Incidentally lads, a couple of weeks ago the CSO released the annual death statistics and it makes for interesting reading.
2011 28,456
2012 29,186 (+730)
2013 29,504 (+318)
2014 29,252 (-252)
2015 30,127 (+875)
2016 30,667 (+540)
2017 30,418 (-249)
2018 31,140 (+722)
2019 31,134 (-6)
2020 31,765 (+631)
It’s interesting because it looks like a gradually increasing data series with no real outliers outside statistical significance, I assume driven by overall population trends. 2020 doesn’t even make the top 3 annual increases which is surprising since we officially had 2,237 deaths from Covid. I don’t remember everyone losing their collective sh1t in 2015 for example.
This is not a Covid denial post, and I’m well aware that if we had let it run riot we could have had a different outcome and many more deaths. But it does look that a huge number of the deaths actually classified as Covid deaths were people who were sadly dying of other conditions (CSO themselves said this in a report at end September), and in this context we need to critically look at the 2200 deaths by September projection……its an even more Armageddon like number than it initially seems when you compare it to the numbers that have likely dies exclusively from Covid to date. It’s probably somewhere of the order of a doubling of our actual death toll. To me the CMO needs to come out and explain exactly where this is coming from.
2011 28,456
2012 29,186 (+730)
2013 29,504 (+318)
2014 29,252 (-252)
2015 30,127 (+875)
2016 30,667 (+540)
2017 30,418 (-249)
2018 31,140 (+722)
2019 31,134 (-6)
2020 31,765 (+631)
It’s interesting because it looks like a gradually increasing data series with no real outliers outside statistical significance, I assume driven by overall population trends. 2020 doesn’t even make the top 3 annual increases which is surprising since we officially had 2,237 deaths from Covid. I don’t remember everyone losing their collective sh1t in 2015 for example.
This is not a Covid denial post, and I’m well aware that if we had let it run riot we could have had a different outcome and many more deaths. But it does look that a huge number of the deaths actually classified as Covid deaths were people who were sadly dying of other conditions (CSO themselves said this in a report at end September), and in this context we need to critically look at the 2200 deaths by September projection……its an even more Armageddon like number than it initially seems when you compare it to the numbers that have likely dies exclusively from Covid to date. It’s probably somewhere of the order of a doubling of our actual death toll. To me the CMO needs to come out and explain exactly where this is coming from.
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