>an excess mortality of just 5% would be of grave concern. 37% is off the charts catastrophic.
NO IT ISN'T
stupid fuckers don't know what excess mortality means.
1) explain what excess mortality means.
2) I'm ok with just, you know, mortality. The number of dead people. Tell me that. If THAT is up 37%, that's something to look at.
But excess mortality is something very close to ZERO - none, nothing and nada. Normally there is roughly the same number of deaths each year. And there is some year to year growth, when there is population growth. 5 extra deaths, year after year might be the "normal" excess mortality in a population of a certain size. 5 extra deaths is excess mortality. if excess mortality is up 37%, that might be 7 extra deaths. And that would be 2 extra deaths.
Tell us the deaths, in the area you're talking about, in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. And I can figure it out from there.