Deaths Trending 6% Below Average in Mid-January – Time to Accept It’s Over

Winter deaths are usually running high at this point in January, but this year is different. According to the latest figures from the ONS, released today, in the week ending January 14th there were 6.1% fewer deaths than the five-year average in England and Wales (872 fewer deaths). Note that the five-year average the ONS uses doesn’t include 2020, but 2016-19 (which has historically low mortality) and 2021.

In the previous week there were 7.8% fewer deaths than the five-year average (1,036 fewer deaths).

A reflection of the mildness of Omicron and the level of immunity in the population, this makes 2021-22 a mild flu season, and further underlines how unjustified any measures to combat coronavirus now are. The state of emergency and all laws and guidance – including the vaccine mandates – must be removed without delay so that healthy normality can be restored.

This article has been corrected for a mistake in the information about which years are included in the ONS five-year average.

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ElSabio
4 years ago

A reflection of the mildness of Omicron and the level of immunity in the population, this makes 2021-22 a mild flu season, and further underlines how unjustified any measures to combat coronavirus now are.

Talk like that will see you in the gulag….

ElSabio
4 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

The gulag….

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
4 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

That was the original promise. A year later, after hundreds of millions of jabs, no freedom, but

Pfizer macht Geld

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

And for a small number of people, Pfizer macht Spass. Until it doesn’t, of course.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

Why are your Russians writing German?

ElSabio
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Почему ты идиот?

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Recommend you read up on the activity of the liberating Red Army whilst defeating the German armed forces from late 1943 onwards – I think it is called “payback”.

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

Close to the bone.

I’m not at home so don’t have the file to hand but one of Germany’s still existing agri-chemical giants (IG Farben?) built what was supposed to be the worlds largest synthetic rubber plant parallel to one of the major work/death camps using the inmates as slave labour.
That plant didn’t produce a single kilo of synthetic rubber because what it was producing was heavy water for nuclear power.
Fortunately another of the nazis resource hungry experimental super weapons that never got anywhere.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Germany appears to have totally lost he plot and is going for the “Full Nazi! with added Attack Dogs and all the trimmings ”

Something in those old “its in genes” theories after all?

Will Gemany Australia and New Zealand form a new “Axis” World Order I wonder?

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Tbh our “health minister” even looks like Adolph.

ElSabio
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Are you talking to me?

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Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

‘Adolf’, not ‘Adolph’

“Karl Lauterbach became a household name in Germany during the pandemic by using Twitter and television appearances to urge fast implementation of novel ideas to fight the coronavirus.”

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Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Not quite as much as that aptly named Gunner bloke in Northern, Territories, Oz. He’s even got the mannerisms – but not the moustache.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Only a matter of time before the Austrians and Germans deal with ‘the unvaxxed’ taking up all those hospital beds?

(Schindler’s List – Euthanasia scene – not for the timid):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQOmcybJ-P8

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

That will be the IG Farben that produced the gas delivered in the ‘showers’ in the concentration camps (Xyklon B). The IG Farben that was the forerunner of the German pharma firm Hoechst

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

“Jabs are Liberating”!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

They don’t care about stats, graphs and truth any more… they never did- they will lock down, fine, issue vax mandates, make up stupid rules, sack people, destroy businesses, wreck families, force filthy masks, punish, divide, deprive bully and confuse so discord and in the end set the dogs on you anyway – they have almost abandoned the pretence that this is anything whatever do with a virus from Wuhan – they have covered up the CIA- Fauci -Daszak -Ferguson -Drosten – Wuhan connection anyway. This is the embryonic Globalist, Fascist, Biological Warfare, Technocratic Total Human Lockdown Tyranny – whatever you want to call it – co-ordinated by the amoral Über-rich and the Central Banks , moving forward one step at a time. The NHSS is no longer has a Universal Health Care function at its dark heart. Its bloated Managerial Class are quite happy so send their workforce to the wall for Gates and Big Pharma! Take a look at Heidelberg Germany for a glimpse of out future….unless we hold the line! Just think… we handed them our democracy on a plate when our MPs gave Johnson his all embracing ” Emergency Powers” – they will now stay in… Read more »

Paul B
4 years ago

So what you’re saying is deaths are up 2% on the week? 😉

Mayo
Mayo
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

I’m not sure why you would think that. It’s possible that it’s true but a bit unlikely.

