Thanks to IanM at the TLN The Lifeboat News
for highlighting these. Total deaths from covid in the UK is less than 18,000, compared to `with’ covid being 150000 or so.
He goes on to make the point
*Draw your own conclusions from this but mine are that that yes, this disease has killed a lot of people, but you’re much less likely to die from it if you’re young and/or reasonably fit & healthy. Not that this is a reason not to care about those who aren’t so lucky (or privileged) or that no efforts should be made to protect the elderly & vulnerable, but that it should lead to a deeper discussion about the root causes of ill health in the supposedly wealthy western ‘democracies’ and also to a re-evaluation of lockdown and vaccination policies which arguably have the most detrimental effects on the young when they have the least to gain from them. Oh, and considering whether we’ve been lied to about the severity of this disease, by whom and for what reasons.
Another deeper discussion to be held (but which is strangely missing) is to understand why, if we’ve been lied to as IanM says, so many people – especially on TLN – have believed those lies. Further, to discuss the reactions of the believers to those people who were not taken in, and indeed tried to point out the lies. Quite some lessons to be learned I’d have thought.