Posted by Frontline News Staff
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Mon, Jul 18, 2022
A Toronto-area casket manufacturer has seen a dramatic rise in orders for smaller-sized coffins since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Children are dying.
Coffins for children ordered in bulk, ‘first time in over 30 years’ (exclusive interview)
by Miranda Sellick
reposted with permission of the RAIR Foundation
Ultimately, everything in life comes down to death.
We are raised to believe that thereβs a time for living and a time for dying. The time for dying comes with illness, accidents, and old age. Except it doesnβt anymore.
In an exclusive interview with RAIR Foundation USA, Mick Haddock, a manufacturer of caskets in northern Toronto, says things have changed markedly in the industry in the last nine months. βSmall people are passing away,β he says. βItβs noticeable in our industry. For the first time in over 30 years, we are receiving bulk orders for smaller-sized caskets.β
Casket Manufacturer: Coffins for Children Ordered in Bulk, ‘First Time in Over 30 Years’
Typically, the casket industry remains pretty stable, and an unusually big casket order usually indicates a traumatic event, but recent sales indicate that this has changed. βNot only are all sales up, but in the past, for every five full-sized caskets we sold, we sold one youth size. Now, for every five, itβs two youth sized.β
According to Haddock, he and his colleagues in the industry thought they would see an uptick in 2020 when we were being told that covid was lethal and killing people indiscriminately, in their many thousands. But that didnβt happen. βIt wasnβt until the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 that we saw sales increase. We didnβt see any increase in sales before vaccines were introduced, and people started traveling again,β says Haddock. βAnd I donβt want to blame it on the travel thatβs been killing everybody because, in truth, most of these places around the world are still light on what travelers can do. Even accidental deaths are still limited.β
In fact, in 2020, Haddock saw a 60 percent drop in sales. βIt was only once the vaccines were pushed to younger and younger demographics that we started seeing the uptick,β he says. βIt was just senior citizens and the very frail at first. Within two months of the approval of the vaccine for the 11- to 15-year-olds, we noticed more demand for smaller units.β
Overall sales have increased by 30 and 40 percent compared to 2019. βItβs staggering how much more there is,β says Haddock. βIt started to climb by mid-2021; by 2022, growth was measurable.β
Haddockβs experience mirrors that of British funeral director John OβLooney of Milton Keynes Family Funeral Services, who went public in September 2021 to explain a similar pattern of death. OβLooney remarked that there was no surge in deaths during the initial covid wave, and if anything, fewer deaths. But after the vaccine was introduced in January 2021, OβLooney said that calls soared, going up 300 percent. βIβve never seen a death rate like it in 15 years,β he said. βInitially, [the deaths were] all exclusively care homes,β OβLooney said. But after the rollout of the mRNA injection, the deaths were no longer exclusively from nursing homes, and the ages of the dead varied significantly.
OβLooney described a woman in her fifties, fit, a runner, and without health issues, who was given a booster and died of liver failure the following week. Haddock confirms that this measurable increase has all happened in Canada in the last six to seven months, β(Initially) it wasnβt at the rate it is now, but by the time we hit the round of boosters was when we started noticing multiple calls a week from the same (casket) distributors. All casket sales are dramatically up,β he says. Itβs just that youth-sized sales are up more than any other category.
While Haddock and his colleagues have seen the greatest increase in sales in the mid-sized category, βeveryone is at risk with these vaccines,β he says. βItβs hard to deny. What can it be blamed on? What has changed? Why is the death rate exceeding that of before the vaccines?β he ponders.
Children aged six to 12 are robust human beings. βNow, these are the sizes we are selling,β says Haddock. βChildren donβt just die. It doesnβt happen. Never in history.β