Honestly, those tables show me the opposite story: while there has been an increase in total deaths during the period, most of the excess mortality is localized to a few weeks. The remaining weeks show little variance from the five years aggregate data given in the tables.
This tells me that there was, maybe, an outbreak, not an epidemic.
This table only gives stats for all deaths, so I can't figure the cause of death from it. While you can blame it on the promoted disease, you still have to take into account the impact of the measures that were taken, which include fear. For example, how many people died because they chose not to seek required medical care to avoid catching the meme flu?
All in all, it paints a picture that's far less frightening than what we've been led to believe.
edit: what's funny is that the UK has among the worse death rate for corvid, far worse than the US, which was used as an example of poor management of the crisis (orange man bad)
The decline to “normal” levels are the result of the three lockdowns we’ve had.
It doesn’t paint a less frightening picture because the total reported covid deaths by day (which is what is reported in the media) match up exactly to the graphs in the link provided. You can view these here.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
The UK cannot be directly compared to the US, as there are many other variables involved, mainly population density.
It doesn’t paint a less frightening picture because the total reported covid deaths by day (which is what is reported in the media) match up exactly to the graphs in the link provided. You can view these here.
How does that change anything? In the end, how many people died who were not supposed to die at that time is what matters (excess deaths). Reporting on day to day deaths is just fear porn with no scientific value.
The decline to “normal” levels are the result of the three lockdowns we’ve had.
Which were not sufficient, remember? People didn't do enough, it should've been harsher, a mantra that was repeated everywhere in the western world where those measures were adopted. And yet, where those measures were not adopted, they suffered fewer deaths overall.
What nonsense. The daily covid death figure is based on scientific sources, how can you say that has no scientific value?
It was sufficient, the aim of lockdowns since the beginning was to flatten the curve, and the lockdowns did exactly that. We just needed three of them to see us through to the vaccines being developed and rolled out.
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