> So why bother to judge something that you refuse to read? They did read it, and concluded it wasn't useful. > Graphs from EU data about excess mortality are

> So why bother to judge something that you refuse to read? They did read it, and concluded it wasn't useful. > Graphs from EU data about excess mortality are conspiracy theories now? Excess mortality, by design, does not say anything about causes. In the USA for example, you can hypothesize a variety of plausible reasons for continued high excess mortality, pandemic-related and otherwise (increased crime, lower incomes, decreased access to non-Covid healthcare, increased highway speeds, et alia), but the excess mortality number itself cannot tell you the relative strengths of those causes.