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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.
I read your posts and reply to them at my leisure rather than having a tsunami of covid conspiracy wash me away, it's a free country, remember
Do you disagree with rros then over his claims that Sweden has 50% herd immunity which would involve 2.5m Swedes being infected even though only 500k have tested positive?
I read most posts, I reply to them at my leisure and if I have something to contribute to the discussion. I haven't read up on how Sweden has dealt with and is dealing with its Covid situation. To be honest I don't care, all I care about is getting this country back to normal ASAP.
Once that's done the SNP, not Sturgeon she needs to go because she's as corrupt as Salmond, needs to capitalise on the incompetence of Johnston and get independence sorted.
Taintedice, it is quite possible for Sweden to have both 50% of the population infected and only 500k tested positive. If the total tested was 1m and half of them testedpositive surely it is reasonable to assume that this figure is a good indication of the general level of infection within the Swedish population.
Indeed it is, I never said it wasn't. I was just comparing how mass infection in Sweden would appear to be a good thing, but in the UK, it's all lies used to keep control over the population. I wouldn't agree with your last sentence though, Swedes have been self-isolating on a voluntary basis for months, they've avoided large crowds, wear masks, it is not the free-for-all some would have you believe. 5m people being infected is not really plausible when latest data from Sweden shows single digit percentages of those being tested are testing positive.
Last edited by Taintedice; 28-01-2021 at 10:28 PM.
Despite what you may think I know a lot more about what is going on outwith Islay.
I am not going to tell you how many people have died in hospitals throughout Scotland solely from the Covid-19 virus. You give the impression that you know everything so you will obviously know the answer to my question.