I applaud ST journalist’s effort in pursuing this issue of Excess Deaths in Singapore (which is one of the highest rate in the world).
After reading the report from ST, the following is my comment:
Age standardized death rate may not be relevant to Singapore to explain away this issue of High Excess Deaths.
In Singapore’s context, we have an aggressive immigration policy which contributed an increase of population of 2million people over 20 years, despite of low fertility rate.
Most migrants are younger in age.
We should be looking at the trend of deaths instead. There are some changes in death trends from age to different causes.
It is not helpful when the law has changed whereby autopsy may not be required or the physical presence of coroner may not be needed for people who suffered sudden death of unknown nature. This is especially so when there seems to be an increase in such cases.
Demographics doesn’t go through a drastic change over a couple of years for the indigenous locally born citizens. The demographic may be skewed by influx of foreigners though. The percentage may be influenced by the injection of substantial number of new young migrants on a yearly basis.
It is also strange for excess deaths happening in 2022 and 2023 to be blamed on Covid infections when the pandemic has basically subsided. I don’t think reports of Covid infections are exceptionally high as compared to 2021.
While the “experts” tend to speculate the deaths are connected to Covid infections when death occurs 90 days after infections, inspite of the high vaccination rate, why wouldn’t they suspect the deaths are associated with the vaccination when deaths happened 90 days after their jabs!? This is an apparent selection bias on the part of the expert in looking at the data with no objectivity involved.
Last but not least, if people are still dying from Covid after 90 days of infection, isn’t it extremely clear that the efficacy of these vaccines should be put in great doubt?
Goh Meng Seng