The chart below shows the number of daily deaths with “COVID-19 on the death certificate” in the U.K., since March of 2020. There are, of course, various problems with this chart – as readers are well aware. But I’m showing it because it’s the chart with which members of the public will be most familiar.
I think it shows quite clearly that the pandemic was over by the summer of 2021 at the latest – thanks to a combination of natural and vaccine-induced immunity, and because many of those most susceptible to Covid had already died. (Based on the trajectory of age-adjusted excess mortality, you could make a case that the pandemic was over by the summer of 2020.)
What the chart clearly doesn’t show is that we’re still in the midst of a pandemic. Covid is now endemic and will kill a certain a number of people every year for the foreseeable future. (We can expect this number to decline over time, as more and more people acquire natural immunity when they’re young.)
The clear evidence of endemicity makes the finding of a recent YouGov poll rather alarming. On April 18th, Brits were asked, “Would you consider the coronavirus pandemic in Britain to be over or still ongoing?” Remarkably, 56% said “Still ongoing”, while only 34% said “Over”. Like Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who carried on fighting WWII long after his country had surrendered, a majority Brits simply refuse to give in.
Interestingly, the poll found no real differences by political views: Conservatives were as likely to say “Sill ongoing” as Labour voters; Leavers were as likely to say “still ongoing” as Remainers. One variable that did seem to matter was age: over 65s were much more likely to say “Still ongoing” than 18–24 years – a majority of whom said “Over”.
If we look across the pond, a recent Gallup poll found that 49% of Americans believe the pandemic is over – which is 15 percentage points more than in Britain. (Some fraction of Americans will presumably have answered “Don’t know”, so those who believe it’s not over must be in the minority.)
In the U.S., there were large differences by political views: 75% of Republicans said the pandemic is over, compared to just 28% of Democrats. And note: this can’t be put down to age; Republicans are slightly older, on average.
The gap between Britain and the U.S. is therefore largest when we consider those on the political Right. Only 36% of Conservative voters say the pandemic’s over, which is less half of the percentage of Republicans who say the same. Why are Right-wing Americans so much more likely to say the pandemic’s over?
One possibility is that they consume different media. For better or worse, many Right-wing Brits get their news primarily from the BBC – which was among the more ‘alarmist’ outlets during the pandemic. By contrast, Right-wing Americans tend to get their news from outlets like Fox and talk radio – which were much less ‘alarmist’. Three years down the line, they’re therefore more likely to have moved on.
The Government put such a lot of effort into making people scared of Covid, we now have a population that simply can’t accept reality.
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Equally half of british people are of average, or below, intelligence.
As the great George Carlin phrased it..’Imagine how stupid the average person is, then realise for them to be the average, half of everyone else has to be even more stupid.”
My faith in the levels of common sense amongst my fellow humans has been severely shaken over the last three years, but nevertheless – I do not believe the headline.
Common sense is not that common.
For the pandemic to be over it needs to have started. Yougov you’re having laugh. The gene therapy has increased the chance of infection. Excess mortality have a word with Mr Hancock he might have an answer.
Ah, you mean….
M I D A Z O L A M
“Covid” (precisely, with no added numbers) has been endemic for thousands of years. Roughly a quarter of the “common colds” fit the bill, although it has not been used traditionally. However, part of the problem now is dodgy manipulation of the terms used, either deliberately, or just on account of being a bit lax about it all.
Don’t forget that it was actually the old Common Cold Unit of Salisbury, UK, that invented the term “Coronavirus” in the first place, when it became possible to optically identify items as small as viruses, using electron microscopy. If it had been discovered elsewhere – say across the pond – it might have been given a different name.
eg. CIA19, But I thought it was originally, the curse of the wet market, or Wuhan Floo, or some such. As it turned out the biggest killer seemed to be the medical prescriptions. I think the old common cold got elevated to a virus status as those whom deem themselves to be above the pleb, cannot possibly have a common cold, perish the thought.
Now they are looking for a bat to blame for the next virus, it is the modern version of the medieval witch hunt, the hunt is on to “which” we can blame the next invented medical emergence, starting with animals beginning with “B” Failing that someone might just leave a door open in a lab near you.
“Of course it’s still ongoing. If it wasn’t, those nice people on the telly would have told me.”
Let’s be honest, if the man on the telly box told them that Putin created Covid in his secret laboratory in the basement of the Kremlin, they’d believe it.
I’d predict that 99.9% of DS readers think the pandemic is over.
Scrap that. Maybe 50% think the pandemic is over and 49.9% don’t because they don’t think there ever was a pandemic in the first place (me included).
