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In regards to the opinion piece “Pandemic numbers give cloudy picture” (Thinking Aloud, Trudy Klassen, Jan. 7), perhaps at least one other factor ought to be considered: the potential deaths we could have had, had restrictions not been put in place.
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In regards to the opinion piece “Pandemic numbers give cloudy picture” (Thinking Aloud, Trudy Klassen, Jan. 7), perhaps at least one other factor ought to be considered:  the potential deaths we could have had, had restrictions not been put in place.  

The experience of our neighbors to the south (as one example) is instructive. The U.S. mortality rate for 2020, as compared to 2019, is the largest percentage increase since 1918/1919, and far exceeds the annual increases seen over the past decades.  The Stats Canada site giving the weekly deaths from 2014 to 2020 is also revealing.

I enjoy numbers, but after a while they can become numbing. Personally knowing someone who dies of Covid-19 tends to sharpen one’s focus. 

I now know more than one.

Dave Rempel, Prince George