Excess Mortality is a topic in focus. This article follows on from my previous one. I’m learning how to improve my descriptions of data when there is only limited space. Thanks for all the feedback. I’ve also realised I have to be smarter with my use of colour scales when there are many in the population with different types of colour blindness.
Just curious. Did you do a regression of of the excess mortality line?
It looks like it would have a positive slope i.e. General mortality trend looks to be on the rise. Not sure why? In general I thought the consensus was that we were supposed to be getting “healthier” over time. It’s possibly due to the aging population or the decrease in health funding to the stars by our current federal government or maybe something completely unrelated.
I realize you’d want (need) it flat because your using it as “the baseline” and your intent is to get a baseline to compare 2020-2022 to 2015-2019 and your goal was not to compare mortality in general over time but to compare the periods in question. I’m just curious and interested in knowing if the trend was already on the way up before the pandemic years?
Thanks for another absolutely awesome article. You’ve really outdone yourself with this one.
I hope your reference to colour blindness wasn’t a little dig at me 😎. It wasn’t the colour that was an issue it was more me not wearing my reading glasses 🤓and probably some “selective vision”. I wasn’t expecting the big spike at the end in January, so I didn’t see it. A bit like the selective vision of our media and government. The vaccines are supposed to be safe and effective any evidence to the contrary is not welcome in their minds, so they don’t see it. It’s just not what they’re expecting.
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I’m surprised (not really) that this is not being investigated by academics who can get access to more granular data. I mean this with no disrespect, but you are a private citizen looking at the limited publicly available data and your doing an excellent job. I’m pretty sure there is more undisclosed data behind the scenes that we are just unaware of. It shouldn’t be left to people like you (or me) to do this sort of work. Our tax dollars are actually paying for “real statisticians”, “real epidemiologists” and “real scientists” to do this work, instead it looks like their time is being spent putting out advertisements for the pharmaceutical companies and telling us “How good is the vaccine 👍!”. They should get off their asses and look into it.
Hi Andrew
Just curious. Did you do a regression of of the excess mortality line?
It looks like it would have a positive slope i.e. General mortality trend looks to be on the rise. Not sure why? In general I thought the consensus was that we were supposed to be getting “healthier” over time. It’s possibly due to the aging population or the decrease in health funding to the stars by our current federal government or maybe something completely unrelated.
I realize you’d want (need) it flat because your using it as “the baseline” and your intent is to get a baseline to compare 2020-2022 to 2015-2019 and your goal was not to compare mortality in general over time but to compare the periods in question. I’m just curious and interested in knowing if the trend was already on the way up before the pandemic years?
Thanks…..
Hi Andrew
Thanks for another absolutely awesome article. You’ve really outdone yourself with this one.
I hope your reference to colour blindness wasn’t a little dig at me 😎. It wasn’t the colour that was an issue it was more me not wearing my reading glasses 🤓and probably some “selective vision”. I wasn’t expecting the big spike at the end in January, so I didn’t see it. A bit like the selective vision of our media and government. The vaccines are supposed to be safe and effective any evidence to the contrary is not welcome in their minds, so they don’t see it. It’s just not what they’re expecting.
……….. Begin Rant ………….
I’m surprised (not really) that this is not being investigated by academics who can get access to more granular data. I mean this with no disrespect, but you are a private citizen looking at the limited publicly available data and your doing an excellent job. I’m pretty sure there is more undisclosed data behind the scenes that we are just unaware of. It shouldn’t be left to people like you (or me) to do this sort of work. Our tax dollars are actually paying for “real statisticians”, “real epidemiologists” and “real scientists” to do this work, instead it looks like their time is being spent putting out advertisements for the pharmaceutical companies and telling us “How good is the vaccine 👍!”. They should get off their asses and look into it.
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Thanks…