Clare
Medical Journalist
On February 24th the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issued a release saying that there had been 15.1% more deaths than usual in Australia in 2022.
Here’s what they said: “In 2022, there were 174,717 deaths that occurred by 30 November and were registered by 31 January 2023, which is 22,886 (15.1%) more than the historical average.”
Is it unusual to have 15.1% more deaths than average?
At www.excessdeathstats.com we wanted to put that number into perspective. So, here’s a graph showing the excess rate of deaths (i.e., more deaths than the average of the past five years) from 1955 to 2021.
Before the highly anomalous year of 2022, the highest annual increase in deaths per population was 4.4%, which occurred in 1964.
With a toll of 22,886 more Australians than expected dying in the 11 months up to November 2022, we owe it to them and to their families to ask questions.
Perhaps these extra deaths have been due to Covid, I hear you suggest?
Well, by 30th November 2022, according to the ABS, 9,115 of the deaths were recorded as being ‘from covid’. So, taking these figures at face value, that means only 6.0% of the 15% excess deaths can be accounted for by the virus. In other words, three-fifths of the excess deaths were caused by something else.
Remembering the, perhaps overly-bold, claim that the injections would protect us from severe illness and death if we caught covid, we must ask why, in such a highly vaccinated population, more than nine thousand people died of covid? Surely, it is remiss of the ABS not to report how many of the people who died ‘due to covid’ had received the injections?
If it is the case that many of the 9,115 Australians who died from covid in 2022 were ‘fully-vaccinated’ or indeed if they were ever injected at all, we need to be told. Those whom we have given our trust to, until now, do not have the right to require us to trust that the vaccines are working. After all we have been put through, we need real-world evidence.
In addition, what is clear from the ABS data is that, over and above the deaths from covid, a lot more Australians died in 2022 than usual. A total of 13,771 non-covid deaths by the end of November.
That’s the equivalent of an Australian Airbus 330-300 crashing every week (297 passengers plus staff).
And the total excess deaths of 22,886 equates to a crash every four to five days.
Why did these people die? This question needs to be answered urgently.
If the cause was plane crashes, none of us would be catching a flight.
But the cause(s) have not yet been examined. Some people are not even aware that there have been so many more deaths than usual.
Some of these extra deaths are likely due to population increase – simply because, if there are more people in a country (due to immigration), then there are more people at risk of dying. But we estimate that less than 3 of the 15.1 percentage points that need to be explained can be attributed to this effect.
We are living (and sadly, some of us are dying) as if blindfolded, simply accepting that it’s OK not to know why this is happening.
It’s not OK!
In 2020, any death from Covid was headline news.
In that entire year, 906 people were reported as dying of the disease. But now our latest statistical information suggests that more than that number of Australians may be dying every three weeks, without proper explanation.
Where is the headline news on that?
Australians deserve answers. And New Zealanders deserve answers too! A New Zealand page is planned for www.excessdeathstats.com soon.
Links to more information:www.excessdeathstats.com/australia