John Hinderaker, who blogs at Power Line, takes a look back at a year of Covid 19 and observes some interesting things. Not all, but certainly many of those who died from the Wu flu were people likely to die in the next 18 months anyway, those whose health was already compromised by age, disease or both.
His second table seems to show that for the next few months deaths per 100,000 will be below normal, if the present trend continues. If the coronavirus caused many to die a few months earlier than otherwise, that is the statistic you’d expect to see.
Averaged out over 2-3 years, it may be that deaths will not be a lot more than normal. If that proves to be the case, it will be hard to justify the economic dislocation and educational deficit the lockdowns brought about.
If your view is that we as yet have insufficient hindsight to understand the various ramifications of what was and wasn’t done vis-a-vis Covid 19, I sympathize. It may be too soon for an assessment, but Hinderaker has made a good first attempt.
One thing that has surfaced is an antagonism between public school teachers - as represented by their unions - and the rest of us. They come out of this plague year with a negative image that won’t soon go away. Forcing “critical race theory” on white parents hasn’t helped their cause, either
