Democrats in the Maine House of Representatives have panicked and shut down an attempted investigation by Republican lawmakers into the state’s unprecedented 18% spike in all-cause mortality. Healthy Mainers with no history of previous illnesses, between the ages of 25 and 64, have been dying in astonishing numbers.

You’d think that policymakers would want to get to the bottom of a severe public health problem like this. The Democrats already know what’s causing the deaths, though, so they don’t want anyone looking more closely at the data.

State Rep. Heidi Sampson (R-Alfred) has been spearheading the effort to conduct a full-scale, emergency public health investigation. Since 2021, Maine has seen its all-cause mortality rate skyrocket by 18%. That’s a lot of extra people dying all at once. And Rep. Sampson wants to know why this is happening to the residents of her state.

All-cause mortality is usually very stable in advanced countries. States or nations track the number of people who die from all causes and graph the numbers over time to look for trends.

In countries with decent healthcare systems and stable governments, an all-cause mortality graph looks like a straight line over a 5- or 10-year period. You might only see a 2 or 3% fluctuation from year to year over time, which could signify something like a really bad flu season.

If your all-cause mortality rate jumps by 5% or more, that should be a huge, flashing red warning sign for public health officials and policymakers.

If an all-cause mortality rate jumps by more than that, it’s an indication that something has gone seriously wrong. Your political leaders had better demand and implement an emergency investigation right away, in case ISIS has poisoned your city’s water supply or something.

It’s extremely abnormal for there to be a big jump in all-cause mortality in a stable, modern country.

Life insurance companies will tell you that a 10% year-to-year increase in all-cause mortality would signify something like a 1-in-200-year catastrophe. You’d have to have a volcano suddenly bury entire towns under lava or something like that to experience such a big jump. Yet Democrats in Maine just shut down a proposal for an investigation into an 18% increase that’s lasted for more than two years.

Rep. Sampson proposed the creation of a task force to immediately investigate the cause of all of Maine’s excess deaths since 2021. She notes that the state only saw a 6% increase in all-cause mortality in 2020 when COVID-19 was spreading rapidly through the hospital system. Surely an 18% increase would shock her colleagues into action, wouldn’t it?

“The Democrats could not reject this order fast enough,” says Sampson.

Two Democrats in the Maine House of Representatives, both doctors, came up to her after her speech to demand where she had received the data on excess deaths. They then proceeded to berate her and claimed that all the excess deaths were suicides.

Even if that were true (which it’s not), wouldn’t you want to know why so many people in your state are suddenly killing themselves?

“They just shrugged their shoulders. We shut the whole damn state down for 6%,” said Sampson, referring to Maine’s draconian lockdowns.

“As a mother and a grandmother, this entire issue deeply concerns me. I want my children and their children to have long, healthy lives. We need to get to the bottom of this.”

Of course, Rep. Sampson and every Democrat who voted against an investigation already knows exactly what is causing the excess deaths in Maine and every other state in America.

Sampson infuriated her Democrat colleagues previously when she called for the COVID mRNA shots to be taken off the market in Maine until Congress lifts the liability shield for the pharmaceutical companies. If people can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna when the unsafe and ineffective shots injure or kill their loved ones, then Sampson argues the shots shouldn’t be available at all.

Here is Rep. Sampson’s speech to the Maine House of Representatives calling for an investigation into the state’s sudden 18% spike in all-cause mortality: