— Andrew Nikiforukpegged that number of excess deaths at two per cent above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate. When you extrapolate that number to North America’s population of 617 million, that works out to be 120,000 unanticipated dead people per year. That’s roughly the equivalent of two fully loaded standard commercial jets crashing and killing everyone aboard every day.
Replicated under Fair Use from This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough by Andrew Nikiforuk.