Covid is not over

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

The UK remains 195th of 225 countries in terms of coping with Covid. That is based upon the number of Covid deaths per million of population. 194 countries have had a lower number of Covid deaths per million of population than the UK has had.

Yet our ears are constantly assaulted with "This Prime Minister / government have done well getting the vaccines".

Regardless of the colour of government in the last 30 years and membership / non membership of the EU the UK has been and is the 5th strongest economy in the world. Yet the UK is 195th in the Covid League and this is not featuring in the various media. These utterly shameful excessive deaths are sufficient reason to dispose of this Prime Minister and this government.

[howoldboy]

On 21 February, due to backbench pressure, the Government decided to lift all remaining Covid restrictions.

At that time the 7 day average of deaths due to Covid was 112.

6 weeks later (7 days to 8 April) the equivalent number of deaths has almost doubled.

In the last 7 days there have been 1,475 deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test.

This equates to a 7 day average of 211.

This is on top of the 2,714 deaths wìhich were omitted from the Government website "Due to a processing error" and were added retrospectively on 6 April.

The gate at the recent Rochdale v Carlisle match was 2,160.

This may help to put the number of deaths into perspective.

The equivalent of the crowd at Rochdale that night (plus an additional 554) were omitted due to "a processing error"

In addition, in the last 7 days the equivalent of virtually all the Rochdale fans at that match (1,659) have been killed by the virus.

This virus hasn't gone away and it seems clear that the Government couldn't give a damn about the elderly and vulnerable.


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths

[howoldboy]

National press beginning to grasp the truth?

"Ministers should reconsider England’s “living with Covid” plans, health leaders have said, while accusing the government of ignoring the ongoing threat for ideological reasons.

The NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare sector, has accused No 10 of having “abandoned any interest” in the pandemic, despite a new Omicron surge putting pressure on an already overstretched NHS.

“The brutal reality for staff and patients is that this Easter in the NHS is as bad as any winter,” said Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation.

We do not have a living-with-Covid plan, we have a living-without-restrictions ideology.

“But instead of the understanding and support NHS staff received during 2020 and 2021, we have a government that seems to want to wash its hands of responsibility for what is occurring in plain sight in local services up and down the country. No 10 has seemingly abandoned any interest in Covid whatsoever.

“NHS leaders and their teams feel abandoned by the government and they deserve better.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ns-nhs-leaders

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...or-mixing.html

[howoldboy]

The UK Government's handling of Covid remains a disaster.

If you want to know how badly they are doing there is now only one number you can trust.

Tests - No-one is taking them any more because you have to pay for them.

Hospital admissions - Not a reliable indicator because people are entering hospital with Covid, as well as because of Covid.

So that leaves Deaths. That would appear to be a reasonably reliable indicator.

When they removed remaining restrictions on 21 February the 7 day average of death due to Covid was 112.

It is now 279.

1,956 dead in the last 7 days.

Top work Boris and Sajid.

[howoldboy]

Johnson and Javid appear to have excelled again today.

A world beating performance.

438 UK dead.

No other country anywhere near as high.

One way to reduce long term pressure on the health service I suppose.

Kill off all the old and vulnerable.


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

One of the BBC1 Question Time audience began a question with "Now that Covid is over ....". This was on the day that 438 Covid UK deaths occurred. This UK government is guilty of being not only inept but refusing to acknowledge the plain truth of its total failure about Covid. In terms of deaths per million of population the UK is 197th out of 228 countries. This means that 196 out of 228 countries have had fewer deaths per million of population than the UK has had. Given that regardless of being in / out of the EU and regardless of the party of government the UK economy is the 5th most powerful in the world it is quite legitimate to have an attitude of utter contempt for this government.

This is not just the most corrupt but also the most callous UK government of all time.

[Psaw]

Absolute tosh. We cant have permanent or intermittent lockdowns. People are going to die, get used to it. The death rate is no worse than for any other illness.

Cuckoo land mate.

[griff]

Er, in a “normal” year the death rate from influenza is 20-30 per day. What planet you on Frank?

[howoldboy]

Absolute tosh. We cant have permanent or intermittent lockdowns. People are going to die, get used to it. The death rate is no worse than for any other illness.

Cuckoo land mate.

No-one said there needed to be a "lockdown".

Simply wearing a mask and socially distancing in indoor areas would be sufficient to significantly reduce the number of deaths and ease the pressure on the NHS.

Just like we were doing prior to 21 February when Johnson needlessly removed the requirement, simply to appease his right wing back benchers.

The subsequent deaths above the rate at the time are all down to your murdering ex-Etonian chums.

Just like the thousands in nursing homes who were "unlawfully" killed when Hancock allowed infected patients to be transferred directly from hospitals without being tested.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...rules-12599918

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

Quite