Hiram Abiff

Coronavirus: World risks 'biblical' famines due to pandemic - UN https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52373888

50% of ICU beds empty, 40% of all hospital beds empty, 70% reduction in people seeking help for cancer symptoms, thousands dying in the U.K. from lockdown and hundreds of millions worldwide to die of starvation including millions of children. Social media filled with NHS staff doing well rehearsed dance routines in empty wards. Any lives this illegal lockdown *may* save is going to be swamped by the numbers it will kill. People in the U.K. working from home on full pay, or on a long holiday getting 80% from the government. Yes, dead easy to support the lockdown. To quote a favourite phrase of the moment, “you’re killing people”

You okay with this @bazil85? This is what your lockdown is causing. David Beasley is the head of the UN’s World Food Program, and on Tuesday he warned that we could actually see famines of “biblical proportions” by the end of this calendar year. The following comes from ABC News… The coronavirus pandemic could soon double hunger, causing famines of “biblical proportions” around the world by the end of the year, the head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. Beasley warned that analysis from the World Food Programme, the U.N.’s food-assistance branch, shows that because of the coronavirus, “an additional 130 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020. That’s a total of 265 million people.”

Wrong again https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18377095.coronavirus-scotland-half-icu-beds-empty/

Nothing to do with the lockdown according to Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University https://news.yahoo.com/lockdown-damage-outweighs-coronavirus-warning-121940675.html

The illegal police state lockdown is killing Scots https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18373354.coronavirus-poverty-lockdown-missed-covid-cases---really-driving-mystery-surge-scottish-deaths/

More than half of ICU beds in Scotland are empty I thought the purpose of this illegal police state lockdown was to ensure that the NHS wasn’t overwhelmed? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18377095.coronavirus-scotland-half-icu-beds-empty/

UN Secretary General warning that a global recession resulting from the worldwide coronavirus lockdown could cause “hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths per year.”

Deaths in week 1 of 2000, a bad flu year in the U.K, were higher than the peak week of Covid 19 in 2020 according to ONS stats. And there have been fewer deaths so far this year than in 2015 or 2018. So, whatever type of flu year you’d classify this, it obviously doesn’t merit trashing the economy. Nor does it merit 5,000 people dying as a result of lockdown

Looking at today’s ONS mortality stats we can see that, so far this year, there have been 3,089 FEWER deaths than there were over the same time period in 2015, the last time we had a bad flu year in the UK. With the virus peaking before lockdown began, and the lockdown itself having killed nearly 5,000 people in the last 3 weeks, it now appears that trashing the economy has been act of total stupidity.

Your prediction of nearly 4,000 deaths per day were to kick in before lockdown would have any effect doh! You’re just embarrassing yourself with your stupidity now oaksoft And have you been able to find evidence of me linking to any white supremacist websites? No need to answer as I know you can’t. Your a liar. The real truth is that you are supporting the right wing fascist police state imposed by a known racist. And if you need me to help you any further with how data modelling works, like you’ve asked me for in the past, don’t hesitate to ask.

Hi cockless 👍 have you threatened to put anyone in hospital yet with your new alias?

Sweden’s equivalent Imperial College estimates put their ICU usage at 8,000-9,000 beds at the peak if they followed through with the strategy they went with. The peak ICU usage turned out to be less than 600 beds. Putting that another way, their peak ICU usage turned out to be less than 10% of what was predicted. Imperial College estimated that there would be 250,000 deaths in the UK related to Covid 19 if we went with Sweden’s model. If we reduce that estimate by a factor of 10, based on the experience in Sweden then we get to 25,000 deaths. Which is no worse than a moderate flu season and not far off what Imperial College were predicting if we followed lockdown Meanwhile lockdown itself has so far killed nearly 5,000 people with some estimates reckoning that lockdown will kill 150,000 in the UK How anyone can support that is beyond me

4,862 excess deaths in the past 3 weeks not accounted for by Covid 19 according to the latest ONS report The lockdown is killing people, not saving lives

So we haven’t reached the near 4,000 deaths per day that @oaksoft predicted? And to put this prediction (the very word that he used himself) into perspective, @oaksoft was predicting that nearly 3 times as many people would die every day in the U.K. from Covid 19 alone than normally die each day. Oaksoft’s stupidity knows no bounds

Professor Linda Bauld from the University of Edinburgh says on BBC Newsnight: ”unintended consequences of lockdown may well outweighs what we do to protect people from the virus. In Scotland, people seeing their GP for cancer symptoms is down by over 70%, visits to A&E are down by about 50%. It’s worrying. We’re also seeing from ONS and National Register of Scotland that all cause mortality is up and a lot of that is not explained by Covid 19 so there’s going to be real consequences, not only to those not using the NHS but, thinking about the mental health outcomes, some of the other behavioural risk outcomes we know that cause disease, we know that domestic violence has increased. These are big consequences of the lockdown and the longer we continue the lockdown, the worse these consequences will be”

Professor Heneghan said 'The peak of deaths occurred on April 8, and if you understand that then you work backwards to find the peak of infections. That would be 21 days before then, right before the point of lockdown.' He refers to a delay in the time it takes for an infected person to fall seriously ill and die - three weeks on average. He claims that if the Government accepts that deaths peaked on April 8, then it must mean that infections were at their highest around three weeks prior. Data shows the rate of Britons with upper respiratory tract infections dropped from 20 per 100,000 people on March 15 to around 12 per 100,000 just six days later. The figures do not relate solely to coronavirus but may be a good indicator because so few people were being tested for the deadly infection. Explaining the logic behind his claim, Professor Heneghan said: 'The UK Government keeps saying it is using the best science. 'But it appears to be losing sight of what’s actually going on. We’ve been getting scientific advice that is consistently wrong. 'It has failed to look at all the data and understand when the peak of infections actually occurred.' He added: 'Fifty per cent reductions in infections occurred on March 16, right when hand washing and social distancing was introduced. 'If you go look at what’s happening in Sweden, they are holding their nerve and they haven’t had doomsday scenario. Our Government has got it completely the wrong way around.'

A professor at the University of Oxford has argued the peak was actually about a month ago, a week before lockdown started on March 23, and that the draconian measures people are now living with were unnecessary. Professor Carl Heneghan claims data shows infection rates halved after the Government launched a public information campaign on March 16 urging people to wash their hands and keep two metres (6'6") away from others. He said ministers 'lost sight' of the evidence and rushed into a nationwide quarantine six days later after being instructed by scientific advisers who he claims have been 'consistently wrong' during the crisis. Professor Heneghan hailed Sweden - which has not enforced a lockdown despite fierce criticism - for 'holding its nerve' and avoiding a 'doomsday scenario'.

When you work it out let me know. 😉

Sweden shows that isn’t true

Unless the plan is to stay in lockdown forever, there was no point in going into lockdown in the first place!

Sweden has proved that a total lockdown wasn’t required to flatten the curve The debate will soon turn from why the government didn’t act sooner to why the government totally over reacted Watching and listening to the backtracking is going to be interesting as will listening to the usual suspecting whining about the colossal austerity that will emerge from the wrecked economy when they supported wrecking the economy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/sweden-says-controversial-covid-19-strategy-is-proving-effective

Nicola Sturgeon was happy to allow an Old Firm march to be played before banning mass gatherings Scotland must never forget what her overriding priority was - supporting sectarianism

Since the lockdown hysteria began, nearly 1 million children worldwide have died of starvation and related illness

Here in Sweden we're playing the long game, and listening to science not fear https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/sweden/articles/sweden-coronavirus-policy/amp/