Deaths in the most recent week for which data are available were 9.3% below the five-year average in England and Wales, prompting questions of why in such a mild winter the Government is being slow to join countries like Denmark in reclassifying COVID-19, repealing pandemic laws and lifting the state of emergency.
Figures from the ONS released today show that in the week ending January 28th 2022, there were 1,269 fewer deaths registered in England and Wales compared to the five-year average, which is 9.3% lower. This figure uses data from 2016-19 and 2021 as the five-year average, missing out 2020 as a pandemic year. However, deaths in January 2021 were very high, so this skews the five-year average upwards. Nonetheless, compared with the 2015 to 2019 five-year average, deaths in England and Wales were still 2.8% below average (359 fewer deaths).
The figures also show that almost a third of Covid deaths in the most recent week did not have COVID-19 recorded as underlying cause on the death certificate. Of the 1,385 deaths involving COVID-19, 71.2% (986 deaths) had Covid recorded as the underlying cause of death (compared with 72.9% in the previous week). This means 28.8% of deaths officially counted as Covid deaths were registered as from another underlying cause.
Reflecting the low mortality, excess deaths in hospitals and care homes were running well below average, at 17.9% and 20.1% below respectively. However, deaths in private homes continue to run high, being 17.8% (557 deaths) above the five-year average. While some of this may be displacement from hospitals and care homes, with people continuing to avoid them, the full circumstances around this ongoing issue need to be properly investigated.
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Presumably if we are no longer in a state of emergency, the experimental injections for emergency authorisation only, will have to be stopped – an extremely good idea in my humble opinion, but obviously if you have your nose in the Big Pharma trough, not so welcome.
“why in such a mild winter the Government is being slow to join countries like Denmark in reclassifying COVID-19, repealing pandemic laws and lifting the state of emergency….”
Still got lots of jabs to sell to us yet. Gotta keep the Big Pharma bosses happy.
They won’t declare the emergency over because the jabs are only authorised for use in an ’emergency’
What? Declare it over and lose their abusive ’emergency’ powers. Do turkeys vote for Christmas (or for Thanksgiving for our US contributors)?
Government needs to go much further than to declare the pandemic over. It should ban all panicdemic advertising and actively discourage the use of facemasks. The public have been deliberately brainwashed and now require deprogramming. Risk is part of life. The infantilisation of the population has to stop.
As someone pointed out yesterday, the 5 year average sums are weird this year – they are using 6 years with a one year gap for 5 – 2016, 17, 18, 19, 21, so as to avoid 2020. If they used a conventional straight five years, they’d come up with more than 9.3% below, you’d have thought.
Since there never was a true pandemic, when to declare it’s end is problematic.
Here’s something interesting on theme: a government MP from Quebec is strongly calling for a change of course and says that his views are by no mean exceptional in the Liberal government caucus. After the first 2 minutes of customary condemnation of the trucker protest required to get msm coverage, he then goes on to agree with the truckers’ main demand to end the mandates.
Liberal MP Speaks out on Vaccine Mandates:
https://youtu.be/xuASydTUatI
So it may be a great sign that the “epidemic” is coming to an end.
But, make no mistake, this is just the successful completion of an important phase. The goal is 2030, and so far everything is more or less where it ought to be.
We need a lot more people waking up here, including and especially the Daily Sceptic.
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I told a seven year old that the vaccine is dangerous to some kids, especially little boys. Just in case they roll it out to 7 to 11yo. I hope he remembers our conversation.
God help us, should the government decide that not enough people are dying…
This is not over by any stretch. My eight year old nephew has just had a letter to say he’s “eligible” to be jabbed as an immucompromised child.
I despair that although his mother (my sister) is on the fence, all those around her are covid freaks so will insist on it.
He might be eligible but has he had his vitamin D status tested? I’d be doing that first way before i’d be taking him to a jabbing centre and making good any shortfall of vitamin D with some supplements [and vitamin K2 to make sure that it gets to the parts of the body it is supposed to get to].
