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Overall, there was a non-significant negative excess mortality in Frankfurt am Main in 2020 and 2021 and a significant negative excess mortality in 2023. In 2022, however, a significant excess mortality was observed, which could not be attributed to SARS-CoV-2 but to a short, intense wave of influenza in the last 6 weeks at the end of that year, which had also led to a significant increase in mortality throughout Germany. This influenza wave was associated with an excess mortality rate in Frankfurt am Main, which was higher than in any wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Frankfurt am Main. The number of excess deaths during that influenza waves was larger than the excess deaths during all SARS-CoV-2 waves altogether.

I'm the only nurse in my family.

I'm the only one who worked in a hospital during covid.

I'm the only one in my family who saw with my own eyes how the system was being worked, how states wanted positive numbers, and how people were being added to the death toll.

But I had a couple family members who argued with me about it all. They believed everything they saw on CNN.

I told them that every single person coming through the ER gets tested with a PCR test. If they're positive but they end up dying, even if it was a car accident or gunshot or complications after a surgery, etc, the public health department adds them to the death toll.

They didn't believe me. They argued with everything I tried to tell them.

Then in mid-2021, my county's public health department put out a statement to the public explaining why someone would be added to the death toll.

They said there were 3 reasons why a death would be added.

1 of those reasons? If the person had a positive PCR test.

That's it.

It doesn't matter what they died from. If they had a positive PCR test, they'd be added to the death toll.

I sent my family a copy of the actual public health statement.

They never responded to me.

12:35 PM · Dec 28, 2025