South Africa has experienced excess death of 286 k(2021), 201k (2020) and 85k (2019). Excess deaths are number of death more than normal. One can infer that these are COVID19 related deaths. It could be that we have normalize over the coming years, as COVID19 settles into its fate as an endemic disease, like u or the common cold, life in most of the world is likely to return to normal—at least, the post- pandemic normal. Behind this prospect lie