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Source: Statistics Canada

https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/2eac6167-e40c-47b1-ab7e-36bbc4c0cdbf

Okay.

Setting a lower bound for the modeling of 4000 seems to exaggerate the peak range.

Deaths peaked at about double the normal.

Keep in mind that boomers are getting older so the trending for deaths is up as well over the past 10 years.

Statistics can paint a picture but it is abstract and easily distorted.

What happened early this year?

Oh I don't know, something with a pandemic or something. Can't remember exactly

The disease that started in 2019, for which we got a vaccine in 2021, spiked the death rate so high in early 2022 that not just one, but two contour lines apply only to that period?

Shh! Do you want to get banned?

The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one

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I was right there with you thinking there’s no reason COVID would cause a random spike right there, but I looked it up and apparently there was a huge spike in cases right around then: https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/covid_briefs/101_briefing_Canada.pdf

A simple line graph would be much more effective. This is just hideous.

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About the scale, we could say that this graph shows excess deaths?

We ca see the boomers trend in the concentric color arcs. (gradual increase per period)

The peaks are anomalies.

Let see this graph in 3-4 years. It should show the same trend without peaks (hopefully).

Like this? https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020017-eng.htm

I find it a bit overwhelming and doesn't show the 10 years trend.

There definitely was a COVID spike at that time. But if you look at Figure 3.1 in the report, which seems to match the shape of the Worldometer graph I looked at first (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/) I see a death spike that isn't appreciably higher than the ones before, and possibly skinnier. While COVID might have contributed to this total death rate peak, I am not at all convinced that it was the major driver of it.

Two things:

• Hospitals everywhere in Canada are short on staff and high on cases as COVID continues to be a thing and ...
• The flu is particularly bad this year, with a ton of pediatric patients eating up a lot of hospital beds and resources

So we have a double-hit of COVID season and flu season hitting at a time when hospital resources are already stretched beyond capacity - people are going to die.

You're saying "are" as if you're talking about the present flu season. Just to be clear, this spike was at the end of January.

Oh well then shit's about to get a lot worse.

Yeah I don't think that's better, I think your version probably has more grain than you'd want at first glance.

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Imagine being a "developed country" while having the sixth leading cause of death be government sanctioned suicide 😭 what a joke of a nation

I really like this graph. That being said, the population has grown significantly over the span of this report. Let’s say that trend continues, then the number of deaths will grow over time as well (more people exist to die). What I’d like to see is the graph adjusted for population, like financial reports are adjusted for inflation. Then we can see death rates as a percentage of population over time. Please forgive me if this was already incorporated into it. Great graphic

One in every crowd

Did I say something wrong, or are you just uncomfortable that these facts shed light on the status quote of contemporary political discourse?

If assisted suicide didn’t occur, the death rate would be the same. Those deaths would just move into different categories. However, if human suffering could be graphed, I can only imagine how much higher it would be without assisted suicide.

I’m just wondering why most deaths happen early in the year.