What's important here

 Today the BC Coroners Service reported that 2224 people died of illicit drug overdoses in 2021, that's an average of 6 per day. Mostly young people. In comparison, as of today 2725 people died either from Covid or with Covid. In fact these numbers are suspect as the BC CDC admitted that anyone entering hospital in BC is tested for Covid and if they subsequently die then Covid goes on the death certificate. However, and more importantly, the death rate is .25 per day, mostly old folks like myself but with one or more comorbidities

So what is the reaction of the government? With respect to overdoses, crickets! With respect to Covid, panic, over reaction, coercion and irrational lockdowns.

Why?

I don't know. I would have thought that 6 young people dying every day for a year would have drawn more attention from the government versus one person from God's waiting room every four days in the space of nearly three years.

I have my suspicions, I'm not a conspiracy theorist but, the infamous but, it seems to me that the pandemic was the perfect opportunity for public health to try out all their theories about pandemic control as lunatic as they turned out to be. 

On the other hand, overdose deaths are a public health concern but public health have no clue as to how to deal with this problem so they are ignoring it in the hopes, I surmise, that the public will be more involved with the supposed pandemic and not paying attention.

What do you think?

Secret Knowledge

 This interesting graph came to my attention this morning via The Conservative Woman (TCW) website https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/. 

There is very interesting data here, in almost all age groups the "vaccinated" are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated. The reasons for this discrepancy are not clear, what is missing is clarifying data such as vaccination rates (VR)  and the hospitalization rates (HR) in the various age groups.

Lets look at the under 18's. In this group the infection rate amongst the unvaccinated (UV) is almost double that of the "vaccinated" (V) crowd That has to do, I would submit, to the VR in that age group. That group is mainly UV because of fears of adverse effects amongst the young. That raises the questions as to why so many V children are becoming infected. It is of little import however as the HR and death rate (DR) is so low in that cohort.

As we move up the scale of age where the VR is greater we can see that more of the V are becoming infected than UV. Is the reason for that that there are substantially more V than UV? We don't know because the data is not presented. 

What is also not presented is the HR for each cohort, who is more likely to end up in hospital. Again without that data making sense of this information is difficult.

When comparing this data set to that presented by CDC BC the situation is turned on its head. The CDC BC data is exactly opposite to that presented above. The reason, again, is not clear. Part of the problem is that the CDC data is presented on different scales in two graphs placed alongside each other which makes if difficult to make accurate comparisons. What is clear is that there is no statistical significance in the the difference in the DR between the two groups. That being the case then there should not be any statistical significance in the the difference in the recovery rate (RR) between the two groups. However, that data is not presented.

The really interesting question is why the difference between the UK and BC. Perhaps when this madness is behind us someone will undertake to answer that question.