Four cast members from the 1980's Poltergeist trilogy died across a six year span from 1982-1988. These included stomach cancer, a heart-lung transplant & a bowel obstruction killed Heather O'Rourke at only 12 years-old.
Three main cast members from the TV show GLEE died from 2013-2020.
Four cast members from Beverly Hills, 90210 died from 2019-2024 including Luke Perry at 52 years-old from a stroke in 2019, Shannen Doherty after a long battle with breast cancer (diagnosed in 2015, cancer returned in February 2020 to stage 4), David Gail in 2024 (intoxication from amphetamines, cocaine, ethanol & fentanyl) & Joe E. Tata in 2022 at age 85 from alzheimer's (diagnosed in 2018.)
Todd Bridges is the sole surviving member of the original cast of the TV show Different Strokes. The 3 other cast members died between 1999 and 2013.
One of my favorite TV shows is Everwood. Four cast members died from 2019-2023. These include Stephanie Niznik at only 52 years-old who died suddenly of "natural cases" in June 2019, Treat Williams died in 2023 (motorcycle crash), John Beasley in 2021 at the age of 79 (liver issues) & Anne Heche died in 2022 from injuries due to a car crash.
None of these deaths were caused by COVID.
There's no evidence a single of the tragic deaths recently from the Buffy cast were COVID related in ANY way.
None.
Michelle Trachtenberg died February 26, 2025, at 39, from complications of diabetes mellitus. She had received a liver transplant & appears to have developed post-liver transplantation diabetes mellitus (PLTDM), which develops in roughly 30% of transplant recipients & is associated with reduced graft function & worsened patient survival.
Nicholas Brendon had a long history of substance abuse issues, had a previous heart attack and was later diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. This all contributed to his death.
Anthony Head died at 72 from complications related to pneumonia.
Over the 20-year span from 1999 to 2018, there were nearly one million pneumonia and flu deaths among Americans 65 and older, accounting for 86% of all such deaths.
Those sadly were not the only deaths from the TV show Buffy or the spinoff ANGEL (two of my favorite shows of all time.)
These include Robin Sachs who died February 2013, at 61, from a heart attack.
John Ritter who died September 2003, at 54, from an aortic dissection.
Glenn Quinn died December 2002, at 32, from a heroin overdose.
Andy Hallett died in 2009, at 33, from congestive heart failure after a five-year battle with heart disease that began with a dental infection that spread to his heart.
Sadly people die in the world and this happened before and after 2020.
Even in Hollywood.
There is no evidence a single death from Buffy, The Vampire Slayer was related in any way to COVID, before or after 2020 nor can you show any.
Exploiting deaths to push a narrative without actual proof (or even any evidence the death occurred post-infection) is shameful behavior and should be called out no matter who is doing it.
It's exactly what anti-vaxxers do when celebrities died post 2021.
Do better.
Four cast members from the 1980's Poltergeist trilogy died across a six year span from 1982-1988. These included stomach cancer, a heart-lung transplant & a bowel obstruction killed Heather O'Rourke at only 12 years-old.
Three main cast members from the TV show GLEE died from 2013-2020.
Four cast members from Beverly Hills, 90210 died from 2019-2024 including Luke Perry at 52 years-old from a stroke in 2019, Shannen Doherty after a long battle with breast cancer (diagnosed in 2015, cancer returned in February 2020 to stage 4), David Gail in 2024 (intoxication from amphetamines, cocaine, ethanol & fentanyl) & Joe E. Tata in 2022 at age 85 from alzheimer's (diagnosed in 2018.)
Todd Bridges is the sole surviving member of the original cast of the TV show Different Strokes. The 3 other cast members died between 1999 and 2013.
One of my favorite TV shows is Everwood. Four cast members died from 2019-2023. These include Stephanie Niznik at only 52 years-old who died suddenly of "natural cases" in June 2019, Treat Williams died in 2023 (motorcycle crash), John Beasley in 2021 at the age of 79 (liver issues) & Anne Heche died in 2022 from injuries due to a car crash.
