It’s no secret by now that the US didn’t handle the Covid-19 pandemic well, especially compared to similar countries.
But some people may still not realize just how bad it actually was. According to Fortune magazine, excess deaths have jumped 85% within the past 3 years.
In fact, people in the US are dying at higher rates than their peers in other wealthy, developed countries. And the numbers only seem to be growing.
The CDC defines excess deaths as the observed number of deaths versus the expected number within a specific time-period based on prior years or the numbers in other countries. Basically, “excess deaths” just means more people dying in a year than expected based on previous years.
The study cited in the Fortune article looks at US deaths versus the number of deaths in other wealthy countries.
But the author seems to want to downplay the other factors besides Covid-19 that caused excess deaths in the past few years to increase, pointing out that mortality rates in the US were growing compared to other wealthy countries for decades.
This analysis obviously ignores the fact that while excess deaths in the US have been steadily increasing in recent years, they didn’t really spike until the pandemic.
What hardly any maninsteam media outlets seem to be talking about is how many deaths were likely indirectly related to Covid and completely avoidable.
Perhaps the media wants to draw attention elsewhere rather than being forced to focus on its own complicity in covid-related deaths due bad covid policy they promoted?
Even liberal talk show host Bill Maher opened up about the collateral damage from lockdowns a while back.
As he pointed out, the problems weren’t a result of the pandemic itself. Responding to an article headline, he stated, “… the pandemic didn’t do that. The way we handled the pandemic did that. So, let’s not just say, “the pandemic” because it was not written in stone that we had to handle it that way..”
He went on to list a host of consequences… everything from mental illness and drug abuse to an increase in teenage suicide and fatal car accidents.
Finally, he discussed Sweden’s anti-lockdown policy and their success in dealing with Covid.
Maher’s observations are echoed by an article that appeared in The Chicago Tribune – of all places – back in April of this year, entitled, Excess deaths in the US are rising at an alarming rate:
The bad news is that the number of overall excess U.S. deaths — the difference between expected numbers of deaths from all causes and the actual number of deaths observed — is rising at a shocking rate. COVID-19 is a factor, but the main causes of excess deaths are more social than medical, and the worst aspect is that they are occurring in the younger demographic in which homicides, suicides, vehicular deaths and drugs are taking a disproportionate toll on what should be the healthiest sector of the population. (Source)
Formerly the leftwing media’s darling, Sweden suddenly became their whipping boy, mercilessly attacked by these same outlets throughout the pandemic for their common sense herd immunity approach to tackling Covid.
The New York Times even went so far as to call Sweden the “the world’s cautionary tale” and a “pariah state.”
Despite the liberal media’s hysteria over Sweden’s sensible approach to Covid, their excess mortality rate has been – and remains – lower than the US and the rest of the EU.
However we feel about Maher, the point is that all of these things are common sense observations and we can only wonder as to why more people haven’t pointed out the obvious.
One thing we can be certain about, though, is that the mainstream media will continue to ignore these facts for as long as they can.
So, it may be a long time before we know just how much of an impact these draconian policies have had on society as a whole.