Quote Originally Posted by noahrab View Post
That method of reporting deaths is pure unadulterated gerrymandering of the figures.

If we have had no deaths why the phuck are we having lockdowns and wearing masks? They can’t have it both ways.
Public Health England up to two weeks ago was reporting a death from COVID-19 providing had previously been tested positive for COVID-19 months before. Public Health Scptland, Wales and Northern Ireland were only recoding a death from COVID-19 providing the person had tested positive for COVID-19 in the previous 28 days.
You would think that the Public Health teams from each country would have spoken to each before the first COVID-19 case was recorded in the UK to find out how they planned to calculate any deaths in their area prior to submitting their total to the UK total.
Since the new rules for calculating the number of deaths from Covid-19 has been introduced by Public Health England the number of daily deaths from COVID-19 in the UK has fallen by about 80%.
In my opinion thanks to this incompetence by the management of Public Health England we have been in the lockdown far longer than necessary as the daily number of deaths would have been far lower than has been recorded.
Two weeks ago the total number of deaths from COVID-19 was reduced at a stroke by 5,400 people.
The authorities should have published a daily total from the notification of the first death showing the original ‘flawed’ figure and the correct figure using the new correct measure of a person dying from COVID-19 having been tested positive for COVID-19 with the last 28 days.
The bosses at the top of the tree in Public Health England should be sacked for this failure but they will probably be rewarded with a knighthood.