01-23-2022, 07:37 PM
(01-23-2022, 06:15 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: I totally agree. The average daily death rate in Ontario alone is 310 people per day. This is continuly rising each year, not because of covid, because of aging population. You can't stop death. Covid has not spiked up mortality rate off the charts. If it isnt covide, it will be influenza, pneumonia, suicide, accidents, cancer, heart attack...this will not change, get out and live life!!!
I absolutely reject that. The excess deaths for Ontario for March 2020 to July 2021 was 19,000. The mortality rate in a place is usually quite stable (and, due to public health and medicine in general, people have indeed been living longer and healthier lives than 50 years ago). COVID has in fact caused the excess deaths number to spike. That number is about an extra 36 preventable deaths per day over the pandemic.
Look, I think that by working together we can in fact improve things and prevent unnecessary deaths. Maybe someone doesn't die of COVID now but instead of something else in 10 years. I think their loved ones would appreciate the extra 10 years.
Am I going to go eat in restaurant right now, just after Omicron has peaked (and who knows how much we'll stay at this high level due to kids being in schools)? Hell no. There's just no reason to do that. At some point I'll go to restaurants again, but I really don't need to do that right now.