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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Middle-income countries like India and South Africa fared worse during the pandemic than low-income countries like Central African Republic. Though this may be partly due to poor data quality in low-income countries.
Increases in mortality during Covid were small relative to pre-existing differences across Europe. Even in 2020, when Swedes supposedly faced “disaster”, they actually had a higher life expectancy than Danes and Finns.
In 2019, nine out of ten people lived in countries with a higher level of mortality than Britain experienced last year. While the change in mortality last year was historically high, the level to which it rose was not.
We're publishing an original piece today by an engineer in which he has tried to calculate the total loss of life due to Covid in 2020 in England and Wales and compared it to the impact of other diseases.
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