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For New Zealand,I have looked at the 9-year regression, using 2011 to 2019, to extrapolate the eclxpected death rates in 5-year buckets. In nearly every age group, death rates have been declining over that period. It s disingenuous for ABS to use a single year baseline as it hides the trend. Using annual deathbrates I calculated 4000 excess deaths in NZ equating to 20000 in Aus on a population basis. If one uses trends based on weeks, rather than years, the number will be higher, since seasonal death rates are extrapolated. Another criticism of the ABS method, which is also used by the NZ government, is to ignore the effect of border closures. This reduced deaths among the elderly as there was no circulating influenza inthe winters of 202-2022. This reduced the baseline death rate in the Covid years, meaning something else was causing deaths to compensate for these missing deaths and yet there was still 11.7% inceease above the influenza baseline. Also, as seen in NZ, only 45% of Covid deaths are attributable to Covid alone, mainly elderly, and another 20-25% where Covid "contributed". It all depends on how the death certicate is competed. If the docs wan to hide Covid, they can. If they want to hide jab effects, they can. I use my mother as an example; 4 morbidity, including a Coid infection on the Death Certificate.

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