> Excess deaths are remaining stubbornly high in highly vaccinated countries.
That, not to put too fine a point on it, is because everyone became fat during COVID lockdowns.
> About 42% of U.S. adults reported undesired weight gain in the first year of the pandemic, with 29 pounds gained on average, a recent survey shows. [1]
An average increase of 29 pounds and a drinking problem for half the population is going to do a hell of a lot of the heavy lifting (pun intended) in regards to excess mortality.
I look forward to your theories on the moon landing, cadet ;)
Again this is all proportionality bias. Excess mortality is up because we're fatter now. Substantially. Off an already high baseline. And we drank a lot.
[1] https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/03/one-year-pan...