Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 percent

It’s going to be really interesting for epidemiologists to analyze all this data.

“Covid deaths” is an incredibly subjective data point and it’s clear countries don’t all measure it the same.

But deaths are deaths, so comparing “excess mortality” during and after Covid will give a much more objective picture of how different approaches worked.

But it will be important to look at excess mortality for years after Covid. As the article points out, if restrictions limited access to medical care (or just caused people to delay seeking it) the ramifications will take years to show up.

So, excess deaths were always going to be higher. Covid is a new virus that's circulating in addition to all the existing viruses(virii?) that circulated throughout the population previously, and it's also significantly more harmful than the existing viruses.

So what's interesting here is: 1) The size of the jump in excess deaths. 2) Not all the excess deaths are attributable to Covid.

> That equates to an extra 18,671 deaths. Of those, only 7727 were attributed to Covid – or 41 per cent – leaving 10,944 non-Covid excess deaths.

So, 41% of the excess deaths were attributed to covid, leaving 59% of the jump in excess deaths to be things that were already killing us, but for some reason are killing us _more_ this year.

> So far in 2022, deaths due to dementia are up 18.9 per cent, diabetes up 20.8 per cent, cancer up 6.1 per cent, and ischaemic heart disease up 3.3 per cent, according to ABS data.

and all the things that: 1) aren't covid 2) are increased excess deaths

appear to be things that covid _makes worse_. I don't have any scientific papers or news articles to hand or anything, but I've been reading for the last few years now that covid impacts the brain(brain fog in long covid), hits overweight people & diabetics harder, causes heart problems, etc etc.

Which is the simplistic take. but I do wonder if there's anything more to it, that I can't think of at all?

Also, no idea about increased cancers. Delayed treatment? Less effective treatment or diagnosis due to covid precautions? something completely unrelated to covid? Any thoughts there?

Most likely the "vaccine" is at least partially responsible. Most vaccines take around ten years to develop, most of that time being in testing for adverse events.

Given that no one is actually attempting to monitor this, and that health authorities worldwide have tried their best to destroy the control group this seems like a reasonable assumption to make, or at the very least something that should be investigated. But it isn't. There are a couple of subreddits full of stores about vaccine problems.

I see the only comment in this thread asking about the percentage vaccinated / boosted is marked as [dead]. Why? It's a pretty reasonable question given the way the vaccine rollout has been handled.

The report divides deaths into three types: those who died of covid, those who died with covid and excess deaths. The excess deaths are more numerous than the with covid deaths.

Weekly fluctuations in excess deaths correlates strongly with covid deaths, so people who want to pretend that the excess deaths are due to something other than covid (ie, vaccinations or lockdown measures) are barking up the wrong tree.

https://www.actuaries.digital/2022/12/07/covid-19-mortality-...

This is certainly worrying to some degree given that Australia wanted to buy time by isolating itself from the rest of the world until they could vaccinate virtually everyone. And with 97.3% of people aged 16+ with at least 1 dose [0] they can claim "Mission accomplished" on that front.

At this point, either the vaccine works as claimed, in which case we shouldn't be seeing these numbers, or it doesn't.

[0] https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/covid-19-vaccines/vaccina...

Am genuinely curious if people find out that this is vaccine-related, what would the implications of that be?

(I do not think this is, I am just curious)

Exactly as to be expected, when a horde of stupid monkeys (humans) tries to confine a respiratory virus.

Damaging the immune system with lockdowns (less uvb, less activity, fear), mask mandates (The only big studie that shows some positive effect has been made in Bangladesh. Because the medical level and corruption level are known to be superior to the industrialized nations?) and dubious vaccines takes its toll.

Hopefully it encourages someone to have an objective investigation into vaccines and "vaccines". OZ was particularly hard on lockdowns and vaxx.

Near the end the "conundrum" is answered ... the article only exists to stir the pot ... yes if the initial response to the pandemic on the part of the "trump wannabe party" was an appalling response ... certain media should understand there will be a lag in great number of people who didn't seek out earlier treatment / intervention, and stop trying to paint the fools (scum depending on view) that were in charge as totally innocent and making noises about those who were voted in to replace them. This high is from poor actions two years in the making. A pipe at near capacity isn't meant to run way above capacity for long.

"“One of the other important factors is we see higher non-Covid deaths when there are Covid deaths,” she said. “Part of it could be people are not getting healthcare when they need it, particularly emergency care, or there could be more undiagnosed Covid than we know about.”

“One of the other important factors is we see higher non-Covid deaths when there are Covid deaths,” she said. “Part of it could be people are not getting healthcare when they need it, particularly emergency care, or there could be more undiagnosed Covid than we know about.”"