It gets worse and worse. In Sardinia, the monthly number of deaths is still increasing: they are 200 more than in each calendar round of 2021 and as many as 250 compared to the average of the five-year period that preceded the advent of the coronavirus. These are no longer estimates, but real numbers, certified by Istat.
Covid has nothing to do with it: the regional bulletins increasingly report the number "0" under the heading of deaths. Yet the Sardinians who leave are more and more. Because if the virus does not strike directly, it has left after-effects: ordinary pathologies have been treated less and those who get sick simply die.
The Institute of Statistics reports only a recent precedent, on the peak of deaths. It dates back to 2015, but at the time it was justified by the fact that in the two previous years the figure had fallen sharply, so the population had aged and the consequences were "natural". Following the same line of analysis, the situation is now even worse, again due to Covid : in recent years it has mainly affected the elderly, killing them. So the aging rate has been reduced. The opposite of what happened in 2015.
The numbers, now, irrefutable. In 2022, between January and August (last month with consolidated data) 13,999 Sardinians died. An average of 1,749 per month. In the same period of 2021 (the virus was more lethal) the Sardinian dead had been 12,570: therefore 1,571 per month. In the whole year, the victims, for whatever cause, had been 18,875 (average of 1,572).
The comparison is even more worrying when made with the average of deaths recorded each month in the five-year period in which no one had ever had to deal with a swab: between 2015 and 2019, the island celebrated about 1,403 funerals every thirty days.
In 2022, the worst period was January, with 2,054 deaths. February follows, with 1857. And then there is summer, with July: 1852 registered deaths. Just over 1,600 were estimated.