Tim Drayton wrote:erolz66 wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:erolz66 wrote:
Is what is happening with this virus, nothing out of the realm of the unusual and just akin to flu virus outbreaks that go around every decade or so , or not Tim?
Yes, I believe so. Compare it to what happened in the 1968 Hong Kong epidemic.
As a man keen on discrepancies you seen no discrepancy with
having to use and event that happen 52 years ago as proof that it is something that happens every decade or so ? None at all ?
Or let me make it even simpler for you. Would you claim that world wars are something that happen every decade or so ?
your confirmation bias is showing real bad on this one Tim.
From your favourite source:
“In the 2017 to 2018 winter period, there were an estimated 50,100 excess winter deaths in England and Wales.
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Over one-third (34.7%) of all excess winter deaths were caused by respiratory diseases.”
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... o2017finalIf we assume the 34.7% to be down to the flu, that makes for around 17,385 flu deaths that winter.
Do you understand what Excess WINTER deaths are Tim ? What the measurement measures ? What the formula for it is ? It is the measurement of how many more people die in WINTER than SUMMER in a given year. Try reading the very thing you THINK shows what you want it to show but in fact that does not show it at all, unless you are drenched in the great smell of confirmation bias.
When you are in a confirmation bias hole as big as the one you have dug yourself in to, you might be well advised to stop digging.
Shall we try and get back to reality for a moment ?
In reality no sane sensible person would try and claim that world wars are events that happen every decade or so. There has to be a reason why someone apparent sane and normal would try and make such a claim.
In reality the FACTS are that excess deaths seen in ONS mortality data are ALREADY greater than any previous such spikes seen since AT LEAST 1968 and arguably are as big as that or even greater. FACT.
