Overtly Orwellian overreaction...

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Scott Atlas is one of a small group that has been consistantly correct throughout the whole 'COVID era'. America's COVID Response Was Based on Lies [Newsweek]: 

"The tragic failure of reckless, unprecedented lockdowns that were contrary to established pandemic science, and the added massive harms of those policies on children, the elderly, and lower-income families, are indisputable and well-documented in numerous[ ]studies. This was the biggest, the most tragic, and the most unethical breakdown of public health leadership in modern history."

And there were far better ways [October 2020]:

"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." 

Like I wrote back then regarding the scam and casedemic: There is NO doubt about this. We are being lied to. Crimes have been committed.

Back to Scott Atlas: he writes that him nor other heroes trying to change the craziness by providing facts, data and alternative actions should be so naïve as to expect a direct apology from critics at their employers (Stanford University in his case) or from the government and academic public health officials but I think that is exactly what they should expect, and get, very loud and very clear. 

This madness must never be allowed to happen again and as the famous truism goes, admitting you have a problem is the first step to fixing it': Acceptance MUST happen to enable recovery. Without acceptance from TPTB and many lower done, there will be no real recovery. 

From back then too: 

Image by Steve Bright (here on Twitter)

Overtly Orwellian overreaction...

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Scott Atlas is one of a small group that has been consistantly correct throughout the whole 'COVID era'. America's COVID Response Was Based on Lies [Newsweek]: 

"The tragic failure of reckless, unprecedented lockdowns that were contrary to established pandemic science, and the added massive harms of those policies on children, the elderly, and lower-income families, are indisputable and well-documented in numerous[ ]studies. This was the biggest, the most tragic, and the most unethical breakdown of public health leadership in modern history."

And there were far better ways [October 2020]:

"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." 

Like I wrote back then regarding the scam and casedemic: There is NO doubt about this. We are being lied to. Crimes have been committed.

Back to Scott Atlas: he writes that him nor other heroes trying to change the craziness by providing facts, data and alternative actions should be so naïve as to expect a direct apology from critics at their employers (Stanford University in his case) or from the government and academic public health officials but I think that is exactly what they should expect, and get, very loud and very clear. 

This madness must never be allowed to happen again and as the famous truism goes, admitting you have a problem is the first step to fixing it': Acceptance MUST happen to enable recovery. Without acceptance from TPTB and many lower done, there will be no real recovery. 

From back then too: 

Image by Steve Bright (here on Twitter)

Optimising obscurantism opus...

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“C. J. Hopkins is the modern Western version of a Samizdat writer, i.e. a forbidden wit who loudly says things that are obvious but Not Spoken Of in officialdom ... his columns have increasingly become required reading ..." - Matt Taibbi https://t.co/NF8iAqKa9Y pic.twitter.com/zlGl5EIQA6

— Consent Factory (@consent_factory) October 1, 2020

Today I found The Consent Factory, "a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc., a fictitious business name owned and operated by C. J. Hopkins" :-) 

Mainly led by the trail from the most recent entry Year Zero..."2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly what happens when anyone challenges them." You get the picture. More:

"None of which is accidental, or has anything to do with any actual virus, or any other type of public health threat. Yes, before some of you go ballistic, I do believe there is an actual virus, which a number of people have actually died from, or which at least has contributed to their deaths … but there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any authentic public health threat that remotely justifies the totalitarian emergency measures we are being subjected to or the damage that is being done to society. Whatever you believe about the so-called “pandemic,” it really is as simple as that. Even if one accepts the official “science,” you do not transform the entire planet into a pathologized-totalitarian nightmare in response to a health threat of this nature.

"The notion is quite literally insane."

The whole thing is well worth a read...and that will lead you other joys especially Where's the Hitler?

Optimising obscurantism opus...

