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Too much game playing with numbers. This always arises when people want to define attribution. With vs of stuff is pointless. Heart attack patients recover for a time and then die, but they also had cancer. So with vs of means what? Just stop with the absurd attribution game playing.

Excess Deaths is the gold standard. If more people die than in a typical year, something is amiss. When people want to play games with EDs they will say . . . no! The virus didn’t kill them! They died because of the horrible stress of using curbside pickup rather than walking through their grocery store! Or wearing a mask concentrated their lethal breath back into their nose.

Here is how you can get confidence in the ED numbers. Go look at the graphs on the ED page. Watch how they rise and fall over the course of time. And then go see how by total coincidence, the Worldometers official Covid deathcounts are rising and falling at the same damn time. Imagine that! EDs correlate to the time of highest Covid deaths.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s Covid causing the EDs. Wow! Who’da thunk it.

Then after you’re done this and feeling ambitious, go hunt down EDs for other countries and have a look at their graphs over time and their Worldometers graph.