Are lockdowns justified?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

-and that's why the us..again, engages in a massive effort to fortify our foods.  Half a million americans didn't suddenly die for lack of d.  Did you say this to yourself at all before you typed it up?

Of course Vitamin D deficiency is not the only thing that contributed to the excess mortality in 2020. Vitamin D deficiency is a lot more dangerous when you have COVID, and vice versa. Of course COVID contributed somewhat to the excess mortality. So did the spike in suicide and drug overdose. And delayed cancer diagnoses and treatments, as well as delayed heart disease diagnoses and treatments, and so on.

Though, curiously, the year 2020 did not have exceedingly high mortality in the USA. I am interested, what caused that high mortality in the first half of 2017 in the US? I mean, the year 2017 had about the same number of deaths in the US as the year 2020 had... I have no idea why.

Re Ranj’s links: I’d hardly call a 16% increase ‘about the same’.

Boru