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Aug 23, 2023Liked by epimetheus

Many thanks! I will include the data in my Q2 2023 update on European births (around middle of September).

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Please do, esp. as there seems to be a wee bit more transparency on part of the Norwegian institutions, albeit the silence about the Covid jabs is deafening.

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Aug 23, 2023·edited Aug 23, 2023Liked by epimetheus

Australia is still waiting for the December data (live births, national, ABS) from 2021 to be finalised. It is still showing as 'unfinished.' And look at the massive drop in live births in November 2021. Media is pushing that 'we are having more babies than ever.' I have no idea where they are getting these data. https://explore.data.abs.gov.au/vis?tm=births&pg=0&df[ds]=ABS_ABS_TOPICS&df[id]=BIRTHS_MONTH_OCCURRENCE&df[ag]=ABS&df[vs]=1.0.0&hc[Measure]=Births&pd=1975%2C&dq=1..5%2BAUS.A&ly[cl]=TIME_PERIOD&ly[rw]=MONTH_OCCUR

https://www.statista.com/statistics/281965/live-births-in-the-united-kingdom-uk-1931-1960/

For comparison, during the Blitz in the UK (1940-1941) when the Luftwaffe was levelling the country births only dropped 3% (1940) and 4% (1941) relative to 1939.

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Aug 23, 2023Liked by epimetheus

Births in Victoria are indeed on the rise:

https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/research-and-data-services/birth-statistics/births-registered-per-month

Births in Queensland are lower in 2022 than in 2021 but still higher than in 2020:

https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/births-by-month/resource/3a7986ea-3c1e-4bb0-aec5-ff265e147c00?inner_span=True

Of course, the Australian population might also be on the rise because of immigration, and this might affect birth figures.

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I am waiting for the LIVE BIRTH NATIONAL data.

State data includes miscarriages and dead babies. Start here: https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/deceased-indicator-on-birth-certificates

There is zero excuse for the national data to not be updated and for states to not be communicating with the federal government.

A"birth" at the state level is NOT a LIVE BIRTH. I cannot make people understand this, and the media will not report on it. This makes me very annoyed when people perpetuate this.

The ABS has not updated their LIVE BIRTHS from 2021. People should be asking questions about this, why the LIVE BIRTHS data has stopped at the federal level and instead just linking states. It's 2023. Why has the reporting stopped at 2021?

But they just link state data and go back to sleep.

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Thanks for the clarification. I may have been misled by my work with European data. For most European countries, live births per month of occurrence are being published with around 2-months delay.

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Apologies for my annoyance. I am under a lot of stress, staring into the void. There is just no excuse for the ABS to not update LIVE births after two years, and the media perpetuating lies from the state data.

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December 2021 data is still missing? Boy, and here I was thinking that the Norwegians are 'lame' by publishing data that is recorded electronically in real time with half a year delay…stilly me.

That comparison with WW2 is particularly telling--what a wonderful thing that record-keeping in Norway commenced 'only' in 1967…

Comparisons with WW2 Germany are a bit trickier, but what is quickly available are data from 1937 and 1950. Via https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1059489/umfrage/zahl-der-geburten-in-deutschland/

Live births in 1937: 1.28m

Live births in 1950 (West and East Germany): .81m (W Germany) + .3m (GDR, for a combined total of 1.1m, i.e., a sizeable reduction of approx. 15%, albeit this does neither account for wartime losses or 'peacetime' aftershocks, such as POWs in captivity, the smaller territorial size, and the impact of millions of German-speaking refugees.

What these numbers show, though, is that the 'pandemic' might, in a few years, have comparable consequences in terms of the reduction of live birth as WW2 with all its devastation visited upon German civilians between 1939-45.

Let *that* sink in for a moment.

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At least that 2nd quarter data *might* suggest that the nefarious impact of the jab is not permanent?

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Aug 23, 2023Liked by epimetheus

Among the 25 European countries in my sample, only Portugal and Hungary are doing better in 2023 than in 2022. I will publish the Q2 update when all data are in (around middle of September). Btw, is there any chance of getting preliminary monthly births data for England/Wales for 2023?

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Also, note that Q2 data is considered 'preliminary'

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I hope you're correct--and we'll soon find out.

Given the highly seasonal patterns of live births, though, I fear the answer we'll be getting won't be too comforting…

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Could be. Could also be, vaccine-uptake among african and MENA-migrants are much, much lower than among indigenous populations, and said migrants generally have at the minimum four kids per woman and at shorter intervals than indigenous women.

So really, data would have to be broken down along age of mother, number of children per woman, and ethnicity/origin too to make good comparisons possible.

I'll leave it open why not a single nation in EUrope wants to do that.

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In Sweden, it's the lowest no. of live births in 20 years, and a 5.5% drop from last year.

Despite our statistics bureau doing press-releases on dropping births and slowed population growth -despite record immigration! - state & regime media refuse to cover it.

Link to SCB, Statistics Sweden:

https://www.scb.se/pressmeddelande/barnafodandet-i-sverige-det-lagsta-pa-20-ar/

(In swedish only I'm afraid, but translation software should be enough, since it's in plain and simple language.)

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