@Notmulan
Funny *@Bizawit* I read the same article (which I thought was interesting and good) and immediately Googled excess death stats . Perhaps something we’re now “normalised” to do is to understand how many die each day. In the city of London a re insurance company had a “death counter “ running outside is head office, I think it was meant to encourage people to think about insurance and it definitely put more footfall into the church next door. But at the time (9 years ago) it was shocking to consider those statistics. now I think we’re sadly more aware of how many die each year , day and so the next reaction we have is “is that excessive?”. That’s really a rather depressing thought. I hope I don’t get numbed to statistics
600,000 to 700,000 people die in the UK each year. On the current trend it's about 40,000 from covid. A proportion will have naive immune systems (that'll run out, eventually everyone will have been vaccinated or had covid), a proportion will be people who would have died of something else, and only then do we have true long-term excess deaths. A new illness that's endemic possibly will reduce life expectancy until drugs catch up. While all those people are loved and will be missed, I'm yet to be convinced that the additional losses will be that high.
Now long covid, that's potentially a bigger issue. We just don't know how much vaccination will affect that. Nor even how it really is long term regardless, there simply hasn't been enough time.
So personally, I find anything focusing on just cases or just deaths somewhat lacking.