Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
by EForEndeavour on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:32PM
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> Difficult to see much excess death in the UK in the past few months beyond levels seen in the 2018 and 2017 flu seasons.
Excess mortality is only just starting to creep back up. It's easy to see that UK excess deaths peaked in early April at a weekly rate nearly 4 times that of the highest pre-2020 peak (2018-01). Ideally, we'd avoid a repeat of that.
> This absolutely seems like a coordinated global action to achieve some kind of strategic aim.
Could said aim by any chance be to avoid running out of hospital beds?
Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
by jeofken on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:36PM
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Do you have a source for the claim that hospitals are running out of beds?
Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
by EForEndeavour on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:00PM
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Plenty! Here's one specific news article from mid-December for the UK, with a link to the NHS data source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/nhs-hospitals-...
Difficult to see much excess death in the UK in the past few months beyond levels seen in the 2018 and 2017 flu seasons.
New lockdowns also seem to be coordinated across the global right now, independent of local conditions. This absolutely seems like a coordinated global action to achieve some kind of strategic aim.