Ed Dowd - Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 (Children’s Health Defense)

In Memoriam

Copyright 2022 by Ed Dowd

Foreword copyright by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Afterword copyright by Gavin de Becker

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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

STUDENT

Dr. Einstein, arent these the same questions as last years final exam?

DR. EINSTEIN

Yes. But this year the answers are different.

NOTE TO THE READER

You might be inspired to seek out a fact checking site to test or refute some information in this book thats hard to believe. Fair enough. Before you blindly rely upon corporate fact checkers, however, use the QR code to confirm that the man who started Reuters Fact Check is also on the Board of Pfizer while simultaneously serving as Chairman of the Reuters Foundation that oversees their fact checking operation. Conflicted and circular relationships like this are common among powerful people; often, such relationships are the way a person became powerful in the first place.

Also confirm that Pharma companies sponsor the overwhelming majority of TV news programs.

Also confirm that the government-funded British Broadcasting Corporation created The Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a coalition of Reuters, The Washington Post, the Canadian and Australian Broadcasting Corporations, the European Broadcasting Union, Associated Press, Google, YouTube, Facebook/Meta, Microsoft and Twitter, all pledged to work together to tackle harmful misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines .

TNI member companies censor what they label as misinformation, while promoting and elevating information from the CDC, the WHO and Big Pharma.

QR codes throughout these pages will take you to original source material so that you can confirm each report is real, each statistic well-sourced, each story all too true. Perhaps by the end of this book, you will come to see that much of the information reaching you day to day is carefully crafted by the media. The word media means in the middle of and between . Indeed, the news media stands in the middle of and between you and people in power. Only when you know this can you decide for yourself whats promotion, whats propaganda, whats marketing, and what is truth.

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then were up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious who comes ambling along.

It wasnt enough, Jefferson said, to enshrine some rights in a constitution or a bill of rights. The people had to be educated, and they had to practice their skepticism... otherwise, we dont run the government, the government runs us.

Carl Sagan TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Among the worlds towering financial titans is BlackRock, a company with a bigger economy than every country on Earth except the U.S. and China. They manage $10 trillion in assets. In 2002, BlackRock recruited the brilliant Wall Street careerist Edward Dowd, and soon promoted him to serve as Managing Director. Turns out BlackRock made a very good bet on Ed Dowd: The Growth Fund he managed started at $2 billion; by the time he left BlackRock it was $14 billion.

His work with BlackRock required a keen ability to understand markets, pick stocks, analyze statistics, and identify trends.

In 2021, Dowd found himself withdrawing from Wall Street to study an entirely new kind of trend: the expanding and tragic epidemic of sudden deaths among healthy young people.

Every country dutifully maintains statistics on whats called All-Cause Mortality deaths from any cause whatsoever. Whether accidents, disease, suicide, homicide, natural disaster or unexplained deaths, there is a long-established and fairly consistent baseline of All-Cause Mortality, year over year. Anything above that baseline is considered Excess Death. In 2021, it was Ed Dowd not the public health officials that citizens rely upon but Dowd who brought international attention to the fact that healthy working-age Americans were dying, and dying suddenly, at an alarming rate not seen before. These excess deaths were not anticipated by insurance actuaries, and werent attributed to COVID.

Dowd framed the issue in a way I cant forget:

From February 2021 to March 2022, millennials experienced the equivalent of a Vietnam war, with more than 60,000 excess deaths. The Vietnam war took 12 years to kill the same number of healthy young people weve just seen die in 12 months.

One after another, reports from life insurance companies confirmed what Dowd was discovering, and in early 2022, he convened a group of insurance industry executives to explore it further. Later, he recruited expert analysts from around the world, and drawing on data from various official sources in many countries, he and his growing team committed to study the topic from every available vantage point.

In this unusual book, Ed Dowd proves an undeniable and urgent reality, laid out with facts that can be confirmed by any reader, point by point, page by page. He has helped us all understand something that many powerful people want to deny and would get away with denying were it not for his skills and integrity.

Anyone who appreciates truth and accuracy owes Ed Dowd their gratitude. He certainly has mine.

RFK, Jr.

INTRODUCTION

In early 2021, I started hearing alarming and unusual stories of young, exceptionally fit athletes dropping dead on the field of play. If those who are the healthiest among us are suddenly dying, what would that mean for the rest of the population? In other words, what if healthy young athletes are the canary in the coalmine? To my trained eye, what others might consider sad anecdotes became something more: A trend change was underway.

Success during my career came during those times I was able to identify trend changes before they were apparent to my peers and the financial press.

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