Day: 11 December 2020

by Guy de la Bédoyère Dr Mike Yeadon’s fascinating ariticle on the Pseudo Epidemic got me thinking. The Government likes to highlight how bad this year has been by citing only the five-year average of deaths by comparing one week with its counterpart over previous years. So, I decided to play the same game but by looking back over eleven years. What the Government also doesn’t appear to do is consider the fact that the population is rising annually in the UK. I therefore divided the population for each year 2010–2019 into 67 million (which is approximately what it will be at the end of this year) to provide me with a factor I could use to multiply the death figures for a given week in England and Wales (Week 48, this year ending November 27th for which the ONS has supplied a figure for registered deaths of 12,456) to get a truer picture of the impact of Covid. The death figures on the left and the annual amount of the England and Wales population are taken from the ONS. YearDeaths for Week 48 (England and Wales)Population of England and Wales (millions)Weighted deaths for Week 48 (based on a continuous 2020 England and Wales population of 59.7 million)20109,22055.69,89920119,20356.19,79320129,39456.69,90820139,63657.010,09220149,92857.410,32520159,82257.910,127201610,43958.410,671201710,53858.710,717201810,03359.110,134201910,95859.411,0132020 (theoretical non-Covid)*11,13159.7 (estimated)11,1452020 (actual)12,45659.7 (estimated)12,456 (3,040 CV, 9,416 remainder) *Had there been ...

London's Pseudo-epidemic Kathy Gyngell has written a cracking piece in Conservative Woman responding to the threat of Tier 3 restrictions for London (a decision on which is expected next Wednesday, though it is being trailed as inevitable) on the basis that an "expert", Professor John Ashton, said they were needed. The growing body of evidence on the shortcomings of the super-labs set up to process hundreds of thousands of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests every day must have passed him by. Even the BBC was forced to report 'Hundreds get wrong results due to Covid test error’ in the week preceding this latest round of Covid scaremongering.That report is but the tip of the PCR iceberg. A week ago, research published in Clinical Chemistry confirmed what Dr Mike Yeadon believes, that laboratory contamination is a major cause of false positive COVID-19 tests. Yet once again it is not wise scientists like Yeadon the government heeds but fanatics like Ashton.You have only to stop and consider the number of people who’ve been told to self-isolate unnecessarily, to stay off work, avoid any human contact,  who’ve been taken away from their front line duties; you have only to consider the number of  hospital patients unnecessarily and dangerously placed on a COVID-19 ward (where they really run a risk of catching it) to marvel at the insouciance with which these ‘experts’ call for more closing down of society and the economy. ...

by Millicent and Nigel Since winning the ‘Save the NHS’ scratch card lottery last year Nigel and I made a firm decision to adhere to the principles of Health & Safety that have underpinned our life to date. Our journey to the Maldives began with sufficient Covid safe measures in place. Heathrow was a Covid friendly delight with strict social distancing and mask wearing enforced. We were comforted by our airline mandating full face visors over our masks, alongside gloves for all passengers. Prior to boarding all passengers temperature was taken causing me a great deal of anxiety being in the midst of menopause. Mercifully I passed and was relieved to see all stewards sensibly dressed in outfits suitable for a modern operating theatre. However I did nearly withdraw my carbon offset payment when I noticed a fellow passenger removing his visor mid flight. He may have been inside his own cubicle in business class, but Nigel and I felt it reckless in the midst of a global pandemic. Imagine however our horror on arrival at our resort when the hoteliers suggested we had no need for footwear… do they not understand that the killer virus can spread from surfaces? Why should our feet be exempt? Not to mention the verruca risk. No thank you. Nigel and I have kept ...