It's time to pay attention to Bulgarian death rates. Yes, I'm serious.

Why? Bulgarian deaths have plunged since Covid ended, thanks to the "pull-forward effect." Elsewhere, they're still high, and no one knows why. Did I mention Bulgaria mostly rejected Covid vaccines?

“The pull-forward effect.”

You might remember hearing that phrase early in Covid. It was a polite way to say that because Sars-Cov-2 mostly killed people who didn’t have long to live, any temporary rise in deaths during the epidemic would likely be followed by a temporary decline in deaths once it ended. Everyone only dies once, after all.

This theory was…