re: The Big Kill

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Some of it does. It’s not anywhere close to effing 100%.

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In the few years leading up to 2020, we had mild flu/cold seasons and the mortality rate was below average (whatever the opposite of excess death is), so when Covid hit there was a lot of "dry kindling" as the health minister of Sweden described it. Add to this that Covid was nasty AF and more lethal than the typical flu for the old/frail, very obese and already very sick, and you have substantial excess mortality in the Covid years.

But here's a question - shouldn't we see a dip in mortality rates now/soon because Covid wiped out all the old dry kindling and a lot of the soon to be dry kindling, too?