The treatment of people with cancers in my own family over the last month has driven me to look more closely at the statistics and I have to say it’s pretty revealing.
We’re being completely bombarded with terrifying headlines from mainstream media outlets (particularly the BBC), which is obviously where the majority of people get their information from.
The problem with these statistics is that they are being presented to the public without any kind of context. For example we’re given rolling stats on weekly deaths, however more people died in the third week of October last year. Also deaths in hospitals in week 42 (week ending 18th October) were below the 5 year average for week 42.
If the Government and Media are constantly going to throw round these terrifying headlines to justify restrictions, how about for balance we get to hear the economic and health repercussions on the country? For example youth unemployment is now at it’s highest in four decades and yet in the 0-59 age group (majority of people in education and working population) there were two deaths last week from COVID-19 (which is obviously tragic).
Only around 300 people under the age of 60, with no underlying health conditions have died from COVID -19, yet when I told my Manager over a Microsoft Teams video call last week, that I was going into Oxford at the weekend for a few drinks with my friends, she said ‘You’ll be risking your life if you do’…this is what the Media and Government have done to people!
This may sound frank, but how many of the people who have very sadly passed from COVID-19, would have been taken by Flu or Pneumonia? And how many of these ‘new infections’ are from Students getting the COVID alternative to ‘Freshers Flu’? Students fall into the age range of people who are at such low risk from COVID, they literally have more chance of getting hit by a bus. Yet these new infections in student cities have driven them into full lockdown (Manchester being the most obvious).
The male suicide rate has also sadly risen to it’s highest in two decades and god knows how many people will sadly die from undetected/untreated cancers.
This is why if you speak to people who only listen or watch the BBC, they are more or less completely unaware that there’s any kind of controversy in what the Government is actually doing with these restrictions.
The Great Barrington Declaration only seemed to get about 24 hours media coverage and then it was completely forgotten. However the growing call for a ‘herd immunity’ approach to COVID (advanced by Professor Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University) has led to various institutions desperately trying to quash it by throwing out a study from Imperial College London (who have consistently got things wrong using computer based models) stating that antibodies have fallen and that there is no evidence that immunity exists…however Professor Gupta pointed out that ‘Of course all antibodies fall rapidly after infection, but our immunity is stored in T cells because it’s much more efficient).
Why are we getting this highly sensationalised and selective presentation of the Science?
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