01-13-2022, 03:04 AM
(01-11-2022, 10:02 AM)baggy1 Wrote: Thanks for that Rich, in the background I have been collating that sort of data and have seen the points he has made as they appear. One of the points that may be inaccurate in there, and underplaying the figures, is the 'adjusted for population growth' figures (which I get btw, they are a reasonable measure). The problem comes from our assumption that there has been population growth and with brexit and the extra numbers of deaths there may be a case that population has fallen or at least stagnated - if so that will mean the adjustment underestimates the excess death numbers.
All in all it has been a shit couple of years and gets frustrating when it gets so binary, for example (not having a go chunk) but KKCs comment above about 'professor lockdown' indicating that lockdowns are a waste of time (probably not exactly what was being said btw) when they are a tool in the toolbox and were needed at the time as there were no alternatives (vaccines), and they definitely kept the illness and deaths down, but are now being painted as a waste of time.
Only just picked this back up. The first 2 lockdowns were absolutely needed, but since then these experts have got as much wrong as right. Anyone remember the prediction of 75K deaths from Omicron?
The Government has listened too much to science at times, rather than make rational balanced decisions.