I’ll keep everything crossed that your sister holds firm and doesn’t get him jabbed. If he is immunocompromised already I cannot see the jab doing anything other than making that situation worse for the poor wee crittur.
Thanks for the advice Milo.
Sorry for my ignorance, but what would the Vitamin D test do or achieve? I’ve not heard of anyone doing this before getting the jab.
A cynic might observe that it would assist the cashflow of someone else; Vitamin D supplements are quite cheap and easy to buy at supermarkets, now that many of us have learnt a bit more about their usefulness at this time of year. At present I’m using at least 25 µg per day, and more depending on what’s on my menu.
Many diseases are caused through lack of Vitamin D and we in the northern hemisphere lack vitamin D because we don’t get enough sun on our skin. During autumn and winter I take a variety of supplements daily including 4000 iu Vitamin D and Zinc. Since adopting this regime I haven’t had any colds or flu or Covid. As for taking the jab – no way would I injure my immune system by doing so!
Sen. Ron Johnson recently made news (or tried to make news) by hosting a panel of COVID skeptics. Several of these whistleblowers reported that the epidemeiologic data base of the U.S. military is showing a tremendous spike in non-COVID medical diagnoses in the last year or so (since vaccines were rolled out).
The spike in these medical diagnosis (reported by military doctors) mirrors the spike in adverse events seen in the VAERS system.
The panelists, including some lawyers for “whistleblower” military doctors, simply asked the Department of Defense to order doctors and health care reporters to speak freely and honestly about any spikes in cases they may have seen.
This order won’t be forthcoming of course. I wonder if anyone in the UK has pursued a similar storyline among the British military? Has there been statistically-significant increases in myriad health diagnoses among UK military personnel?
Someone at another Comment Section just posted this data, which I can’t vouch for but is in line with the excellent coverage Steve Kirsch gave to this subject. Kirsch’s data was from the entire military, I believe. This poster says this is the data from the U.S. Army only.
Still, what caused these spikes?
these are the year on year changes in illnesses reported to the US Army after vaccine mandates.
Below are summarized 2021 (+ vaccine) numbers % change relative to 2020 (- vaccine)
Total Number of Diseases & Injuries Reported By Year (Ambulatory) down 3% (this is basically a control for the data set, and contradicts the “data corruption” explanation). Total Number of Diseases & Injuries Reported By Year (Hospitalization) up 37% Total Number of Diseases of the Nervous System By Year up 968% Total Number of Malignant Neuroendocrine Tumor Reports By Year up 276% Total Number of Acute Myocardial Infarct Reports By Year up 343% Total Number of Acute Myocarditis Reports By Year up 184% Total Number of Acute Pericarditis Reports By Year up 70% Total Number of Pulmonary Embolism Reports By Year up 260% Total Number of Congenital Malformations Reports By Year up 87%… Read more »
That is truly frightening !
THE MIDDLE CLASSES ARE LOVING IT!
ScotRail’s peak services ‘won’t return to pre-Covid levels’ – BBC News
Surprise, surprise, the middle classes are not going back to work! Confirming for many that the last two years was a holiday (no commute and lots of extra free time and money to buy a new house – the soda bread baking generation). Hence what was there to question (actually more freedom in a perverse way), especially if you were in the public sector on full pay.
So the future is hybrid working for the middle classes who the working classes will service, whilst the working classes themselves can get stuffed, or vote for the ‘labour’ party. Oh dear.
Its also a potential source of the biggest money savers for the taxpayer.
All those WFH for the past 18 months are now deemed surplus to requirements & get statutory redundancy only.
soon to be called UBI
But they’re sacrificing their kids in the long run.
What date is the CoronaCircus Act (the Greatest Show In Town) due to be ‘renewed’? No doubt this will be spun out till then, at least.
