The ONS has released data up to July 6th on deaths in England & Wales. This allows for various mortality rates to be calculated and for historic comparisons and trends to be discussed. Here's the data -
This has been scrutinised by Mark Avis and his illuminating statistics are published on the Mises Institute web site. I'm not a Libertarian but the obvious TRUTH of what Avis deduces is undeniable. Basically, he's pointing out that given the claim from the Western "free press" that the globe is in the grip of a terrifying pandemic causing many thousands of excess deaths and necessarily crippling our economies (probably permanently) there is, in reality, only a very small increase in age-standardised mortality rates (ASMRs). Does Covid actually qualify as a "pandemic"? It is debatable.
Example, ASMRs for 2020 are 1,236.7 males and 894.2 females while ASMRs for 2009 are 1,229.7 males and 886.6 females. See the difference? No, neither do I. It's minimal. People like me who spend a lot of time on line will remember the first "unofficial" poor quality video clips that supposedly "came out of China" early in 2020 that showed people dying in the streets & subway trains & being welded into their apartment blocks. In my opinion these were ALL fake. I have NO idea who was responsible. The panic has been deliberately and systematically exaggerated at every level & it continues to be so. Look at Avis's stats, the numbers cannot lie.
https://mises.org/wire/uks-national-crisis-age-adjusted-mortality-2008-levels
