on mortality.

Here’s another look at it where, right here I just have the percent positivity is in the blue and we see that the deaths go up pretty quickly in the wake of that testing beginning. And that nearly all or a very high proportion of the deaths are blamed on this virus. But again, we don’t see it anywhere in here beforehand. We don’t see it until the advent of testing and government actions.

Full presentation:

Presentation outline:

Mass casualty events inexplicable by viral spread: United Kingdom, Lombardy (Italy), and New York City

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Can ANYONE satisfactorily address this question about New York City versus Chicago testing for SARS-CoV-2 in spring 2020?

Where was Covid?