There have been 9,422 more deaths than usual registered in England and Wales from causes other than COVID-19 in the 11 weeks since April 23rd, the latest official data show. In the week ending July 8th, the most recent week for which data are available, there were 928 excess deaths above the five-year average (10% above), of which 423 were registered with COVID-19 as a contributory cause and 262 with COVID-19 as the underlying cause, leaving 666 from an underlying cause other than COVID-19.
At the Daily Sceptic, we are tracking deaths by date of occurrence and comparing them to the rollout of spring Covid vaccine boosters in England in the over-75s, as there appears to be a correlation. This week, the odd spike in deaths by date of occurrence in the middle of June got bigger (owing to a backlog of registrations) making the drop in the week ending June 24th more pronounced. Interestingly, deaths rose again in the week ending July 1st rather than continuing to fall, though the drop in deaths by date of registration suggests a sustained downward trend may appear soon. The cause of the spike in non-Covid excess deaths in mid-June is unclear (these are deaths by date of occurrence so it isn’t a registration artefact).
Here is the cumulative curve of excess non-Covid deaths by date of registration along with the cumulative total of spring boosters. The trend in excess non-Covid death registrations appears to be heading downwards now.
As noted last week, the cause of the deaths appears to be largely related to diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Cancer deaths are, perhaps surprisingly given the withdrawal of healthcare access during the pandemic, broadly at normal levels, suggesting there is something other than lack of access to healthcare going on.
The need for the Government to investigate what lies behind these nearly 10,000 additional deaths in just two and a half months remains urgent.
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I’ve added this c**t to the list
Stamping? Watch out for collapsing stadiums!
GFY.
Where the fuck do they find these arseholes…
Well put, the mind continues to be boggled.. daily , fuck it , hourly…
Good luck with that plan. Please rid us of these morons asap.
Their function is to serve as movers of the Overton window. Mainstream rejects such outlandish ideas, but less outlandish but equally stupid ideas then seem acceptable.
I wish someone would kick a football through that particular window.
If you’re the kind of cuck that took your vaccine passport to the match, this is exactly what you deserve.
How about putting your “masculinity” into real life struggles for a change instead of escaping into another season of idiotball?
Two words “YUCK FOU!”.
Another Behavioural Scientist! Wouldn’t want real science confusing the issue would we! Luckily I’m an Arsenal fan so not making any noise is the Old Normal for me!
You lot must have the right to make a noise, sing and shout , when the mood takes you. When you win the double or something. Hope you get back to the Emirates soon .
Wow. It would be funny if it wasn’t so stupid and sad.
kind of makes you think that somebody wants theses collective events stopped or neutered.
I think that is the case. I think big tech are driving this. Pushing for things to be made so ridiculous and soul destroying that people stay at home and log on. We have to resist and get out there. If they destroy these things we have to make new things on our terms
Great to see Dame Theresa has been working through her issues
Talking through them too.
I don’t know about “new norms”, but I can think of a few “new entertainments” worth going for. First off, we could try throwing Dame Wotsername, plus the other members of SAGE, Ferguson and several others, into a Roman-style arena filled with ravening wild animals. Any that survived could then undertake gladiatorial contests, and any remaining could be javelin and archery targets for the spectators.That in itself would take the onlookers’ minds off their feet, made aching by excess stamping.
I’m in danger of becoming a sports fan.
We could start with sending them to Millwall for the afternoon.
Not sure whether that’s a condign punishment, or just “cruel and unnatural”. For me, it would be the latter.
I pride myself on an extensive vocabulary Fiatlux. Good one re’ ‘condign.’ Never come across that one in my 72 years on the planet. (Zarg, as it has become).
I no longer have words for these maniacs.
Black Lives Matter are all part of the controlled system, designed to be used to Nudge, Nudge, Nudge, Nudge….us into tyranny! And…
Ministers have accepted that testing before entry is likely to be required to make concerts, festivals and sporting fixtures safe even after all restrictions are lifted on June 21st. They are debating which elements of social distancing and Covid-secure rules will need to remain in place beyond that date…
Not lifting all restrictions then!!! Here’s an idea: Nobody go to these events. Tell them to shove them where the sun don’t shine, together with their bloody surveillance, rules devices and all the rest! Don’t consent, ever!
Yep.completely agree. dame Theresa is a top nudger, according to wiki.
