Masks vs. Excess Death (Lithuania)

Post #920

NOTE: Prior reports were for Denmark and for Romania.

As in Denmark and Romania, very little in the way of excess deaths were occurring prior to the implementation of a mask mandate in Lithuania. When excess deaths for the 5 months prior to the mandate get compared to excess deaths following the mandate, a clear and unmistakable increase is found:

For Lithuania the “before/after” change in COVID deaths is just as striking, because only 63 total COVID deaths had occurred by the time of their mask mandate, but in the same time frame following the mandate, there were 2,753 COVID deaths — a COVID death rate that became 42 times higher than it was before mask mandates:

Notice the steep slope in the accumulation of excess death (purple) which became possible after Lithuania implemented a mask mandate in all public places. It wasn’t so steep before then. Keep in mind that excess mortality is already corrected for seasonality, so that it requires higher total deaths in winter to achieve excess deaths.

The evidence from Denmark, Romania, and Lithuania all point to a dynamic wherein mask requirements make it so that excess deaths and COVID deaths can begin to increase wildly — even if they had not been increasing by very much before masks.

Reference

[mask requirements] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-face-coverings

[accumulated monthly excess deaths] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-who