Originally Posted by
ragingpup
I get that Slim. And I'm not too invested in the argument of how many died just due to covid etc. But just interested in how the argument that covid didn't directly cause as many deaths as the official stats (circa 160k?) explain the huge increase in excess deaths when compared to the previous 5 years? That seems to me a provable, objective figure and on the graph John provided, you can see the excell deaths week by week rising in tandem with the different waves of the pandemic. So my question is how is that explained if it wasn't just from heavy covid influence, even including the co-morbidities and other factors that would be there year on year?