I suppose the days when we supposedly elected politicians to implement policies that we agree with are a distant and rapidly fading memory.
i spend my spare time and money at football and music events. I will not go if I have to show papers, or have my behaviour dictated by a nudge unit tosser.
those who run these events need to think hard about how and if they comply too.
Most people will go along and get along. The evil bastards will find a way to dial down the restrictions so that they don’t put people off, but there will always be restrictions, at least in the UK, apart from places that fly under the radar. If you want old normal you’ll need to go to the US or maybe some poor forgotten country somewhere.
Zambia?
I am fully expecting that my participation in life will be minimal until I die (decades away, hopefully) – limited to seeing close friends and family who are sceptics, and some private outdoor activities. And working from home. I don’t expect to go indoors anywhere or to any organised activity or event. Basically just the same as my life now, except that when we have people round it won’t be illegal (not that this bothers us). The best I can hope for is to find some pub or shop or cafe that is run and frequented by sceptics, but there is not much sign of that where I live – too respectable.
We moved somewhere respectable just before lockdown, and I now realise that there’s a downside to that.
I’m in similar boat – except it will be VERY difficult to see my family and friends some of whom live abroad. I’m resigned now to the kind of life you describe although it feels like a half life – missing the bits that make life worth living. I remember way last year being out for a walk and realising things were heading in a very draconian way and musing to myself about all the things I like to do and thinking “well they can’t stop me doing those”. Turns out they can stop me doing a lot of them. And where I live there are no sceptics that I know of. Even just to have contact with some of my family members I have to perform all sorts of mental gymnastics and compromises. Feels very isolated.
None of the bull shit Ministers seem to accept was ever necessary according to ministers own Gov. research.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/316200/Mass_Gatherings_evidence_Review.pdf
As a form of protest, this would by far be the most effective.
I know the arseholes have attempted to turn ‘herd immunity’ into a phrase that no longer means something we thought we understood, but the power of the herd still exists.
If no one got on a plane, booked a holiday, went to a gig, refused to enter a pub or restaurant that enforces an app check on ID and vaccine status and so on, most of this nonsense would die. If there were similar effective boycotts and ‘herd community’ action against other vested interests such as big tech and governments it would be even better and even more effective.
Some of these twats are drunk on their own power and delusions of control.
Unfortunately they are succeeding for the most part.
I recommend we stand SAGE in front of a firing squad. I’d happily pull the trigger!
It’s my turn first.
Annie get your gun!
And get the corporal at Black Adder’s firing squad, he prided himself on the quickness of his order between “AIM” and “FIRE!”
Some revolting peasants in Paris on MayDay today!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp9ci2cnPMUfDnmjEJeEUYQ
That is hilarious! All I can see happening here is people will find better ways to spend their time where they can express themselves and celebrate freely and whole new ecosystem of human interaction will open up. These puritans are both short sighted and boring and should just be ignored.
Sadly I don’t think it is hilarious. The specific proposal in this article won’t happen, but there will be watered down coronabollocks stuff more or everywhere, forever, and most people will go along with it, and those of us who will have no truck with it will have very limited lives, and yes we will have to develop a new ecosystem but it will take many years, will cause upheaval and distress to many of us, especially those in areas with few sceptics. We will be outcasts.
But we will be having a lot more fun as outcasts won’t we. Groups are coming together already – you may be able to find a local one.
Well I would rather be what I consider awake to reality than not, yes, and I would rather live my life without paranoia. But losing most of your friends and being cut off from a lot of the activities you used to enjoy is a big upheaval and will take time to get used to.
I completely agree yes. I have nothing to do with any old friends now – even ones I have known since childhood. Have made lots of new friends who I must have more in common with really.
I miss my choir massively – that is a biggie for me, but I just can’t be with people who will be talking about how wonderful their vax’s were and who will probably be muzzled up. It has ruined everything. I have been in a kind of grieving process for many months. I do understand,and wasn’t being flippant at all – it is a massive upheaveal as you say.
They ARE being ignored.
Not entirely. They serve to reinforce the lie that SOME level of restrictions is necessary/inevitable.
Agreed.
Why do they go for Football ? ID cards in the 80’s. Fences. Travel bans. European bans ….and now vaccine passports. QR entry. Trap and Trace and now no booze. F right off you loony tunes.
The real problem is that far too many people just shrug and seem to accept it’s necessary, when it’s not. Just go back and look at the attendance figures for games in the 1919/20 season post Spanish flu. And then consider why a moderate illness like Covid is demanding all this paff when Spanish flu did not.
