From 9 August to 8 September, only 27 COVID deaths were reported. These numbers have NOT been trending upward despite the increase in case numbers (0.79 deaths per day over the last 14 days).
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What do you mean? Data is only available up to yesterday (September 8) so I used that as the starting point and counted backwards. Death was used instead of case numbers because it's the most meaningful endpoint. I averaged over a month (31 days) to establish a long term view of the data.
There's nothing too outlandish about my data selection but if you think there is a more meaningful dataset than the one I used then present it.
Any particular data you want to point to?
The Swedish numbers over the same time period were identical (27 deaths over the same 31 days). They have infamously had low restrictions and not only are they not requiring masks, they aren't recommending them either. Because of the population differences (10.23 million in Sweden vs 14.57 million in Ontario) you could reasonably argue that Sweden has a ~43% higher COVID death rate when adjusted for population. My point however is that even if you accept that this difference is due to lockdowns and masks, the overall numbers are trivial.
If that sounds cold, consider this. We could eliminate 100% of traffic fatalities by forcing every car to have a device installed that prevents it from going over 5 km/h. We don't do that though because we're prepared to accept some degree of risk to allow people to live their lives.
Also consider that there currently is no strong evidence showing how many people are being killed as a result of the continued lockdowns. We have every reason to suspect that drug use and suicide have increased as a result of job loss and social isolation. Ontario is only just beginning to start playing catch up on all "non-essential" medical treatments including things such as cancer screenings. This process is expected to take 1.5 years. Maybe these don't sound like they would cause THAT many deaths but bare in mind that they only need to account for 0.5 deaths per day in a population of 14.57 million to cancel out any differences we have with Sweden.
Then throw in all the non-death related costs of continued lock down. How many people lost their jobs, lost their businesses lost the ability to have a wedding, funeral, birthday party or any other social gathering. How many single people lost the ability to meet someone special and as a result, how many children lost the opportunity to be born? I'm all for saving lives but there's more to life than delaying death as long as possible. COVID was not a plague. It was wrong of us to act like it was.