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• stephen_g 4y ago
  Yeah, here is an Australia it was pretty surprising. We’d had some “horror flu seasons” over the last few years (over 1000 deaths in 2017 and about 900 in 2019), and then COVID hit and we managed to stay mostly on top of that, as well as the travel restrictions and lockdowns working so well that there was only 36 flu deaths in 2020 and none in 2021. For 2021 we actually had negative excess deaths. Since then we dropped basically all restrictions and have had 14,000 COVID deaths (all mostly this year, we had about 2,200 from the start of the pandemic to the end of 2021) which weirdly aren’t talked about in the media at all, whereas you’d hear about the daily death count every day during outbreaks in 2020 and 2021…