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“C. J. Hopkins is the modern Western version of a Samizdat writer, i.e. a forbidden wit who loudly says things that are obvious but Not Spoken Of in officialdom ... his columns have increasingly become required reading ..." - Matt Taibbi https://t.co/NF8iAqKa9Y pic.twitter.com/zlGl5EIQA6

— Consent Factory (@consent_factory) October 1, 2020

Today I found The Consent Factory, "a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc., a fictitious business name owned and operated by C. J. Hopkins" :-) 

Mainly led by the trail from the most recent entry Year Zero..."2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly what happens when anyone challenges them." You get the picture. More:

"None of which is accidental, or has anything to do with any actual virus, or any other type of public health threat. Yes, before some of you go ballistic, I do believe there is an actual virus, which a number of people have actually died from, or which at least has contributed to their deaths … but there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any authentic public health threat that remotely justifies the totalitarian emergency measures we are being subjected to or the damage that is being done to society. Whatever you believe about the so-called “pandemic,” it really is as simple as that. Even if one accepts the official “science,” you do not transform the entire planet into a pathologized-totalitarian nightmare in response to a health threat of this nature.

"The notion is quite literally insane."

The whole thing is well worth a read...and that will lead you other joys especially Where's the Hitler?

Outing outbreak "opportunists"...

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Please listen to this interview with Dr. Mike Yeadon. That link is to YouTube, also HERE on James Delingpole's Podbean. "The first social media pandemic".

"Dr Mike Yeadon has a degree in biochemistry and toxicology, a research-based PhD in respiratory pharmacology, has spent over 30 years leading new medicines research in the pharmaceuticals industry, and founded his own biotech company which he sold to the world’s biggest drug company Novartis in 2017.

He talks to James about his devastating paper What SAGE has Got Wrong (https://lockdownsceptics.org/what-sage-got-wrong/) in which he says that the Covid pandemic is over, that there will be no Second Wave, that we have already achieved herd immunity and that Sir Patrick Vallance, Britain’s Chief Scientific Adviser, is a liar and that the vaccine is more or less a waste of time. He doesn’t pull his punches"

COVID heavy (obviously!), some research, some science, some immunology, some health...ALL searchable source-able and all outing the lying sods we have maintaining the casedemic. He does a wonderful and easy to understand job of exposing the absolute scam that has been thrust upon us. 

There is NO doubt about this. We are being lied to. Crimes have been commited.

Image by Steve Bright (here on Twitter)

Outing outbreak "opportunists"...

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Please listen to this interview with Dr. Mike Yeadon. That link is to YouTube, also HERE on James Delingpole's Podbean. "The first social media pandemic".

"Dr Mike Yeadon has a degree in biochemistry and toxicology, a research-based PhD in respiratory pharmacology, has spent over 30 years leading new medicines research in the pharmaceuticals industry, and founded his own biotech company which he sold to the world’s biggest drug company Novartis in 2017. He talks to James about his devastating paper What SAGE has Got Wrong (https://lockdownsceptics.org/what-sage-got-wrong/) in which he says that the Covid pandemic is over, that there will be no Second Wave, that we have already achieved herd immunity and that Sir Patrick Vallance, Britain’s Chief Scientific Adviser, is a liar and that the vaccine is more or less a waste of time. He doesn’t pull his punches"

COVID heavy (obviously!), some research, some science, some immunology, some health...ALL searchable source-able and all outing the lying sods we have maintaining the casedemic. He does a wonderful and easy to understand job of exposing the absolute scam that has been thrust upon us. 

There is NO doubt about this. We are being lied to. Crimes have been commited.

Image by Steve Bright (here on Twitter)

Other outbreak oblocutors...

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"You know nothing John Snow" is probably what he was told: John Snow, the British physician who 'first determined that cholera spread through contaminated water'; he wasn't sure how but he was right; he also had many naysayers and detractors.[{typo edit} Interestingly the sadly MIA blogger Raedwald mentioned him back in April:

"We must keep exposing the manifold failures of the central Whitehall machine. They are costing lives." 

 Anyhoo...the reason for John Snow the mention is that The Great Barrington Declaration has a rival: The John Snow Memorandum. A couple of days ago Lockdown Skeptics debunked a lot of it and today they ask "Who are the Real Heirs of John Snow in the Herd Immunity Debate?

