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Charlie Clelland's avatar

I would make the observation that Trevor Sutton - brother of the Victorian Chief Health Officer is deputy Australian Statistician. Most people would consider that a conflict of interest but apparently not in the Australian Govt.

The ABS is worse than you imagine. They changed the baseline for calculating excess deaths from 2015-2019 which is defensible to 2017-2019, 2021 an error that a high school student could point out. 2020 was dropped for some BS reason. The effect of just this change is that the excess deaths are depressed about 3-4% compared to using 2015-2019.

Using the ABS numbers of deaths and different baselines for 2002 deaths to the end of August:

ABS baseline - 17% excess

2015-2019 baseline - 19.8% excess

2010=2019 baseline - 24.5%

I live in Brisbane and the ambulances have stopped using lights and sirens for emergency callouts - there were so many that even the sheeple were starting to notice.

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I heard a grief specialist say that this is equivalent to 5 x the number of people who died in the Twin Towers tragedy. She spoke about the massive outpouring of societal grief over that event and pointed out that Australia will be experiencing a huge swell of grief this year and over the next few over this... even if people don’t know the how and why of it, but just that many untimely deaths. The effects of this will be monumental.

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