Ed Dowd's book "Cause Unknown" Summary--Why the Sudden Epidemic of Sudden Deaths?

Just recently in December 2022, former BlackRock & Wall Street Fund manager Edward Dowd, wrote a book called “Cause Unknown”. Ed tackled the hot topic not covered by the mainstream media about the Sudden Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 all over the world.

Who is Edward Dowd?

BlackRock is a financial behemoth company with a larger economy than every country in the world except the US and China. They manage about $10 trillion in assets around the world. Ed Dowd was hired by BlackRock to manage a $2 billion Growth Fund. During this time, Ed grew the fund to $14 billion with his uncanny skills at seeing trends in the data before the general public and capitalizing on that knowledge to make his clients lots of money.

In other words, Ed is trained to study the data and see things before everyone else.

How did a Wall Street Executive getting involved with Sudden Deaths?

As mentioned already, identifying trends is a critical skill to be a successful Fund Manager. A major trend shift in birth and deaths is something a skilled executive will pickup when looking at the data. In particular, Wall Street executives will look at All-Cause Mortality which looks at the rate in which people are dying. Within this, one can look more specifically at Excess Deaths, which is the metric of how many people are dying over and above the average baseline from previous years. If one identifies excess deaths occurring, a smart trend finder will look for ways to capitalize financially on that trend.

What did Ed Dowd find?

In early 2021, Dowd noticed a strange trend in mortality. He found that the data was showing that healthy working-age Americans were dying at a rate not seen before. Insurance Companies were noticing excess deaths well beyond the anticipated norms and not attributed to COVID. Insurance company OneAmerica, found whopping 40% increase in deaths in 2021 from the Ages 18-64 group. It wasn’t the elderly that were dying in larger numbers, it was the very healthy 18-64 age group. Very odd.

Not only did OneAmerica see a large increase in deaths, they also found an “uptick” in disability claims over the same time period. CEO Scott Davison said,

“For OneAmerica, we expect the costs of this are going to be well over $100 million, and this is our smallest business. So it’s having a huge impact on that,” he said.

What else alarmed Dowd?

Dowd also took notice of the increasing number of reports of healthy athletes collapsing on the field. Dowd said,

“its difficult to take on board the unexpected sudden deaths of young athletes, known to be the healthiest among us…your own life experience and intuition will tell you that what you’re about to see is not normal, or least it wasn’t normal before 2021.”

Haven’t Athletes died on the field before? Isn’t this a normal occurrence?

Dowd referred to a study done in 2006 which looked at sudden cardiac deaths in athletes under 35 years old between the years 1966 and 2004. The study found that over those 38 years, 1101 had sudden cardiac death (SCD). That works out to be 29 per year.

Another study was done by Maron in 2009 found from the years 1980 to 2006 (27 years) in thirty-eight sports identified, 1,866 deaths of athletes with cardiac death. That works out to be 69 per year.

So if we average out both of these studies of 29/year & 69/year. This gives us a fairly safe number of 49 (29+69/2).

To make a round number let’s say with relative confidence that the normal number of sudden cardiac deaths of athletes should be around 50 per year.

Here’s what is not normal.

The Good Sciencing website created this chart.

In this chart we see (in red) that Good Sciencing found,

406 dead in 2021

761 dead in 2022

If we take 50 deaths/year as the normal baseline.

2021 showed an increase of 812% (406/50x100)

2022 showed an increase 1522% (761/50x100)

That is a pretty massive increase in the cardiac deaths of young athletes!!

It could even be worse than this as the Good Sciencing article says,

“We also note that many posts in Facebook, Instagram, twitter, forums and news stories are being removed. So now we are receiving some messages saying there is no proof of the event or of vaccination status. That is partly because this information is being hidden.”

There is a concerted effort around the world to censor and hide this data so the problem is most likely much greater than this.

Former Professional Soccer player with Waterford United, Gary Dempsey said in Twitter feed,

What is else did Dowd find?

