We know how many people would die in any given month due to old age, accidents etc. We also know how many people have died each month since the pandemic started. Minus the expected from the actual and you have the excess mortality

That is a guessing game of speculative junk statistics. Some of these 'excess mortality' could be dying from other related variables including the lack of medical care because the media/gov hype machine has everyone running around scared shitless, so they're not getting the care that they need. I will spare you the report, but that's the real health crisis, that people are putting off routine medical and mental health care. The virus is overwhelmingly dangerous to elderly and immuno-compromised. What I'm saying is if 99.5+% of those that die from it are in this vulnerable group, and the rest who get it generally only experience a bad flu at worse....why is everyone else quarantined, jobless, wearing masks? If a person is vulnerable they should quarantine at home with an N95 mask on.

I realize that. But we can account for that by looking at the percentage of those tests which come back positive. Testing for people who have been sick previously and recovered is different to testing people who are sick now. It's a different test.

Perhaps you could clarify. This may be different in different places, from what I understand there is one standard test administered. If someone comes in with symptoms, they test and its covid...there's one count. For people who are not sick, and test positive, that counts as another "victim of the covid". So when they say 100 new cases today, and half of them recovered months prior and didn't even realize they had it...that intentionally conflates the figures to sound more menacing.

We're seeing lower instances of flu deaths here in Australia too, it's due to people staying away from the most vulnerable to protect them from corona and as a consequence also protecting them from the regular flu.

You're more trusting than I am, I only wish I could regain your childlike innocence. Following your same logic, Covid cases should be decreasing as well. However, they are not. In the US it was a dramatic seasonal flu drop, just as covid was going vertical. According to your logic, I would then be led to believe that taking safety measures against Covid only really works for the flu instead.

Yes. I've been reading studies. I've been following the data day to day pretty much since it started.

Read the counter points for once, would you? There's value in proving your beliefs.

ratlicker

Im going to pretend this is a term of endearment.