Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
I'd imagine most were individuals with an underlying condition many of whom tested positive within the previous 28 days and who died of the underlying condition with Covid-19 as a possible contributory factor. Obviously some will also have fallen victim to unfortunate accidents, unexpected strokes, heart attacks etc.

The drum I keep banging is related to the presentation of numbers designed solely to play on people's emotions, a bit like the nurse crying on the news after a shift where she only managed to walk away from her work station three times - twice for tik tok videos and once to clap a 'brave Covid survivor' (which was filmed for TV of course). I want relevant percentages - what percentage of the test numbers we're given were people presenting for a test having shown symptoms and what percentage of them tested positive? What percentage of positive tests end up in hospital? ICU? Morgue? What's the percentage increase in total deaths by all causes between the start of the breakout and now compared to the average over the last five years? Of the hundreds of thousands of tests what percentage are discrete individuals and how many are repeats on NHS staff etc? These things will tell us how much real effect this Covid is having.

I'm not a Covid denier or Covidiot like you tend to call anyone that disagrees with you, I just like to know the facts and we're not being given relevant ones.

Instead we're told the death toll reached 100,000 in the UK (sold as directly caused by Covid, but not) accompanied by sombre music and 'tributes to the dead' on the BBC. Does anyone remember back in the Soviet Union days TASS would go off air and only play sombre music as a way of telling people the president had died of alcohol poisoning? We're now seeing the state controlled BBC behave exactly like TASS.
Public Health Scotland have changed the rules for receiving a Covid-19 test.
Last October 2020 I had a Covid-19 test at Kings Cross Hospital because I had an upper respiratory tract infection.
On 29th December 2020 I had the same symptoms as last October 2020. I phoned NHS 24 and expected to be sent for yet another Covid-19 test. However I was informed that I no longer qualified for a Covid-19 test and I would have to contact a GP practice which I did and yet again I was suffering from another upper respiratory tract infection.
I have subsequently discovered that following Nicola and Jason’s advice to stay indoors to beat the Covid-19 virus this results in a breeding ground for upper respiratory tract infections and chest infections. People should go for a walk every day to get fresh air.
If I had taken the Covid-19 test under the previous rules the number of tests would have increased by one but the percentage of positive cases would have been fractionally lower. That is why there has been on one occasion over 12% of tests in a 24 hour period testing positive for Covid-19. They are now only testing people who fit the reduced criteria such as a loss of smell or taste, having a fever or being very breathless. Outwith this criteria you do not qualify for a Covid-19 test in Scotland despite health experts stating that one in three people in the U.K. are unaware that they have the Covid-19 virus.
Last summer the number of deaths from people having previously had a positive test were reduced because the ‘powers that be’ had been including a positive test for Covid-19 anytime in the past to the new rules of having a positive test in the previous 28 days.
In my opinion the politicians and Health experts keep changing the rules to suit their own agenda.
The Chinese government have a lot to answer and in my opinion they are trying to take over the Western world in the same way as they have taken over poor countries in Northern Africa.