The Office for National Statistics has finally admitted that Britain is experiencing an ongoing excess deaths crisis in an article in the Lancet, coauthored with researchers from Imperial College London, the Department of Health and others. Disappointingly, however, the article is not an in-depth analysis of the causes of the deaths but just a one-page comment piece summarising the top-line stats and waving hands at what might be behind them. The authors call for “timely and granular analyses” to “describe such trends and so to inform prevention and disease management effort”. Which is odd, because that’s exactly what we’ve been asking them for for over two years now. After all, they’re the organisations with the data and resources to do it.
The article notes that there have been hundreds of excess deaths among young and middle-aged people every month in 2023 and suggests that the blame lies largely with the failing NHS. Other experts quoted by the Mail in its coverage of the piece point the finger at lifestyle factors including obesity and alcohol.
So now we’ve seen blamed: an ageing population (even though dementia deaths are running low), the after-effects of the virus (a possible contributor), an alleged drop in statin prescriptions during the pandemic (not borne out in the stats), healthcare waiting times (which don’t explain why it’s so busy in the first place) and now people themselves being blamed for eating and drinking too much. But there’s one thing everyone is absolutely sure can’t be responsible, and that’s the rushed, experimental genetic vaccines taken multiple times by anyone at risk of ending up in hospital with a respiratory virus (and almost everyone else too) – jabs that clinical trials and subsequent studies found to be associated with unusually high numbers of serious adverse effects. No, it can’t possibly be that.
From the Mail.
Hundreds more middle-aged Brits are dying every month than expected, with experts blaming unhealthy lifestyles and the NHS crisis for the surge in excess deaths.
An extra 28,000 deaths, or more than 1,000 a week, were logged across the U.K. in the first six months of the year, according to fresh analysis of official figures.
The spike in mortality is especially stark among people aged 50 to 64, with 15% more dying than usual.
Most of these deaths were caused by largely preventable illnesses, including heart disease, liver damage and diabetes.
Experts pointed to Britain’s ever-expanding waistline and alcohol intake, as well as the beleaguered health service for failing to treat patients fast enough.
Data from the Office for National Statistics show 353,047 fatalities were recorded between January and June this year.
This is 28,024, or 8.6%, more than the 325,023 expected over that period.
Excess deaths, sometimes known as extra deaths, are the number of deaths that are above the average for the same period in previous years.
Separate data from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) show that, in the year to June, 15% more 50 to 64-year-olds died than expected.
There were 64,268 deaths among the group, compared to the 55,861 expected — meaning there were an extra 8,407 fatalities in a year, or around 700 per month.
An analysis of the data, published in the Lancet, also noted that more people are dying at homes rather than hospitals.
During the pandemic, excess deaths were focused among older adults.
But there is now a pattern of “persisting excess deaths which are most prominent in relative terms in middle-aged and younger adults”, the authors wrote.
“Timely and granular analyses are needed to describe such trends and so to inform prevention and disease management efforts,” they added. …
The report noted that cardiovascular disease was one of the leading causes of excess deaths, while liver disease, acute respiratory infections and diabetes were also fuelling the trend.
Anti-vaxxers have claimed excess deaths are down to Covid jabs but scientists insist that the injections, which have saved tens of millions of lives globally, are not to blame.
Writing in the Times, Professor Yvonne Doyle, former Medical Director of the now-defunct Public Health England (PHE), blamed “an underlying pandemic of ill health”.
She said the spike was driven by heart disease, diabetes and cirrhosis — all of which are highly preventable and driven by lifestyle choices, such as an unhealthy diet and drinking too much alcohol.
“Unless access to preventive and early treatment improves, these causes of death will continue, and be joined by cancer,” Professor Doyle warned.
She noted that the U.K. is faring worse that many other wealthy countries in the fight against poor health and criticised the Covid inquiry for focusing “solely on tactical decision-making by political leaders”.
Worth reading in full.
