• i've just been for a haircut and had to share what the hairdresser said to me.

    we were talking about the exam fiasco, i blamed the government and then the conversation lurched like this: she said 'I don't blame any government because it is new' meaning c19 and I offered that the high death toll in the UK, one of the richest countries in the world, might be reason to hold the government to account. she defended the government by saying that one customer came in saying that someone in her family had died in a car crash and it was recorded that they had C19 (the hairdresser didn't explicitly say she had been told the victim was reported on a death certificate as having died from it but this was what both parties had assumed). i asked her if she really meant that the high ranking of the UK death toll was due to a massive conspiracy on the part of doctors to inflate results and that she thought this because of the story she had heard from her customer and she said yes. then she said a whole load of disjointed whacky stuff, I was a little shocked and frightened to go any further so I just nodded for the rest of the time.

  • Taken from a Daily Mail article on a Oxford study on this very matter:

    "Using the university's data this suggest that 45,683 died from coronavirus than the Government's figure of 49,560."

    So its true that its possible that somebody can be counted as a Covid death when Covid wasn't the cause of death but its not exactly widespread.

  • sorry, I had to shear

    Fixed.

    I was a little shocked and frightened to go any further so I just nodded for the rest of the time.

    To be fair, you were in a vulnerable position at the time.

  • she defended the government by saying that one customer came in saying that someone in her family had died in a car crash and it was recorded that they had C19

    This is the case isn't it? Isn't there a footnote on all the statistics along the lines of "all deaths where a positive test for Covid 19 was recorded in the past 28 days"?

  • so I just nodded for the rest of the time.

    Did you end up with a dodgy fringe?

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