Proveritate
4 years ago

Remember just a few months ago we were being primed for 60,000 flu deaths on top of Covid devastation, plus a virus that few had heard of (more fear porn), RSV (which most of us had when we were infants, so won’t catch again).

That never materialized, not at all.

A retired doctor I know who has spent months ‘vaccinating’ people with the Covid shots told me that the promotion of the flu vaccine last year was to get people into the clinic for their flu shot in one arm, ‘and while you’re here, let’s do the other arm with the Covid booster to save the trouble of making another appointment. There – all done!’

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago
Reply to  Proveritate

Of course there was zero safety testing to see what happens when you inject people with the covid vax at the same time as the flu vax.
The vast majority of Doctors don’t give a s##t just as long as they get their fee.

The really fun part is that the flu vaccines don’t even do any good they just cause harm.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M19-3075

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Proveritate

BOGOF

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Proveritate

You sound disappointed that Flu levels are low.

In actual fact that’s why mortality is down.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Seems like a good deal to me.

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

Deaths trending 6% below average.
Well that wasn’t the plan, the globalist will be asking some tough questions of their scientists.
Still, I’m sure they have something held back in reserve.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

It’s like when everyone at work was telling me it was a Chinese Bioweapon to destroy the West. I said, well, it’s the most useless Bioweapon in the history of Bio and Weapon. Obviously, I was met with silence. I think they still don’t get it.

WorriedCitizen
4 years ago

Covid is not the bio weapon, it’s the vax that’s the bio weapon. Apart from the devastation it has caused in the short term, possibly not part of the plan, the medium to long term damage especially to the immune system is not known. Those taken it may look forward to increased risk of cancer, autoimmune disease, heart issues and strokes. This ain’t over, not by a long shot I’m sorry to say.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

Exactly!

rayc
rayc
4 years ago

If “destroy the West” means deal a huge blow to economy, throw the countries in extreme unnecessary debt and eliminate freedoms, making people forget the very concept of democracy and prime them for implementation of future Chinese-style politics, I’d say they have very much succeeded.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

This is true. And if this is the overall picture then the Chinese effort has been with the eager support of the rulers of the West.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

My friend in Slovakia has just messaged me to say there are 130,000 Russian soldiers on the borders of Ukraine and now Ukrainians are running into Slovakia.

“Ukraine situation extremely serious, gov’t prepares for crisis but hopes for diplomatic solution”

spectator.sme.sk/c/22827714/ukraine-situation-extremely-serious-govt-prepares-for-crisis-but-hopes-for-diplomatic-solution.html

“It’s going to be the greatest conflict in Europe since WW2, possibly even greater than that.”

Star
4 years ago

Maybe stating the obvious, but while we are on geopolitics: little would please the Chinese rulers more than a major war between the West and Russia.

Arum
Arum
4 years ago

I don’t think it is a Bioweapon, but actually I think the original covid strains would be pretty good at the job – weapons don’t have to be fatal. As we’ve seen, panic, the threat of overwhelmed health and social care, economic collapse or near-collapse, the breakdown of societal norms – all managed without releasing Anthrax or Ebola. Of course Omicron is still certainly causing economic disruption but not enough to bring down society without lots of help from the most incompetent politicians – i.e. even worse than Johnson and Sunak

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

It’s not the virus….it’s the vax!

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Ummmm..how can we make EVEN more money says Pharma CEO; “I know” lets create a “New” viral syndrome – we gonna call it “Doooomsday” to make it real scary but really its just the ‘flu – just like we did with CFS/TAT and, deadeasy, lets develop the “cure” at the same time. We get some dumb fool to do the development, con the (US) taxpayer to fund it under the guise of saving humanity, and rope in a “willing” partner to do the nitty gritty final development in. case it is a bit too iffy to be done ” on our doorstep”. We get the “cure” patented, and I know lets get the Health Quango boss to share the patent rights to get it approved – lets cover our arses by getting some charitable foundation flunky to put some cash in – I know a couple of people in that field – we may have to give them a share …. Doooomsday hits , and we roll out the fix from warehouses across the globe – we the saviours of mankind, win win – just like printing greenbacks!!!!. Whats that, lab doing nitty gritty has had a leak – I… Read more »

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Trending????

