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Reading this from the the ONS:
The provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 10 April 2020 (Week 15) was 18,516; this represents an increase of 2,129 deaths registered compared with the previous week (Week 14), is 7,996 deaths more than the five-year average and is the highest weekly total since Week 1 in 2000.
... it sounds like those numbers might only be lying around in a handy weekly format starting 2000? Otherwise it'd be quite the coincidence that specifically week 1 of the year 2000 had such an unusually high mortality... Here you can get the numbers starting from 2010, I can't find any actual numbers from 2000 right now.
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Begs the question - to me anyway - what was going on 20 years ago?
I know that, really, this has passed into common parlance and is therefore probably an accetpable use of the phrase, but this is the internet, so:
That is not what "Begs the question" means. You could say "Raises the question" instead and not ever be bothered by twats like me again.
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Begs the question - to me anyway - what was going on 20 years ago?
Apparently there was a flu epidemic and cold winter in 1999/2000 although I'm not sure if the death numbers were actually higher then or not.
ONS apparently have weekly death numbers going back to 1837.
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Read some headlines along the lines of ‘highest death numbers in 20 years”
Begs the question - to me anyway - what was going on 20 years ago?
Anyone know?