New official data from the ONS released today add a further 730 non-Covid excess deaths in England and Wales to the total of the last five weeks, bringing the figure to 4,964. This means nearly 5,000 more people than usual have died in England and Wales in the last five weeks of causes other than COVID-19.
The total deaths in the most recent week were 10.1% above the five-year average, as depicted in the chart below. The chart shows in blue that Covid deaths account for less than half of the excess deaths this week, though note that the chart over-counts Covid deaths as it includes any death with Covid. The 4,964 figure for non-Covid excess deaths quoted above is calculated using deaths due to Covid, i.e., where Covid is recorded as the underlying cause on the death certificate.
Private homes, care homes and hospitals are all experiencing excess deaths at present: 23.4%, 6.5% and 5.3% respectively in the most recent week.
The ONS report does not comment on what might lie behind these worrying trends. The fact that it coincides with the spring vaccine booster campaign among older folk has raised worries for many, particularly in light of the ONS data showing hospitalisation rates for non-Covid reasons many times higher in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated, and the vaccine safety concerns raised by clinical practitioners who believe their vaccinated patients are at greater risk of disease and death.
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Musk showing his true colours. I and a minority of others tried to tell y’all: under Elon, Twitter will be worse, we said. Substack aren’t the first victims, and they certainly won’t be the last.
But this could be the making of Substack Notes
I bet the cold dead hand of the EU and their digital censorship legislation are behind this.
Sorry mate, twitter is better under Musk!
…I agree, it’s infinitely better, and there’s much more freedom of speech…and all my favourites and heroes have been able to return…
I suspect we will find out in the next few days what is going on..but I think GreenAcres is right..the EU’s ridiculous code on disinformation might be partly to blame…as I suppose if people leave the Twitter space with a link, Twitter might have no control over it? And they have personally threatened Musk.
I don’t think from what I’ve seen of Twitter over the last few months that Elon would do this ‘on purpose’….but at this stage being let down is the norm!
You may be right about Musk in general, and maybe about Twitter though from what I’ve seen it is better since he took over. Specifically regarding the Substack business it may well just be a commercial decision designed to attack what he sees as competition. I think it’s wrong-headed, but a different order of evil to the political machinations that Twitter previously participated in.
Yes..I’ve gone away and done a little reading and I think it’s to do with Substack Notes..which seems to be like Twitter…but for Substack. While I need to do more reading I get the idea it’s a commercial decision, as you say….
So he’s driven by money not as a champion of free speech.
…just being fair..I would think it’s a balancing act between the two. I know as a user, it’s much better..as I said so many people who were banned are back. But yes it’s a business…and I’m sure he needs to make money…..I mean he’s not Jesus, you know?…..LOL!
But he sells himself as a champion of free speech. I don’t trust his promotion of blockchain cryptocurrencies, his investments in brain implants and ambitions for an ‘X’ app. On the other hand he has said he and a cousin have been injured by the injections and I have been enjoying reading Andrew Bridgen’s twitter feeds regarding the injections.
I have tried to contact the DS but to no avail.
Question – has anyone heard about the planned alert for all smartphones on the 23rd April at 3pm? As I understand it, if you don’t respond to the ‘alert’ you will be blocked from your phone. I heard about this some weeks ago from tik-tok so I ignored it. However it was in the Daily Wail on Thursday.
Anyone got any idea if this is true or not.
I do have a UK sim card and will turn off my phone for ten minutes at 2.55.
Do you have a link to the Mail article that says this?
I understood there would be an alert which you could disable on iPhone in Settings->Notifications (scroll to bottom and disable emergency alerts). If you’re abroad you may not get these options – I first checked while abroad (i.e. not in UK) and there were different options as it obviously depends on the network not the SIM. So I don’t think you will get the alert either if not in UK.
The test is for real, although I don’t understand why we need a ‘National Alarm’ for anything, and am deeply suspicious of it. There were some comments when it was first announced about phones getting blocked, but I also saw a comment from someone at a phone company who said this isnt true and its just like a ‘confirm’ dialogue when the alarm has gone off. To be honest I can’t think of anything better to advance the revolution than 1m people suddenly unable to use their phones. Society would collapse totally. To the barricades..!
