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Yes, I have. The counter argument to that is that all the people who were going to die this year just died in the same week. This would of course temporarily ov
by thebruce87m 7y ago
Yes, I have. The counter argument to that is that all the people who were going to die this year just died in the same week. This would of course temporarily overwhelm mortuaries etc but would result in no excess mortality for the year.
The infection rate numbers are essentially meaningless since governments are testing differently. Others don’t even have any tests at all.
The death numbers are also meaningless unless you know they are truly extra deaths that wouldn’t have occurred otherwise. Some countries are under-counting by only counting hospital deaths. Some countries are over-counting by counting any death with COVID as a COVID death. A death count in itself is meaningless without an expected death count which we almost never see.
Now do I believe we have a real problem? Yes. Can I quantify it? No. Not without excess mortality data like this on an ongoing basis.