Meanwhile, Steve Kirsch reports on his email exchange with the ONS’s Sarah Caul (one of the Lancet article coauthors) where she explains where the mortality data can be obtained and he asks for her help in obtaining and analysing them (no reply as yet).
Separately, Professors Norman Fenton and Martin Neil explain on their website what data are needed to answer the vaccine question definitively, responding to a request put to them by David Davis MP at the Parliamentary meeting on vaccines on December 4th. (Read Dr. Pierre Kory’s account of that meeting here.)
Will either Steve or Norman now, finally, get the data they are requesting from the ONS?
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“Tenor voices should be discouraged from rehearsal”.
Yes, and sports fans should stamp and clap instead of shouting. And a whole year miss school because of an (inaccurate test result).
Can’t these idiots just concentrate on people who are actually ill (especially as lockdowns kill)?
And how can one find the London demo tomorrow without smart phones, Telegram etc.?
Sounds like there’s plenty of things to demonstrate about anyway!
The latest Welsh idiocy from Stalin Dungford was based on a spoof.
No matter. Now watch all the Welsh male voice choirs expel their tenors.
They’ll do fine without them, of course.
Taffy was a Welshman. Taffy was a cretin.
look at the whiterose.uk probably already after 8pm this evening. if not tomorrow morning after 10am
Meet at Hyde Park, Speaker’s Corner tomorrow 26/6
Nelson has played a big part in the disaster we are undergoing. He and his publication have been far too gullible to the government and “expert” official line on the whole panic, from the beginning. Granted he has asked some questions and occasionally pointed out some inconvenient truths for the official line, but that’s simply not good enough when faced with this kind of hysterical, dishonest nonsense.
And now he’s complaining about the consequences of the hysteria he failed to properly resist. And he’ll still go along with the basic lie that the government have not been criminally, culpably negligent (at best), and pretend that the whole of the expenditure on the covid panic, and the harms caused by it, has been wasted, and worse than wasted, and that the vaccination campaigns he loves are at best useless, politically and socially harmful, wastes of resources, and at worst potentially huge sources of additional harm..
It’s true that Nelson and the Spectator have been among the best mainstream media outlets on covid. But that is not inconsistent with what I wrote above.
For an epochal disaster like the 202-21 covid panic to occur, you need wholesale failure of all your institutions, and the parts that failed least, still failed.
Cricket news from the Pakistan Super League:
‘Peshawar Zalmi’s Haider Ali and Umaid Asif have been suspended from Thursday’s PSL final against the Multan Sultans in Abu Dhabi after the duo admitted to charges of violating the tournament’s health and safety protocols by meeting people from outside their biosecure bubbles. They also failed to maintain the prescribed social distancing.
‘A release from the PCB said the
incident occurred on Wednesday and the decision to withdraw the two players was taken on the morning of the final by the tournament’s Covid-19 management panel comprising Barrister Salman Naseer (PCB, chief operating officer) and Babar Hamid (director – commercial, and PSL head).
‘”The two cricketers were found not to
have interacted with any other squad members at any time after the incident and have been placed in room isolation,” the release said.’
Fit, healthy young people are having their mental health trashed, and their very short careers ruined, by committees of pompous old fools, who are revelling in their power to ban and cancel, and whose only other concern is to ensure they don’t lose out on the lucre they reap from the TV deals.
I have just read and commented on last night’s really frightening article on vaccine induced deaths v lives saved
This was the comment:
How about comparing the ages of those that died with the likely ages of those lives that have been saved?
I expect that the former would be considerably lower than the latter.
Take account of the QALY aspect and the under reporting of vaccine deaths and the results are horrendous.
Have just looked through the other comments. There is one that is an analysis from B F Finlayson that is well worth reading.
These idiots never seem to understand that their biased and politically partisan ‘fact-checks’ usually end up being confirmation of the thing being alleged more than anything
Clearly they’re getting nervous in Davos! The light was beginning to while on their evil intent so theyve gambled by instructing the Ministry of Truth to publish this article hoping (probably with justification), that the sheeple will swallow it whole without questioning. Meybe we can hope that the odd one or two see through it.
