I agree, though you need to wait to the end of the year to see if that excess death rate materialised in an actual increase in yearly mortality rate. That being

I agree, though you need to wait to the end of the year to see if that excess death rate materialised in an actual increase in yearly mortality rate. That being said though, I agree that our numbers are high, plain and simple. Still imo when we review the strategy we need to really look at where we made the mistakes. Imo it is very clear that the main mistake we did was to not protect the elderly enough. When you look at the age curve of deaths compared to the age curve of people infected a lot of the death could have been avoided if only the older generation could have been protected while the rest of us seem to have managed the virus and built up our defences. My thinking is that a quicker move to protect elderly together with otherwise mostly the same strategy could hopefully have reached the same goal we have landed on currently, but without a large amount of the deaths. Maybe the government should have sent out masks to the old and vulnerable (though given it wasn't clear at the start if masks help against the virus).