According to the ABS, Australia is currently running week after week with a death rate from all causes a fraction under 20% higher than the long term average. The long term average death rate has been remarkably stable (very gradually declining) for decades.

Deaths from COVID have never at any time amounted for more than one third of this excess (and, bear in mind that, on the average, those dying of COVID have ~4 co-morbidities so many may very well have died of something else within weeks anyway).

The question which, it seems to me, should be exercising the minds of governments, the media and the medical establishment is what is causing the massive increase in the death rate for which COVID is not the underlying cause? Ignoring COVID entirely, the death rate has increased 12-15% and is remaining at the new level.

That is a lot. That is unprecedented.

Why is everyone ignoring the elephant in the room?