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We really need an inquiry into how Sage forced Britain into lockdown – The Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 13 May 2021

The case for the prosecution of Johnson is likely to be heard in a parliamentary inquiry (with Dominic Cummings as the star witness) which should bring scrutiny of the Imperial College cliff-edge hypothesis. This suggests that Covid cases surged every day until lockdown, so Prime Ministerial dither cost thousands of lives. Only when he eventually agreed to lock down on March 23, says Imperial, did cases collapse. This theory is one of the most influential ever deployed in government – and now looks as if it could be bunkum.

We don’t have to guess anymore, given how much Covid data exists. The ONS, Zoe/King’s College, the React-2 study run by a different team at Imperial: none support Neil Ferguson’s cliff-edge theory. All show Covid cases falling before lockdowns. So what forced the virus into retreat, if not stay-at-home orders? We can look at another form of contagion: news, spread digitally. People saw how things were getting dangerous and stayed home of their own accord. This is more than theory. Mobile phone data offers rich detail of this worldwide trend.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/13/really-need-inquiry-sage-forced-britain-lockdown/

How did Sage get it so wrong? – The Spectator

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 9 May 2021

Professor Neil Ferguson struck an unusually optimistic tone this week. With just one Covid death reported on Monday, and infection levels at an eight-month low in the UK, the architect of the original lockdown said: ‘The data is very encouraging and very much in line with what we expected.’ The first half of that statement is certainly true; the second half much less so.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/How-did-Sage-get-it-so-wrong

Tags Antibodies, COVID-19, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Government, Immunity, Imperial College, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Mad Cow Disease, Modelling, Office for National Statistics, Policy, Professor Martin Newby, Professor Neil Ferguson, R Value, SAGE, UK, Vaccination

Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021 – ONS

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 5 May 2021

1.Main points
Around 1 in 5 (21%) adults experienced some form of depression in early 2021 (27 January to 7 March); this is an increase since November 2020 (19%) and more than double that observed before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (10%).
Around 1 in 3 (35%) adults who reported being unable to afford an unexpected expense of £850 experienced depressive symptoms in early 2021, compared with 1 in 5 (21%) adults before the pandemic; for adults who were able to afford this expense, rates increased from 5% to 13%. Over the period 27 January to 7 March 2021:

Younger adults and women were more likely to experience some form of depression, with over 4 in 10 (43%) women aged 16 to 29 years experiencing depressive symptoms, compared with 26% of men of the same age.
Disabled (39%) and clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) adults (31%) were more likely to experience some form of depression than non-disabled (13%) and non-CEV adults (20%).
A higher proportion of adults renting their home experienced some form of depression (31%) when compared with adults who own their home outright (13%).
Almost 3 in 10 (28%) adults living in the most deprived areas of England experienced depressive symptoms; this compares with just under 2 in 10 (17%) adults in the least deprived areas of England.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/coronavirusanddepressioninadultsgreatbritain/januarytomarch2021

Tags Charts, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Depression, Mental Health, Office for National Statistics, Side-effects, Statistics, UK

Lockdown legacy facing future generations – Dr Rob Verkerk, Pandemic Podcast

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 13 April 2021

Rob Verkerk, Founder, Executive and Scientific Director of the Alliance for Natural Health International, a scientist who has for 30 years been exploring positive ways to span the gulfs between science and the law, between academia and industry, and between governments and their people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mx5cbKVDQg

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Quarter of Covid deaths not caused by virus, new figures show – The Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 13 April 2021

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 23 per cent of coronavirus deaths registered are now people who have died “with” the virus rather than “from” an infection.

This means that, while the person who died will have tested positive for Covid, that was not the primary cause of their death recorded on the death certificate.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/13/quarter-covid-deaths-not-caused-virus/

Tags Cause of Death, COVID-19, Office for National Statistics, Oxford Universtity, The Telegraph, UK

More than HALF of people who test positive for Covid have no symptoms – but fatigue is still most common sign, official data shows – Daily Mail

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 9 April 2021

More than half of people who test positive for Covid in the UK suffer no symptoms, official figures revealed today.

Office for National Statistics data showed 53 per cent of those diagnosed with the virus said they had no warning signs — including a fever or cough.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9449319/More-HALF-people-test-positive-Covid-no-symptoms.html

Tags Asymptomatic, COVID-19, Daily Mail, Office for National Statistics, Statistics, Symptoms, Testing

A Deceptive Construction – Why We Must Question The COVID 19 Mortality Statistics – UK Column

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 28 March 2021

According to the UK Government, as of 27 March 2021, 126,515 people have died as a result of contracting Covid-19, and an additional 21,610 people have died with COVID-19 on their death certificates.

The government alleges, therefore, that a total of 148,125 people in the UK have died as a result of COVID-19. As we shall see, this claim is not credible.

https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/deceptive-construction-why-we-must-question-covid-19-mortality-statistics

BEL MOONEY: My dad Ted passed three Covid tests and died of a chronic illness yet he’s officially one of Britain’s 120,000 victims of the virus and is far from alone… so how many more are there? – Daily Mail

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 19 February 2021

This is not because Ted Mooney contracted coronavirus in the very good (and expensive, it must be said) care home three miles from our house, as statistics will now state.

