@KiwiCraig74@HelenTeaPot@nicksmi33180797@AshBloomfield Are you trying to argue that the population increased in 2020, Craig? That aside, impacts from the lockdown policies (including economic and undiagnosed/exacerbated disease) are cumulative and delayed.
@KiwiCraig74@HelenTeaPot@nicksmi33180797@AshBloomfield I didn't say "balanced out", I said "offset by". Obviously all-cause mortality is going to be reduced when people aren't dying in road and workplace accidents, for example.
@KiwiCraig74@HelenTeaPot@nicksmi33180797@AshBloomfield Additionally, influenza didn't just disappear because we closed the border. In addition to persisting year-round (albeit with seasonally reduced transmissibility and virulence) it also survives in animal reservoirs including birds and pigs.
@KiwiCraig74@HelenTeaPot@nicksmi33180797@AshBloomfield "No flu". That is quite funny. Australia also had (virtually) "no flu" in 2020/21, but coincidentally the same number of deaths normally attributable to flu were attributed to COVID. Note also how crude deaths increase in linear fashion from 2020 onwards. People were dying.
@HelenTeaPot@KiwiCraig74@nicksmi33180797@AshBloomfield It is kinda funny. He means that without lockdowns they would have otherwise likely died of natural causes (i.e. complications following influenza, etc). To the extent that applies it is, of course, offset by the people who were artificially made dead by the same policy.
Watch for Excess Mortality fraud (especially from Health Officials & University PhD's) using these techniques over the coming years, in order to enforce their Narrative.
Trolls will conduct supportive malicious activity against dissent.
Be aware as to how corrupt science works.
For example, OWiD is using a paltered baseline (A) for its short term charts, making it appear falsely that New Zealand has no excess mortality. Crooks use this to spin lies (just as they did with the Sweden PFE trick).
When indeed the real baseline (B) makes 2 things crystal clear:
1. New Zealand Excess Mortality is ~8.5% as of 2023
2. The arrival of the most recent two years of excess conforms precisely to the vaccine uptake arrival (with a fixed duration offset).