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The good doctor makes some valid points, especially on the deployment of tests in places where they are more likely to come up positive. Only time will tell how much worse this really is than normal 'flu. But you've seen the footage from Italy, the hospitals beyond capacity. Surely you'll acknowledge that a lot more people are dying from respiratory illness than those hospitals are used to? So it seems likely that something is different this time. Of course, it could be that we've got it wrong, it's a bit worse than regular flu but not much, almost everyone who is going to get it has had it, and it will run its course in a few weeks – but would you want to take that risk? There's a huge price to pay if we're wrong about that.
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this is a massive over reaction to a none problem the data the government produce proves this is total bullshit. England and Wales flu deaths 32,525 last year (over 20k over 65s just in England alone), US flu deaths 61,000, China flu deaths in the hundreds of thousands, Italy some years ago reported an average of 17,000 flu deaths and that was before the increases in the last couple of year. Corona has been around 60 years, we get new ones every now and then, we have deaths from corona viruses every year, the health people know this, they also know about excess winter mortality which they are not mentioning.
Infection rate is LOWER than for flu, France had last week 175 new flu cases per 100k, this outstrips C.Virus massively, Same in England which had according to the government 14.6 new flu cases per 100k, that's 8300 for that week just in England in ONE WEEK, Scotland flu rates was 27/100k so another 1400+ flu cases in ONE WEEK. England and Wales flu deaths from 2018-19 are 89 on average every single day! Flu rate last winter peaked at 75 cases per 100k, that's 50,000 flu cases in a week.
All data is from the excess winter mortality document from 2018-19 on the .gov website see Tables 6a and 6b, download 6b to see the number of weekly flu deaths.(C.virus is added up for all weeks which is not how you report correctly)
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/excesswintermortalityinenglandandwales/2018to2019provisionaland2017to2018final#weekly-deaths-and-influenza-activity
Also Watch, listen and understand as to why these deaths are being taken totally out of context!!
this is similar to Jake Olivier counting head injuries in hospitals including those that aren't preventable by helmets (such as cut lips) and ignoring the background head injuries and deaths from motorists and pedestrians and then stating helmets are required for cyclists only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_AyuhbnPOI