Death rates from the past 5 years have not gone up at all.
Do you have a reference for this? I've heard a number of people say the opposite - that overall death rates are much higher in 2020 than in past years - but I've never seen anything that shows that either way. I'm not trying to imply that you're wrong or anything, I agree with you about everything in this post, I just want to know if there are some actual numbers I can show people that indicate that the overall death rate hasn't increased.
Well if we take this nonsense 200k number they've been shoving down our throats for weeks we get a percentage of 0.06% dead. On average, we expect 7 or 8 people to die out of 1000 for any reason per year (which is 0.8%). I'd argue that in order to justify this kind of panic the number of deaths from COVID would have to far outweigh all other causes combined... but instead that number is a factor of ten times less at the moment. I'd take COVID more seriously if even 1% of the world died from it... which is also totally insignificant from a survivalist's perspective. The Black Death killed between 30% and 50%. This mass hysteria is embarrassing.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
If we ask the CDC we get this graph:
Even if this graph is accurate it is still no cause for concern, and I don't even believe that it is necessarily accurate considering the dozens of techniques that have been utilized to inflate the official numbers across the board.
I will admit that the actual research I've done on this topic is sub-par at best, but at the same time it's not like I can reference information that I actually trust. That source does not exist at the moment.
Global thinking is all about inductive reasoning and coming to potentially false conclusions based on what we know about the world in general. Intuition can't always be trusted, but in this case I think it can be.
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The data's a bit old now, but Reuter's crunched the numbers early in the summer:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-death-count-stable-idUSKBN22Q2MT