None of these deaths were caused by COVID.
There's no evidence a single of the tragic deaths recently from the Buffy cast were COVID related in ANY way.
None.
Michelle Trachtenberg died February 26, 2025, at 39, from complications of diabetes mellitus. She had received a liver transplant & appears to have developed post-liver transplantation diabetes mellitus (PLTDM), which develops in roughly 30% of transplant recipients & is associated with reduced graft function & worsened patient survival.
Nicholas Brendon had a long history of substance abuse issues, had a previous heart attack and was later diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. This all contributed to his death.
Anthony Head died at 72 from complications related to pneumonia.
Over the 20-year span from 1999 to 2018, there were nearly one million pneumonia and flu deaths among Americans 65 and older, accounting for 86% of all such deaths.
Those sadly were not the only deaths from the TV show Buffy or the spinoff ANGEL (two of my favorite shows of all time.)
These include Robin Sachs who died February 2013, at 61, from a heart attack.
John Ritter who died September 2003, at 54, from an aortic dissection.
Glenn Quinn died December 2002, at 32, from a heroin overdose.
Andy Hallett died in 2009, at 33, from congestive heart failure after a five-year battle with heart disease that began with a dental infection that spread to his heart.
Sadly people die in the world and this happened before and after 2020.
Even in Hollywood.
There is no evidence a single death from Buffy, The Vampire Slayer was related in any way to COVID, before or after 2020 nor can you show any.
Exploiting deaths to push a narrative without actual proof (or even any evidence the death occurred post-infection) is shameful behavior and should be called out no matter who is doing it.
It's exactly what anti-vaxxers do when celebrities died post 2021.
Do better.
@waltz_tales is cowardly replying behind a block.
Why can't he have a real good faith discussion?
I'm going to destroy his claims, piece by piece.
1) His citation from the Lancet is a commentary/opinion piece (not original research) covering excess deaths in England from June 2022 to June 2023.
It can't tell you anything about 2026.
Worse for him, the authors attribute the excess to multiple causes: direct COVID effects, acute pressures on NHS services producing worse outcomes & disruption to chronic disease detection and management during the pandemic years.
In the USA we know that excess deaths were driven by COVID in 2020-2022 but historic highs in drug overdose deaths, alcohol deaths, gun violence deaths & deaths from missed medical care were significant contributors! (The USA is NOT a healthy country.)
2) "Excess deaths have increased since 2020" is objectively false as of now.
That was true through mid-2023 but it REVERSED afterward.
England and Wales were back on pre-pandemic mortality trends already back in 2023!
https://t.co/Jro58ZwrWL
In the USA we've had NEGATIVE excess since 2023. Less people died than expected in 2024, 2025 and 2026 is on the same path.
https://t.co/tSBSvPSIit
In 2024 life expectancy hit a historic record high in the USA.
https://t.co/qXdGRxF6Tg
And critically for his "hidden COVID" theory: COVID-19 dropped out of the ten leading causes of death entirely in 2024 in the USA, with underlying-cause COVID deaths falling about 37%, from 49,932 in 2023 to 31,426 in 2024.
Excess-death methods exist precisely to catch deaths that certificates miss & they're now showing negative numbers.
As I always say: all-cause mortality does not lie but people like @waltz_tales do!
3. "Administratively invisible" is an unfalsifiability move.
If COVID deaths can't appear in any official data, then his claim can't be supported by any official data either, including the Lancet paper he just cited, which is built on death registrations.
He can't use death statistics when they help him & declare them invisible when they don't.
Also, the factual premise is wrong. Death certification doesn't require a positive test.
Certifiers can record COVID based on clinical judgment, which is why "deaths involving COVID" (mentioned anywhere on the certificate) is tracked separately from "deaths due to COVID."
4. If nearly everyone has had COVID, then nearly everyone who dies of anything has also had COVID, which means "they had COVID once" carries zero evidentiary weight for any individual death.
He'd need to show elevated mortality in the infected vs. expected baselines & the baselines are going the wrong way for him!