2 weeks of data that diverges from 2 years of data doesn’t constitute a trend.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

If you essentially shut down healthcare for 2 years like we have done, you would expect some excess mortality resulting from that action alone. But the “good” news is that this sort of “rescue” causes everyone who was on the verge of dying to die sooner. So we can expect much lower mortality going forward.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Don’t you worry – those jab “side effects” should get the “deaths” up for you in a few weeks!

Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

Twat

RickH
4 years ago

The key question is how many are getting the message that we have recognised for 18 months?

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Some are clearly beyond help.

Some interesting figures circulating:

Gates said that a 15% reduction in World Population was desirable ( around one billion people!)

A 15 % reduction of UK population is around 10.2 million. How many are expected to succumb to the effects of the injections in the short/medium term I wonder? We have 8 years until the magic Davos target of 2030 fo the first Schwabians “Transhumans” – does that classify as “long term”?

US ‘predictions’ about the number that might die in a ‘bioweapon’ assault on the US are around 30 million

jingleballix
4 years ago

Yes – just checked the ONS figures myself – this is heartening news.

Particularly so as I was anticipating a huge wage of ADE-related illness/death.

Given that ADE is a real prospect – does this not mean that Omicron has gone?

Usually, the first 2-3 weeks of January see the highest level of all-cause mortality of the year.

peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

The ONS numbers cover up what is going on. At this time of year normally there are still many flu deaths, but omicron is still the dominant virus keeping flu minimal. Omicron is very mild so less deadly to ‘old men’ than flu. So the reduction of ‘only’ 6% may hide increases elsewhere, such as ADE-related.

Mayo
Mayo
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

ADE is not an issue at present.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Mayo

How do we know?

WorriedCitizen
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Speaking of ONS figures: total deaths from Covid rather than with in England & Wales Feb ‘ 20 to Dec ‘21= 6183.

Oh what a nasty pandemic that was, not!

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/covid19deathsandautopsiesfeb2020todec2021

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Flu hasn’t surged this year.

Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

It didn’t even exist last year apparently

Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson
4 years ago

As a clinician in Primary Care I can click on an icon to check on our local DGH figures. The webpage has since April 2020 said alert level ” acute ” and I imagine it will for years to come . The situation was ” acute ” even in the summer of 2020 when there were zero Covid in patients. I noted yesterday that the number of Covid positive patients in the DGH had halved in 3 days . A miracle had happened ! It has coincided with the start of a scheme to get the ” bed blockers ” out . You may be aware that care home places and carers are scarce due to the Covid Vaccination mandate. Many of these patients who have been in the DGH for weeks and months have been moved into temporary accommodation with a nurse in the guest house reception for urgent needs. Their PCR + test might have been 6 weeks ago and so for statistics they were a Covid patient. As to my daily work I receive daily tens of reports of pCR + Covid tests from my patient list .They get a text offering them a oxygen sats monitor… Read more »

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Peter Thompson

DGH ?

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  Peter Thompson

DGH? I think District General Hospital.

John Dee
4 years ago

I was thinking Deceptive Grooming Honour.

karenovirus
4 years ago

Thank you, made much more sense knowing that.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Peter Thompson

“Bed blockers” is an exterminationist term – it says a lot about the British “health” service that it’s in such wide use among “heroic professionals” – and it requires a bit more than a pair of scare quotes.

Chris_uk
4 years ago

The BBC Coronavirus page is still featuring a story “NHS in push to vaccinate the final four million”. A lot of people are going to have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, away from their comfort blankets.

Sforzesca
Sforzesca
4 years ago
Reply to  Chris_uk

I think they missed the 20 in front of the four.
From Clare Craig, 4 million not had 2nd jab yet (by this time virtually all will now be refuseniks), 20 million not had booster – so a fair few million from that lot.
That is in addition to the figure of 5.9 million never jabbed, from a couple of weeks ago.
Also I recently read a figure of I think 21.5 million unjabbed.

They are lying again by deliberately reporting the figure of refuseniks to be much lower.
Quick, better hurry and get your jab – don’t be the last person in the UK to have one.
Should you ever worry you might be the last – I can assure you, you won’t be.

Arum
Arum
4 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

nudge unit again. Apparently it no longer matters if politicians / public servants lie, provided it is to serve some higher cause

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

I think the un-jabbed figure is probably higher than reported . All the stats have been mere propaganda in pursuit of their agenda.