The remaining 0.1% are the readers from GCHQ or whatever government surveillance agency is busy monitoring dissidents …
You could be right. As I’ve pointed out before, how aware of a “pandemic” would you, your family and your next door neighbour be if not for the media coverage? We would have experienced our health service being overwhelmed at some point in the winter – no difference there to the past couple of decades. We would have experienced some people dying, and coming down with nasty flu – again nothing that differentiates these past years from the past few millennia.
If there were no tests, media propaganda or NHS letters, this pandemic would effectively not have existed. It is one we had to be told to be afraid of, rather than a real pandemic… which we would have been afraid of.
Well there was no pandemic. Covid (if it exists – I think it does, others disagree, I honestly don’t care much and don’t think it matters) is certainly not over – it’s behaving exactly as predicted. What has changed is (1) variants have become even milder (2) everyone has had it and realised they are not going to die of it and (3) people have been told it’s over and/or they are protected by “vaccines”.
More than half of the people who partook in a certain YouGov poll gave a certain answer is something very much different from More than half of Brits believe in something.
Indeed. I do some of their daily surveys and I don’t believe the samples are adjusted for anything, so the “results” are entirely a function of what subset of the UK population is inclined to do YouGov surveys. Meaningless. Most people I know were covidians at the time, almost none seem worried now.
Of course!
Why would the Banksters´ Brainwashing Cartel end a good control mechanism prematurely?
The online version of my local paper, the Wakefield Express, may give an indication as to why people might still believe that Covid-19 remains an issue. As of today, their section on “Coronavirus”, which is second only in prominence to “Lastest News”, carries the lead story “13 More Covid-Related Deaths Recorded in Wakefield”. Obviously, I was drawn to this story which clearly conflicts with my own knowledge of the local situation, and saw that the article is dated 7 January 2023, the date being presented very discreetly in light grey print. Two other alarmist articles by the same author, Leanne Clarke, which appear alongside it were dated December 2022 and January 2023. Clearly, the continued regurgitation of this story is not accidental, as other stories on the newspaper’s website are updated at least weekly. The newspaper is aware that people will ingest the alarming headline without noting the dates, and the more unquestioning may even believe now that Wakefield has reported 13 Covid deaths per week since the start of the year. It’s totally irresponsible, and quite obviously deliberate, so you probably just have to ask who’s putting up the money….
I wouldn’t pay attention to what eighty percent of people think. They really aren’t set in their ways at all this isn’t some deep conviction more like the line of least resistance. You can ignore things but they won’t ignore you. You will be forced into difficult decisions in the supermarket whether you like it or not. We are led by very dim people. Any cursory glance at history shows that hyperinflation is the most de-stabilzing force in the world and it isn’t that far off. The response will not be pleasant or what you might’ve hoped for but that is the reality that has to be faced.
40%.
Remember this.
It comprises the wilfully ignorant and/or workshy and/or beneficiaries from lockdown. The same group probably voted remain and probably believe in the climate scam.
Don’t be surprised when you see the magic 40 appear again.
This is what happens to a country which indoctrinates its children, protects its taxpayer funded national broadcaster, incentivises skiving and destroys the faith of its ancestors.
Technically, can a pandemic be over in just one country? I think we’ve already seen that a disease doesn’t need to qualify as an epidemic in order to be a pandemic, so the p word seems to be of limited utility
I bet I’m not the only person not to have known personally a single person who has had covid. Yes, I’ve heard of people locally having it, but not in my (admittedly rather small!) circle of family and friends.
By contrast I know quite a lot of people who now have unusual illnesses post vaccination, and two vaccinated people who have died suddenly despite appearing healthy.
Simple answer: More than half of Brits aren’t Brits🤔
Covid never was a pandemic. It was endemic, it was a plandemic, man manipulated corona virus. There never was a pandemic. how could anyone not know at this late date covid was man manipulated corona virus. It has been written about everywhere. The sheeple believe what they want despite witnessing the reality.
“vaccine-induced immunity”? Yeah right! Is that why the gene therapy didn’t stop transmission or contraction?
…and now in glorious colour
The above chart is ten calculated natural epidemic curves with parameters selected to match the ONS’ data for ‘death where Covid-19 is mentioned’… with the actual ONS data traced along the top. It’s a series of overlapping Gompertz curves. The G2 curve corresponds to the time when the ‘Alpha’ (or Kent) variant was in the news and
G3 corresponds to news of ‘Delta’ (or Indian) variant.
The death count for Alpha and Delta are similar. The Alpha curve is lower but wider.
If an epidemiologist produces a prediction which does not fit a Gompertz curve then they’re wrong.