[it really ought to have error bars on it. I’ll redo that in the next few weeks]
Wow… That makes me go “hmmm”, too.
I was flippant above. We are all data professionals here, and we all know that data is messy. One guy you know had cancer and also had covid-19, and he died. Probably they both contributed to his dying on that day. Data professionals ought to understand that “cause of death” isn’t a clean data element. It’s often more than one thing. (I’m surprised the average is as high as 3, but not that it’s well over 1.) I’m tired of people trotting out an anecdote about how all the covid-19 deaths are made up, when I’ve been looking at those scary excess mortality graphs since April or May.
But MPF’s graph is really surprising. And i doubt the issue is that they are miscoding the ages of covid-19 deaths.
Here is my post where I get into number of causes of death on a death certificate:
The main thing that caused me to go HMMMM is that COVID has not been a major direct contributor to excess mortality for those under age 45.
So I want to know what’s contributing to excess mortality for younger adults. Maybe it’s suicides & drug overdoses, but I don’t have access to that data.
I don’t know about nationally, but at least in New Hampshire overdose deaths are down:
(Of course, NH is a small state, so that might not hold up nationally.)
(EDIT: Looks like NY overdose deaths have significantly worsened, though. More generally
does not paint a good picture.
)
And some analyses of early pandemic data don’t seem to indicate a significant increase in (all-age) suicide (though that could have changed as things have dragged on); see for example:
Though that would still leave the question of where the younger age mortality is coming from.
Here is the COVID mortality thread:
https://community.goactuary.com/t/covid-mortality/1326/20
and here is the general mortality trend thread:
I find it odd y’all are putting this stuff in here.
Well, it’s where the discussion was. Plus it’s one of the few threads where anything is pretty much on-topic. 
True enough, but if y’all have something substantive to say, it would be nice if you added to the other threads…
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Now don’t start making requirements like “substantive”. If you did, I’d never post. 
Let me re-word – there are some substantive posts up above that would be really good in those other threads…
…but let me see if I can quote/place them in those threads and see what happens.
Okay, I tried it here, and you can see what it looks like:
Oh wow - clicked on the down arrow to open it up… woo.
now I have a different idea…
From the sublime to the ridiculous
Listening to a performance of Nutcracker Suite and singing the Smurfberry Crunch commercial song.
I bought new socks because I’m wearing shoes less often.
I had committed to buying more socks but got cold feet
I actually often wear my shoes while I work because it keeps my feet a bit warmer than just socks
As long as we have the heat on I don’t worry about wearing shoes or socks. I even take out the trash in flip-flops - a couple minutes of cold air on my feet aren’t worth the effort of putting on shoes and socks.
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Got an ad on my Facebook stream that renting a private jet is finally affordable!!! Made me think of somebody… 