"The conventional wisdom at the time – the view held by the scientific establishment – was the miasma theory, which held that diseases such as cholera and bubonic plague were caused by pollution or “bad air”. Instead of relying on this theory, Snow actually did some on-the-ground research, talking to local residents and analysing the pattern of infection. In this way, he was able to trace the source of the outbreak to a water pump in Broad Street and end the epidemic. Snow’s discovery, which came about because he engaged in methodical, empirical research rather than relying on some divorced-from-reality theory, is regarded as the founding event of the science of epidemiology.

For a group of establishment panjandrums to invoke John Snow’s name, given that their entire approach to the pandemic is rooted in abstract mathematical modelling, is almost laughably inappropriate."

That said, he did order the handle of the 'Broad Street Pump' to be removed so as to avoid the residents drinking the water; I suppose that could be construed as an early 'lockdown restriction' couldn't it? 

More good stuff  HERE from Robert E. Wright at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) ['What?' I hear you murmour...no worries, he's a historian].

"In case my fancy words remain unclear, I am saying that the public health officials who do not understand the correct policy response to covid, represented by the Great Barrington Declaration, fail to do so because they have not studied the history of science or even medicine in sufficient detail to understand the scientific method. They are too ignorant to be humble.

Case in point, John Snow himself would have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, not the John Snow Declaration."

Finally, a few choice words from Dr. Atlas Scott [great name!], who when interviewed had some ghastly and wrrying statistics e.g. "[in the USA]...an astonishing 25.5 percent of people between 18 and 24 contemplated suicide in the month of June alone" WTF? Lockdown's a winner...NOT!

"History will record the faces of the public health expertise as some of the most sinful, egregious, epic failures in the history of public policy. They have killed people with their lack of understanding and their lack of caring about not just the impact of cases of COVID-19, a virus that the overwhelming majority of people do well in. They never cared to considered the impact of the policy itself, and the policy itself has been a complete epic failure, and honestly some people say a crime against humanity — these people should be held accountable for what they did."

Winter is Coming.

Other outbreak oblocutors...

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"You know nothing John Snow" is probably what he was told: John Snow, the British physician who 'first determined that cholera spread through contaminated water'; he wasn't sure how but he was right; he also had many naysayers and detractors.[{typo edit} Interestingly the sadly MIA blogger Raedwald mentioned him back in April:

"We must keep exposing the manifold failures of the central Whitehall machine. They are costing lives." 

 Anyhoo...the reason for John Snow the mention is that The Great Barrington Declaration has a rival: The John Snow Memorandum. A couple of days ago Lockdown Skeptics debunked a lot of it and today they ask "Who are the Real Heirs of John Snow in the Herd Immunity Debate?

"The conventional wisdom at the time – the view held by the scientific establishment – was the miasma theory, which held that diseases such as cholera and bubonic plague were caused by pollution or “bad air”. Instead of relying on this theory, Snow actually did some on-the-ground research, talking to local residents and analysing the pattern of infection. In this way, he was able to trace the source of the outbreak to a water pump in Broad Street and end the epidemic. Snow’s discovery, which came about because he engaged in methodical, empirical research rather than relying on some divorced-from-reality theory, is regarded as the founding event of the science of epidemiology. For a group of establishment panjandrums to invoke John Snow’s name, given that their entire approach to the pandemic is rooted in abstract mathematical modelling, is almost laughably inappropriate."

That said, he did order the handle of the 'Broad Street Pump' to be removed so as to avoid the residents drinking the water; I suppose that could be construed as an early 'lockdown restriction' couldn't it? 

More good stuff  HERE from Robert E. Wright at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) ['What?' I hear you murmour...no worries, he's a historian].

"In case my fancy words remain unclear, I am saying that the public health officials who do not understand the correct policy response to covid, represented by the Great Barrington Declaration, fail to do so because they have not studied the history of science or even medicine in sufficient detail to understand the scientific method. They are too ignorant to be humble. Case in point, John Snow himself would have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, not the John Snow Declaration."