Dowd referenced a report from The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute which was published Aug 17, 2022. Table 5.6 shows some alarming data, especially in Q3 2021 (third quarter of 2021). This chart shows the excess mortality of those enrolled Group Life Insurance by age group as compared to the average baseline from the years 2017-2019. 100% would be the same as the average from 2017-2019. Anything above 100% is EXCESS MORTALITY.

What does this chart Reveal?

If you notice almost every segment in 2020 & 2021 is showing excess mortality (ie. above 100%). For the period of April 20/2022 to Sept 9/2021, excess mortality was up 21% (you’ll see it shows 121%). In other words, 21% more people died than normal.

It also shows that 15.6% of the deaths for the time period were due to Covid. So most of the excess deaths in 2020 could be attributed to the Covid diseases and the after indirect effects from the Lockdowns.

Deaths from Lockdowns?

Yes, the deaths from the Lockdowns. According to Statcan (Statistics Canada), for those under age 65, from March 2020 to April 2021, 5,535 excess deaths occurred during this time period, but only 1,380 could be attributed to Covid. Therefore, 4,155 of those excess deaths could most likely be attributed to the indirect effects of the Lockdowns. The Statcan Report states,

“the excess mortality is, in large part, related to other factors such as increases in the number deaths attributed to causes associated with substance use and misuse, including unintentional (accidental) poisonings and diseases and conditions related to alcohol consumption.”

So 3 times (4155/1380) more people died from the LOCKDOWNS than from COVID.

What are the indirect effects of Lockdowns which caused death?

In the Statcan Report, they show an increase in accidental poisonings, increased drug abuse, and increased alcohol abuse.

Other reports from California show that there were more suicides as a result from the lockdowns than the deaths from Covid. Mental Health has hit crisis proportions all over the World.

Lockdowns were clearly horrible policy which should never be even entertained again.

Back to the SOA Chart 5.6 above

If you look on the chart in Q3 2021, we see something alarming happened (highlighted in orange & red). Excess deaths went up massively in the working age categories.

Age 25-34 — up to 181% (up 81% from normal)

Age 35-44 — up to 217% (up 117% from normal)

Age 45-54 — up to 208% (up 108% from normal)

Age 55-64 — up to 170% (up 70% from normal)

According to Dowd, something calamitous happened during Q3 2021. A major kill event occurred that would be a one in a century (or greater) occurrence. Famine, War, Nuclear Bomb, etc… .

What happened in Q3 2021?

The only thing that makes any sense to Dowd, was attributing this to the vaccine mandates. He said,

“It is undeniably clear that an event occurred in the Third Quarter of 2021, that same period that vaccine mandates were ordered by the Biden Administration, and enforced by corporate America…the obvious explanation for deaths moving to younger, healthier people is that most of those who were employed and insured were forced by mandate to take an experimental vaccine product to maintain their employment.”

When you see a major death increase very specifically identified in working age people, we need to explain what changed in our workplaces? It was a health hazard to be employed in America during this time period. Dowd’s book goes into much deeper detail with corroborating data to support this massive kill in mid to late 2021. According to Dowd, no one has offered up any other reasonable explanation for this major die-off of working age people, other than the vaccine mandate.

Has this continued in 2022?

Dowd and his group have made a graph from the excess death data from the country of Denmark, one of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world.

This graph clearly shows that in Denmark, the covid vaccine seems to be having the opposite effect that was intended. Excess deaths are increasing each year.

2021 is higher than 2020, 2022 is higher than 2021.

Wasn’t the vaccine supposed to save lives?

This graph can be corroborated by the data in Our World Data website.

Notice the big spike at the end of 2022 and early 2023. Things are definitely going in the wrong direction.

I could on with tons of other data discussed in Ed Dowd’s book, but I think it best to purchase it and read the rest of the data there for yourself. This post only touches the surface.