Bulgaria – The Burning Platform

True story. No points for guessing what product Bulgaria hardly used. Here’s a hint: mRNA Covid jabs.

Bulgaria is good at counting its dead.

The country’s National Statistical Institute compiles death figures weekly and releases them in English once a month.

They tell a story that mRNA jab advocates may not want to hear.

Bulgaria has very low Covid vaccination rates, likely because generations of Communist misrule left Bulgarians deeply suspicious of government promises of miracle cures.

And Covid hit Bulgaria hard from late 2020 through early 2022. The epidemic tore through unhealthy middle-income Eastern European countries, and Bulgaria has rates of smoking, obesity, and cardiovascular disease that are off the charts. Its Covid death rate was more than double that of Western European countries like Spain, and its overall mortality rate higher still.

But now the epidemic is over. And deaths in Bulgaria are plunging – not just to normal, but well below it.

(Weekly deaths in Bulgaria over the last six years: the red line is 2023. The second chart is just a highlight to show just how far below normal deaths have now fallen. They’re low even by summer standards.)

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Woman Sets Herself On Fire In Front Of Presidency Of Europe’s Poorest Country

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/04/2014 09:55 -0500

With French youth revolting, Spanish regions seeking secession, and GREXIT back on the cards, Europe’s social unrest concerns are starting to rise once again to troubling levels. However, it is in Europe’s poorest nation, Bulgaria that the message of dissatisfaction is loudest. As The BBC reports, a woman has set herself ablaze near the presidency building in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. There were six similar self-immolations in Bulgaria last year, amid anger over chronic poverty and alleged corruption.

When it comes to this, you know there is a problem (Warning: Graphic)

As The BBC reports,

A woman has set herself ablaze near the presidency building in the Bulgarian capital Sofia and is now in hospital being treated for severe burns.

It is not yet clear why the 38-year-old woman doused herself in a flammable liquid and torched herself.

She was engulfed in flames before bystanders managed to put out the blaze and load her into an ambulance.

There were six similar self-immolations in Bulgaria last year, amid anger over chronic poverty and alleged corruption.

Last month Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party won a snap parliamentary election but failed to get an overall majority. The party led by former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is trying to form a new ruling coalition with smaller parties.

Last year Bulgaria, the poorest country in the EU, was rocked by weeks of protests over low living standards, a banking crisis and allegations of high-level government corruption.