Until people start to die as a result of lockdown, the emotional case for ending lockdowns and masking is not quite there.
Deaths only really matter to politicians if they can be directly blamed for them; at the moment Covid is what they are blamed for, not delayed cancer treatments.

As far as I can see, there needs to be more emphasis on the flaws in the PCR test; at the moment, the media unquestioningly accepts the 'rising number of infections' and churns out the bad news. But no journalist seems willing to take it on. All it needs is a Panorama special but I guess pigs will fly first.

Until people start to die as a result of lockdown, the emotional case for ending lockdowns and masking is not quite there.

OK, since you asked.

The ONS weekly data is split into all deaths, deaths due to respiratory causes and deaths due to covid-19. The latter two have some overlap (= double accounting). However, if we remove both these from the totals, we get deaths due to all other causes. This is what we need to monitor:

Now, here we see some jiggery-pokery becoming more apparent in the last reported week.

Anyone one who has covid-19 entered on the death certificate - whether the cause of death or not - gets counted as a covid-19 death. Not only that, people who die in hospital are more likely to pick up covid-19. This will hide some of these excess deaths. Indeed, it is already doing so in my chart above.

It is interesting to note that there was an apparent increase in death due to other causes during the pandemic (you remember the pandemic - the one that ended on 12th June?) So it may be that they missed a covid-19 diagnosis then or, dare I say, there was no pressure on them to enter it on the death certificate because nobody's backsides were on the line.

I have been experimenting with presentation for leaflets that I can drop in cafes. What do you think about the attached examples for fliers/handouts?
I am trying to target a broad range of people.

Absolutely fantastic 😀 from my point of view, although I'm thinking it might look even more authoritative without the exclamation marks - is there some other way to emphasise the key points; underlining, perhaps or a different colour?

(I'm thinking of my sneering Guardian-reading adversary)

Wow-look at the time! I hope you've gone to bed now.....

Hi mike a
I think it's great what you are doing as I ans a lot of people i know would do the leaflet drops ect ( if you can find cafes open) 😀 .
I like all the stuff you write especially the bold punchy headlines but I feel it needs to be just that short sweet and punchy with only a very short sharp message written under the headline. The punchy healing should be to draw the eye for immediate attention the short punchy fact underneath should be short and sweet to sink in and plant the seed enough to be thought provoking enough so any reader then questions the government narrative enough to research their nagging doubts furthur.i think any graphs will immediately turn people away and the moment is lost. Interesting that the orders are as soon as you ( literally) leave a table it has to be cleaned ( should always have been anyway) immediately so any leaflets left is unlikely to be seen ( was that the point of the directives?) So I think even stickers or things not able to be removed quicker than someone can pick it up is the answer . Short, sharp small in cafes ect.. more detailed leaflets minus charts and complicated sentences where a reader might be for sometime ..train journey ect..
That's my thoughts.
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