Personally, I don’t believe a single word uttered by this entire lying administration on anything – the tone is set from the top.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Chris_uk

BBC – agents of a foreign power.

No-one important
4 years ago

I’m not sure that this endless obsessing over figures about Convid will have the slightest effect on the chancers, fatheads, liars and crooks represented by the phrase “Her Majesty’s Government”.

They will continue down the road to perdition come what may, just as long as they each receive their thirty pieces of sliver for betraying their nation and its people. They really are disgusting beyond measure and the graphs and statistics are pored over earnestly by souls who are somehow convinced that all is needed is a bit of logic – but are doomed to disappointment.

when will the world wake up
when will the world wake up
4 years ago

Not a comment in response to this article but relevant to today…I just heard Dr Steve James on the Jeremy Vine show (not usual channel of choice). He gave his usual calm, rational explanation for his position. What was really noticeable though was that when he made reference to the UKHSA data and the apparent ineffectiveness of the vaccine, Jeremy Vine seemed astonished. He is so practiced at rubbishing any suggestion that vaccines are not magic, but here was someone who he could not dismiss and he didn’t know what to say. Eyes are opening everywhere.

crisisgarden
4 years ago

That is encouraging. The Emperor has no clothes; It’s quite astonishing. The ‘Omicron’ phenomenon seems to have brought the whole enterprise crashing down. We seem likely to end up in a Soviet style situation where the authorities look like deranged lunatics referring to an event that no one can see in their everyday lives. Pressure to end the state of emergency must now be brought to bear. Only then will it be over.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Ah but if we have learned (or had confirmed) anything over the last 22 months, it is that people love to have nonexistent enemies. Gives them something to blame all their failures on, and it provides a point on which they can focus all their free-floating anxiety (thanks to Matthias Desmet and his education about Mass Formation).

WorriedCitizen
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

I do wonder the true origin of Omicron. A long timeline with no apparent variant then, bam; I non-lethal variant arrives at the most opportune/non-opportune (depending which side you are on) moment.

Are we in a bio war?

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John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

I read somewhere that mice were getting the blame. I suppose that if you’re small, subject to lots of predation and (allegedly) leak urine most of the time, you’ve nothing to lose if you incubate a new virus strain before depositing it on some human’s food.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

Have you ever looked up the list of variants observed?

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

Can you explain the diagram please.

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

That’s exactly how it feels yes. I believe this is certainly a world war dressed up as a public health emergency.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

Generated in the spike protein ridden cells of the vaxxed?

Vxi7
Vxi7
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

BA2 is even more suspicious.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

A Soviet style situation where the authorities look like deranged lunatics referring to an event that no one can see in their everyday lives.

We’re already in one.

“Gender is a choice”.
“Equal opportunities”.
“Every child realising their potential”.

Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago

We all really, really hope so.

karenovirus
4 years ago

I used to listen to JV almost daily until I stopped driving almost a year ago.
He started off sort of balanced over Covid/lockdown, sometimes allowing himself a sly dig at callers pleading for sympathy because their loved one sadlydied of the Covid.

He would tease it out of them that Grandad had been 86 years old, hadn’t been upstairs for 15 years, smoked like a trooper and was already dying from dementia, COPD and leukaemia.

JV is however a master at feined shock and surprise, almost as though mocking himself. But if anyone could see through that it would be the astonishingly well grounded Dr. Steve James.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

At least Dr Steve has become the poster-boy against the government’s increasingly unconvincing pronouncements on ‘the pandemic’. The fact that he’s calm and reasoned about his views must be boiling SAGE’s collective urine.

John Dee
4 years ago

That Vine is a ‘top’ broadcaster serves to remind me why I listen to and watch so little of UK broadcasting.
It started with dropping the licence fee, since the BBC were offering nothing of interest, then spread to pretty much the rest of it. The on-demand bits were last, only because I fancied another look at some classic stuff from years ago.
It’s actually quite refreshing not to be deluged in the lazy, derivative and unthinking BS that is delivered over the airwaves nowadays.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Top & Broadcaster – a contradiction in terms?

Freecumbria
4 years ago

I was suspecting higher deaths this week because registration of deaths occurring over the New Year holidays might have been pushed into week 2.

