How long until Australia admits that zero covid was doomed to fail from the beginning? That destroying your society was all pain and no gain? Will the public health tyrants ever apologize and be held to account?
Euromomo.eu reports weekly "excess" mortality in 23 European nations; through Week 36 of 2021, there has been no significant excess for those under 45 years of age:
For those over 75, deaths were dramatically below normal in 2019 leading to excess deaths in 2020.
For those over 85, deaths in 2021 YTD are now below normal (compare to 2017/2018).
The ~30% of covid deaths driven by those >85 seems to have not created any excess mortality.
For those 45-74 in Europe, 2021 has seen significantly more excess deaths than 2020 (through Week 36), despite widespread vaccination campaigns.
This is especially true for 45-64, where 2020 deaths were on par with 2018.
Why is this year worse than last year for these cohorts?
"New infections have fallen sharply in nearly every nation in South America... reprieve has been so sharp and fast, even as the delta variant wreaks havoc elsewhere in the world, that experts cannot quite explain it."
Experts at a loss to explain the sudden drop in cases across South America; there have been "no new sweeping or large-scale containment measures", travel and economic activity has picked up, schools have opened.
There is some attempt to credit vaccines for the decline - but there is no correlation between vaccination rates and case rates in South America.
In fact, Paraguay has both the lowest rate of vaccination and the lowest case rate.
The flu has returned to India after an absence of ~18 months. This almost certainly indicates that covid has become endemic in India and that there will be no significant future waves.
Indian hospitals are reporting high numbers of sick patients - but only 0.1% are testing positive for covid (rate of false positives) but many patients are testing positive for the flu:
Seroprevelance surveys in India indicate that 2/3 of the population has antibodies to covid. Is that the HIT threshold necessary to end the pandemic phase, allow the flu to return, and mark covid as just another endemic virus?