The impression I get is that they are extremely disappointed that they haven’t yet been able to break the will of the public, which was the precise purpose of the hugely exaggerated response to what is a pretty unexceptional pathogen. I’m sure that they expected that a few months of this nonsense would have allowed them to establish their wider “progressive” agenda by now, so the hardening resistance is causing them real problems. All they’ve actually achieved is to bankrupt the western world and ruin the lives of millions of younger people.
Correct,
The BBC output is an affront to thinking peoples’ intelligence .
“Vague set of proposals from the wef “ , you really can’t make this stuff up.
BBC 1938 The German Chancellors Adolph’s vague set of proposals for a dieting facility in Poland for German minorities.
All we need now is for Boris to be pictured waving a piece of paper!
Toby doesn’t believe in it, and still thinks it’s a fringe lobby group, rather than as one of THE events that are held every year, i.e. the World Economic Forum, attended by heads of multinational businesses, world leaders and influencers, multi-millionaires, etc, the people that run the world.
Toby should have been paying more attention to this. The mantra that so many countries’ leaders have been spouting, “Build Back Better” came from the WEF. It’s on a par with Carbon Zero, or One World Order. These little slogans mean something, and they’re going to affect all of us, whether Toby believes it or not.
Here’s a new terror, from the Singapore article:
Covid-19 will be managed like other endemic diseases such as the common flu and hand, foot and mouth disease
My bold.
On second thoughts, it isn’t so surprising. Foot and mouth is a scourge of cloven-footed animals, which naturally affects sheeples, the only dumb beast with hands.
Hand, foot and mouth disease is a self-limiting childhood viral disease, nothing to do with foot and mouth disease, the animal disease. Also nothing to do with foot-in-mouth disease, which continues to rage unabated in the Cabinet.
Oh, I see. Thanks.
Is this disease confined to the tropics?
nope , very common in kids in winter months in the UK ,
Yep, looked after a few with it.
Is it? In which case I stand corrected. Our kids grew up abroad so no experience.
Absolutely. Pretty common in the middle and far east. Lived in both. Virtually unknown in the UK.
“Matt Hancock, 42, is allegedly having an affair with lobbyist Gina Coladangelo”
“The Health Secretary, 42, has been caught on camera in a passionate clinch with millionaire lobbyist Gina Coladangelo, who was brought in as a taxpayer-funded advisor in March. […] [Gina’s] husband Oliver Tress is the founder of clothing shop Oliver Bonas.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9723683/Health-Secretary-Matt-Hancock-having-affair-closest-aide-according-reports.html
Hands, Face, Matt’s Space, No Distancing, Cameras, Action…
What could a millionairess find attractive in a d!ckhe@d like Hancock? It sees like she would have to be a politically motivated eugenicist.
‘Hands, Face, Space, Anal’
Amazing, I wish him untold pain and suffering. If he’s in West Suffolk tomorrow it might be time to warm up some rotten veg.
Sharpened 50p coins
But passionate clinches and going to see a dying relative are ‘not allowed’ are they?
I think we owe a vote of thanks to Mr. Hancock for showing us all how to “bubble up” and what is permitted when doing so.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a taxpayer-funded floozy on hand, with whom to practise, but then again, I’m not an MP, a barefaced hypocrite, or a Secretary of State.
At least things move on. We’ve gone from Cameron and “Hug a Hoodie” to “Hug a Hypocrite” via “Hug a Harlot”.
More correctly, the government website identified Ms Coladangelo as a “Non-Executive Director of the Department of Health and Social Care”, which would seem to imply that she’s more than just a “taxpayer-funded advisor”. It’s a bit of a coincidence that a university chum of Hancock should find herself employed in such a role, but I’m sure the Cabinet Office will be able to reassure us that the recruitment process was open, thorough, and above board.
