Doesn’t prove the best way to deal with it , but the all causes death total Shows that it isn’t just the flu.
Death total increased most years in the 2010s as the population Aged BUT the increase was modest. Never more than 3% year over year.
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True; but that result reflects a straight trend line calculation, which underestimates the increasing marginal rate of deaths that can naturally expect to occur when a big component of the population (the aging baby boomer bulge) gets into it’s late 60’s, when health problems naturally escalate exponentially.