So, excess deaths were always going to be higher. Covid is a new virus that's circulating in addition to all the existing viruses(virii?) that circulated throu

So, excess deaths were always going to be higher. Covid is a new virus that's circulating in addition to all the existing viruses(virii?) that circulated throughout the population previously, and it's also significantly more harmful than the existing viruses. So what's interesting here is: 1) The size of the jump in excess deaths. 2) Not all the excess deaths are attributable to Covid. > That equates to an extra 18,671 deaths. Of those, only 7727 were attributed to Covid – or 41 per cent – leaving 10,944 non-Covid excess deaths. So, 41% of the excess deaths were attributed to covid, leaving 59% of the jump in excess deaths to be things that were already killing us, but for some reason are killing us _more_ this year. > So far in 2022, deaths due to dementia are up 18.9 per cent, diabetes up 20.8 per cent, cancer up 6.1 per cent, and ischaemic heart disease up 3.3 per cent, according to ABS data. and all the things that: 1) aren't covid 2) are increased excess deaths appear to be things that covid _makes worse_. I don't have any scientific papers or news articles to hand or anything, but I've been reading for the last few years now that covid impacts the brain(brain fog in long covid), hits overweight people & diabetics harder, causes heart problems, etc etc. Which is the simplistic take. but I do wonder if there's anything more to it, that I can't think of at all? Also, no idea about increased cancers. Delayed treatment? Less effective treatment or diagnosis due to covid precautions? something completely unrelated to covid? Any thoughts there?