Greater Toronto - The proportion of cases (positive test results) resulting in death (yellow line).
City of Toronto cases, hospitalizations, deaths.
City of Toronto - The proportion of cases (positive test results) resulting in death (yellow line).
GTA cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, indexed to values 1 year earlier. The black line (index = 100) is where we were 365 days ago (all values indexed to values on that date).
(Below black bar = lower than one year ago today; Above black bar = higher than one year ago today)
Since the Enlightenment, the philosophical foundation of Western civilization has been the idea that freedom is paramount and universal. The role of government is to maximize freedom and it is the right of all to enjoy freedom.
However, we accept specific and well-defined restrictions on freedom when doing so maximizes freedom overall. In a cost-benefit analysis, we may see that limiting some freedoms may actually increase overall freedoms at a societal level.
For example, my right to do as I please ends at your right to physical security and ownership of personal property. Being physically secure from others is the basis of personal freedom.
Here we have the total number of deaths in Canada and its regions over the past ten years.
Here we have the same chart you saw above now expressed as a rate per 100,000 people. Generally, a flatter trend in death rates would suggest that population growth may be a key factor driving growth in total deaths.
Looking at the past decade nationally, we see that it's natural for deaths in one year to exceed deaths in the previous year (blue line > 0%). Note that a year of low or negative growth is often followed by a year of much higher growth.
Ontario - The proportion of cases (positive test results) resulting in death (yellow line). (Daily reported deaths divided by average daily cases over prior 28 days.)
Ontario covid-19 cases, deaths, and testing.
Weekly all-cause deaths and deaths with/from Covid-19 in Ontario, 2010-2021 (subject to Statistics Canada reporting delay for all-cause deaths.)