Great points, Peter.
Official numbers should only ever be excess deaths. The rest is meaningless.
In Canada, the excess death data are all over the place: it varies widely (from wildly positive to wildly negative) depending on province. In my province of British Columbia, Covid (even death _with_ Covid) accounts for only a small fractio…
Official numbers should only ever be excess deaths. The rest is meaningless.
In Canada, the excess death data are all over the place: it varies widely (from wildly positive to wildly negative) depending on province. In my province of British Columbia, Covid (even death _with_ Covid) accounts for only a small fraction of the excess deaths. The Covid _response_ accounts for some nontrivial proportion of the remainder (especially considering how lockdowns affected drug toxicity deaths.) We still lack a coherent, comprehensive explanation of all the excess deaths. (But we know it's not Covid itself causing it all.)
Great points, Peter.
Official numbers should only ever be excess deaths. The rest is meaningless.
In Canada, the excess death data are all over the place: it varies widely (from wildly positive to wildly negative) depending on province. In my province of British Columbia, Covid (even death _with_ Covid) accounts for only a small fraction of the excess deaths. The Covid _response_ accounts for some nontrivial proportion of the remainder (especially considering how lockdowns affected drug toxicity deaths.) We still lack a coherent, comprehensive explanation of all the excess deaths. (But we know it's not Covid itself causing it all.)