5. It's interesting he's quietly abandoned the original claim.
He started with "celebrity deaths doubled, this is not normal" and retreated to "COVID is invisible" and they are "hiding deaths."
But if total deaths fell in 2024 and are running below expected since, the EW slideshow count can't be reflecting real mortality!
It's reflecting editorial coverage & an aging (and growing) celebrity pool, exactly as I said.
Now would @waltz_tales like to unblock me and have a good-faith scientific discussion based on substance and evidence or does he want to continue to spam science denial behind a block?
The choice is yours.
Happy to debate anytime.
@waltz_tales is cowardly replying behind a block.
Why can't he have a real good faith discussion?
I'm going to destroy his claims, piece by piece.
1) His citation from the Lancet is a commentary/opinion piece (not original research) covering excess deaths in England from June 2022 to June 2023.
It can't tell you anything about 2026.
Worse for him, the authors attribute the excess to multiple causes: direct COVID effects, acute pressures on NHS services producing worse outcomes & disruption to chronic disease detection and management during the pandemic years.
In the USA we know that excess deaths were driven by COVID in 2020-2022 but historic highs in drug overdose deaths, alcohol deaths, gun violence deaths & deaths from missed medical care were significant contributors! (The USA is NOT a healthy country.)
2) "Excess deaths have increased since 2020" is objectively false as of now.
That was true through mid-2023 but it REVERSED afterward.
England and Wales were back on pre-pandemic mortality trends already back in 2023!
https://t.co/Jro58ZwrWL
In the USA we've had NEGATIVE excess since 2023. Less people died than expected in 2024, 2025 and 2026 is on the same path.
https://t.co/tSBSvPSIit
In 2024 life expectancy hit a historic record high in the USA.
https://t.co/qXdGRxF6Tg
And critically for his "hidden COVID" theory: COVID-19 dropped out of the ten leading causes of death entirely in 2024 in the USA, with underlying-cause COVID deaths falling about 37%, from 49,932 in 2023 to 31,426 in 2024.
Excess-death methods exist precisely to catch deaths that certificates miss & they're now showing negative numbers.
As I always say: all-cause mortality does not lie but people like @waltz_tales do!
3. "Administratively invisible" is an unfalsifiability move.
If COVID deaths can't appear in any official data, then his claim can't be supported by any official data either, including the Lancet paper he just cited, which is built on death registrations.
He can't use death statistics when they help him & declare them invisible when they don't.
Also, the factual premise is wrong. Death certification doesn't require a positive test.
Certifiers can record COVID based on clinical judgment, which is why "deaths involving COVID" (mentioned anywhere on the certificate) is tracked separately from "deaths due to COVID."
4. If nearly everyone has had COVID, then nearly everyone who dies of anything has also had COVID, which means "they had COVID once" carries zero evidentiary weight for any individual death.
He'd need to show elevated mortality in the infected vs. expected baselines & the baselines are going the wrong way for him!
5. It's interesting he's quietly abandoned the original claim.
He started with "celebrity deaths doubled, this is not normal" and retreated to "COVID is invisible" and they are "hiding deaths."
But if total deaths fell in 2024 and are running below expected since, the EW slideshow count can't be reflecting real mortality!
It's reflecting editorial coverage & an aging (and growing) celebrity pool, exactly as I said.
Now would @waltz_tales like to unblock me and have a good-faith scientific discussion based on substance and evidence or does he want to continue to spam science denial behind a block?
The choice is yours.
Happy to debate anytime.
@waltz_tales@thereal_truther@AliceMowse You're objectively wrong & your source is an opinion piece that ends in mid-2023 when excess deaths REVERSED.
https://t.co/7bZN4GKwmn
@waltz_tales is cowardly replying behind a block.
Why can't he have a real good faith discussion?
I'm going to destroy his claims, piece by piece.
1) His citation from the Lancet is a commentary/opinion piece (not original research) covering excess deaths in England from June 2022 to June 2023.
It can't tell you anything about 2026.
Worse for him, the authors attribute the excess to multiple causes: direct COVID effects, acute pressures on NHS services producing worse outcomes & disruption to chronic disease detection and management during the pandemic years.
