These are interesting proxies for what’s really happening. Another indicator would be the number of published obituaries. Government statistics are now as reliable as in the days of Stalinist Russia.
I noticed our local, and my closest metro area, as well as my hometown obits were up, over last and previous years, by almost double.....a few months ago.
The next time I looked, it looked as though the average age had lowered.
(These would/could tie in with these shots being rolled out.)
Another oddity.....the majority of these obits no longer said things like....Bill died after a long, courageous battle with cancer.....or, donations can be made in Bill’s honor to the Heart/Parkinson’s/Kidney/Alzheiner’s foundation, etc. In most of the obits, there was no cause of death, although some did say.....died unexpectedly, or died after a brief illness.
Could be purely unrelated, though.
I have noticed the “brief illness” explanation as well.
Other things I have filed away as “hmmm”, I never have heard of so many small plane crashes as I have in the past few months. I have never heard of so many athletes collapsing on the field as I have this year.
Similarities also in our local obits .. many more deaths occurring in October with preponderance in the late 40s-65 age group as unexpected or brief illness.
Interesting also that 3 Cuyahoga County Ohio judges ages 59, 62 and 68 died within 9 days late September/first week of October (2 unexpected and 1 with longstanding health issues).