I'm completely uncertain as to what are the causes, except for guessing or presuming that it is most likely multifactorial.
People saying it's all vaccines are being simplistic, in my view.
If there is excess mortality, and the extract quoted below from The Examiner certainly seems to suggest there is, then I really think it needs urgent investigation.
From the figures given, more people are dying now than when we went into the lockdown before Christmas in 2021. And more people are dying now than when we were in the first year of the pandemic with no vaccines etc.
Loss of treatment and late diagnosis?
Depression, untreated mental illness?
Weakness of immunity due to underexposure?
Too much eating, drink, drugs due to fear and isolation?
Covid having long term morbidity consequences?
More and / or older population?
Issues with the shots?
Some of those possible explanations call into question the wisdom of the lockdowns themselves - they suggest displaced mortality, or active contribution of lockdowns to alternative sources of mortality.
There are anomalies in excess data eg I have read Sweden isn't having a problem with it. Bulgaria is. This calls into question the vaccine as a potential contributory reason, if such data is correct.
I have seen all the Died Suddenly suggestions - I honestly think so far it is confirmation bias. I saw a report from a guy Dr Jon Drezner of the US National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, and he says their research shows no increase in sports people's mortality. I think we need to be careful about jumping to conclusions. At the same time, there are serious calls in Japan for investigation of possible links between vaccines and excess mortality. Just saying - there are two sides to this.
One thing that could clear up some of the "it's the vaccines" suggestions is to do a look-back data analysis in Ireland on all the deaths by vaccine status and see if there's any difference between cohorts. Such an analysis could be maintained going forward also, to keep an eye on things. That would be a quick, easily managed and organised response that could be set up immediately. Other investigations for other signals would likely be more complex and time consuming. Though they should all be done.
Overall I really think it's time to have official government level enquiries and funded research to see if there's a signal.
Funerals delayed as increase in number of deaths puts mortuaries under pressure
Cork City Mortuary 'had so many bodies it couldn’t take any more', said the Cork city coroner. Picture: Larry Cummins
MON, 30 JAN, 2023 - 02:00
ANN MURPHY
A spike in the number of deaths in recent weeks has disrupted funeral arrangements and put mortuaries under unprecedented stress.
An Irish Examiner analysis of death notices on the website rip.ie shows there were 9,718 published in the eight-week period from December 1, 2022, to January 25, 2023 — up 20% from 8,075 in the same period a year earlier.
The figure is also considerably higher than the 8,135 death notices published in the same period to January 25, 2021, when the country was in the grip of the worst period of the Covid pandemic.
Pre-pandemic, 6,802 death notices were published in the eight weeks to January 25, 2019, almost 3,000 fewer than in recent weeks.
Ivan Perry, of UCC School of Epidemiology and Public Health, said flu and other respiratory illnesses may be the reason for the alarming spike in deaths.
“It could also be that people are slightly more vulnerable post-Covid because there is a post-Covid elevated risk of heart disease for example, so that could be contributing to it as well.”
An analysis of rip.ie shows there were 1,092 deaths in Cork alone from December 1, 2022, to January 25, 2023 — an increase of 16.4% from a year earlier.
Death notices were at 1,007 in the December 2020 to January 2021 period, with numbers as low as 786 for the same period up to January 2019.
Mr Comyn said high death rates are being recorded across the country. He said Dr Margot Bolster, the assistant State pathologist, and mortuary staff “started work at 6am, including Saturdays, to clear the backlog”.
Mayo coroner Patrick O’Connor also noted “an extraordinary number of deaths” in the period from December 15 to January 15.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41059661.html