In the USA we know that excess deaths were driven by COVID in 2020-2022 but historic highs in drug overdose deaths, alcohol deaths, gun violence deaths & deaths from missed medical care were significant contributors! (The USA is NOT a healthy country.)
2) "Excess deaths have increased since 2020" is objectively false as of now.
That was true through mid-2023 but it REVERSED afterward.
England and Wales were back on pre-pandemic mortality trends already back in 2023!
https://t.co/Jro58ZwrWL
In the USA we've had NEGATIVE excess since 2023. Less people died than expected in 2024, 2025 and 2026 is on the same path.
https://t.co/tSBSvPSIit
In 2024 life expectancy hit a historic record high in the USA.
https://t.co/qXdGRxF6Tg
And critically for his "hidden COVID" theory: COVID-19 dropped out of the ten leading causes of death entirely in 2024 in the USA, with underlying-cause COVID deaths falling about 37%, from 49,932 in 2023 to 31,426 in 2024.
Excess-death methods exist precisely to catch deaths that certificates miss & they're now showing negative numbers.
As I always say: all-cause mortality does not lie but people like @waltz_tales do!
3. "Administratively invisible" is an unfalsifiability move.
If COVID deaths can't appear in any official data, then his claim can't be supported by any official data either, including the Lancet paper he just cited, which is built on death registrations.
He can't use death statistics when they help him & declare them invisible when they don't.
Also, the factual premise is wrong. Death certification doesn't require a positive test.
Certifiers can record COVID based on clinical judgment, which is why "deaths involving COVID" (mentioned anywhere on the certificate) is tracked separately from "deaths due to COVID."
4. If nearly everyone has had COVID, then nearly everyone who dies of anything has also had COVID, which means "they had COVID once" carries zero evidentiary weight for any individual death.
He'd need to show elevated mortality in the infected vs. expected baselines & the baselines are going the wrong way for him!
5. It's interesting he's quietly abandoned the original claim.
He started with "celebrity deaths doubled, this is not normal" and retreated to "COVID is invisible" and they are "hiding deaths."
But if total deaths fell in 2024 and are running below expected since, the EW slideshow count can't be reflecting real mortality!
It's reflecting editorial coverage & an aging (and growing) celebrity pool, exactly as I said.
Now would @waltz_tales like to unblock me and have a good-faith scientific discussion based on substance and evidence or does he want to continue to spam science denial behind a block?
The choice is yours.
Happy to debate anytime.
@Rebecca21951651@thereal_truther@BarryHunt008 Your link was refuted.
"These data suggest that there was no person-to-person transmission among healthcare workers during a recent outbreak of HPS in Southern Chile in 1997, despite the inconsistent use of any precautions against transmission."
https://t.co/Gk0jXYyg3X
@Exposinglies26@thereal_truther@MSarelson The brainwashing is real. Good luck when she loses multiple lawsuits.
She's not just objectively wrong on every claim she's ever made.
She's also the personification of evil.
Grifting is just an excuse and nobody is buying it.
@TheWatcherX1@AnaKasparian You got caught lying and you're now blocking anyone who challenges you? Why not accept the wager for charity if you're right?
This is scumbag behavior.
https://t.co/mgAcD9HCQo
@kaseyl0l@thereal_truther@we_are_ssd@NBCNews That's an overall increase that started in 2018.
The trend in under 50 started long before (in 1999.)
The study doesn't use 2020 numbers because they dropped.
Did COVID time travel to 2018?
@_CatintheHat 3) University of Kent has over 23,457 students, faculty, and staff combined. We have 29 confirmed cases of meningitis.
If the outbreak was an aerosolized airborne virus like measles or even COVID how many more cases would we see? Hundreds? Thousands?
Why only 29?
@_CatintheHat 2) Why do meningitis bacteria outbreaks not occur in large crowded indoor areas where strangers are breathing the same air like malls, grocery stores, sports arenas, airplanes, airports, subways & trains?
Why only locations w/ young people having prolonged close contact?