No doubt Hancock thinks he is ‘important’ and as such, the rules don’t apply to him.
What greatly upsets me is that there are two women who think this slug is worth cosying up to. Totally vomit inducing. Pass the bucket…
Money and power?
Guido have this footage of him being interviewed on Sky News…
Fingers crossed in most probably very vain hope that he goes…..
WATCH: Hancock Said Covid Rule-Breaking Affairs Should Result in Resignation – Guido Fawkes (order-order.com)
Amazing
Starting to think this could be a bit of a set up for him to get out quick for some reason… Damage limitation and all that? But I’m hoping he’s actually been caught with his hand on the cookie jar.
Fraser is another one suffering from wilful covid blindness,
The only one of these tory toff boys who’s on the right track and prepared to say so is Dellingpole.
The rest are just guarding their positions and hoping it all turns out Ok in the end.
ITEM: “It is just like old times down in Sydney according to the Daily Mail Australia as citizens rush to buy toilet roll and supermarkets reintroduce purchasing limits”
Well, the bog-roll buyers guessed right – New South Wales has just gone into ‘targeted’ lockdown for at least a week with more than 1 million people who live or work in four Bondi-based, eastern suburbs local council areas, including Sydney’s CBD, under house arrest and all ‘non-essential’ businesses closed down for at least a week.
Justifying the lockdown, the state ‘Liberal’ premier, Gladys Berejiklian, spoke ominously of a ‘clear and present danger’ because of a ‘cluster’ that has grown to 65 ‘cases’ after a (‘fully vaccinated”, note) international flight crew passed on the virus to a limousine driver.
‘Clear and present danger’ refers (in old US law) to the threats that justify placing freedoms of speech or assembly on hold and which became a Hollywood trope for confronting bad guys (from drug lords to communists). The concept was always a crock, an excuse to infringe civil liberties, and its latest NSW iteration is cut from the same cloth with the hyped-to-billy-o ‘ultra-infectious Delta COVID-19 variant’ putting precisely none of its 65 ‘cases’ in the grave, in a hospital or in their sick bed at home.
The only ‘danger’ posed is to the political prospects of the state government which is fully signed up to ‘Zero Covid’ and fears the electoral consequences of being blamed for letting the virus ‘escape’ into a heavily-propagandised and terrified population.
Berejiklian, by the way, is praised by some (including the Speccie, centre-right ginger group) as a lockdown ‘moderate’ for her ‘targeted’ rather than blanket lockdown strategy (this makes it three ‘lockdown-lite’ episodes now from her). The left are even worse, however, criticising her for not locking down harder, longer and wider and for not ramping up ‘vaccination’.
Oh, the delights of ‘Zero Covid’!
Australia and New Zealand may as well be on a planet in a different solar system.
Over to WA now, where the McGowan government has accepted a Commonwealth request to work together to establish a 1000-person quarantine facility at either Perth or Jandakot airports.
Australia is not planning to reopen for years. The mental illness is so profound there. Shame if you have family living there .
I’ve got relatives in NZ who are restless, the loved to travel, but they did cheer when someone who ‘escaped’ from quarantine was ‘captured’ after an extensive chase. They are also told they are ‘safe’ there that covid is ravaging the world basically, and although they know its not, the brainwashing has been pretty thorough, to instill doubt.
I’d always thought of the Australians and New Zealanders as being rugged and ferociously independent people, with a healthy contempt for “authority”.
I had something of the same idea about us, pre-2020.
We’ve all been roughly disabused of such nonsense over the past 15 months.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-dont-we-have-an-mp-like-this. Excellent speech by the MP and we do have some who speak out and need to a lot more
Careless.
I imagine they are lost down the back of a government sofa somewhere.
Nonetheless, the Department of Health will no doubt keep those 600 million tests in reserve to be added to the “positive tests” metric when there is a political need for another “wave” of “cases”.