If you look at ONS estimates for death occurrences (see attached), that takes into account things such as when bank holidays fall, you can see the strange turnaround in the last few weeks. That may correct itself in the next few weeks when estimates become more solid as most deaths by then will have been registered. But it is increasingly looking like deaths in the oldest ages (that drive overall mortality numbers) are back at ‘normal’ levels because the most vulnerable have passed in recent years.

The low overall deaths seem to be driven by low deaths in the oldest age groups. Deaths still running historically high in the 15-44 and 45-64 age groups for example. But still quite a bit lower than the equivalent weeks in 2021. Covid labelled deaths still very low, so covid the illness has nothing to do with it.

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Freecumbria
4 years ago
Reply to  Freecumbria

And if you look at my version of the ONS chart above, which differs because it is based on the occurrence estimates, you can again see the sudden strange turnaround at the very far right of the chart.

It also puts the low level of covid labelled deaths into perspective. And that’s before you adjust for the mis-labelling.

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Lucy_B
Lucy_B
4 years ago

The ONS are using a new, different five-year average for comparison with 2022 numbers. It’s the years 2016-19 plus 2021. Using the “old” five year average (2015-19), deaths in week ending 14th Jan were still 3.7% below that average.

WorriedCitizen
4 years ago
Reply to  Lucy_B

Speaking of deaths:

Number of deaths where COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate, 1 February 2020 to 31 December 2021, by sex and age group, England and Wales
total = 6183

Nasty pandemic, er, not!

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/covid19deathsandautopsiesfeb2020todec2021

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago

I was typing a reply to a comment, but it just vanished along with the comment I was replying to. What’s going on?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

Censorship.

Hardliner
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Moderator here: we have an IT glitch which is adding and removing Comments at random, including removing stuff already approved. We are working on it, thanks for your messages and patience

Ian Rons
Editor
4 years ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Yes. Bit of a software bug. Fixed now.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

Nice one! A quick response to a problem I have never seen before on this site. You can take the rest of the day off. Don’t switch off your phone, though 😉

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

Thanks to all.

ElSabio
4 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

While you’re here, sir, any chance of a back to top button? Asking for a friend.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Ian Rons

So are you restoring the deleted posts?

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Hardliner

‘IT Glitch’ …”Govt Hacker Intervention”?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Sorry – it was just my little joke.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Censorship? No, glitch.

Old Bill
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

Same thing just happened to me.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

I blame 5G. It’s the targetted pulses to blame.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Perhaps you’ve ploughed up some cables with your tractor.

rational
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

it’s a conspiracy.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

No, it’s not a conspiracy you silly sausage. Whatever will you say next? That Pfizer is a pillar of rectitude? That the so-called ‘vaccines’ have an absolute risk reduction of 95%? That cloth masks are to coronaviruses what plate armour is to a child’s plastic sword?

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago

Bad seasonal influenza will never be over.

Or have I not been keeping up?

John Dee
4 years ago

It’s Nature’s equivalent of Autumn for humans.

rational
4 years ago

flu hasn’t turned up this year…just like last year.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

If only you’d do the same.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  rational

I’m astonished at the confidence with which people make those kinds of assertions.

I’d like to see how much flu virus would turn up if it was sought out with the same zeal as SarsCov2

stewart
4 years ago

Pity the government isn’t reacting with the same speed and decisiveness to evidence that there is no unusual risk to the population as it did in March of 2020 when to the evidence that there may be an unusual risk.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I’ll reword it a little:

“Pity the government isn’t reacting with the same speed and decisiveness to evidence that there is no unusual risk to the population as it did in March of 2020 when there was evidence that … there was no unusual risk to the population.”

But like now, as ever, governments can’t run around doing nothing with all our money, so they run around doing “something” with all our money.

stewart
4 years ago

I did write “may be an unusual risk” which to be fair was as much as we knew in March.

That is regardless of how one feels about lockdowns, which as far as I’m concerned are an abomination regardless of risk or threat.

Old Bill
4 years ago

To be fair Marcus, they are doing “something” with our money – covering the country in cycle lanes and windmills in preparation for the next fake crisis.

In cinema terms, covid was just the Pathe News, the big picture is due to start any minute, hang on to your popcorn!

