Challenging the Challenge to the iatrogenesis hypothesis

What really caused the surge in covid deaths in early 2020? Norman Fenton

"I personally believe Will is correct that there is something special about SARS-CoV-2 and that there is no evidence that non pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like lockdowns and contact tracing had any significant impact on death rates. However, contrary to what he asserts, neither of these invalidates the iatrogenesis hypothesis, and nor does his argument that Germany and Sweden (who he says had similar health policies to the UK, USA and Italy) did not get excess deaths at the same time. The case for the iatrogenesis hypothesis in the UK (and probably USA and Italy as well) is not just the incorrect use of ventilators (which was indeed common across all these countries) but specifically the inappropriate use of life-ending drugs and denial of potentially life-saving antibiotics, as well as “softer” issues such as denial of social care, relative visits and the social network which acts as the life-support system for the frail elderly."

..the excess mortality graph is not like the others. There is clearly a much higher (and, because of its extreme and vertical nature, a very unnatural) peak at the start of the pandemic than appears in the other graphs. This peak supports Jonathan Engler’s hypothesis.

The second problem (which is one I have pointed out many times) is that the data showing covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths etc from the Government ‘s covid dashboard is completely inconsistent with the NHS dashboard of covid emergency triage calls:"

https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/what-really-caused-the-surge-in-covid