The Curious Case of the Isle of Man

In his latest, stats guy Joel Smalley highlights yet another ‘black swan’ – and reminds us of two others he’s previously covered: The Amish and Palau.

This little island off the coast of the UK managed to dodge the deadliest pandemic since the “Spanish flu” completely…

Curiously though, even though allegedly representing more than 1 in 5 deaths at its peak in April 2020, COVID didn’t make a blind bit of difference to the island’s overall mortality, not even in that month…

Even more curiously, Isle of Man’s COVID death toll itself was almost four times higher after the roll out of the “vaccine” that was supposed to save everyone from a COVID death – mysteriously, only really taking off, rather unseasonably, in the middle of summer 2021, more than a year after this deadly epidemic first emerged…

Joel Smalley