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

Couldn’t agree more, Old Bill.

GlassHalfFull
4 years ago

Flu is a bigger killer than Omicron and due to Virus Displacement flu has disappeared and been replaced by Omicron.

Most people now have natural immunity after exposure to Omicron.

Omicron is now endemic and if the next variant has a similar virility it will also be endemic and of no concern.

Omicron doesn’t appear to be from the same family as Delta, Alpha, Wuhan strains etc. and appears manufactured.

The worry is that the next virus may also be a manufactured virus from a bio-weapons lab and it’s deadliness will be determined by the Dr Strangeloves and the Global Elite who decide these things.

The other worry is for the billions around the world who have been jabbed and the health problems they will inevitably face caused by the jabs.

WorriedCitizen
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Couldn’t agree more. In case anyone missed it.

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rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Yup, that’s the worry. Or that they will simply use this (very plausible) scenario as a ruse for even more restrictions and perpetual vaccination plans. Either way we are fucked. Sorry.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

but all the original and strains are manufactured!

They have a moderna gene patent in them
How to BLAST your way to the truth about the origins of COVID-19

divoc origi 19
4 years ago

I think it’s obvious that this lower level of death is the result of mandatory mask wearing in supermarkets, primark, schools and on public transport. As a caring and protective society, we should roll out this public health measure everywhere, with upgraded guidelines mandating the use of N95’s, to all indoor and outdoor settings including homes, offices and while eating / drinking.

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  divoc origi 19

Would it be OK if we limited it to Primark?

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  divoc origi 19

Good one. That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while. Err…you weren’t being serious were you? Surely not?

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  divoc origi 19

You omitted ‘sleeping’. When we are at our most vulnerable (according to Hollywood).

TSull
TSull
4 years ago
Reply to  divoc origi 19

You’ve just given us a perfect example of the post hoc ergo proper hoc fallacy.

Tee Ell
4 years ago

It was over in May 2020.

For me now, it won’t be a chart that announces the end.

It’ll be truly over when I can travel abroad without pointless restrictions, when mask-wearers are being laughed at, and when not taking untested drugs becomes socially acceptable amongst the masses.

TSull
TSull
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

Truth be told, it never really started, to be “over”. The initial surge of deaths of the elderly back in early 2020 coincides very well with introduction of Midazolam in care home settings.

flyingjohn
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

It’s not really over until the Coronavirus Act is repealed, the state of emergency ended, government by diktat is over and Parliamentary Democracy is restored.

Vxi7
Vxi7
4 years ago
Reply to  Tee Ell

It will never be over. Just look at the proposal from EU. From 1st of February everyone will be responsible for their own greenpass compliance. So every country can remove the restrictions but everything will apply on an individual level… Good luck. Greenpass will go away only by riots and blood.

Username1
4 years ago

So,.we need masks, social distancing, working from home (if this work generally involves laptops and Zoom meetings), quarterly injections, digital health passports, distance learning for kids FOREVER? That 6% didn’t just happen by itself you know.

No-one important
4 years ago

All comments deleted – I hope it’s a glitch and not censorship.

crisisgarden
4 years ago

It’s a glitch – the moderator said so on another thread.

karenovirus
4 years ago

Back in late spring 2020 when the nature of Covid was yet to be revealed there was a go-to website that examined the output of the ONS, then an uncorrupted source of mountains of hitherto boring and ignored government statistics that it had been churning out week in week out for years on end.

The name Duggan rings a bell but Toby would sometimes link to it if it revealed something interesting. That site regularly produced charts, based on ONS data, which showed 2020 mortality falling within the range of normality for the previous 20 years or so (toward the high end granted) and so not unprecedentedly dangerous as was being presented by the MSM.

Ring anyone elses bells?

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Hector Drummond?

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Yep, that’s the one, thank you. It came up just a month or so ago, should have remembered.

Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

There’s a complete rundown here of all cause mortality from 1990 to 2020 inclusive, with crude and age-standardised mortality rates along with population size (England and Wales only). No, 2020 wasn’t particularly exceptional overall.

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

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

At the end of todays Roundup there is a request from the author for suggestions of papers/articles to include in future editions. I would have thought that link would be useful.

Victory Gin
4 years ago

If it is over – which no doubt it is – then isn’t it time this government now stopped descriminating against the unvaccinated?

