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Here. The total number of death graphs show the average and range for the whole country for the prior 5 years.
You misunderstood the question.
Where is your baseline study showing group A who did the mask and shutdown thing versus group B who did nothing?
I don’t care about death rates from 5 years ago, that was sans covid.
Aah I see.
Since we don’t have two copies of the UK, we only have the one data set to go off of.
However, the three infection spikes are all display different spread rates and different peak sizes. If a downward trend in the spikes occurred naturally, all three spikes would display similarities to each other, but they don’t.
All of them curbed their trends downwards as the three lockdowns were put into place, which suggests it is the lockdown restrictions that caused this and not a natural occurrence.
The same trends can also be observed in different countries.
Remember that PCR threshold has been quietly lowered from 45 cycles average to 32 cycle average, and now after mass vaccinations you can expect PCR threshold to once again drop. This has the effect of reducing positive results, false or otherwise.
If you make your testing methodology more strict, you will have less cases by virtue of fewer values falling into range.
That’s a good point, but again, I can’t draw any conclusions from that because there’s no control study. Anecdotal evidence is not scientific proof.
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