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March 17, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In a few countries – already noted – there has been a recent rise in deaths that may be due to omicron-covid. In many other countries there has not been a notable rise in excess deaths, despite rises in recorded deaths with Covid19. Chile Chile’s omicron-wave of covid looks more like ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Ages of People Dying in excess numbers during the Omicron Wave of Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-ages-of-people-dying-in-excess-numbers-during-the-omicron-wave-of-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Ages of People Dying in excess numbers during the Omicron Wave of Covid19">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The big new story in the news cycle – in New Zealand but not only in New Zealand – is the rising ‘cost of living’, which is usually conflated with ‘inflation’. These topics – together and separately – are, like Covid19, devolved to ‘social science’ (macroeconomist in this case) ‘experts’; within ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Rising ‘Cost of Living’ and Inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/16/keith-rankin-essay-rising-cost-of-living-and-inflation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Rising ‘Cost of Living’ and Inflation">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. One of the important indicators of a society’s living standards is the ability of its people to stay alive. Covid19 is seen as a problem mainly because, like the road toll, it represents a cause of death that has the potential to reduce that society’s life expectancy. Deaths averted may indeed ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – New Zealand Mortality before and during Covid Times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/15/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-new-zealand-mortality-before-and-during-covid-times/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – New Zealand Mortality before and during Covid Times">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In the present conflict that has huge potential to escalate into a global catastrophe, it is appropriate to impose the highest level of opprobrium on Russia’s present military agenda, and on Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. However, that does not excuse us from the need to critique problematic behaviour by other ‘actors’, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Asymmetry in International Politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/14/keith-rankin-essay-territorial-asymmetry-in-international-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Territorial Asymmetry in International Politics">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This summary, of reported cases of people testing positive for Covid19, and deaths recorded of people with Covid19, is the first to include New Zealand. Reported Positive Cases: All Countries (except Turkmenistan and North Korea) Most countries in this list are experiencing a covid-omicron wave of cases, but have relatively few ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: First Week of March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/10/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-first-week-of-march/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: First Week of March">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The war in Ukraine possibly represents the most dangerous episode in the history of humanity in historical times; especially but not only because it comes on top of two other overt global crises – climate change and pandemic – and another less overt global crisis, the slow implosion of the international ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Russia and Ukraine – Fighting an Unclear War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/09/keith-rankin-on-russia-and-ukraine-fighting-an-unclear-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Russia and Ukraine – Fighting an Unclear War">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These five charts look at five countries for which excess death information is available. First, it is important to note that I am presenting a different definition of excess deaths than other sources, in that these charts include seasonal excess deaths arising from triggers other than Covid19. Switzerland, the Optimistic Note ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-four-problems-and-one-not/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. I watched the very short movie Forgive Us Our Trespasses on Netflix today (Saturday, March 05). Set in Germany in the 1930s, it starts with a schoolteacher giving an arithmetic lesson to a class of children. The question posed was that the cost of caring for a disabled child was 12.00 ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Immigration New Zealand Cancelling Disabled Children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/05/keith-rankin-on-immigration-new-zealand-cancelling-disabled-children/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Immigration New Zealand Cancelling Disabled Children">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Covid has a habit of biting us on the bum, just as key milestones seem to be behind us. A diverse range of countries are facing current setbacks: eg Chile, Colombia, Bulgaria (where one in a hundred people have died from Covid), Hong Kong, South Korea, Israel. In Ukraine, there have ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Concerns: Israel, South Korea and others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-concerns-israel-south-korea-and-others/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Concerns: Israel, South Korea and others">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Yesterday I watched Kenneth Branagh’s recent movie, Belfast. A wonderful ‘biopic’ of that fraught city in 1969/70. It brought back memories of my own brief visit there in April 1976, when I rode into town on my trusty Honda – past Carrickfergus Castle. Then parked, and walked along Donegal Place, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/keith-rankin-essay-high-noon/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The mainstream political narrative that emerged in late March 2020 was a ‘narrative of fear’ which set up the Covid19 coronavirus as a ‘tricky’ enemy that was out to get us by finding ways through our defences; and that we had to build collective barrier defences; defences such as lockdowns, border ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Omicron Covid and Political Narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/keith-rankin-analysis-omicron-covid-and-political-narrative/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Omicron Covid and Political Narrative">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Last week I published charts for six countries showing excess deaths triggered by all seasonal and respiratory maladies, not just Covid19. The other main conditions that show up in excess deaths are epidemic influenza and the group of endemic viral infections commonly known as the ‘common cold’. Here I look at ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Respiratory Viruses: Seasonal Mortality Compared (2)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-respiratory-viruses-seasonal-mortality-compared-2/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Respiratory Viruses: Seasonal Mortality Compared (2)">Read more</a>