Because he did not. Yet the principal cause of death is set down officially as Covid-19 — and that, in my view, is a bizarre and unacceptable untruth.

…They agreed that, yes, it must distort the national figures — ‘and yet the strangest thing is that every winter we record countless deaths from flu, and this winter there have been none. Not one!’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9279767/BEL-MOONEY-dad-died-chronic-illness-hes-officially-Covid-victim.html

Tags Care Homes, Cases, COPD, COVID-19, Daily Mail, Death Registration, Dimentia, Hysteria, Infection, Influenza, Misdiagnosis, Misinformation, NHS, Office for National Statistics, Public Health England, Statistics, Testing, UK

Five charts that show the impact of Covid-19 on the tourism industry – City AM

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 15 February 2021

The travel and tourism industry has been one of the sectors hit hardest by the pandemic, with lockdowns and travel restrictions all but shutting business at times.

Five charts that show the impact of Covid-19 on the tourism industry

Tags Business, Charts, City A.M., Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Economy, Industry, Lockdown, Office for National Statistics, Tourism, Travel, UK

Deaths in the UK from 1990 to 2020 – ONS

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 5 February 2021

A table of the yearly death rates per year in the U.K since 1990 up until the end of December 2020.

Year	Number of deaths	Population (Thousands)	Crude mortality rate (per 100,000 population)	Age-standardised mortality rate (per 100,000 population)
2020	608,002	59,829	1,016.20	1,043.50
2019	530,841	59,440	893.1	925
2018	541,589	59,116	916.1	965.4
2017	533,253	58,745	907.7	965.3
2016	525,048	58,381	899.3	966.9
2015	529,655	57,885	915	993.2
2014	501,424	57,409	873.4	953
2013	506,790	56,948	889.9	985.9
2012	499,331	56,568	882.7	987.4
2011	484,367	56,171	862.3	978.6
2010	493,242	55,692	885.7	1,017.10
2009	491,348	55,235	889.6	1,033.80
2008	509,090	54,842	928.3	1,091.90
2007	504,052	54,387	926.8	1,091.80
2006	502,599	53,951	931.6	1,104.30
2005	512,993	53,575	957.5	1,143.80
2004	514,250	53,152	967.5	1,163.00
2003	539,151	52,863	1,019.90	1,232.10
2002	535,356	52,602	1,017.70	1,231.30
2001	532,498	52,360	1,017.00	1,236.20
2000	537,877	52,140	1,031.60	1,266.40
1999	553,532	51,933	1,065.80	1,320.20
1998	553,435	51,720	1,070.10	1,327.20
1997	558,052	51,560	1,082.30	1,350.80
1996	563,007	51,410	1,095.10	1,372.50
1995	565,902	51,272	1,103.70	1,392.00
1994	551,780	51,116	1,079.50	1,374.90
1993	578,512	50,986	1,134.70	1,453.40
1992	558,313	50,876	1,097.40	1,415.00
1991	570,044	50,748	1,123.30	1,464.30
1990	564,846	50,561	1,117.20	1,462.60

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsintheukfrom1990to2020

Tags Age-standardised Mortality Rate, COVID-19, Freedom Of Information Request, Mortality Rate, Office for National Statistics, Statistics, UK

Almost every Covid case now survives so WHY are we CRIPPLING Britain? RICHARD MADELEY – The Express

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 31 January 2021

According to the most recently peer-reviewed paper on Covid-19, how many people who get the virus do you think survive? Go on, take a wild guess. Eighty percent? Ninety percent? Ninety-five percent? Nope. Precisely 99.8 percent live to see another day. Under-70s have an even higher survival rate – 99.96. Put another way, they have a 0.04 chance of dying; less than half of half a per cent.

And many of those are already seriously or even terminally ill from other conditions.

The Office for National Statistics said this week that far from a “second wave”, figures show all UK deaths are currently just 1.5 percent above average, and on a normal trajectory for early autumn.

[Hospital admissions] stubbornly bump along near the bottom of the chart.The co-relationship between diagnosis and death has radically changed in the last six months as treatments dramatically improve.

https://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/richard-and-judy/1351717/Lockdown-facts-richard-madeley-coronavirus-statistics

Tags Cases, COVID-19, Hospitals, Hysteria, Lockdown, Mortality Rate, Office for National Statistics, Second Wave, Social Distancing, Statistics, Survival Rate, The Express, UK

UK Covid deaths: Why the 100,000 toll is so bad – BBC News

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 29 January 2021

Telegraph Cartoonist Bob Moran makes an interesting comment about this BBC News article.

