World War 2

Have we all gone mad, and become so afraid of the virus that we’ve lost the ability to read, to think and to question? You could argue that the fear of Covid-19 has become so all-consuming that it has become even more of a killer than the virus itself.

• The national debt: £36 billion borrowed last month [August] alone.
• The national debt: Our overall figure of more than £2 trillion is the biggest ever recorded, and will take at least two generations to pay off. Redundancy looms for millions.
• Of the 52,514 virus deaths registered by the Office for National Statistics, 89 per cent have been over-65s.
• More than 22,000 over-85s have died, as well as some 17,000 aged between 75 and 84.
• Only 314 people under the age of 40 have died of the disease since March.
• NHS England figures show that more than 95 per cent of patients who die from coronavirus in hospital have an underlying health condition, such as diabetes, heart disease or obesity.
• New report estimates that there will be a total of 74,000 deaths over the next five years due to the long-term financial and health impact of the pandemic.
• Oncologists warn of an extra 30,000 deaths from cancers currently going undiagnosed.
• Dr John Lee: COVID-19 is currently killing fewer than 40 of the 1,600 people who die every day in the UK.
• There were 2,000 extra deaths from strokes and heart attacks this summer.