Finally, a few choice words from Dr. Atlas Scott [great name!], who when interviewed had some ghastly and wrrying statistics e.g. "[in the USA]...an astonishing 25.5 percent of people between 18 and 24 contemplated suicide in the month of June alone" WTF? Lockdown's a winner...NOT!

"History will record the faces of the public health expertise as some of the most sinful, egregious, epic failures in the history of public policy. They have killed people with their lack of understanding and their lack of caring about not just the impact of cases of COVID-19, a virus that the overwhelming majority of people do well in. They never cared to considered the impact of the policy itself, and the policy itself has been a complete epic failure, and honestly some people say a crime against humanity — these people should be held accountable for what they did."

Winter is Coming.

Oncoming oppression...

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Well, not oncoming but already here and likely to get worse. This quote is so true. Quotes.pub had the image but the reminder of this great quote was from Allison Pearson's [DT] "withering verdict" of BoZo's BoJo's speech to the Conservative [virtual] Party Conference. Hat-tip Lockdown Skeptics. 

Also from there some more sinister (but we all knew) news: "Many governments are using the pandemic as cover to silence dissent, stifle the free press and disrupt elections, according to a new report by Freedom House, a US-based think tank". Linking to Philip Heijmans' article on the Bloomberg website: Governments Using Pandemic to Stifle Dissent. 

The Freedom House article is well worth reading, on their website HERE or the report is HERE-PDF. 

The Media end Expression section strikes me as problematic: "91 of 192 countries (47 percent) experienced restrictions on the news media as part of the response to the coronavirus outbreak", believable;

"Journalists covering the crisis have been arrested and targeted with violence, harassment, and intimidation. Governments have exerted control over content, revoked outlets’ registrations, suspended printing of newspapers, denied press credentials, and limited independent questioning at press conferences. New legislation against spreading “fake news” about the virus has been passed, while websites have been blocked and online articles or social media posts removed. The increased public need for impartial information during a pandemic makes such varied methods of suppression particularly egregious."

However, many major countries e.g. UK and USA are in the 'free' category (as against partly free or not free); they may be 'free' on paper (hoho) but they are part of the problem: they have stoked the fear, they refuse to ask the most obvious questions, THEY are part of the problem and have encouraged the dozy inadequate politicians to continue on their disasterous path.

Update: absolute case in point: just heard on the radio news, headline: this year "COVID has killed [xyz*] times more than flu and pneumonia combined".  Complete bollocks and for various reasons.

* can't remember if they said twice, three or four times more because I was shouting at the radio "NO IT HASN'T"...

Oncoming oppression...

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Well, not oncoming but already here and likely to get worse. This quote is so true. Quotes.pub had the image but the reminder of this great quote was from Allison Pearson's [DT] "withering verdict" of BoZo's BoJo's speech to the Conservative [virtual] Party Conference. Hat-tip Lockdown Skeptics. 

Also from there some more sinister (but we all knew) news: "Many governments are using the pandemic as cover to silence dissent, stifle the free press and disrupt elections, according to a new report by Freedom House, a US-based think tank". Linking to Philip Heijmans' article on the Bloomberg website: Governments Using Pandemic to Stifle Dissent. 

The Freedom House article is well worth reading, on their website HERE or the report is HERE-PDF. 

The Media end Expression section strikes me as problematic: "91 of 192 countries (47 percent) experienced restrictions on the news media as part of the response to the coronavirus outbreak", believable;

"Journalists covering the crisis have been arrested and targeted with violence, harassment, and intimidation. Governments have exerted control over content, revoked outlets’ registrations, suspended printing of newspapers, denied press credentials, and limited independent questioning at press conferences. New legislation against spreading “fake news” about the virus has been passed, while websites have been blocked and online articles or social media posts removed. The increased public need for impartial information during a pandemic makes such varied methods of suppression particularly egregious."

