Death Chatter

So this topic came up today and it's worth five minutes pondering.

Primarydoctor.org did the graphic (Colleen Huber, NMD).

Basically, it covers ALL US deaths each year since 2000, set to a limit of the first 32 weeks of each year.  That means violent deaths, cancer deaths, and even suicidal deaths.

Most years, it averages out around 2.5-million to 2.8-million deaths a year.  For Huber to reach a correct dataset.....she cut off each year's data at 32 weeks....in order to compare against 2020.  So you aren't looking at full year data....simply 32-week data for each year. 

2020 numbers?  We are at 1.6-million....NOT 2.5-million as you'd have in a normal number situation.

Yes, roughly a million deaths haven't occurred on schedule. 

(a long, long pause at this point)

We are missing around 1-million deaths, if you look at the plain numbers.

Will it catch up?  Maybe more deaths occur around Thanksgiving and Christmas?  Well....there's no factual data to support that.

So I'm going to suggest four radical thoughts here:

1.  Because of the lock-down business....folks simply didn't travel as much and have car accidents.

2.  Because bars and pubs were shutdown a good bit.....DWI deaths didn't occur as you'd expect.

3.  Because most elective surgery procedures were cancelled into April and still today....folks are hesitant to enter a hospital.  So infections didn't occur, or screw-ups at the hospitals.

4.  Because school events were cancelled out, fewer teen deaths were recorded via car accidents. 

Even with Covid-19 deaths.....it doesn't seem to really help inflate our numbers. At the end of 2020?  It might be the lowest 'death' number year of the past forty-odd years.

Yeah....it's one of those moments when you open up a bottle of fine whiskey, and sit on the patio....sipping, contemplating the numbers, and viewing the strange arrangement we have set up for 2020.