This is a great example of how mad people (the BBC) have become. In attempting to demonstrate how serious the current situation is, they accidentally show that everything is completely normal and remind us that when things were actually bad, we didn’t even notice.
@bobscartoons on Twitter, 29 January 2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55757790

Tags Age-standardised Mortality Rate, BBC, Charts, Mortality Rate, Office for National Statistics, Statistics, UK

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Manufacturing the Crisis – Simon Elmer, Architects for Social Housing

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 27 January 2021

The truth is that there was never a question of whether this Government would impose another lockdown on the UK in 2021. Lockdown isn’t a consequence of the failure of coronavirus-justified programmes and regulations: it’s the product of their success in implementing the UK biosecurity state. After a brief summer recess under the system of tiered restrictions, the following winter will see the lockdown of the UK imposed again under newly notifiable diseases from new viruses and new strains, new protocols for certification and new criteria for deaths, the new medical categorisation of new cases which, like the present ones, present little or no threat to public health, but which like it will be used to enforce new technologies, new programmes and new regulations. This is the ‘New Normal’ we were promised, and it’s being built on a foundation of lies, damned lies and statistics.

https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2021/01/27/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics-manufacturing-the-crisis/

Age standardised mortality: 2020 is only 9th worst year since 1971 – UK Column

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 18 January 2021

Source: UK Column News, 18th January 2021

https://youtu.be/UGhr9Lv7h-g?t=1435

Tags Age-standardised Mortality Rate, Charts, COVID-19, England, Office for National Statistics, Statistics, UK, UK Column, Wales

Analysis: Why the second Covid wave is nothing like the first – The Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 18 January 2021

This means that at least 20,000 people who died from coronavirus last year would have been likely to have died from something else. The figure is likely to be higher because many more people have died from the impact of lockdown and cuts to NHS services, which will also be caught in the excess figures.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210120202342/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/18/analysis-second-wave-nothing-like-first/

Tags Age-standardised Mortality Rate, COVID-19, Dr. Yvonne Doyle, Excess Deaths, Office for National Statistics, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Public Health England, Statistics, The Telegraph

Annual deaths and mortality rates, 1838 to 2020 (provisional) – ONS

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 16 January 2021

Number of deaths, crude and age-standardised mortality rates from 1938 to 2020. Age-standardised mortality rates start in 1942.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/12735annualdeathsandmortalityrates1938to2020provisional

Tags Death Registration, Mortality Rate, Office for National Statistics, Statistics, UK

Expected life loss due to Covid-19 suppression efforts – Prof Simon Wood, University of Edinburgh

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 5 January 2021

[W]e require the current economic shock, which is much larger than 2008, to result in much smaller life loss than was associated with 2008. Otherwise we will lose more life to the economic effects of Covid-19 suppression efforts than were ever likely to have been lost to Covid-19 itself. Of course the consequences of the 2008 crisis were amplified by the policies adopted thereafter, and perhaps those consequences could have been substantially alleviated by a more enlightened approach. But the historical record from the UK does not suggest a willingness to vote for such an approach, even if any sort of credible plan for avoiding the economic life loss were actually to be proposed. The 1945 election was perhaps the exception, but it’s unclear that several months stuck at home on your sofa really leads to the same sort of cathartic re-evaluation of life’s priorities as storming the beaches of Normandy.

Source: Prof. Simon Wood, University of Edinburgh

Source: Prof. Simon Wood, University of Edinburgh

https://web.archive.org/web/20201101062720/https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~swood34/

Tags 2008 Crash, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Economy, Office for National Statistics, Professor Simon Wood, resp, Statistics, UK

UK borrowing hits highest November level on record – BBC

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 22 December 2020

The Office for National Statistics said borrowing hit £31.6bn last month, the highest November figure on record.

It was also the third-highest figure in any month since records began in 1993.

Since the beginning of the financial year, borrowing to cover the gap between spending and revenues has reached £240.9bn, £188.6bn more than a year ago.

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has estimated that the amount could reach £372.2bn by the end of the financial year in March

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55408444

Tags BBC, Borrowing, Charts, Collateral Damage, COVID-19, Economy, Office for Budget Responsibility, Office for National Statistics, UK, UK Treasury

Data showing rising cases before second lockdown quietly revised down – Telegraph

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 9 December 2020

Office for National Statistics (ONS) data – which showed soaring coronavirus cases before the second lockdown – has been quietly revised down and now suggests that cases were largely plateauing at the time, it has emerged.

Many experts have complained that the data presented by the Government ahead of the lockdown was “riddled with errors” and exaggerated the need for a second lockdown, while Greg Clark, the chairman of the Commons science and technology committee, said the belated admission of errors was “of great concern”.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201208165734/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/08/data-showing-rising-cases-second-lockdown-quietly-revised/

Tags Cases, Government, Lockdown, Misinformation, Office for National Statistics, Public Health England, Statistics, The Telegraph, UK, UK Statistics Authority, University of Cambridge

UK coronavirus infections may be ‘stabilising’ – BBC

Post author By EvidenceNotFear
Post date 6 November 2020

The increase in coronavirus infections appears to be slowing around the UK, latest data from the Office for National Statistics show.

Although the number of people with Covid continues to rise, the growth is levelling off.

In the week to 30 October, ONS says new daily infections in England stabilised at around 50,000.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54841375

Tags BBC, Cases, COVID-19, Infection, Office for National Statistics, UK