Maybe, I’m repeating myself, but Austria has a population of about 9,040,000, and currently shows 11,993 Covid-19 deaths over the past 22 1/2 months. Based on recent trends we can project about 14,453 deaths by the end of the year. (11,993 + (41 days x 60 deaths per day = 2,460). That would be an average of 7,227 Covid deaths per year.
I checked, and in 2019, the last pre-Covid year, Austria recorded 83,386 deaths. So, using the 2019 death count as a base, Covid has accounted for 8.7% of the deaths that might have been expected without it (7,227/83,386 = 8.7%).
8.7% of total deaths doesn’t sound like a lot, but people will argue that the toll would have been much higher without the vaccines and all of the mitigation efforts that were put in place (masks, travel restrictions, cancelled sporting events, lockdowns, etc.).
Quite possibly that claim is true, but what about going forward? In the past few days, in a country with a 65-66% vaccination rate, new Covid cases in Austria have been 50% higher than at any time in the pandemic, including almost an entire year when NO ONE was vaccinated. Deaths are now higher than at any time prior to November 6th, 2020, when no one was vaccinated, and deaths are rising. Who knows how high they will climb before they peak?
Blame is being placed at the feet of the unvaccinated, but a 66% vaccination rate plus natural immunity should have put the country well above the traditional threshold for herd immunity, commonly said to be about 70%. That hasn’t happened. Why? Is over-vaccination delaying that process? Some experts say it is.
Then there is the whole question of vaccine injuries – downplayed by medical establishments and mostly ignored by major media. – which looms as another short- and long-term threat, a threat that is being ignored in the mad rush to universal, mandatory vaccination.