Nearly every day, one of our neighbours (care worker) chucks about 6 of em in her bin.( unused).
I wonder how many are supposedly being “used” for weekly testing but are simply going in the bin, and how many more have been used but the results never logged with the authorities
*shuffles feet awkwardly*
What do you think?,R.
She is only following the CDC’s own advice
I love it when the Ivory Tower fucktards, who have no experience of life other than their Oxbridge PPE degree leading to a year as a researcher for a politician leading to a career in politics are then flummoxed by stuff that happens or goes wrong that doesn’t fit their perfectly formed theoretical hermetic world model.
I have a cupboard full of “Made in China” NHS test kits that the kids were given at school.
Less the ones they used testing various household items and liquids for ‘covid’.
It is handy to spin up a coke-cola positive when I don’t feel like going to work. It’s amazing I’ve been re-infected 22 times and no one has questioned it.
for all the bullshit about Europe having a 3rd wave etc
you can see from the first graph on
https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Europe had significant winter mortality spikes in 2017 and 2018, lower in 2019 and non-existent in 2020
The Spring 2020 peak was similar in magnitude to a missed Winter 2017 or 2018 peak (narrower and higher but similar overall mortality)
Winter 2021 looked like about 2 normal Winters coming at once. Unsurprising as they had locked their citizens in their homes, barraged them with lies and propaganda, stopped people in end of life care having visitors, withdrawn non-covid healthcare etc.
The Spring peak was novel in timing but not in extent. Winter 2021 is mainly deaths caused by government actions
This is what a genuinely conservative publication would have to have been saying, loudly, repeatedly and sternly, in March 2020, in order for it to have a legitimate claim now, not to have been part of the problem:
Early March:
“No, protecting the vulnerable while waiting for natural herd immunity is not “eugenics” or “putting money ahead of lives”, or “uncaring”. It’s the way we’ve always dealt with respiratory viruses and you’d need a lot more than what we’re seeing so far to panic and throw that away”
“No, there’s no threat whatsoever of the NHS being “overwhelmed”. It might get busy for a while, even very busy. That’s not “overwhelmed” and the people claiming it might be “overwhelmed” are scaremongers who should be ashamed of themselves. Certainly no conservative or member of government should be having any truck with such nonsense. Any member of government doing so should be sacked for promoting public panic”
“No, requiring cost benefit justifications for proposed health measures is not “uncaring”, it’s what we always do through the NICE system and it’s what rational adults always will do. Anyone arguing to the contrary is being infantile and manipulative”
Late March:
“The right thing to do is to keep calm and carry on. There’s no reason yet to do anything other than follow the flu pandemic plan. All the signs are this is broadly in line with past flu pandemics. Until there are real signs of anything more, we must not panic.”
“No, no border restrictions. We know there’s no benefit to them once the virus is established in the country, as it is here. They just disrupt economic life and spread panic”
“It’s inconceivable that any conservative government would impose mass coercive measures in panic response to a respiratory virus that, as we have already seen, affects mostly the very old and very ill. Any government or individuals in government who advocated such panic measures would permanently lose our respect and our support”
Throughout:
No unBritish radical illiberal lockdowns.
No unBritish, radical, fearmongering, ineffective mask mandates
No panic responses. Keep calm and carry on. Follow the dictum of Donald Henderson:
“…communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted”
That’s what I’d have been sticking to if I were the owner or editor of a conservative-leaning publication in March 2020. And we’d have been a lot better off if we’d have a conservative media made up of people willing to do that, stick to it, and ram some steel up the “Conservative” Party regime’s back.
Sadly the best we could get was insipid, half-hearted fearfulness, sometimes making the key points but mostly treating these infantile, hysterical, scaremongering panicker positions as though they demand respect, which meant that obsessive zealots and authoritarians like Gove and Cummings could drive policy.
