So by restricting movements we've (they've) preveneted "normal" deaths which have since been replaced by covid deaths therefore had we not restricted movements normal deaths would still occur. Adding to them an exponential growth in numbers of covid deaths. Your logic and data shows that what is being done is working and saving peoples lives despite the same amount of people dying.
yes it’s a fact people die all the time, when i refer to normal in this sense i’m talking about normal numbers of deaths, so our normal flu deaths, statistically speaking have not occurred, and we have experienced a smaller number of sars-cov2 deaths (compared with likely flu deaths) ..likely due to the fact we have also had restrictive movement measures in place...we don’t have any data on -if flu causes 2 in100 people who are infected to die, sars-cov2 also causes 2 in 100 deaths...reason being we have never ever tested influenza virus infections..we have just put the death down to flu
so yes we are saving lives, be it sars-cov2 or due to influenza virus, but it’s just as likely the group of people who are dying will die of pneumonia next month or next year, or catch some other virus and die, yet it is not reported the same way
yes the data shows in Oz less people are dying, but can we stay locked up through 2021/2022 to prevent sars-cvo2 deaths? why do we not lockdown when a bad flu seasons kills 1000’s? my point matt is heaps of people die every day, the numbers are staggering, when it’s thrown in your face that coronavirus kills 1000’s, it highlights and people are shocked, truth is 100,000’s of people die somewhere in the world every day from cancer to bee stings, shark attacks, meningocccal etc many of the infectious deaths, due to a pathogen are not correctly reported or known, about 25% of them.
when i worked for a big pathology lab, our success rate on govt sanctioned mandatory pathogen identification was about 50% in the microbe dept, we only correctly id’s the bug half the time, other labs reported the sane rough rates every year the best labs achieved about 70%, worst 30%