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Very interesting indeed. The part after the injections makes sense to me.

I can’t figure the 10-15% monthly rates for much of 2020; especially given Singapore’s really low fatal rate for COVID-19 in the previous post. There were probably fewer traffic accidents in 2020, but perhaps there were more substance abuse and suicide deaths, perhaps some lack of preventive medical care. Age breakdowns for the excess deaths would help me to understand what was happening a little bit better.

Worldwide the story is that excess death in 2020 was primarily among people over 65, and 2021-2023 it is in mostly in people under 65, with some pull-through effects occasionally creating troughs among people over 65.

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Countermeasures like masking likely killed off many in Singapore in 2020. Prolonged mask use triples the amount of bacteria in the nose and throat, increasing the risk of bacterial pneumonia.

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Agreed, but more than I expected.

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Don't know much aboutt Singapore, size, population but I've learned to look at graphs axis etc. which without checking first, make 50% excess sound worse, but obviously still of concern to those involved. We all know it's the elephant.

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For monthly deaths, 15% excess is already 3 standard deviations of excess for large nations like the USA, so 50% monthly excess is a really big deal.

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I realise, yes. But just like where I live, there are not too many, also mainly aged, like me, and so people just think "oh, so sorry, oh dear, had a good innings" I think it will take the unexpected deaths of the too young to die close to them before anyone takes notice. It's death by jab, war, climate these days and no-one seems to care.

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Interesting data on Singapore. It is interesting that although that nation claims a 93% vaccination rate, that excess deaths are quite low with 1392 versus Bulgaria at more than 9400 by late 2022...

https://tinyurl.com/huyzsats

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Bulgaria got it's excess before March of 2022, and has not had any accumulation of excess death after that (their line slopes down from March). But Singapore did not accumulate much of their excess until they got about 1.5 shots into each person's arm -- and then people started dying like flies.

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