[Vermont Lt]

You see how you just used some pretty wild thinking to come around to, “Anecdotes without statistics are OK because all of the statistics are fixed”.

Not all reporting is fixed. Not all anecdotes are false.

But you have to look at these things objectively. And there is no objective measure that indicates people are dying at anything but a normal and expected rate.

Cancers are being detected at a higher rate over the past year or so because patients ignored symptoms and put off screening during the pandemic.

[ChildOfThe60s]

But you have to look at these things objectively. And there is no objective measure that indicates people are dying at anything but a normal and expected rate.

There are statistically significant increases in expected death rates - also note my response to your assertion below

Cancers are being detected at a higher rate over the past year or so because patients ignored symptoms and put off screening during the pandemic.

That is an unproven assumption. More to the point, it is as unprovable as what you claim my suggestions are.

If....if your assumption is correct, then the increases in cancer will taper off, back to previous levels in the near future. Let's see what happens.