[russellw]

The year isn't quite over yet but I was just comparing the annual data 2020 to 2021 on a global basis.

In 2020, over the 9 months that the pandemic really ran for there were 83.5M cases reported and 1.935M deaths for a CMR of 2.3064%.

In 2021 (with a week to go), the year has seen 194M cases (+231%) and 3.453M deaths (+178%) for a CMR of 1.7763%.

The difference in those CMR numbers resulted in 1,030,441 people not dying, largely due to the vaccination programs along with better treatment protocols.

In our little microcosm, the numbers are a bit more stark given how bad the impact was of the aged-care debacle in 2020.

2020 saw 29,707 cases and 910 deaths for a CMR that was poor by global standards, of 3.063%. This year to date, we've had 258,346 (8.7x more) cases and 2,181 deaths (1.4x more) for a much better than the global average CMR of 0.492%.

Just as well we didn't have the same CMR as last year becasue that would have resulted in another 6,643 deaths or about triple the number we actually had.