If only we knew what was going on in the 3rd quarter of 2021 that could explain this. Nope, not vaccines. It was delta: the deadliest variant of COVID-19. It killed a shitload of people. It was the deadly variant that the WHO pretended Alpha was. If the pandemic had started with Delta, we'd have bodies stacked mountain high. The world was not prepared for Delta even after having gone through all the Alpha bullshit. Delta was so deadly that it was killing perfectly healthy young people like the flus of the past did.