<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Ok Steven, I’ll bite. </div><div><br></div>These are official Gov stats with links. <div><br><div>Total stats (seems to me to either have a few holes or we had some great months with 0 deaths) <a href="https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-until-31-july-2022#deaths-due-to-covid-19-year-and-month-of-occurrence">https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-until-31-july-2022#deaths-due-to-covid-19-year-and-month-of-occurrence</a></div><div><br></div><div>Age and sex breakdown (from same page)</div><div><a href="https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-until-31-july-2022#deaths-due-to-covid-19-age-and-sex">https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-until-31-july-2022#deaths-due-to-covid-19-age-and-sex</a></div><div><br></div><div>Associated causes (same page)</div><div><a href="https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-until-31-july-2022#deaths-due-to-covid-19-age-and-sex">https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-until-31-july-2022#deaths-due-to-covid-19-age-and-sex</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>Latest for this year (different page). </div><div><a href="https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/jan-jun-2022">https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/jan-jun-2022</a><br><br>Clearly shows the number has risen significantly this year with a massive spike in Jan this year - Xmas seemed to be a mass spread event. </div><div>Quite erratic for the rest of this year but again, much higher than previous. </div><div>Likely due to lack of interest in the population and the relaxing of rules everywhere. </div><div><br></div><div>Funnily enough state with longest lockdowns has highest proportion of deaths due to Covid. Go figure. </div><div><a href="https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-until-31-july-2022#deaths-due-to-covid-19-state-of-registration">https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-until-31-july-2022#deaths-due-to-covid-19-state-of-registration</a></div><div><br></div><div>FYI - <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of the 407,221 death registrations received by the ABS (both doctor and coroner certified) in Australia during the pandemic period, 2.3% are of people who have died with or from COVID-19.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Let me state I am neither for or against Covid, but instead just think people should be armed with facts and allowed to make their own mind up. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am however against restrictions on freedom, which I believe is consistent with this organisations stated goals. </div></div><div><br></div><div>Make of this what you will. </div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,<br>Marcus Herstik<br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 15 Oct 2022, at 8:51 pm, Steven Ellis <steven.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Can you please provide details of this. Here in NZ our COVID deaths are very low and currently decreasing so I'd be interested to see where the OZ numbers are coming from.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 10:39 PM Russell Coker via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Currently the Covid19 death toll for Australia is higher than any time before <br>
the start of this year. This year has been far worse than previous years for <br>
Covid19 deaths largely because people are getting lazy about protections.<br>
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I think that Linux Australia should have a policy of discouraging any in-<br>
person meetings at this time and for the forseeable future.<br>
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<a href="http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2020-March/thread.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2020-March/thread.html</a><br>
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I first raised this issue more than 2 years ago. Since then it has become <br>
obvious that it's not a scam and not like the yearly flu.<br>
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We should aim for far more than the minimum required of us by Australian law <br>
in terms of protecting our community.<br>
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On Saturday, 15 October 2022 11:03:49 AEDT Andrew Pam via linux-aus wrote:<br>
> On 15/10/22 10:33, Russell Stuart via linux-aus wrote:<br>
> > As it happened, COVID was very much still a thing at the start of 2022.<br>
> <br>
> COVID is still very much a thing now, and in fact we are likely to see a<br>
> fresh wave of the latest variants that are even more infectious. Sadly<br>
> many of us are still not able to attend any in-person conferences. The<br>
> premature decrease in protections and reporting is revealing who our<br>
> society doesn't value.<br>
> <br>
> Regards,<br>
> Andrew<br>
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