Inflated Covid Death Figures By Mrs Vera West

This is from a report in the Australian Financial Review, May 19, 2022, p.3, “Tenth of Covid-19 Fatalities Did Not Die from the Disease.” According to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) death certificate analysis, from March 2020 to the end of April 2022, ten percent of the 5940 official Covid deaths, were from other causes. In fact, the ABS data shows that for the deaths arising from Covid, 93.5 percent had other conditions listed on the death certificate, and “[h]alf of the certificates had both a causal sequence and pre-existing conditions listed on the [death] certificate.” Thus, Covid was no Black Death, or Spanish flu, and seems mainly to have killed those who very vulnerable to begin with.

Further, the median age of those dying from Covid, was 83.9 years, 82.4 for men and 86 for women. The life expectancy for Australian men is 80.9 years. So, was this an adequate justification for locking down the economy and people? Wouldn’t the Japanese response of concentrating on protecting the vulnerable and elderly have been more medically rational? However, it was never about disease control, only people control.