I’d love to see them try to bring this type of bull to the Bundesliga.
None of this pantomime is remotely necessary.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/316200/Mass_Gatherings_evidence_Review.pdf
I think it was Andrew Marr that said that in between the the end of the 2nd world war and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, the socialists hoped for a new Jerusalem and the tories hoped for a new glorious Elizabethan age but the British people ig
nored them both and went shopping.
I think that the majority of the British people of 2021 will ignore the Covid zealots and party; BIG TIME.
I do not intend ‘conforming’ any more.
SNAP.
I hope you’re right. But I am doubtful on present evidence.
We had a guy delivering and fitting a new dishwasher today. Having said that he and his mate needn’t bother about masks, I was treated to a discourse on how Covid was rife around where he lived. This, when we know that the incidence is about as low as it gets.
I don’t think this is particularly atypical.
People , for whatever reason, who are enjoying restraints will stop believing government statistics when they don’t show doom and gloom. The brainwashing has been that good.
A propos of nothing, I realised what is one of the greatest inventions of all time today, the common O-ring. Without it much of our way of life would ( literally in some cases) grind to a halt.
Simple, little things can make all the difference.
Forgive my ignorance but what’s an O-ring? Sounds interesting whatever it is.
Some workmen worship their masks, others whip them off the minute you give the nod, some just don’t bother even wearing them. We’ve had various bits of maintenance work carried out throughout the last year, and a mixed bag of sceptics/zealots, from the gas engineer with whom we had a great chat, to the telephone engineer, fully napped and gloved up, who refused to come within 10ft of the house, and freaked when we said the problem was inside the house!
All the working geezer’s we have had were ,.. erm sceptics tho’ they would not use the term, one gas fire maintenance bloke was a UK Column fan and went on anti lockdown demos.
You will always get the ” well, I heard from somebody who reckons he knew this woman who had a friend whose cousin”(you get the drift).
Just ignore em.
Agreed. I went to a shop yesterday with an elderly gentleman. I wasn’t wearing a mask – he almost had a panic attack. People have been convinced by the MSM and government sponsored hysteria, especially elderly people. What has been done to people psychologically by all of this is disgraceful.
Behavioural Scientists running the country, who would have ever thought it. Trouble is once they see even a minority abiding by some of their ridiculous rules, they think of more.
Johnson has ceded control to unelected academics and his girlfriend.
It was always a game to him
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― C.S. Lewis
Reincarnated farm animals..
Gov.Uk (easily found)..
Government Response to the Science and Technology Select Committee Report on Behaviour Change.
The Government welcomes the Science and Technology Select Committee‘s report on Behaviour Change, and agrees with the vast majority of its conclusions and recommendations.
Of course they agree, because it perpetuates the Big Lie, and keeps their easy power going.
Professor Dame Theresa Marteau and her colleagues at SAGE want to destroy our culture and ways of life. The new abnormal needs to be resisted at all costs.
BLM’s vision for fans at these events sounds like a real riot!… See what i did there?
Well, Texas Rangers had their opener on April 6th with a packed 34,000 crowd attendance. They have also lifted all their restrictions (including mask wearing) since March 2nd. They have also a wide spread of the so-called British variant. You would expect a “surge” or something of the like, right? The answer is that nothing has really happened. Nothing. Britain has been the epicenter of covid misinformation and propaganda. We (by “we” i mean European countries) did lockdown only after Imperial’s false model for 500,000 deaths etc. Since then all type of scientific rubbish has emerged. Please, live your myth but not spread it out.
I don’t think it can be said that it is anybody on this website’s myth. Imperial college pseudo scientists don’t speak for me just because they happen to be based in the same country as me.
If you remember, there was the ‘bodies in the streets’ scenario after beaches got crowded last year in the UK.
I do wonder whether we react too much to sociopathic nutters like this, and similarly jump too predictably at the fakery of the virtue-signalling BLM stuff.
Remember the way of dealing with attention-seeking kids? Don’t give them attention.
I take your point.
I don’t think these proposals will gain much traction, but as I posted earlier I think they serve to reinforce the idea that some kind of restrictions and “new normal” are necessary and inevitable.
Yes, Julian – it’s a difficult balance getting the reaction right in the face of the wall of propaganda that is being generated.
And indeed, the oldest trick in the political book is to propose something totally outrageous and then back-peddle to something that is just ‘outrageous’ to get it accepted.
