It's fairly clear from the all-cause mortality statistics released by Statscan that there was a significant boost in all-cause mortality year-to-year in April and to a lesser extent May. Which lines up conveniently with the entry of the coronavirus. The peak increase in all-cause mortality was the April 19-25 period. In Ontario there were 2,510 deaths from April 19-25. In the week of April 21-27 2019 there were 2,020 deaths. An increase of 490 deaths year-to-year that week, an increase of 24% year-to-year. Typically year-to-year the increase in all-cause mortality is about 1% or less. In Quebec all-cause mortality went up 9.1% year-to-year. And 8.3% in Ontario.

The drop you're seeing in Austria is similar to the drop you're seeing in many other European jurisdictions like France, Italy, Poland, Belgium.

That doesn't mean I support lockdowns or mask mandates. An extra 8-9% of mortality in a pandemic year is not worth destroying the economy over, going into a lot of debt and socially isolating people for a year. Cloth and surgical masks are ineffectual in keeping out aerosols. We don't have enough N95s or KN-95s to distribute to the general population. We leave those to the health care workers.

Lockdowns are a symptom of the nanny state ideology that has infected Canada. If you are 65+, immuno-compromised or scared, you can stay home. I don't understand why everyone has to be forced to stay home. As an autistic millennial guy, society has never bent over backwards for me, my kind or my generation. The government (whether it's Liberal, Conservative, NDP) literally want us to kill ourselves or overdose on fentanyl-laced heroin. Canada has whored our country out to China. They shipped jobs abroad (especially China). They allow foreign capital (especially Chink capital) to inflate the housing bubble, pricing my generation out of the property ladder and inflating the rent bubble. And then they have a shocked pikachu face when an Armenian autistic incel runs over 26 people with a van of peace. But we bend over backwards for fucking octogenarians over this virus. Probably because they are far wealthier than millennials.