what I’ve been saying all year....the deaths will end up being no more than usual, relative to population....we are all mortal and will die....some folks were just about there anyway....we couldn’t prevent it....we can’t prevent death of sick elderly which comprises about 2/3 of “covid” deaths....
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.