Scotland has recorded its lowest March death rate since 2014. The rate was also among the lowest in 50 years, but the country’s National Clinical Director insists it is too soon to lift lockdown. The Times has the story.
Deaths in March were among the lowest in the past 50 years due to a dramatic decline in Covid and other illnesses linked to old age.
There were 5,529 deaths between March 1st and April 4th – the lowest for this period since 2014 and among the lowest in five decades.
Last week alone there were 969 deaths from all causes – 149 below the five-year average and the lowest number of deaths of any month since the last week of September 2020.
There were 38 deaths linked to Covid last week – including 27 where the virus was the underlying cause – the lowest since October 5th. …
A total of 9,997 deaths have been linked to Covid since the pandemic hit Scotland in March 2020.
There have been 2,784 deaths directly attributed to coronavirus in 2021 but a huge drop in other illnesses that primarily affect the elderly – particularly other respiratory illnesses such as flu which are 1,123 below average.
There have been 148 fewer cancer deaths, 348 fewer deaths linked to Alzheimer’s and dementia and 183 fewer deaths linked to heart disease and stroke.
Despite this positive news on the country’s falling death rate, Scotland’s National Clinical Director said it is still too soon to unlock.
It is fantastic and testament to the work of 5.5 million people as well as the health and social care service.
Is it still worth doing what we are doing now? I would say yes – but we are opening so we are now taking into account the other harms as we have done the whole way through.
That balance is now tipping to opening the economy to allow people to have more of a social life, whereas before the balance was tipped the other way.
Soon we will no longer be able to call it lockdown anymore. Can you call it lockdown now that the barbers are open and you don’t have to stay at home quite so much? Maybe – but on April 26th I think you can probably stop calling it lockdown because non-essential retail, hospitality, schools, universities and colleges are open.
The health advisers, the chief economist, the chief social policy researcher have tried to strike a balance over the past 14 months – and you can judge whether we have got that balance right or wrong.
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One small mercy here in England is that the fine old art of taking the piss hasn’t completely died out yet. It’s the only thing we have left. Orwell remarked in the 1940s that jackbooted fascism would never take hold in England because people would just laugh at it. I think that still holds true.
But Starmer and his cadre are certainly giving it a go
80%of British people queued up to be jabbed. WHO was taking the pee out of who?
Okay, let’s just use “kraut” and leave it at that. I’m happy being called a “rosbif” by the French.
Same problem. Germans must not claim that they have an existence decoupled from administrative acts of the FRG authorities as this would imply that people who are not German also exist and while many of these people who are not German would very much insist that they’re not German, Germans themselves mustn’t claim this.
The Germans have no access to alternative media and are totally propagandised and have been for at least 40 years.
Finally the young have realised they have no chance and are looking to AFD to change their world and their dopey parents and grandparents are just following ze orders.
Japan and Germany can you imagine what they could’ve been. Even the cleverest countries have succumbed to dumbing down in the last few decades. What is this malign force exactly it has so many in its grasp.
Control the words and you control the mind.
I had no idea Germany had ritualised brainwashing.
The German language lends itself particularly to this type of thought control. It really helped a certain Austrian.
Come off it. Don’t you know their history (hint: 1930 – 1945).
That would be 1933 and around that time, fascist regimes existed (probably not an exhaustive list) at least in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Spain, making this a pretty normal phenomenon. But only small subset of these had so-called “antifascist laws” by them Anglo-Russo-Americo-Saxons force installed onto them of which events like the one described in the article are a direct consequence.
That’s your system and not ours.
Liberal Fascism was alive and well under Roosevelt and Wilson before him.
German industry is interesting. Excellence in a few particular fields without any venture into other fields that you might expect from an industrial power. This is not an accident and it is key to understanding the situation. They gained a lot from being the Yank’s well- fed donkey. Now they get a taste of what their masters really thought of them. Blow up your pipelines, make you miserable, cold and unemployed. With the Anglo-Americans it isn’t a matter of if they will betray you it is always a matter of when.
It’s quite astonishing.
No doubt that good old Uncle Sam shafted Germany – and the EU – by blowing up Nordstream.
So we all buy ultra expensive LPG from – guess who?
That said the EU and us, buy Russian Gas/oil from, er India, – but that ‘s OK.
What a fucking world
Another word the ‘lefties’ frequently use is Deutschtürke to denote someone with a German passport who wouldn’t ever dream of denouncing his roots of being ethnically Turkish¹. In the past, I’ve asked if, provided that German-Turks (Deutschtürken) exist, there are perhaps also German-Germans (Deutschdeutsche) and Turk-Turks (Türktürken) but never got a reply.
The reality is – of course – that the German ruling caste passionately hates Germans and would love nothing better than to wipe them off the face of the earth as this would be the ultimate proof that they’re really not Germans, that is, Nazis, themselves. And that’s despite the German basic law still refers to the ius sanguinis codified during the German empire and that attempts to define ethnic Germans out of existence only started when Gerhard Schröder became chancellor for the first time (1998).
¹ At least a very large minority of these people actually wouldn’t ever dream of referring to themselves as German. They’re using the Turkish word for German, alman, to peioratively denote Germans as something entirely different from their much more worthy community.