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So the high excess death figures are from Covid which is still in circulation and associated after effects?, so in your opinion higher excess death rates will be the new normal for sometime to come.

I don’t really know why death rates are higher. I suppose covid is a possible cause, even with the vaccine and a less virulent strain of SARS-CoV-2. And I wouldn’t exclude the possibility that many of our exaggerated policy responses to covid are partly responsible, as people have reduced their social contacts and become more isolated, developed bad habits like eating more fast food, etc.

Some of these effects are likely to have been less pronounced in countries like Sweden with less excessive anti-covid social measures. But I am speculating, I am not familiar enough with the country to country excess deaths data to be sure, and in any case, it’s hard to quantify the ‘excessiveness’ of different countries’ responses.

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