Death Notices in the NZ Herald over the last decade (update tomorrow)

This might come as a surprise

2013
Search Results (14,163)

2014
Search Results (14,006)

2015
Search Results (13,823)

2016
Search Results (12,769)

2017
Search Results (12,621)

2018
Search Results (11,587)

2019
Search Results (10,398)

2020
Search Results (9,642)

2021
Search Results (9,566)

2022
Search Results (9,913)

2023
Search Results (8,923)

Source.

What can you notice with these figures? Well there were a lot more annual death notices before 2020 than there have been after. 2023 has the lowest total death notices.

There could be multiple reasons for this, maybe people can’t afford death notices, maybe for some reason COVID had an effect on where those death notices were placed. I really don’t know. But on the basis of the information above the conclusion would seem to be that the vaccines are not causing any major increase in deaths in New Zealand.

So maybe it’s the…