20th of June

[WTF11]

I wonder how many of that 40,000 actually died directly of covid 19......

Not many. Covid doesn't have anything like the lethality that flu has (al on its own flu can kill just about anyone, any age, creed, colour, ethnicity, location). Covid is much more dependent than flu is on "contributory factors" (one of the science facts you CAN trust. In 2015/16/17 flu killed 30k+ all on its own, in the UK alone, put it together with those contributory factors" and its over 130k/per annum in those years (stats compiled before it became "fashionable" to massage them).

Of the deaths so far (worldwide), the pattern is emerging that Covid kills on its own only 10%(ish) of those it infects and nearly always in the very old (90% of Swedens deaths have been in the 90+ age bracket.

PS, before anyone suggests I'm making light of loss, I'm not, been there, seen it, done it, got the f00king baseball cap, BUT......

There are around 165,000 cancer deaths in the UK every year. It killed my wife, with a "strain" that has no know cause, nor cure, and yet Cancer Reasearch UK is a charity, that recieves no government funding. Can anyone who posts here imagine what effect there would be on the 165,000 families each year, in this country alone, who lose a loved one through cancer if the BILLIONS we have spent on stupid white elephant Nightingale hospitals, or lockdown in general, or the loans and grants to business aimed at cushioning the impact of Covid, was spent on eradicating cancer?

Lockdown, social distancing, face masks (usually worn around the chin), don't make me laugh.