The Dogman
The Dogman
4 years ago
Reply to  Victory Gin

I think if they did, they would have to admit that the gene jabs are not working. If they did that, then they allow people to start looking at adverse events. If they open that Pandora’s Box, then they unleash hell. Not going to happen. They will continue with the narrative that we are coming through the crisis because we have jabbed our way out of it.

Doom Slayer
4 years ago
Reply to  The Dogman

They are desperate for the boosters to be the saviour from omicron, rather then its mild as feck to everyone regardless. They cannot allow the narrative that the 4th jab is not needed to take root. I expect a rinse and repeat variant later in the year, just as the logical time to start boostering for winter approaches.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Victory Gin

Not sure about UK, but in Germany there is more than 400 million jabs already ordered. They can’t just stop. I thought they would be eventually sending all the surplus to Africa to discreetly flush them down the toilets there, but there seems to be a different plan.

TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Firstly, I am not sure the third world would take them. Secondly, if they did actually want them I doubt that the agreements with Pfizer will allow them to be given to countries that haven’t sold their soul to Pfizer.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

The Germans are now in ‘Full Nazi Mode’. – very sad to see.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Recent – last week – comment from contact in Germany:

“In Germany, the incidence numbers are currently rising sharply, due to the Omicron variant (in Great Britain, the numbers are going down again, aren’t they?) – the federal government is now advising on compulsory vaccination, as there are relatively many opponents of vaccination exists – (so that herd immunity cannot be achieved), this probably makes sense…but it divides society even more…”

So it appears there is information being disseminated in Germany that “herd immunity” is a consequence of vaccination….not sure how that will work!

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Victory Gin

It’s not over.

PoshPanic
4 years ago

Cold weather is usually the biggest killer and so far we’ve had a fairly mild winter. But try telling that to the Covidians

cornubian
4 years ago

Time to accept its all over? Other than the normal levels of respiratory disease that were reclassifed as being down to a supposed new virus called ‘covid’, together with thousands of non-respiratory disease deaths that were re-imagined as ‘covid deaths’, there is nothing to get over.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Exactly. I have been reiterating this simple message for 22 months. First, I wasn’t sure. Then after a month or two, I was.

Still no-one is listening, cornubian!

Hardliner
4 years ago

Moderator here: There is a technical glitch with Comments right now. Thanks for all the messages. We are on the case, trying to fix it

karenovirus
4 years ago

Something wrong with comments. Some come and go, not mine btw.

Total 14 comments currently listed for this article but only 4 on public display.

Reported to mods via Forum. 25/01/22 14:20hrs

oblong
4 years ago

There goes my theory about vacinne injuries bumping up death rates

steve_z
4 years ago
Reply to  oblong

its complex

1 – 150,000 died a few weeks, months, a couple of years early -we should expect to run under average for a bit
2 – lockdown deaths
3 – vaxx deaths

hard to separate them all

Arum
Arum
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

with lockdown we might expect to see lots of ill health rather than deaths – inability to get routine treatment, overconsumption of alcohol, less exercise – which could take years (even decades?) to play out

WorriedCitizen
4 years ago

“The state of emergency and all laws and guidance – including the vaccine mandates – must be removed without delay so that healthy normality can be restored.”

But it, despite all the supporting evidence, in the eyes of those that are running this shit-show in no way agree and after what that WHO twat said yesterday, have no intention of calling this nightmare off. When that is shown to be the case perhaps TDS and specifically TJ will finally come round to the abhorrent truth?

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

The only thing they need to change at this point is the excuse. Instead of “ongoing pandemic” make it “potential new pandemic”. You can keep most of the restrictions under this new false pretense, and it has the benefit that the “science” is completely unverifiable, similar to the climate apocalypse predictions.

PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago

It’s not about health though, is it?

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago

Time to accept it’s over, except for the communist troll calling himself ‘Rational’.

TSull
TSull
4 years ago

Are 77th brigade operatives Communists?

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  TSull

Yes.

The reason for this is that there’s a technical term for those who approve of communist policy: communists.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

“Time to accept it’s over”

You’ll still have to show your ‘Covid papers/Vaxx Pass’ to get out of/back into the country!

Only when that is scrapped entirely can you even start to think it’s over.

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

I was quoting the article above.