• 98.5% of Canada's 'covid deaths' were in long term care homes.

• The average length of stay in care homes is about 2.5 years

• Depending on what definition of "long term care home" you're using, figures of how many old people live in long term care varies between 118,000 and 143,000.

• So using the average figure of 130k, living in long term care for 2.5 years (and then dying), you should have 52,000 people dying in long term care annually under ordinary circumstances.

Point: These were people who were about to die anyway. If there were excess deaths in the long term care facilities, at least some (if not most, or all) of those can certainly be attributed to the panic that caused staff to abandon long term care facilities, leaving their patients to die.