Improvement in France and Spain a bit to do yet but. 17 weeks to our road tour Freedom not Fear https://www.google.com/search?ie=UT...source=android-browser&q=france+covid+figures
The Isle of Man is pretty much the same. Relies heavily on tourism in the form of motor bike enthusiasts!
The plot thickens as India halts export of Astra Zeneca vaccine to U.K. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56513371
When you read this post you can see that the numbers of 600000 dead have no evidence at all they are just blindly repeating the main stream media who are the doom merchants who peddle fake news and hope to control people with fear. I would hate to live in fear like that You can be a doom merchant and live in fear if all you do is listen to the hysteria of the main stream press. Or you can free yourself from the fear of the press. Choose the red pill or the blue pill.
The case fatality rate of this virus at the start was about 1% across the planet. Let's take todays numbers 125,000,000 recorded infections across the globe, number of deaths 2,750,000, ok. So I take it you can do basic arithmetic and divide the number of deaths by the number of infections, that comes out at 2.2% that is the case fatality rate after a year of data, a whole damn year. Some countries will have been better at recording infections than others but that number 2.2% is the average number of deaths by detected cases and is statistically significant given the period of time it covers. You know what the UK case fatality rate is, same calculation UK cases to date 4,312,908 total deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate 148,125 so do the arithmetic that's 3.4%. So I suppose you are going to tell me that these figures are fake, well these are UK Government figures published here Cases | Coronavirus in the UK (data.gov.uk) and here Deaths | Coronavirus in the UK (data.gov.uk) The UK population is 67,430,000 people, 3.4% of that population equals 2,315,000 dead, now that would not happen even if absolutely nothing had been done because predominately the majority of deaths have been in older cohorts and that is a subset of the population, so estimating that across the entire population the death toll could have been 1% is pretty close to the mark in my opinion and would have seen 670,000 people dead, IF WE HAD WE DONE BUGGER ALL, as it happened we have all endured a prolonged set of lockdowns and as a result the death toll total so far is only 150,000 or about 0.25%. So you can be as optimistic as you want, but these figures are not coming from the press, these numbers can be calculated by anyone with a brain and a primary school education by taking data from published public government sources. So feel free to feel smarter than everyone else and go around calling everything you don't like fake news, you can hold that opinion if you want, but your opinion is counter factual.
Yeah I did spot it and I saw this reported on the television. If the vaccines work it is to be expected and we should see more of this in the coming weeks.
That's great news Malcolm in a couple of weeks you will be fully protected and probably unlikely to get hospitalised if you do go on to contract Covid. Let us know if you get any larger side effects this time.
That's from a year ago, and this is using ethics to justify how scarce resources should be allocated, the real problem that should be addressed is why the resources were scarce in the first place, particularly in the richest country in the world a country that pays way more for healthcare than any other developed nation.
Good stuff. Mine is due in early May. May 6th in actual fact. So not long to go now. Hopefully the supply lines will remain intact.
The underlaying assumption has been that age is the root cause of susceptibility when it is in fact metabolic health and not age.
In the news today. Lets hope it helps us all navigate through whatever the virus variants throw at us. No mention of the under 70’s yet though....
Topped up on vitamin d today in the back garden and yesterday at Bolton Abbey. A couple of glorious early spring days.
Is that old ruins? They look very interesting, there's similar near Ripley but there's fencing and Keep Out signs everywhere.
They are ruins though I think part of the Abbey (the church) is still used and intact. A whole section of the river and the Abbey is open to the public. And is well kept for the purpose. It’s great for picnicking and walking. The woodlands are full of very old trees, birds etc. We actually heard a woodpecker or two... The stepping stones are great fun but the water was a bit high yesterday. It’s in a nice part of the country near Skipton. Not near Bolton.
