Observations

Let’s talk about dying

Traditionally the subject of dying has always been an uncomfortable one for most people. It is certainly the case that the public seem to have been unaware that on an average day in 2019, pre-Covid, 1,454 people died (from all causes) in England and Wales. In annual terms, that’s more than half a million deaths in the year.

Listening to the BBC, it sometimes seems as though they didn’t think anyone died before Covid.

Vast numbers die of dementia, cancer, and heart disease – the top three killers – each year, and yet the amount of public money spent on combatting these conditions is a tiny fraction of what has been spent on Covid.

The counter argument is that if radical action had not been taken by the Government, Covid would have run rampant and would have killed many hundreds of thousands of people, instead of the 80,830 who died in 2020 with Covid being mentioned on their death certificate. (This is of course not the same as ‘dying from Covid’.)

The problem with this argument is the evidence now available from the countries and US states that did not lock down, or which employed only light or limited measures.

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has been a vicious killer

For the avoidance of doubt, no-one on the Facts4EU.Org team knows anyone who is a ‘Covid denier’. There was a significant increase in the number of deaths last year, compared to previous years, almost all of it affecting the elderly. The average age of death ‘with Covid’ was 82.

Nonetheless it is perfectly reasonable to look carefully at the data, and what it might be telling us. We did this for many years over Brexit and we have not been proved wrong.

In the case of Covid, we believe that any rational person would be hoping for a proportionate response to the threat. Putting aside all arguments about the previous responses by Government in the past year, the simple fact is that the threat from Covid is now negligible. It is most certainly far below any threshold which justifies the continuation of draconian Government diktats and the curtailment of the normal freedoms in any democratic society.

But what about variants? What about a third wave?

We could of course go on like this forever.

Already we are seeing new job adverts for ‘Covid Marshalls’ from local councils who plan to spend millions on totalitarian-style local wardens, ready to start work when the Covid restrictions are supposed to be lifted in June. Just what will they be doing to your traditional freedoms? And why on earth are they necessary in a free society? If anyone breaks any laws, we have a body called 'the police' who deal with things like that.

Is this remotely right? What kind of world do we want to live in?

At Facts4EU.Org we are very well aware that the majority of the British public fully support lockdowns and all the other measures which have changed our lives so dramatically. We are equally aware that many readers are not comfortable with our analyses.

All we can do is present the official data, as we have above, and suggest that there might now need to be some proportionality, so that we can all return to our normal (not ‘new normal’) lives.

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