We marked last month’s fifth anniversary of the imposition of lockdown on the British people by republishing some of our articles from that week. While the mainstream media were baying for stronger and longer restrictions, we were almost alone in criticising lockdown and showing that it would have catastrophic results for zero benefit. We continue to remind readers of the weeks – and the insane policies imposed on us – that followed.
WHAT’S actually killing people? That’s the question raised by the latest Office for National Statistics figures on overall deaths in England and Wales, which Rolf Norfolk reported on for TCW yesterday.
The ONS report for week 15 (4-10 April) shows that the number of deaths in care homes (warned of in TCW four weeks ago) has doubled since pre-crisis, from 2,471 in week 11 to 4,927 in week 15, but according to the death certificates only 826 of those deaths are Covid-19 related. That’s only a third (33.6 per cent) of the extra deaths in care homes. So two thirds of the week-15 spike in care-home deaths are from non-Covid-19 causes (and that’s assuming all the ‘Covid-19 deaths’ are accurately labelled by doctors and actually from and not just with the virus, on which more below).
Appalling accounts of Spanish care-home deaths were being reported from mid March. From Canada came the terrible story of a care home where the residents were abandoned by frightened carers and 31 died. In Germany and Italy there have been reports of care homes where residents are dying ‘with Covid-19’ but without any symptoms, potentially from stress or neglect..
In addition to the rise of care-home deaths, there’s been a spike in deaths at home from 2,725 pre-crisis in week 11 to 4,117 in week 15. However of these additional deaths, only 330 or 23.7 per cent were connected to Covid-19 on the death certificate, meaning more than three-quarters of the week 15 spike in deaths at home were unrelated to Covid-19 and therefore down to other reasons, raising questions about the impact of isolation policies.
When you add this to the fact that of the Covid-19 deaths in week 15 only 38 per cent (2,333 out of 6,213) were connected with pneumonia (down from 42 per cent in week 14), meaning nearly two-thirds of ‘Covid-19 deaths’ in week 15 were not reported as from pneumonia and therefore potentially with rather than from the virus, a worrying picture starts to emerge. How many are dying as a result not of the virus but of the panic, fear, social distancing and all it brings with it? Is it even more than are dying of the virus itself? There are some serious questions that need to be answered.
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