Agree, Neil. Have they, the so called powers that be, even explained what the national alarm is actually for other than alarming us nationally? Someone commented on this the other day quite astutely with the observation about it being to test levels of ‘digital presence’ for something that will be introduced later…could be ID for instance. Just a thought.
If indeed, however, it is a precursor to some foreign adventurism going drastically wrong (I mean how could it with this lot in power?), alerting us to imminent nuclear catastrophe seems a bit daft to be honest: shelter under a table, have enough food and water until, er, you run out, stick your fingers in your ears, learn Russian by speed reading, make sure you’ve got toilet paper…blahdy blahdy blah….
Anyway, I have an old ‘burner phone’ that I keep charged up that is about as smart as a kettle and I’ll transfer the SIM into that and take the battery out and see what happens. My brother feels like it could plant code into your smart phone, the one with the tie, although not sure about that. One way or another, this is not something that we asked for, it’s more of the government’s games with the national psyche. If indeed we all switched off the internet and all mobile phones, their little d*ck reset would collapse…
..yes I agree….how have we managed (well some of us older ones) to get to a grand age without emergency alerts!! Have you ever witnessed a Tsunami on the east coast..or a forest fire similar to the Amazon going up in flames?
If you live in places that flood regularly, which you’ve managed to live with your entire life, will your phone now bing at the first spots of rain?
It’s just more dumbing-down, and getting people more reliant on big-brother…more of the slow crawl towards having our lives mapped out for us….
The big story in my local paper this Friday, honestly, was to remind people not to feed the seagulls, so they don’t terrorise you while you’re eating your fish and chips!! Should we have a Seagull Alert!!?
Exactly, Gums. I don’t remember there being an alert for any weather event in my longish lifetime either. I certainly don’t appreciate the government – or what passes for one – alerting me on a regular basis about inconsequential stuff. If I were you, I’d write to my local paper and tell them that seagulls like their chips cold and they’re only there because us humans have caught all the bleedin’ fish (no disrespect to fish!) in the first place! I mean what did seagulls eat until the invention of the chip, for crying out loud?
LOL! As a ‘coasty’ I have a love/hate relationship with them.
Love the sound when I’m walking in the morning..hate the seagull crap on my car…love seeing the chicks…hate them pulling rubbish out of the bins and spreading litter and crap everywhere…!!
Mr Gum thinks they are flying rats, and would shoot ‘em all!!
I’m more of a live and let live……but apparently they do ‘attack’ visitors because people feed them, so we’ve also got a couple of signs!!
Its marvellous though if that’s all we’ve got to worry about!?
I don’t know, they can be quite scary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fJh2gIBOto
Did I detect a message about man’s harmful impact on nature in that trailer?
I have a small flock above my business premises in North Derbyshire. A few miles away, Staveley Landfill looks more like Skegness than Skegness.
Earthquakes and Tornados, and imminent nuclear war, (although why we would need to know I don’t get. I’ll just wait for the big flash and the vapourisation thanks.) . The Met office make a big thing out of their Amber and Red warnings now, don’t they. I’d rather they put the money into storm drain maintenance. I suppose its the fear that at any moment we will need Government ministers and civil servants to ride to our aid that worries me the most.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/emergency-alert-exact-date-and-time-loud-siren-to-play-out-on-phones-across-uk As I’ve recently bought an iPhone, I found my way round as described below to disable emergency calls like that.
I think they will only work on modern smartphones, and probably not if one only uses 3G, so older products may be immune.
Hi I think you may be right .I have a 7 year old Samsing thing and I have looked and can find no Emergency Alerts anywhere .Will be interesting to see if it does anything on the day !
When I got the mass text about Covid jabs I responded with a not so polite request asking them to go f*ck themselves. Unfortunately it did not accept replies.
I think any suggestion that you are compelled to respond is internet scaremongering, it simply wouldn’t be legal in the UK.
“it simply wouldn’t be legal in the UK.”
The rule of law was abandoned in the UK March 20th 2020.
The alert may be what in the IT world they call a “modal window”, that is to say there’s a box that pops up in front of the rest of the screen that needs to be tapped to close it. It wouldn’t take many generations of “Woahhh! Outrage!” posts for that to turn into “it blocks your phone”. On my phone I can disable emergency alerts, in Settings.
