There is no need to live in a state of Covid-19 fear
How do you tell a perfect stranger that covid-19 was not the appalling killer disease we were all led to believe it was? You don't - simple as that, because world wide governments, who I have no doubt figured out the truth about covid, but for political reasons kept their populations locked in a state of terror, chose not to inform their populations of the truth behind the statistics. I understand why politicians thought in the first place that covid was potentially another 'black death'. When you have scientist advising non-scientists that we were all going to die, what choice did governments have? They didn't, they needed to protect their populations, that's fine for the first year, but what about the second year of covid? Government's continuation of unnecessary policies are not so easily explained.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has now produced an accurate number of deaths for the time period 2020 to 2021. It makes me very angry to read them. The destruction of our economy. The mental health caused. The incredibly long NHS waiting lists. The deaths caused by people not being able to see their GP's and or get treatment when they needed it. It has been said, though it can't as yet be proved, that the number of people who will from cancer because they weren't either seen early enough or they didn't the treatment they needed could reach as high as 600,000 to a million over the next five years.
This is a summery of an article posted in the Lancet in August 2020.
In summary, we estimated that changes in health-seeking behaviour and the availability of and access to essential diagnostic services resulting from national pandemic measures will result in a large number of additional deaths from breast, colorectal, lung, and oesophageal cancer in the medium (1 year) and longer term (5 years). Our study results do not consider the effect of delay on other cancer types, or the additional effect of changes in treatment pathways for these cancers that are likely to substantially increase the expected avoidable deaths beyond what we have estimated. Urgent policy interventions are necessary to mitigate the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with cancer. These interventions should focus on increasing routine diagnostic capacity through which up to 40% of patients with cancer are diagnosed, public health messaging that accurately conveys the risk of severe illness from COVID-19 versus the risks of not seeking health-care advice if patients are symptomatic, and the provision of evidence-based information for clinicians to adequately manage the risks of patients to the risk and benefits of procedures during the pandemic.
Here's the full article - it's long but deeply disturbing.
Impact of covid-19 pandemic on cancer deaths
The following is taken from the Office of National Statistics website. If you want to search the ONS website here's the link - ONS.Gov/UK
Of the 50,335 deaths that occurred in March to June 2020 involving COVID-19 in England and Wales, 45,859 (91.1%) had at least one pre-existing condition, while 4,476 (8.9%) had none. COVID-19 deaths where there was no pre-existing condition between March and June 2020 are included below, this can be found on table 5.
- No pre-existing condition: England and Wales – 4476
- No pre-existing condition: England – 4169
- No pre-existing condition: Wales – 294
COVID-19 deaths with underlying health condition
Figures for COVID-19 deaths with underlying health conditions from January to June 2020 are available on Table 5 of this publication. Main pre-existing causes are grouped using the ONS Leading Causes of Deaths list and International Classification of Disease version 10 blocks of causes.
- With pre-existing condition: England and Wales - 45,859
- With pre-existing condition: England - 43,640
- With pre-existing condition: Wales - 2156
COVID-19 deaths with no underlying health condition
Figures for COVID-19 deaths with no underlying health conditions from January to June 2020 are also available on Table 5. This means where no other underlying condition was listed on the death certificate. Here are the figures below:
- No pre-existing condition: England and Wales - 4476
- No pre-existing condition: England - 4169
- No pre-existing condition: Wales - 294
Please note, this publication has currently been paused, due to the decrease in COVID-19 deaths.
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I don't know the percentage of obesity and or whether the 28 day rule was applied to the above figures.
Our world wide population is - 7.87 billion
Deaths world wide from covid to date are 6.01 million - the Spanish flu was estimated to have killed up 60 million - that was at a time when we had just come out of the first world war and health care and medicines were not at the standard they are today. Am I the only one who thinks the 'pandemic' was overblown? Don't think so.
The Swedish government decided not to follow the crazed lockdown policies, allowing their people instead to use good old fashioned commonsense and let them get on with life.
The death rate in Sweden to-date is 17,386 - the largest number of deaths were in 80 to 90 age group.
Whist we can't undo the scientific and governmental mistakes of the past, surely it is time for them to own up to the actual death figures? And stop adding covid to a death within 28 days of contracting the disease. Time now to make the death figures of those who died not because of covid but because of their underlying health issues, known to the wider general public. I have heard or read, on social media of someone's relative being admitted to hospital for something other than covid, dying of the initial illness, but having contracted or suspected to have contracted covid in hospital, covid is then put on the death certificate. Thus technically falsifying the true death rate.
I know that there is still many people suffering from the after effects of catching covid 19, and I in no way lessen their suffering, but to keep the population in terror of covid-19, and with it all the additional health problems, such as the nations' mental health and the on going fear many still have of seeing a doctor, and of not wanting to go to hospital in case they catch covid, even though they have been vaccinated, is simply no longer justified.
A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth is very informative and well worth reading.
But why did the government deliberately frighten us, and how has this affected us as individuals and as a country? Who is involved in the decision-making that affects our lives? How are behavioural science and nudge theory being used to subliminally manipulate us? How does the media leverage fear? What are the real risks to our wellbeing?
Ahead of any official inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Laura Dodsworth explores all these questions and more, in a nuanced and thought-provoking discussion of an extraordinary year in British life and politics. With stories from members of the general public who were impacted by fear, anxiety and isolation, and revealing interviews with psychologists, politicians, scientists, lawyers, Whitehall advisers and journalists, A State of Fear calls for a more hopeful, transparent and effective democracy.
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