Put simply, the key metric that defined our lives for the last 2 years

Is garbage. Total garbage. This data - and it's implications - is barely making the news? Surely it should have been obvious some time ago to PHE / SAGE / civil servants / etc, that there was a clear and significant disparity between excess deaths and 'confirmed' deaths? Should we have based policy on excess deaths rather than 'confirmed' once the magnitude of the discrepancy was apparent?

Posted By: Timmy_Goat on May 5th 2022 at 15:46:18

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So it turns out the UK has had fewer excess Covid deaths (Coronavirus) - Old Git, May 5, 14:23:42
- Sweden seems to have done rather well, after all (n/m) (Coronavirus) - paulg, May 5, 21:48:34
  - Did awful compared to their scandi neighbours (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 23:53:29
- Is there a mental illness component in this? (Coronavirus) - usacanary, May 5, 17:23:09
  - No increase in suicides (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 17:29:46
    - 👍 (n/m) (Coronavirus) - Jumbo1, May 5, 18:09:53
- but, but, but, noooooooo! (n/m) (Coronavirus) - paulg, May 5, 15:36:04
- I was absolutely staggered by those figures (Coronavirus) - Timmy_Goat, May 5, 15:09:22
  - What do you mean? (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 15:18:04
    - Put simply, the key metric that defined our lives for the last 2 years (Coronavirus) - Timmy_Goat, May 5, 15:46:18
      - Put simply you are talking garbage, total garbage (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 16:15:32
        
        What you should have found is excess deaths (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 16:27:53
        
        Knowledge and correcting bollocks is obviously a massive concern (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 16:34:32
        
        come round (n/m) (Coronavirus) - Chris Peacock, May 5, 16:44:32
        
        You really are way to invested in this.... it's actually worrying (n/m) (Coronavirus) - ParrotPuncher, May 5, 16:29:39
        
        Very odd (n/m) (Coronavirus) - jamesward, May 5, 16:21:30
        
        No idea where he gets this from (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 16:32:18
      - Ahh well,hopefully the boy will live and learn. (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 5, 16:06:26
    - Actually excess deaths have dropped in comparison since 2020 (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 15:27:18
      - Deaths within 28 days currently 175K (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 15:30:22
    - You're starting to see.You won't accept it because you're far more intelligent than me (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 5, 15:21:42
  - What do (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 15:14:43
    - THE STATS ,THEY AREN'T TRUE?!?! (n/m) (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 5, 15:17:11
- Probably down to the benefit we got (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 14:44:51
  - might simply be down to the fact that Germany has (had) a fairly considerably (Coronavirus) - Mecagoenti, May 5, 15:21:17
    - Yep valid point (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 15:32:17
  - As you get older the things you cling on to as a belief system just get (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 5, 14:50:27
    - Not a clue what you’re on about (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 15:00:34
    - Innit (n/m) (Coronavirus) - ParrotPuncher, May 5, 14:52:00
  - You can't handle it if statistics are unreliable can you? (n/m) (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, May 5, 14:46:21
    - Eh what’s unreliable? (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, May 5, 14:48:10
- Considerably above global average. (Coronavirus) - Legacy Fan, May 5, 14:30:34
  - Unhealthy population suffers from respiratory disease non shocka (n/m) (Coronavirus) - CWC, May 5, 15:36:59
- All right Boris, pipe down (n/m) (Coronavirus) - jamesward, May 5, 14:29:18
  - Haha (Coronavirus) - Old Git, May 5, 14:54:39

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