Morning Judy…..I did mine about a month ago..when I first put the story up I think…on my IPhone it’s simple, setting>notifications> and at the bottom is ‘emergency alerts’ extreme and severe..I just turned them both off….
Don’t know if you will see this but just done as you said – thank you
It’s taking place during the London Marathon. I’m sure that will hoover up lots of lots of useful research data for future restrictions and control.
And of course 3G is scheduled for switch off very soon.
Judy, this has been discussed over and over here on DS and pretty much forgotten as everybody should be up to date.
Yes an Emergency Alert is being triggered on St George’s Day and yes the Alert will sound until you press an acknowledgement button – until you do your ‘phone remains inoperable.
Go to ‘Settings,’ scroll through to ‘Emergency Alerts’ and switch off.
At the very least this is a test of compliance and for the sheeple another way of maintaining the fear. It might also be a census
of how many 3, 4,5, g ‘phones are in existence.
Yikes. Dr Makis’s take on a new German paper looking at how the spike protein collects in the brain;
”This paper proves that the SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19 mRNA vaccine spike protein enter the skull marrow, meninges and the brain parenchyma.
The spike protein disrupts the blood brain barrier.
The spike protein alone causes cell death in the brain, it activates complement and coagulation pathways that lead to blood clots, mini infarcts and brain bleeds, it causes inflammation, and local changes associated with neurodegeneration (dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Diseases).
I believe that neurological injury is one of the biggest categories of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine injury. These injuries are extremely common, and we have only begun to see the long term effects of spike protein accumulation in the brain.”
https://makismd.substack.com/p/spike-protein-accumulates-in-the
I have been saying since the start that some of the “vaccine” damages were designed to appear over time and I have never felt the need to change that position.
Yes entirely agree. Especially things like cancer and autoimmune issues. After all, if all the jabbed dropped dead from ’cause unknown’ just a few days or weeks post-injection, then that would look a bit too obvious even for the criminals to explain away. It’s a slow kill bioweapon with the additional ability to affect one’s fertility.
Quite agree, HP. Different strokes for different folks as it were…
Yes. The further into the future, the harder it will be to identify the cause.
It could well be that large numbers of people have been conned into pointless risks, especially on account of the mechanism described. However, the fact that there was virtually no direct personal analysis or advice with regard to it is criminal, and hard to prove. However, one of my old colleagues, who was quite keen on the jabs, had a few recent problems (well before the panic ensued) to do with “Temporary Ischeamic Attacks (TIA), and soon after the jabs he went down with a full-on stroke, and ended up being paralysed on account of it. I don’t think he believes in the logical link, though, unfortunately.
“Nike tells furious customers ‘Be kind, be inclusive’ as it responds to backlash over paying trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney to promote sports bras – as customers pledge to boycott the brand”
Their job is to produce the products their customers want, not to lecture us on how we should feel. Like Disney, and Ben and Jerry’s they have chosen the route of woke ‘educating’ their customers, and will in due course, they will go broke…
Yes..they left out the second bit….Be kind, be inclusive, by tell half of the population that a man is a better example of women hood than an actual woman….
“By telling”…..obs!!
‘From woke to broke’ – got a nice slogan-y ring to it!
From woke to broke via flat-chested bloke.
Yes, the men who might benefit from a bra are not usually sporty types.
True and by similar reason, the real value of a sports bra is to get some woman with big bangers to jump around in it and demonstrate its supreme control and support. I’m voting for that….
Criticise Nike for using a bloke to promote bras – you are the problem for not being kind and inclusive.
Aggressive threats against a female athlete wanting fairness in women’s sport – tumbleweeds
Says it all really.
