If COVID Has Killed Off a Lot of Our Elderly and At-Risk Population, Why Are There Still Excess Deaths?

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I know, that was a trollish way to ask the question, but I'm serious.

Excess death rates have started to decline a little, but why are there still excess deaths at all?

If we have thinned the herd and most of the rest of us have some immunity either from vaccines, catching it, or both, then what's driving these continuing above-normal death rates?

 

[Rifler]

What makes you think it's over?,.. Continued thinning of the herd.

 

[Funky Bunch]

If man came from apes, why are there still apes?

 

[h-hawk]

I fear that it just takes a little longer to wear down some of us...

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

If man came from apes, why are there still apes?

While I've always thought that line was funny, I do worry that some people might think it makes sense. Perhaps because when I first heard it, it was presented as "creationist logic."

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

What makes you think it's over?,.. Continued thinning of the herd.

Did someone say it was over?

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I also wonder if the PTB in China have just decided to kill off their elderly and vulnerable to avoid or reduce some of the problems facing other powers with aging populations.

I'm surprised conspiracy types haven't suggested that's why we have COVID in the first place. Or have they?