Away from the arguments about the best collective response to this crisis, I saw something interesting on TV this evening which encouraged me to look deeper.

It seems that people with low levels of Vitamin D stand a 50% higher chance of catching a cold than those with adequate levels. Colds are coronaviruses. They are worse in winter when our Vitamin D levels are lower, due to decreased sunlight and less time outdoors. My own empirical experience suggests that people in the tropics suffer with colds less than us.

So I did some Googling and there is quite a lot which supports the hypothesis that low levels of Vitamin D may contribute to the surge in Covid 19. Do some yourself. You could start here:- [Link]

I will be buying Vitamin D supplement tomorrow. I have up to this moment always regarded supplements as a waste of money if you ate a balanced diet.

How can numbers of deaths be up in one sentence, but down three sentences later? Maybe the "reliable sources" are not so reliable. The three points might be valid, if the point you make about why other illnesses are down was untrue. You cannot have both.

Just to give you info from someone on the ground as it were.
Australia population 25 million. Each state is running its own game when it comes to COVID action but overall, all states did come to the same conclusions.
They closed their borders.The larger states Victoria, NSW and Queensland all went into a hard lockdown.
Victoria due to a bungle in overseas admission quaraintine ended up being the last state to get a handle on things but now after a 3 MONTH Lockdown are having doughnut days that is 0 new cases, 0 deaths from CV19.
Tis virus will not go away of its own accord. You either let a certain proportion of your population die until you find a vaccine or you lockdown.
When the number of deaths and new infections get low enough you can then identify infection sources.
Up to you guys, we fought a war 1939-45 harder than this and as a sickly child who was 3 when it ended, living in Upper Norwood, I thank my country of birth for being 78 and still rattling along.
Summers over, lockdown until you win through.

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 thought I told you this is March. FFS YES! We give it to everyone in our homes. Especially those with dark skin for obvious reasons. Just take cod liver oil.

You've just completely ignored the fact that something you believe and have posted multiple times was entirely and provably inaccurate and misleading. You just change the subject when realities you don't like are highlighted, as if stating nonsense is fine if it props up outlook that you hold. If a person doesn't have the awareness (or more likely concern) that what they're posting is misleading or fabricated, nor the integrity to admit that once it's pointed out, then there is little point discussing anything with them.

So again with regard to the flu info you posted:

- The propoganda image and data excludes certain lower number years
- The author purposefully used an entirely different measure for this year than prior years to distort the data
- One set (PHE) is an 'estimates' (something you fob off in an instant when it relates to the coronavirus) the other death certificate deaths (ONS)
-If actual deaths are use there are multiple years that are already 'lower' than this year
-If PHE data is used we are early in the flu season and so the inference on the image that this years number is in, is entirely false
- the pneumonia info stated is also 'fantasyland'

There is no quality control, because you patently don't care if what you say is true, as absolutely anything that fits your idea that you're being misled by the government ticks the only box that matters for you. Ironically in adopting such a fervent and blinkered approach you are both the person who is misleading, and the person being misled.