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Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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Sure, let's blame vaccines in a funny roundabout way, while conveniently ignoring the more probable cause that is COVID. The article seems to suggest that underreported COVID deaths are a likely explanation. You might want to consider broadening the scope of your investigation to include probable causes ...

Why is it fair to entertain speculation about underreported deaths and all kinds of long-tail effects of COVID the disease, but not fair to do the same speculation about the vaccines?

Because we know that Covid kills people (more than a million in the US), and there is very little evidence that Covid vaccines have killed people ( likely fewer than 100 deaths in the US).

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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In my experience, creeping unexplainable crashes are usually caused by recent releases which didn't receive enough testing. Sometimes these bugs go unnoticed by teams without sufficient monitoring. Have there been any major updates or releases 'across unconnected demographics' in the last year or two? If I was trying to solve this in my production systems, I would focus my investigation there

This started years ago and is unrelated to covid or to covid vaccines.

There's a chart right in the article showing the phenomenon is limited to late 2021.

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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And why would these excess deaths be localized to New Brunswick?

UK has excess non-covid deaths as well https://www.euroscientist.com/uk-recorded-more-than-10000-ex...

New Zealanders had a negative excess death rate with lockdowns and we have a high vaccination rate.

Now we are letting covid run wild, so that stat won’t persist.

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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In my experience, creeping unexplainable crashes are usually caused by recent releases which didn't receive enough testing. Sometimes these bugs go unnoticed by teams without sufficient monitoring. Have there been any major updates or releases 'across unconnected demographics' in the last year or two? If I was trying to solve this in my production systems, I would focus my investigation there

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Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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I like how you phrased this, I feel like this is how people had to talk in times of heavy censorship and the fact we have to pass messages like this in this day and age is terrifying and makes the future seem bleak.

You do realize that socially imposed norms about what topics you talk about, in what context, between whom and how has probably been the norm for longer than written history?

The problem is that usually those norms were dictated by some monarch because he had power and took the responsibility for that power and its consequences.

Now nobody is taking the responsibility, but we still have the norms.

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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There is a very strong anti-vax contingent on this website. It’s unfortunate given that you’d think appreciation for science and healthy, well reasoned skepticism would come naturally for technical professionals. Guess not.

Re: Health minister: Unexplained high death counts in New Brunswick concerning

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I don't think this is deserving of being grayed out. There certainly do seem to be some lingering systemic effects for some people that have recovered from covid, and for some people those effects are very serious. Cancers, though, seem like a stretch. I don't see any reason to think covid would cause that. It's lingering tiredness that really seems to be common among those who have been infected

Why is cancer a stretch? Other viral infections are well known to increase cancer risk. It seems like basically anything that causes tissue damage increases the risk of cancer, which is basically a result of the breakdown of information.

This. The biggest risk factor for cancer (to my knowledge) is accumulated cellular damage.
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