4 reasons: 1. [Aging Boomer Population - they are dying out at faster and faster rates and we are hitting historic death figures from them.](https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/10/aging-boomers-deaths.html) 2. Terrible COVID-19 policies from the government is killing lots of people. 2020 economic ruin is killing more people. The stress and loss of income is causing stress deaths and suicides. We know this from a massive study done on the Housing Market Crash of 2008: estimated 300K stress related deaths from that over 10 years. What happened from COVID-19 policies is 10 times worse than what the Housing Market Crash did to the economy. [You can see how much worse the COVID-19 policies were on unemployment than the 2008 Housing Market Crash by looking at the data on ShadowStats.](http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts) 3. [January 2021 was the month that the most people died from COVID-19. By the end of January 2021, we had fewer than 3% fully vaccinated. ](https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=USA) 4. Vaccine "fever", where everyone was scrambling to get a vaccine, waned towards the end of May. Notice the negative numbers starting in April? This is despite the fact that the Delta Variant, factually a significantly deadlier variant of SARS-CoV-2, was killing lots of people over the summer into the fall (and still is). We have 1.4K daily deaths happening and the numbers are picking back up. It's Flu and Cold season. Prepare for more people dying. Unlikely that we will see 4K+ deaths like we did in January 2021, though.