The thing is that there is nothing ‘kind’ about Nike’s tactics. They do this, probably spurred on by some idiots in their marketing and sales depts with stats and diagrams, to try and be relevant and to therefore increase sales. Nike’s bottom line is about making money, like all businesses. If the trans movement somehow got utterly discredited globally, Nike would ditch any association with promoting trans faster than you could say ‘gender reassignment’. Asking people to ‘be kind’ is their way of gaslighting what is a heinous, crafty move, making out that the glaringly obvious slight on women is OK. I never buy any of that cr*p anyway, and never will, but I truly hope they get a hard lesson in economics and maybe fire their marketeers. Maybe go bust too…
Yes…just the same justification for ‘don’t kill granny’…or “look into their eyes”…or any number of things we are told we are being selfish about.…. ….all out of the same psy-ops handbook….
‘Be kind, be inclusive’ and all that other woke crap, but don’t have honest to goodness, post-pubertal chromosome-based breasts that might actually need proper support. Just goes to show how useless their product is.
BTW – Anyone else notice how similar that sports bra design is to the breast binders Mermaids have been giving out?…….
I’m not sure how many women an advert of a guy wearing a sports bra whilst pretending to be female would appeal to, but it sure as hell doesn’t appeal to me. On the contrary, I find it completely off-putting and I’d avoid the brand at all costs as a consequence! As Jessica Rose says in her substack I shared yesterday, this is an example of the trans movement being shoved down our throats, in our faces, plus it has the added ‘bonus’ of continuing to cancel women. Totally disgusting and I hope it hits Nike where it hurts, in their profits, as a result. Their advertising dept has really misjudged this one.
It could be to deliberately generate controversy on the basis that ‘there is no such thing as bad publicity’. It reminds of the old Benetton adverts.
“75 years on, the WHO has forgotten its roots”
Along with, the CDC ,WWF, NHS,BMJ,LANCET,BBC and many, many more!
All are now (as well as all western governments) under the overwhelming influential umbrella of WEF! the self created, unelected world government.
https://youtu.be/vWkepoLUZfs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11949659/Nike-tells-furious-customers-kind-inclusive-Dylan-Mulvaney-backlash.html
Marvellous news.
Gillette lost absolutely millions after having a go at men in its shaving campaign and I doubt it has recovered as the products are now Poundshop staples. I do hope Nike suffer similarly.
I refuse to buy Gillette products and have no intention of changing that position. I am also wholly immune to advertising and nowadays find the off button in regular use on the odd occasion that TV or radio are switched on.
Same here, HP. I have been wondering lately about the point of advertising since I never pay any attention to it whatsoever, especially on things like Youtube where it just interrupts interesting content. In my old diesel banger, the only radio station that plays is Classic FM which I listen to occasionally, usually when I’m tired of listening to the few CDs I have in the car, and the minute the ads come on, it’s turned off. Same with the hourly news. Don’t have a TV or radio in the home. It’s actually an assault, a sort of psyop on the senses, a continuous feed of propaganda that is based mainly on lies. Anyone who believes that mixed race families (which I have absolutely nothing against) now represent the norm, according to the advertisers, is living in a fantasy world. Anyone who believes that the cr*p on offer makes people happier and more fulfilled the same. Anyway, b*ll*cks to Nike, Gillette et al. I wonder if there could be a case for having an opt-out option when one watches a YT video that one doesn’t have to pay for. I must think more on this because it could be a basis for some sort of court case…
Every year we buy my son some Nike kit for Christmas.
Never again. They now join the boycott list with Sainsburys (lgbt promotion), John Lewis (degendering kids) and many others.
Vote with your wallets folks.
Drop in and ask to see the manager of your local store to explain why next time you’re passing.
Action, action, action.
Always good when it appears in the Daily Papers…
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1756038/vaccine-booster-covid-health-government-steve-barclay
Covid vaccine booster now does more harm than good, says Prof ANGUS DALGLEISH…
worth a read and finishes with….
”Whatever the reason, there is no justification for pursuing messenger RNA based vaccines, particularly when the recent Moderna trial showed that a messenger RNA flu vaccine was not only no better than any other available vaccine but also had far worse side effects.
That alone should be the death knell for this technology for infectious diseases.”
The disparagers have got a problem with Professor Dalgleish. One will call him an anti-vaxxer while the next will claim he attacks the mRNA ‘vaccines’ in order to promote the vaccines he has been working on.
Mel, V Injury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSf7q8tkslQ by John Campbell – about 38 minutes. The victim is in Sydney, AU.