Indeed, governments have always talked themselves up rather than down, in fact, until the **** hits the fan
“Is the new ‘delta plus’ Covid variant more dangerous? Scientists scramble to understand the facts”
Easy answer, No!
Its the delta_plus_prime++_(b)_(ii)_/new/reallyreallynew
variant that I’m worried about
They’re following a similar naming system to the one Samsung use to name their phones. The next variant will be the Delta Ultra.
The Delta Plus MG Metro Turbo.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-57594155
Israel has reintroduced a requirement to wear masks outdoors and indoors, including in bed, amid a rise in coronavirus cases, just days after it lifted the measure.
Concern has grown after the country recorded more than 100 new daily cases in successive days after registering zero earlier this month.
Most of the cases have been linked to the Delta variant from abroad.
In bed? Haha.
gotta lol!
They will try anything to establish the narrarive that masks make a difference.
Meanwhile, in the real world, masks have been found to have serious, negative medical side effects.
https://de.rt.com/gesellschaft/119657-deutsche-studie-zur-mund-nasen/
If only the government tested those who were sick and in hospital would we be able to ship ourselves out of this nightmare – tesedemic is killing us all now. Ironically the ones who are getting tested think they’re doing their bit to help not hinder.
I should add, that they only tested those who were sick with the right set of symptoms in hospital
Regarding the BBC’s ‘Reaality Check,’ I distinctly remember WEF videos and posters in the street in which Klaus Schwab explained how we needed a ‘Greaf Reset’ and, as I recall, even distributed a free book on the subject. It would all have been easy to dismiss as an absurd conspiracy theory, as the BBC is now trying to do, were it not that the narrative was coming directly from the WEF. Still realty and the BBC, if they ever were friends, seem to have parted company long ago.
THEY create and define what’s reality.
That’s their/the new game.
“But he says the JCVI is also “very worried about” children becoming ill with other viruses because of a loss of immunity during lockdown.”
but at least some geriatrics have been able to watch TV for another few weeks
And the solution will be more lockdowns, and more “vaccines”
Trying to control the uncontrollable is addictive
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57608716
Matt Hancock will not comment on reports of an extra-marital affair with a close aide, friends of the health secretary say.
A Labour spokesperson said: “Ministers, like everyone, are entitled to a private life”
Its almost like Hancock hasn’t been interfering in our private lives!
What?!? Handcock is an untrustworthy, lying, duplicitous little worm? What will you try and convince me of next, bears shit in the woods?
The sad thing is that he gets bad publicity for this but not for his much more egregious crimes
Sad but true: Del Bigtree’s Highwire channel is clearly light years ahead of the UK Column.
Last night the Jaxen Report reported on the results of NEJM study which claimed to show that there were no “obvious” adverse vaccine problems for pregnant women. The Results are in the link:
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/693/htm
See – just 12.6% (104/827) spontaneous abortions for less than 20 weeks pregnant, i.e. well within normal limits. But we should always read the small print where we find this.
A total of 700 participants (84.6%) received their first eligible dose in the third trimester.
The 3rd Trimester doesn’t begin until week 28, so the number for those in the < 20 week period cannot be greater than 127 which, unless there is some other explanation for the figures, can only mean that at least 82% of women who were less than 20 weeks pregnant had miscarriages following vaccination.
From Spectator article ATL, so true:
“The trouble is, of course, that as far as we know the virus is never going away, so according to the logic of the scientists, there is no reason ever to allow us to return to our old way of life. And although it looks as if we are thereby being sensible and ‘following the science’, what it actually reveals is that we are fools to follow a few boffins in white coats, rather than following the received wisdom of the human race over the past 4,000 years: namely that death is an inevitability and even if we do not die of Covid-19, we are going to die of something else. Following the science means living in a fantasy world where death can be everlastingly postponed, or perhaps avoided altogether.”
Couldn’t think of another Greek letter so they went with Delta plus. Just waiting then for the Delta double plus variant and then Delta Doubleplusgood variant to complete the covid-1984 step changes.