In my experience, the major problem is simply breaking through the blithe acceptance of any old crap that is fed to the public, and the fact that the large majority think that the members of SAGE are engaged in ‘science’. I run across gullible belief every day.
They tried to stop loud swearing on the terraces some years ago, how did that go ?
I’m completely at a loss about what BLM have to do with it and what example of theirs we might be expected to follow.
When this is all over, the one field of science that will have been damaged more than anything else is Behavioural Psychologist.
People will see it as a worthless and incredibly dangerous manipulation technique.
I think you’re right – it’s a case of scientific abuse dominating worthwhile research.
I’m sure a lot of decent social and clinical psychologists will be appalled.
I fixed the opening line..
A member of the public has suggested that Sage and the Government should all be held at the Tower and tried for treason.
“A member of SAGE has suggested that the Government should learn from the Black Lives Matter movement in how to……”
Desecrate our heritage and monuments and play the victim.
Because that’s the only thing the BLM could teach anyone.
I can imagine fans at certain clubs not going along with this. I’m a regular at one of these clubs and i’m wondering if they would try and sanction clubs whose supporters push back and sing and chant, maybe celebrate the odd goal? I can hear the tannoy blurting out warnings to crowd already !
I’ve not watched footy for a year now as I didn’t think i’d ever be allowed back in a stadium again since I was never going to take a vaccine or be swabbed like a lab rat.
The fact this commie dropped in BLM as a role model says it all really. I’m just amazed they didn’t suggest jazz hands !!!!!!
There have already been clubs sanctioned after breaches of social distancing, as I recall. Remember the televised FA cup match where they were putting messages over the tannoy for people to obey the rules? (Maybe clubs should follow the example of Marine and create some “gardens” overlooking the pitch where people could do what they want)
Forget the BLM movement. The government should learn from the massive march for freedom which took place in central London last Saturday. No social distancing, no masks, no hand sanitiser but plenty of shouting, singing, laughing, handshakes and hugs, Humanity in action.
“Forget the BLM movement.”
Or don’t necessarily ‘forget’ it – just don’t get diverted by it and get it out of proportion.
I’ve had far more success showing up the hypocrisy of the BLM movement by simply highlighting their actual beliefs than I have showing the real situation over Covid.
It’s a misdirection.
If anyone hasn’t read it , I link the english chapter pdf ( second one down) , of Bhakdi’s book ‘Corona unmasked’ . Warning for anyone of a nervous disposition or who has just been vaccinated, best not read without stiff drink.
https://www.goldegg-verlag.com/titel/corona-unmasked/
Thanks for that. Very disturbing…
A little titbit of statistics.
There were 7 recorded deaths in the UK ‘with’ covid today. Which everyone will celebrate as so very small etc etc , must be the vaccines etc.
Well its TWICE the rate of death per head of population as recorded today in INDIA! ( 80 )
Doubt you will read it expressed like that in the MSM. ‘Cases’ in India were also about half of UK rate per head of population.
Be like BLM. Smash statues. Destroy property. Act like 1980s football fans.
Does it really say that they want hugs and handshakes to be monitored by CCTV, or do I need to get my eyes tested? Or are these people totally barking mad?
Barking mad
“Right, you high fived someone outside of your bubble after that goal. Don’t try and deny it, I saw you. I must ask you to leave the stadium”.
Speaking of Barking, why was it safer to watch sport there than in Lancashire?
If the clubs go along with this, let them. Their revenues will never recover. They are already in a world of hurt – that’s why they wanted to create the Super League.
March 2020 one would not have expected people to put with so much shit for so long, but they did. Sadly I believe they will continue to do so.
14th March, 2020, a packed crowd of over 3,000 at a match in county Durham. How is it more dangerous now? Seriously?
Allegedly 14 cv deaths that Saturday. 7 announced today. Something strange happened to people in the past year, yes indeedy. The psychologists of the future will have a field day analysing all this.
Ministers have accepted that testing before entry is likely to be required to make concerts, festivals and sporting fixtures safe even after all restrictions are lifted on June 21st.
All restrictions lifted? – testing! Doesn’t sound like it to me.
So to be clear, a class of people will be denied going to the theatre, going to the match and other things besides for an indefinite period of time? And quite a lot of people in some demographics (ethnic/religious minorities?). Can they really get away with this?
Behavioural Scientists are certainly a socially challenged bunch. Most likely with restricted childhoods, parent issues, playground bullies, tittle tattles, needing a weekly therapy session.