However, many major countries e.g. UK and USA are in the 'free' category (as against partly free or not free); they may be 'free' on paper (hoho) but they are part of the problem: they have stoked the fear, they refuse to ask the most obvious questions, THEY are part of the problem and have encouraged the dozy inadequate politicians to continue on their disasterous path.

Update: absolute case in point: just heard on the radio news, headline: this year "COVID has killed [xyz*] times more than flu and pneumonia combined".  Complete bollocks and for various reasons.

* can't remember if they said twice, three or four times more because I was shouting at the radio "NO IT HASN'T"...

October opener

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Click on image or HERE. "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." 

It is pure common sense and unfortunately a long way from the government's approach, which becomes more Monty Pythonesque every week. 

October opener

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Click on image or HERE. "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." 

It is pure common sense and unfortunately a long way from the government's approach, which becomes more Monty Pythonesque every week. 

Ongoing official obnubilation...

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Amazing the constant fear-mongering. The casedemic continues apace. Lockdown Skeptics have the video (also seen a Guido's) of "the stand out contribution to the debate" on The Coronavirus Act, which is due to be renewed on Wednesday; it came from Sir Desmond Swayne: "It was project fear, it was an attempt to terrify the British people, as if they haven’t been terrified enough." The real 'Project Fear' has been going on for years but the COVID one is over 6 months old already. With luck, and if the pertinent ammendment passes, "it will mean that no additional Covid
restrictions can be imposed by the Government without being approved by
Parliament."

Richard on Twitter (@RP131) has the graphic comparison [quoted and linked as he is pissed off that that others don't seem to want to link to his work after showing his graphs!] has the numbers showing what really happened against what the government scientists were showing on TV last week. "Projections in red; actuals in blue."

Richard says take with a pinch of salt..[update: here's his index Tweet with the four headings of the 'usual 4 daily threads']

Just seen this cartoon - a week late - but it is so appropriate (cartoon credit: Pat Blower LINK)

Ongoing official obnubilation...

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Amazing the constant fear-mongering. The casedemic continues apace. Lockdown Skeptics have the video (also seen a Guido's) of "the stand out contribution to the debate" on The Coronavirus Act, which is due to be renewed on Wednesday; it came from Sir Desmond Swayne: "It was project fear, it was an attempt to terrify the British people, as if they haven’t been terrified enough." The real 'Project Fear' has been going on for years but the COVID one is over 6 months old already. With luck, and if the pertinent ammendment passes, "it will mean that no additional Covid restrictions can be imposed by the Government without being approved by Parliament."

Richard on Twitter (@RP131) has the graphic comparison [quoted and linked as he is pissed off that that others don't seem to want to link to his work after showing his graphs!] has the numbers showing what really happened against what the government scientists were showing on TV last week. "Projections in red; actuals in blue."

Richard says take with a pinch of salt..[update: here's his index Tweet with the four headings of the 'usual 4 daily threads']

Just seen this cartoon - a week late - but it is so appropriate (cartoon credit: Pat Blower LINK)

Overt official omissions...

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The real numbers and the sad (tragic) truth isn't going away despite being studiously ignored by politicians and press alike: "Another jaw-dropping graph" from last week [Hector Drummond]; worth reading the previous blog-post there linked through from the Hector Drummond post.



The graph in question is of of "winter-to-spring mortality for all years in England and Wales from 1993-94 to 2019-2020, with numbers from the ONS" and adjusted for population.

[For the avoidance of doubt] "the graph goes up to week 20, ie. 15 May, when most of the England and Wales Covid-19 deaths had happened. A week later and deaths were back to being around the five-year average."

Overt official omissions...

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The real numbers and the sad (tragic) truth isn't going away despite being studiously ignored by politicians and press alike: "Another jaw-dropping graph" from last week [Hector Drummond]; worth reading the previous blog-post there linked through from the Hector Drummond post.

The graph in question is of of "winter-to-spring mortality for all years in England and Wales from 1993-94 to 2019-2020, with numbers from the ONS" and adjusted for population.

