Cynics among us will recognise a situation where the government miraculously engineers a lock-down exit in time for Christmas.

They reason, correctly, that the public are dumb enough to believe anything.

Like believing this lockdown was necessary in the first place.

Viruses are always present and they can floor you for months if not years.

If you are elderly or weakened by a health condition then this nasty little germ is very dangerous, but not otherwise.

A total over-reaction mirroring the hysteria of modern Britain.

Not all illnesses and disease are identical. Covid-19 is very contagious... as pandemics tend to be... so it may well be both harder to avoid and also easier to be impacted by (death rate) than most other respiratory illnesses for instance.

And beyond that, people are clearly dying of covid in large numbers. Earlier, I highlighted why the 'flu and pneumonia are being bunged in as covid enmasse' theory was inaccurate and precisely how those numbers were both false and misleading. This is along the same lines in that it's part of an endless effort from various angles to both underplay and undercount the tens of thousands people that have died of this horrible virus.

Edited by BlueJay (01 Nov 2020 6.33pm)

There is a big difference in the way countries gather their data, and how they manipulate that into statistics.
Australia recorded no new CV19 infections today, but then who did they test, and what numbers ?

Clearly the track-and-trace stystem in the UK needs to be made fit for purpose, as it clearly seems to be having minimal effect.

Chris Whitty needs an enema, cos he is so full of 5hlt. The "We just have to make up measures as we go along" line was so disheartening from a Professor.

Any measures previously introduced have been done too late, resulting in loads of deaths. Now the rate of infections is increasing and deaths are only at a plateau at the moment because all the really old and sick people are dead already.

At least wetherspoons are selling Real Ale up until lockdown for only 99p a pint. It's nice to know someone is learning how to cope better with the disease.

I disengage, I turn the page.

First, this is all published information from reliable sources. So I don't have to explain anything, these are facts.

If you want my guess though as to why: 1) not everyone is being careful; 2) the SARS COV2 virus is spectacularly good at spreading and 3) there is so much misinformation being bandied about that many people don't know what to think or do. There are plenty of facts to support all three points.

Wow. Is that a fact? Who would have though that?

The reason I have stopped replying to you by the way, is because you constantly divert from the post. Address what I posted, not what you feel you want to say. How can illnesses be falling because of being more careful, at the same time as one illness, namely C-19 is rising. It's either both or neither, however you want to twist it.

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

There's nothing like a reasoned reply.

And that is nothing like a reasoned reply.

The first two paragraphs are speculation. The third is open for debate by all, but many seem to not hear, or deliberately ignore other scientist's views. Chosing to accept whatever the gov. tells them (which is usually unthinkable). And then you derailed.....

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers