Hi Michael,

I wouldn't be so flippant as to describe the deaths from Covid in Africa as a "non-event", 'ALL LIVES MATTER' the official figure was put at over 250,000. The official figure is probably an unreliable low number, as many deaths would go unreported. I don't believe television cased covid, one of over 200 respiratory virus and variations known to man. I understand your concern with Covid, calling the restrictions, "radical Chinese-style lockdown".

Not sure Sweden is a good example, at May 2023 Sweden had reported 24,000 Covid deaths in a population of 10.5 million, their next door neighbour Norway had reported 5,200 deaths in a population of 5.5 million, per capita about half that of Sweden. I think I'll put the Swedish myth in the same category with the Illuminati (caused Covid) myth.

Paul1405,
Thanks for your comments on my posting.

I said a lot of things, perhaps too much. In all that I said, I was never being flippant about people dying. Or, if I gave that impression, then I ought simply to clarify.

I agree that ‘all lives matter’. But unfortunately, people do die, by the many thousands every year.
My argument was that the statistics on death from respiratory illness during the Covid years, whether in Sweden, or Africa, or anywhere else were all within the normal expected annual numbers and seasonal variation.
Every year thousands of people die of colds and influenzas.
The numbers in those years were not remarkable.
The difference was the branding, being labelled as COVID-19 deaths rather than anything else.
Take away the hype and publicity, and it would not have been noticed as an abnormal time period.

Yes, the Covid lockdowns were overly harsh and restrictive. But that was not my main point.
My point was that the lockdowns were totally and utterly unnecessary, as demonstrated by the Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza booklet, which was ratified by Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos in October 2019.

I wish to thank the 300 who stood before The Shrine on 5 September, 2020, for their wisdom and insight in being capable of seeing these facts at the time, without needing the benefit of hindsight.
Without these people who stood at that timely moment, we would not now be able to so clearly reflect on the mismanagement and harm done by our governmental bodies, as those such as CHO Brett Sutton are now (recently, in September 2025) contemplating in their regretful tones, ‘Maybe we will agree as a society that we never want to do that [lockdown] again.’

Yep, thanks Brett.

Michael Viljoen