It will not be renewed and ends late Marh 2022. Certain clauses may be saved to amend other legislation though
This ‘deaths in private homes still running high’ bothers me. I doubt very much that these are people who have come to the end of the line, and willingly and peacefully shuffle off their mortal coil in their own beds. More likely they have repeatedly tried to see a gp, or being frail, have asked for a gp to come and see them. (which ain’t going to happen is it? An elderly infirm friend was asked to take a photo of her varicose ulcer, despite having no means to take a picture, or e mail it on, and was spoken to as if she was being a right stupid nuisance). Otherwise I expect they have been waiting hours for an ambulance and have died before it could arrive, or else they’ve been fobbed off by 111. A friend recently waited 11 HOURS for an ambulance. It’s disgraceful. People are dying because we have virtually no non urgent medical care in large swathes of the country.
Or because they are so afraid of actually being taken into hospital (disappearing into the ‘system’ as they’d see it) and not being allowed visitors or any communication with their loved ones. How frightening that would be for an elderly person, with no mobile phone, and no support. I’m sure there are many like that who would rather die in their own bed.
A dear friend of mine, in her mid 80s, had a fall last year and after a spell in hospital was discharged to a Nursing Home. She has no family and I would love to visit her. All I know is that she is in one of three Homes but it has been impossible to find out which one. I have contacted all 3 but each one has told me they’re not allowed to divulge whether she’s with them. She must feel totally abandoned.
send mail to her at all 3, put your ‘if undelivered’ return address on the back.
Failing that phone them up claiming to be her relative demanding to find where she was sent after the hospital visit.
Go to your MP
Very true – and that is why I would refuse to go to hospital.
All of these draconian lockdowns and NPIs were marketed as being necessary to protect “public health?”
At this point, does anyone really think that “public health” is better today than it was two years ago? It’s far worse. The Law of Opposite Effects kicks in yet again.
https://rumble.com/vnbrwx-my-jaw-dropped-when-i-tested-someones-immune-system-after-the-2nd-jab..html
Tried to link this to my earlier post re trashing of immune system after mrna jabs, evidence of
The government will declare the ‘pandemic’ over when it’s most politically expedient to do so.
Just like they started and perpetuated the ‘pandemic’ according to their own arbitrary, convenient, logic.
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Does that mean that they won’t be requiring visitors to their country to show a jab-pass on entry?
I think visitors from EU/EEA/other Nordic countries won’t
Once again, this is not about health. It never has been.
Virus will still be useful to TRPTB in order to achieve control via digital ID, so they won’t give up the fear porn easily.
That’s their endgame and route to permanent power over us all – they think.
But, who knows for sure. Everyone makes mistakes including/especially those bastards. (Blair, Gates et al).
My fear is of mandatory mrna jabs. synthesized gene sequencing for any and all human ailments you could think of and for eternity – or as long as the human survives.
Of course the jabs can’t affect your DNA?
Say hello to polymerase Theta for that one lol. – quite apart from the trashing of your innate immune system to get the thing into your cells, and they haven’t a clue as to precisely how that works either.
Try to understand the immune system before you mess with it. Nature is biting back…
Discovery identifies a highly efficient human reverse transcriptase that can write RNA sequences into DNA — ScienceDaily
SARS-CoV-2 RNA reverse-transcribed and integrated into the human genome
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/
Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes and microRNAs
and…
https://www.authorea.com/users/455597/articles/552937-innate-immune-suppression-by-sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccinations-the-role-of-g-quadruplexes-exosomes-and-micrornas
Thank you for the links.
Bound to be mentioned in the MSM soon.
Do you think the expert “vaccine” developers know of this?
They had plenty of evidence from the failed SARs 1 mRNA vaccines that killed all the test animals.
They probably have “plausible deniability” about these effects on Humans, because they didn’t look for them, and their “trials” were designed not to find them.
Pandemic mania will be discussed by a range of epis and activists including Professor Sunetra Gupta, this Saturday 12/2 at Take Back Our Lives 10-6pm at a venue near Baker Street. DS readers welcome https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/2022/01/lls-presents-take-back-our-lives/
They won’t. Things will be allowed to drop away (albeit slowly) but I can’t see them ever saying ‘it’s over’.
See how the sold-out Mirror touches its cap to tyrants and prints their propaganda bulletins !
Still a big difference between what is happening in working ages and the oldest ages, bearing in mind that the oldest ages drive total death numbers.
