Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
I'm raising questions not providing answers Graham.

I had a discussion with an IEA guy Chris Snowdon (regular TV and radio pundit) almost 2 years ago about lockdowns, timing of them, benefit of them.
We were also discussing the difficulty of real analysis because of "with covid" and he assured me that in a couple of years time we'll be able to see the full effect of the pandemic with regards to mortality as we'll see the peaks in excess deaths in 2020 & 2021 and then the drop off in those rates to below trend in 2022 and 2023 before a rebalance to trend.
It seemed fair enough.

There hasn't been a drop off though. See link.

and you can see all ages and then break down by age. Turquoise is excess deaths.

Since Spring 2022 there has hardly been a week without excess deaths. In fact if you look at 0-24 the situation is worse over the last 18 months than the previous 18 months.

What is causing it?

100s of young people dying when compared to trend.

So I'm asking why. I have an idea but what concerns me is for so long we had a daily count up of deaths in the UK and now when it is worse in almost all age groups of working age, grasshoppers.

No expert, just the figures and something is seriously wrong.
Yes, the graphs are worrying, but there is no suggestion that the continuing excess deaths are anything to do with Covid or the subject of this thread, the Covid vaccinations. So why are so many young people dying?

Actually, there are all sorts of reasons why young people could be suffering from poor mental health (which would tend to cause poor physical health). One of those reasons is the disruption that Covid has caused, to their social lives as well as their education. There is the cost-of-living crisis (leading to poor diet, etc.). They may be depressed because the dysfunctional housing market means that they are never likely to be able to get a house of their own. Or they may just be depressed after 13 years of the Tories in Government . . . .

But it is worth investigating.