It's not the flu, it's just life.
Berenson cites some new
complete death data from the Branded Swine Flu, from a few countries and states that supply real data.
He sort of skips the biggest point,
letting Nature say it. These are NORMAL LIFE EXPECTANCY CURVES. The Branded Flu deaths peak around 84, which is EXACTLY where normal life expectancy curves peak. It's actually longer than normal for males.
We obviously can't do a balanced test on this, can't rewind the Branded Flu deaths to see if those
specific people would have died RIGHT NOW without the Branded Flu. Undoubtedly some of those specific people would have survived, and some would have died of a different 'last straw' infection. But in a cold actuarial way, those groups of people were expected to die this year.