That’s very cavalier of you. Most of them were all just ready to die anyway? Zeke Emmanuel would be proud. My father wasn’t ready to die. He had early stage Parkinson’s, which complicated things, but he had years left had he not caught COVID.
It’s not surprising to see a reduction in deaths this year, as people have been quarantined for much of it. That doesn’t justify the quarantine in itself. I’ve never argued for the widespread quarantines we’ve seen, and I still don’t. But one side effect of them is a reduction in deaths for this year. The quarantine would have had an effect on reducing deaths from other infectious diseases, not just COVID. Suicides likely increased, but various other kinds of deaths, automobile fatalities for example, would have decreased.
As far as fewer people not having serious life-threatening conditions diagnosed because of the quarantine, that’s probably true, but most deaths attributed to that will likely show up in future years, not this one.
Very sorry for your loss.
I've lost a sil, a bil, and 4 uncles in the past several months, all not covid except one, who was elderly and had chf.
my point was merely that we were going to loose a certain number of people to death no matter what...heart attacks, strokes, cancer, etc...
so we didn't loose so many people to heart attacks, strokes and cancer during the covid era.....why?....why haven't we lost so many to heart attacks, strokes, or cancer...why have those deaths been fewer?....truth is, they haven't been fewer, but covid, just like a case of cdiff, or mrsa or ecoli will certainly push these sickly people over the edge....
so when this year ends, I think our number of deaths as a nation will be right around what it usually is....that is my only point...