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I recently asked the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care in the Senate the following question:

“Since 1 January 2020, how many Australians between the ages of 2 and 50, with no comorbidity or serious underlying health condition, have died from COVID-19?”

Here is the answer provided:

“The ABS mortality data records the cause of death as certified by the doctor or coroner. The data cannot provide a definitive count of people with comorbidities. Additionally, there is no way to quantify whether there was a ‘serious underlying health condition’ as the same condition (for example, Type 1 diabetes) could be severe in one person and not another.

From 1 January 2020 to 31 May 2024, 339 people aged between 2 and 50 years had deaths recorded from COVID-19. Of these, 82 people (24%) did not have a pre-existing disease listed on the medical certificate of cause of death.”

Leaving the question of how Type 1 diabetes could not be a serious condition aside, the answer provided states that from the start of the pandemic until 31 May 2024, there have been 82 deaths of people aged between 2-50 who “did not have a pre-existing disease listed on the medical certificate of cause of death” in Australia, and 339 deaths in that age bracket in total.

Discrepancy

According to the latest COVID-19 mortality data published by the ABS, “20,755 of the 658,524 death registrations received by the ABS between March 2020 and November 2023 were of people who died from or with COVID-19.” Of these,

“The underlying cause of death for 16,472 (79.4%) of these people was COVID-19… There were a further 4,283 people who died of other causes (e.g. cancer), but COVID-19 contributed to their death.”

There is a discrepancy here between the ending periods of this ABS data and the data used to answer my question, but if we take 20,755 as the total number of deaths “from or with COVID-19” (noting that these are very different things) and 82 as the number of deaths of people aged 2-50 without other serious health conditions, relatively few COVID-19 deaths are among people under 50 who did not have other serious health conditions.

Indeed, relatively few of the deaths “from or with COVID-19” were in people under 50 at all. 339 deaths out of 20,755 amounts to 1.63%, and 82 out of 20,755 amounts to 0.395%.

Furthermore, the ‘COVID-19 deaths by age and sex, 2020-23’ section of the ABS report shows that most COVID-19-related deaths occurred among people aged over 70. According to the ABS data, COVID-19 is a virus that is primarily a danger to the elderly and already immune-compromised.

As that report demonstrates, 18,643 Australians died of ischaemic heart disease (the leading cause of death) in 2022 and, lower down the list, 6,050 people died of diabetes, and 3,249 died via suicide. I mention this because I don’t recall hearing so much hysteria about these causes of death in 2022 as I did about COVID-19.

We should do what we can within reason to inform and protect vulnerable individuals, but on no basis can the lockdowns, media hysteria, vaccine mandates, and vilification of those who opted not to have a COVID-19 vaccine have been in any way justified.

Incidentally, one wonders how many deaths have occurred because of COVID-19 vaccine injuries. Could it be higher than 82 among healthy people under 50? How many injuries have there been?

The response to COVID-19 called for prudence and calm, not panic and blame. The facts have vindicated this and all those who believed that the restrictions and coercion we experienced were unwarranted.

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