Comments by "ARK CON" (@arkcon714) on "Trudeau says he will get 2nd AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shot, encourages Canadians to do same" video.

Deaths in Canada (all cause mortality) 2016 = 262,090 2017 = 274,240 (+12,150 from 2016) 2018 = 283,770 (+9,530 from 2017) 2019 = 287,460 (+3,690 from 2018) 2020 = 300,210 (+12,750 from 2019)
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@riverolson2989 I do of course understand the statistics and it is I fact you that doesn't understand, somehow. Let me guess, youbare going to copy and paste some nonsense about "excess deaths" right? The squishy math they use to keep sheep like you in line right? Excess deaths is a guess of how many people will die each year, thats a what it is, a guess. Oh it's not? How do they come up with this number? Do they have a crystal ball or perhaps a DeLorean that they got up to 88 mph? Tell me how do they calculate this number? Can't do it by age, some people die at 40 some at 103. Can't do it on behavior, some healthy law abiding people keel over at 32 while a chain smoking criminal lives to 80. Can't do it on condition, some people die within months of being diagnosed while other fight it for a decade So how do they come up with this excess deaths number? Please enlighten us
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@Handsoflight7766 less car accidents but more car accident deaths, record high actually along with record high child self endings, near record homicide and record death from missed treatments People didn't die in fender benders in rush hour traffic they died driving on empty roads and substance-abuse
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@Handsoflight7766 Now that the 2020 figures have been properly tallied, there is still no convincing evidence that strict lockdowns reduced the death toll from COVID-19. But one effect is clear: more deaths from other causes, especially among the young and middle-aged, minorities and the less affluent. Older Americans because of COVID-19, but it rose at an even sharper rate among people aged 15 to 54, and most of those excess deaths weren’t attributed to the virus. preliminary reports point to some obvious lockdown-related factors. There was a sharp decline in visits to emergency rooms and an increase in fatal heart attacks because patients didn’t receive prompt treatment. Many fewer people were screened for cancer. Social isolation contributed to excess deaths from dementia and Alzheimer’s. Researchers predicted that the social and economic upheaval would lead to tens of thousands of “deaths of despair” from drug overdoses, alcoholism and suicide. As unemployment surged and mental-health and substance-abuse treatment programs were interrupted, the reported levels of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts increased dramatically, as did alcohol sales and fatal drug overdoses. The number of people killed last year in motor-vehicle accidents in the United States rose to the highest level in more than a decade, even though Americans did significantly less driving than in 2019. It was the steepest annual increase in the fatality rate per mile traveled in nearly a century, apparently due to more substance abuse and more high-speed driving on empty roads. The number of excess deaths not involving COVID-19 has been especially high in US counties with more low-income households and minority residents, who were disproportionately affected by lockdowns. Nearly 40 percent of workers in low-income households lost their jobs during the spring, triple the rate in high-income households. Minority-owned small businesses suffered more, too. During the spring, when it was estimated that 22 percent of all small businesses closed, 32 percent of Hispanic owners and 41 percent of black owners shut down. Martin Kulldorff, a professor at Harvard Medical School, summarized the impact: “Lockdowns have protected the laptop class of young low-risk journalists, scientists, teachers, politicians and lawyers, while throwing children, the working class and high-risk older people under the bus.” The deadly impact of lockdowns will grow in future years, due to the lasting economic and educational consequences. The United States will experience more than 1 million excess deaths in the United States during the next two decades as a result of the massive “unemployment shock” last year, according to a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and Duke, who analyzed the effects of past recessions on mortality.
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