Let’s look at the age 45-64 age group. And look at deaths per million in this age group. We can see (despite the jumble of lines) that the green line for 2022 for week 4 is running above most recent years apart from 2021.
So that is possibly connected with the continuing high home deaths, and may reflect a lack of access to healthcare or be related to the experimental vaccines. Certainly nothing to do with covid the illness.
But perhaps a lot more to do with “Covid -the Vaccines”!
It’s strange that the 5-9 age group (who haven’t been experimentally vaccinated on apart from an unlucky few) are still experiencing very low mortality and have been for some time.
But if we look at the highest age group for which we have long term data and that is banded at both ends, ages 75-84, and again look at deaths per million, we see from the green line the opposite affect. Deaths running very low here in this age group. Presumably because of an absence of ‘dry timber’ for want of a more human expression.
It’s these older age groups including the over 80s that is the reason total deaths are running below ‘average’.
I suggest that there is an impact of the vaccines in ‘excess deaths’ of something like 15 per week per million (say, just eyeballing it for now) and that this is less dependent on age.
So, for older age groups the death rate swamps that 15 per million.
But for lower age groups that 15 per million is very important.
Add to that the suggestion that ‘all the very ill people succumbed to covid during 2020, Jan 2021 and summer 2021’, then this could readily result in lower death rates in those in the oldest age groups but noticeable increased death rates in younger age groups.
Yes, agree.
That’s one of the shocking things that the experimental vaccines can do a lot of harm in the oldest age groups without it being at all apparent in the overall death numbers, because of the dry tinder affect.
And in the working age groups you don’t notice the affect on mortality at all unless you look at mortality by age band because the oldest drive the overall death numbers without banding.
Europe Reloaded reports that same phenomena in Spain
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Cascón Porres commented on the rise in unexplained deaths:
The UPM researcher noted that it made little sense that all of this data was only used to produce reports on excess mortality, but not to look for the cause.
https://www.europereloaded.com/the-high-mortality-rate-in-spain-puzzles-experts/
Deaths within 14 days of injection happening at home perhaps (ref VAERS data)
. (https://odysee.com/@alltheworldsastage:0/3+Hours-Reading-900+-COVID-Vaccine-Deaths-ALL-Day-0—Day-1-After-InjectionShot-VAERS-Reports:9)
And yet deaths amongst those aged 45-65 are 5 standard deviations (‘substantial increase’) above the normal range, and has been so since the summer. There seems to be little effect of ‘covid wave’ — it is just a relentless excess of deaths. I wonder why.
(Ignore the yellow bit in the graph — that shows a decline because the data for recent weeks hasn’t been fully processed yet)
Climate change?
Seriously though, cancelled operations and general lack of medical care that has filtered through since spring 2020?
I only know people who have been maimed or killed by the jab, I know no one personally that has had any lasting effects from the coof.
I’ve talked to many people who have a different take. They will recount stories of a relative/friend/neighbour/work colleague who is in hospital and had COVID. Yes they were old/had a heart attack or whatever but the COVID is the No1 worry. As far as these people are concerned COVID killed the person and that is set in stone. Nothing will change their minds.
Just when we thought the mental screwups of modern capitalism couldn’t get worse…the large majority are digging themselves ever deeper into mental holes – and even more so than with fashion and consumerism, with video games and mobile phone use, this is right “up close and personal”, to do with how people relate
We critical few look at this and we think how vile and how scary it is… Probably quite a few of us oscillate between being stultified and being terrified.
Others look at it and think “£$£ opportunity £$£.”
And a very very few actually created the profit-making opportunity and control the lion’s share of it – and they’ve absolutely no plans to relent. Quite the contrary.
Depends how good their security is I guess. Remember in the News last year about a death threat at the WEF….They had to cancel their conference.
If people have totally bought into the whole pandemic cobblers then it will indeed be set in stone. Their beliefs and behaviours have to be justified. .
Yes: non-existent or wrong “medical care” for problems of specific kinds.
