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I looked into normalized deaths per capita a while back, sometime late/post pandemic. What was oddly fascinating for me to see is the figures in the early 90s w
by yardstick 4y ago
I looked into normalized deaths per capita a while back, sometime late/post pandemic. What was oddly fascinating for me to see is the figures in the early 90s were actually a tad worse than during the pandemic. But progressively since the 90s the death rates have been consistently improving, bar covid.
Of course this data reflects the actual lockdowns experienced and not any what-if of the impact of death rates if we continued covid without lockdown.
1. https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsintheukfrom1990to2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoSmoking has dropped from around 55% of the population in the 60s to around 13% now. It was always one of the biggest killers, and as smokers died out and smoking became unfashionable life expectancy - unsurprisingly - stared to improve.
- yardstick 4y agoGood point, I had completely forgot about smoking. What a difference!