Delays in diagnosing skin cancer because of Covid lockdowns led to 12,000 years of life lost in Britain, it has been estimated. The Telegraph has the story.
University College London (UCL) analysed records from more than 50,000 patients across Europe, including the U.K., and calculated how many people’s cancer would have progressed from one stage owing to delays in beginning or continuing treatment.
Both screening services and treatments were disrupted in 2020 and 2021 by lockdown restrictions, staff shortages and fear of infection.
The team who worked with the University of Basel, in Switzerland, estimated that around 17% of people progressed to a higher stage of cancer in 2020-2021, owing to delays in diagnosis or treatment of two to three months or longer.
It equates to more than 12,000 years of life lost in Britain and to more than 100,000 years of life lost across Europe.
Dr. Kaustubh Adhikari of UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment said: “As many people missed appointments to detect or treat skin cancer, their cancer progressed to a later stage, which resulted in more expensive care and a greater risk that the treatment would not be successful.
“It’s alarming that for just one disease, there were many years of life lost, a lower quality of life for many thousands of people, and billions of pounds of economic impact – this may be just the tip of the iceberg of the consequences of delayed diagnosis and treatment due to lockdowns.”
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A well informed conclusion. The real Tsunami was a bureaucratic earthquake that caused it, by the look of it. And isn’t there a bit of inappropriate identification, to wit the use of the term SARS. If it was neither severe, nor acute for most of us, those letters should have been deleted. We are used to loads of other RS infections, quite a lot of which are related to other coronaviruses, after all. It would have been another branch of “common colds”. No profit from that, of course.
Totally agree
Another excellent article
I remember seeing the hundreds of graves that were dug in Brazil at the time yet they were all empty and very shallow!
Dug for the terror effect no doubt
Off topic apologies:
Another cargo ship fire carrying evs
https://gcaptain.com/fire-erupts-on-car-carrier-with-electric-vehicles-in-belgian-port-of-zeebrugge/
There was no pandemic, it was scam/plandemic, 20 years in the planning.
IFR was 0.3% or same as the flu. Flu disappeared. Overall death rate did not change. Deaths ‘spiked’ only after the major stab programmes. People were murdered with midazolam and counted as Rona etc etc.
Flying viruses don’t exist. Poisons, toxins, murdering old people, killing innocents with drugs and lockdowns did exist.
Ta. Saved me the bother.
Scamdemic.
“Accurate information on the evidence for the effectiveness and safety of drugs for early treatment and vaccines was essential, with clarity about remaining areas of uncertainty.”
Good luck with that. Safe and effective treatments were banned to make way for Fake Vaccines.
All these “covid enquiries” are just part of the pantomime.
Exactly.
It was all a scam to prepare us for their reset and replacement program which Kneel is attending to with gusto.
I am not in the slightest bit interested in these sorts of articles because they start from the premise that the C1984 was real.
Scamdemic.
“There was no pandemic, it was the State that killed Granny“:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-denis-rancourt-there-was-no-pandemic-it-was-the-state-that-killed-granny/5876206
“As a scientist, what I decided to do was to look at all-cause mortality data…
…Our nations collect very good data about the number of deaths
…That is something you cannot be biased about
…When we look at all-cause mortality data, there is no pandemic
…There was a peak of deaths at the beginning in certain hotspots
…That was directly due to how people were treated in hospitals and care homes.”
Became a self-fulfilling prophecy, from the moment it was labelled “SARS” and called by the WHO “a pandemic”.
As for innoculating fit and healthy young people with a vaccine developed at warped speed, that was called out in the Daily Sceptic as long ago as September 2021 by “an executive in the pharmaceutical industry”:
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/16/the-ethical-bankruptcy-of-vaccinating-12-15-year-olds-against-sars-cov-2/
“Government and politicians are ultimately responsible and accountable for what happens to people taking this experimental treatment.
So I’d suggest that they familiarise themselves with the principles in the Declaration of Helsinki and the Nuremberg Code and read about Good Clinical Practice, because you never know but perhaps at some future point a competent authority could come knocking on the door.”
Helsinki and Nuremberg are still waiting patiently.
According to Was brauchte der Weltkrieg (Otto Rebieke, Hase & Koehler 1936), 303,544 soldiers of the German army were hospitalized beause of influenza between 1914 and 1918 and 999 of them died (p. 180). That’s a CFR of 0.33% among a demographic where a highly deadly contagious disease had had a field day (malnourished and continously overtaxed men living in cramped and unhygienic accomdations when they were living in accomodations at all).
The percentage of German soldiers sick with influenza who got hospitalized is also approximately known: Less than 15% (Der Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918, vol. 14, p. 517). Assuming that all of the 303,544 got the so-called Spanish flu (almost certainly too high), there must have been more than 2,023,626 cases in total, meaning the real CFR was about 0.05%. No numbers are available for the – how a Covidian would call it — asymptomatically sick and hence, the IFR is unknown. But it’s certainly much smaller than 0.05%.
The Spanish flu was the first ‘modern’ influenza pandemic in the sense that it was all just total hysteria in the USA while the rest of the world barely noticed. Unfortunately – meanwhile – total hysteria in the USA means the square of total hysteria in Europe as our political leaders usually ‘feel obliged¹’ to repeat every American folly to letter.
¹ Or just following orders.
Spanish Flu was not caused by a virus. Challenge studies conducted by Rosenau and his colleagues failed to demonstrate contagion. Instead, deaths falsely attributed to a viral pathogen were more likely caused by the medications and vaccines applied in masses at that time, which contained highly toxic substances (heavy metals, arsenic, formaldehyde and chloroform etc). The introduction of toxic pesticides post 1918 was also a contributor as well as thousands of soldiers suffering post war trauma.