Officially the leading cause of death for men aged 50-64 is heart disease, and for women it is bronchial, tracheal or lung cancer. Which is not to say that those statements convey very much, because the available categories and how they are organised will be determined by big business. Which doesn’t mean only Big Pharma: for example, there won’t be a Medical Certificate of Cause of Death in the entire country that mentions living next door to a nuclear power station, an electricity substation, or a cellphone mast, or sleeping next to a zuzzing fusebox, as a contributory cause of death.
The suicide figures have probably been fiddled downwards too.
And something new, whatever it is, still seems to be going on.
What is it?
Medics have long been liars – ever since they started ministering to hoi polloi – but what may have happened is that that relationship has been “stretched out”, become more extreme. The contempt and lies and craziness have intensified. But what do we expect given that for long periods beginning in March 2020 the whole attitude was “Stay away from hospitals, you dirty lergy-spreaders”?
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Could be. There are a few options — you’d have thought government would be throwing money at research to find out why, but research into ‘effects of covid’ gets all the money and research into ‘government’s response to covid’ gets crumbs.
On a related subject, do GPs get extra funding for covid/long covid patients or are they just obsessed? I went to my GP with a nasty rash on my hands and her first question was – ‘so when did you have Covid?’ – I think she was a bit disappointed when I said I haven’t had it.
it’s a vax AE symptom, so obviously Doc thinks it’s covid, like all the other AE symptoms.
Sorry posted a few seconds after you before I saw your post, about the same thing. It is relentless isn’t it.
How many intervals of what length is the standard deviation calculated over?
And how large is it, measured in deaths per 1000 in that age group?
I’m looking at the z-score of 15 for one of the weeks in January 2021. The average death rate per 1000 in the 45-65 group is probably (at a guess) around 5. I’ve no idea what the standard deviation is but presumably there is a bit of jumping around and so (again a guess) it could be say 0.4. If that is anywhere near a reasonable guess, then z=15 would give a death rate of 11, more than twice the normal figure. Were things that bad?
Certainly sustained z≃5 needs an explanation.
Freecumbria’s post has some raw numbers that should illustrate the absolute magnitude of z=5ish.
Would the ages at which people are dying be available?
I wonder if there is a rise in younger than average deaths hidden by the dead-wood having been removed?
The Governent killed off all the old people by infecting the Care Homes. And then the NHS killed off all the sick people by withdrawing all medical services for a year.
So now we are a much more healthy country. Three cheers for SAGE and the NHS!
If the government gets its Assisted Suicide bill through, and we can kill off all the people over 60, we will stay a healthy country. Plus, we won’t have to pay out any pensions. Obviously the next plan for the establishment. Of course, taxes will have to rise the support the administration….
They didn’t infect the Care Homes they used The Liverpool Care pathway to create a false wave of deaths by manipulation of a Laboratory test not fit for purpose.I bore witness and my statement is with the Met.I guess that makes me a marked man they have my personal details.There is no evidence that Covid 19 exists rebranded cold/flu but you guys all know that.
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They will only declare it over when they are ready to launch the next one – Gates and Javid are on the same page keeping the fear smouldering.
How would Johnson manage without his “Emergency Powers?
I see Esther McVey is calling out the Government ( Javid?) for allegedly secretly planning to use the sold-out MHRA to force injections on the Health Service Workers by the back-door without using the ‘mandate’ option. They will try to pass all responsibility for enforcing their Diktats down the line to companies and lower levels of Administration
They are all so devious! We can trust none of them with our lives, or our future!
Its insidiuous, the outsourcing of constraints. Its exactly what they are doing with climate change policy and just about anything else that matters. It becomes so intertwined in every day issues that its near impossible to remove. They pass some nebulous legislation containing wish lists ( like the recent ‘levelling up’ one) and then construct edicts that never go in front of MPs , get drip fed through the media, and before you know it our lives contain new rules and regulations that no-one ever discussed or voted on.
This is how they construct our totalitarian prison, boil the frog slowly, the vast majority don’t know ( or seemingly care) when their freedoms die.
It was clear as sky from the beginning it has nothing to do with health. So why would it be any different now??