Stamping? hilarious!
It reminds me of that Sumo wrestler who was considered a bit of a bad boy because he actually punched the air when he won a fight.
Has there been definitive evidence of ONE “super spreader” event from an outdoor sporting event? If there is, I missed it. I’d note that pro and college teams aren’t the only teams that have played sports in the past 10 months. High school teams did as well, and I know for a fact that many of the high school football games in my state were filled with at least 50 percent fans, fans who were NOT socially distancing or even wearing masks. I have heard of no local outbreak after any of these many games.
I have not watched a football match since March last year including the FA cup final and the semi-final (former CFC fan) although I did try to watch the Madrid derby but the stream was poor.
BLM is the reason I will no longer watch any of this so to see them invoked again is I feel a further showing of contempt from those who wish to control these things and by virtue us.
My contempt for football fans is also growing especially after the furore over the ‘new’ league proposals. The fuss made about that while ignoring all of the recent shit show including the above means it is best I avoid such people. Another avenue of pleasure that closed off – to quote one Basil Fawlty.
Despite my best efforts to make the best of things every week delivers a fresh horror. I am really wondering what levels I would go if I thought i could stop all this. Best left …
Silicone valley is making sure that the only smiles we can see are those on our social media pages. There will be no more socializing as we know it unless it is via facebook. And when the climate agenda comes next it will further reduce society to a bunch of pixels
Strange times we live in, when being normal is an alternative lifestyle!!!
Just a thought, what if we all make an effort to join old normal groups for regular meeetups, even if it means attending events we would not normally be interested in? Perhaps some people will go to raves for the first time, just as a point of principle? There’s got to be a backlash against all this unnatural madness.
I don’t like crowds but every time I see a film or TV scene of a heaving bar or club I think to myself I want to be there, and do that. I don’t suppose I will get the chance.
Here’s the SAGE zealot who wants to control our minds and make us all “more healthy”:
She’s only 64 in that pic and looks like she could be 84.
A case of “physician heal thyself”.
She’s one of those “nudge” fuckers; a menace to society. And at 68 she’s long past the time when she should have retired. Taken to a logical conclusion, she’s doing a younger person out of a job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Marteau
Ye gods!
Christ, I didn’t know what she looked like but, after reading this article I had a photo-fit in mind…and it fitted!
Lol!
I’m up for stamping – on Boris’s balls.
BLM is the go-to political formation for liberal technocrats and system managers hungry for vicarious street-fighting credibility. The corporate world draws from the same well – business discourse, especially around diversity in recruitment, frequently references ‘what BLM has taught us’, ‘how the death of George Floyd changed the way we think about…’ etc etc. Like the other alphabet protest groups (RTS, XR, KTB) BLM is an approved and managed form of rebellion – unlike the anti-lockdown movement, of course, which is a genuine insurgency, or at least possesses the capacity for mass insurgency.
Sorry, I don’t recall seeing a SAGE party candidate last time I voted…
Yes, it’s a coup d’etat. Big pharma’s had too much influence for years and years, only difference now is it’s more obvious.
For a foretaste of things to come, these are the conditions that audience members at the Crucible HAD TO SIGN A CONTRACT AGREEING TO, in order to attend.
https://wst.tv/checklist/
No bloody way is any event worth going to under those conditions.
Yes, a foretaste indeed. That’s one to go in the file for reference! Note the use of the NHS app!
The men (and those identifying as men) couild beat their chests if their team wins… like gorillas.
Isn’t this a bit dodgy? Soldiers are told to break step when marching over bridges for a reason.
This is nothing to do with health and actually nothing to do with “the great reset” either. It’s simply another manifestation of a deeply puritanical and joyless aspect of human nature that rears it’s head throughout history and periodically gains ascendency. We are unfortunate to be living through one such period.
Stop this nonsense, take back your freedoms. Demand they be given back. Stop sitting on your hands.
Anyone who attends any of these ‘sanitized’ events needs to ask themselves this:
If they and every other member of the crowd has tested negative what does it matter whether they shout, sing or eat and drink?
Anyone playing along with this lunacy deserves to have a very dull life, lived in black & white.
I’ve been trying to imagine going to a sanitized concert. Among the many gigs I’ve been to, I’ve seen The Killers quite a few times and trying to imagine nothing but clapping when Mr. Brightside starts up…….yeah….that’s never gonna happen.
Which part of FUCK and OFF don’t they understand?