The USA didn’t provide vaccines which didn’t even exist back then to its enemies, no matter how impossible it apparently is to get certain people from the USA to understand that there’s actually a world outside of it.
It’s also documented (in the same official German history of the first world war) that the 1918 influenza started on the Entente side of the trenches and crossed over to the Germans in summer 1918, peaking in July with 400,000 documented cases.
Virology is pseudo-scientific and its basic premise is based on circular reasoning. The PCR test is meaningless, therefore by default, the covid-19 pandemic is meaningless.
End of discussion.
People died, but what they died of was most definitely not a pathogenic virus.
An excellent analysis confirming my strategy set out, and sent to those in charge, that all we needed to do was treat correctly those who got ill and nothing else. Our local paper, Rye News, published my ironic poem expressing this – on 13th February 2020. It was reproduced on this site on 20th January 2021.
Is there some award for correct prophesy?
Table 5 is not emphasising the big one.
Locking up and restricting movement of a healthy population.
Good article. I’d like to add a couple of things, as a critical care consultant in the thick of it.
1. Critical Care patients were denied standard treatment with high flow nasal canula oxygen or CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure via a tight face mask), and instead many patients were sedated and ventilated, which has more risks and also causes more changes to blood and air flow in the lungs. This was a national edict due to the unproven risk to staff of these treatments. Therefore they were denied a safe standard treatment, and given what may have been a more harmful treatment, resulting in a higher mortality rate due to treatment.
2. I saw no attempt to understand the pathophysiology of the disease. It was assumed it was due to a pneumonitis, which was true for many people but not all, in the early days, and now even less so, as it seems to be a multi organ illness, but no longer causes pneumonitis. We saw a lot of pulmonary thrombosis (development of blood clots in the pulmonary arteries themselves, rather than the more usual pulmonary embolism, a clot that travelled to the lungs from elsewhere), but there has been little attempt to work out what the pathophysiology was, which is necessary to find effective treatment.
3. It was apparent by September 2020 that young healthy people were at no risk. There was a fantastic opportunity to do research using students returning to university, which could have identified how fast and easily people became infected, how symptomatic and infectious they were.
It was apparent in March 2020 that young people were not at high risk.
Average age of people dying with Covid was around 80 years old.
Thanks for your perspective. You may find this article interesting: https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/22/a-new-journal-of-the-plague-years/
Thanks for your comment vctinnett. I’m sure you’re right that initial national edicts to ventilate caused much damage and deaths. Other iatrogenic deaths arose because of the coercive vaccine rollout to those not at significant risk and without informed consent, inappropriate use of midazolam and morphine, withholding antibiotics, DNAR orders without consent and edicts to “protect the NHS” so that cardiovascular deaths shot up as people with heart attacks and strokes stayed at home. We often intervened when we shouldn’t have, and didn’t intervene when we should have !
Some clinicians were considering the pathophysiology and responding sensibly but they were usually vilified and censored. For example I’d recommend the article by Peter McCullough et al “Pathophysiological basis and rationale for early outpatient treatment of SARS-CoV2 (Covid-19) infection (Amer J Med 2020).
Finally I think it was obvious that young healthy people weren’t at significant risk in Feb 2020 !
Thanks Alan great article. I think table 6 re DNAR midazolam and withholding of antibiotics is pretty damning. I come across elements of this protocol elsewhere who are its authors?
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) produced the guideline with midazolam & morphine, but it may be hard to find now as it was withdrawn I believe. Not aware of specific guidance pushing DNAR orders or withholding antibiotics but general ambience of crisis and fear that was generated must have influenced the system. Also Imperial College modelling study in March 2020 predicting that ICUs would be overwhelmed…
Are we allowed to refer to the demographic of those most at risk from the virus? No, thought not!
Hmm I think it’s called common sense sadly lacking over the last few years and it appears to be carrying on in the same vein unfortunately.
Firstly, one should forget all the Hollywood dramas about the human race succumbing to some dreadful disease: improved hygiene – primarily clean drinking water and effective sewage treatment – as well as good nutrition, guarantee that the days of the Black Death, smallpox and the like are long gone.
One would normally add good medical care to the list of today’s benefits but exactly that was turned into vicious mistreatment during the ‘pandemic’ and was the cause of so many deaths.
The Nobel Prize winning inventor of the PCR technique, Kary Mullis, stated many times that his technique cannot be used to identify illness. So why was it used across the world to do precisely that?
Kary Mullis was an outspoken individual, who openly accused Anthony Fauci of falsehood concerning the supposed disease called AIDS, and who very conveniently died in August 2019. If he had not died, one can be sure he would have called out the misuse of his technique to supposedly identify a virus.
So where were the doctors and what were they doing during the ‘pandemic’? Were all British surgeries suddenly overwhelmed with sick people, all showing the same symptoms? Were the mortuaries filling up with bodies? No, not at all, at least not until the doctors started obediently, or slavishly, following the orders of the WHO, pumping supposed patients full of toxic levels of hydroxychloroquine in accordance with the WHO’s RECOVERY and the like programmes, or finishing mistreated patients off with Midazolam. Not to mention finally pumping people full of what were obviously completely insufficiently tested ‘vaccines’.
Instead of repeatedly wishing for there to have been a pandemic and writing in-depth analyses of what never was, the medical profession should be asking how on earth it allowed itself to be so misled.
It was a PCR test and lies Tsunami.