[QUOTE=Icarus2001;11256367]So M e AV not really any countries returning to mask wearing, just a few hangers on from the previous requirement and some discussion about
possibly returning to mask wearing.
So where did I say otherwise?
QUOTE According to this link Covid was not in the top five causes of death in 2021…
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/life...auses-of-death
This link is for the first three months of 2022…
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/he...latest-release
Not that I made the original claim (that was another poster) but the Australian Financial Review dated 2nd July 2022 has a headline stating that covid is now the #2 killer. It's behind a paywall so I don't know whether it means in Australia, or world wide.
Cause of death statistics could well be behind the drag curve, with last year or even the first three months of this year being irrelevant to where we are currently.
Starvation has, or will, overtake covid in many places before year's end, but either way the covid numbers are still making mask mandates more likely than not to return later in the year.