Animated chart shows rise of death count from Covid-19 to other causes of death

[Loren_Pechtel]

@Ceran_Swicegood

Not to discount the reality of the pandemic, but one has to wonder why drugs and alcohol were included, but smoking-related disease was not. That would almost certainly still win. I mean, for tobacco, 350K is like one month of death, globally.

Because smoking isn’t going to show up as a cause of death to any substantial degree. People rarely die of smoking, they die of other causes where smoking makes it more likely that you’ll have the other cause.