[For the avoidance of doubt] "the graph goes up to week 20, ie. 15 May, when most of the England and Wales Covid-19 deaths had happened. A week later and deaths were back to being around the five-year average."

Outbreak overreaction II...

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A follow-up to the post last week. As before, graphs from InProportion2. And as I said before, still not breaking any records, considering that since the turn of the century we have 5 million more people in the country.

"For most of 2020 so far, the overall number of people dying has been less than it was in 2018 (a bad year for flu/respiratory disease). The chart below shows that the number of deaths in 2020 has now started to exceed those in 2018 for the same time period - so far by about four per cent.

Much of the media provides a continual stream of sensational headlines about Covid such as "Death tolls soar as ..." or "Worst week since records began for..." but it must be asked if such fear generating approach is justified or helpful."...



Well, we know the fucking answer to that, don't we? A big fat NO!

Note: Updated 2020-04-28 using the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England, complete to 2020-04-17. Numbers will be lower than those given in daily government press releases as all figures here exclude Scotland and Northern Ireland. They also exclude estimated deaths between 2020-04-17 and the most recently announced. Numbers after 2020-04-17 are from Public Health England

Outbreak overreaction II...

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A follow-up to the post last week. As before, graphs from InProportion2. And as I said before, still not breaking any records, considering that since the turn of the century we have 5 million more people in the country.

"For most of 2020 so far, the overall number of people dying has been less than it was in 2018 (a bad year for flu/respiratory disease). The chart below shows that the number of deaths in 2020 has now started to exceed those in 2018 for the same time period - so far by about four per cent. Much of the media provides a continual stream of sensational headlines about Covid such as "Death tolls soar as ..." or "Worst week since records began for..." but it must be asked if such fear generating approach is justified or helpful."...

Well, we know the fucking answer to that, don't we? A big fat NO!

Note: Updated 2020-04-28 using the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England, complete to 2020-04-17. Numbers will be lower than those given in daily government press releases as all figures here exclude Scotland and Northern Ireland. They also exclude estimated deaths between 2020-04-17 and the most recently announced. Numbers after 2020-04-17 are from Public Health England

Outbreak overreaction...

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So many numbers and figures abound and the hysterics of the press do not help but are we really seeing what the media and government are trying to make us believe we are seeing? Naturally there are many sceptics; we may yet have to eat our words but more and more it is looking like a massive overreaction that our grandchildren's children will still be paying for:

Note: Updated 2020-04-21 using the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England, complete to 2020-04-17. Numbers will be lower than those given in daily government press releases as all figures here exclude Scotland and Northern Ireland. They also exclude estimated deaths between 2020-04-17 and the most recently announced.

Bear in mind that since 1996 there are FIVE MILLION MORE PEOPLE in the country. Since 1999/2000 4 million more people etc.

"For overall mortality, recent weeks have not been as bad as some previous flu seasons. The week ending 2020-04-10, was a bad week 18,516 people died. However, since 1996 there have been three weeks in previous years which were worse."

Both images and quotes from COVID-19 in Proportion?, Inproportion2. 

Hat-tip: Lockdown Sceptics.

Outbreak overreaction...

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So many numbers and figures abound and the hysterics of the press do not help but are we really seeing what the media and government are trying to make us believe we are seeing? Naturally there are many sceptics; we may yet have to eat our words but more and more it is looking like a massive overreaction that our grandchildren's children will still be paying for:

Note: Updated 2020-04-21 using the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England, complete to 2020-04-17. Numbers will be lower than those given in daily government press releases as all figures here exclude Scotland and Northern Ireland. They also exclude estimated deaths between 2020-04-17 and the most recently announced.

Bear in mind that since 1996 there are FIVE MILLION MORE PEOPLE in the country. Since 1999/2000 4 million more people etc.

"For overall mortality, recent weeks have not been as bad as some previous flu seasons. The week ending 2020-04-10, was a bad week 18,516 people died. However, since 1996 there have been three weeks in previous years which were worse."

Both images and quotes from COVID-19 in Proportion?, Inproportion2. 

Hat-tip: Lockdown Sceptics.