Except all these figures that show there's a deadly pandemic raging are based on mass testing using PCR and more recently lateral flow tests. Cases are just positive tests. Hospital admissions are just people in hospital who test positive (and all patients are tested). Deaths are just people who die of any cause within 28 days of a positive test.
To get a true picture of what's going on you have to look at data that are independent of PCR tests. So overall hospital and ICU occupancy, excess deaths, emergency calls for flu-like symptoms and so on. Strikingly, these data all speak in unison and tell a very different story.
Look at the graph below of A&E attendances in England for acute respiratory infections (which include COVID-19). It's trending well below baseline and, save for a September spike leading into elevated winter levels, been almost flat since the spring.
What about flu-like illness? Flat and well below baseline since spring.
Pneumonia? Also flat and well below baseline.
999 calls for Covid-like symptoms? Largely flat since spring, though up a little in the last few weeks.
Deaths? Nothing out of the ordinary for winter. As PHE state in their most recent report: "In week 52 2020 in England, no statistically significant excess mortality by week of death... was seen overall".
There are also the reports of Covid-like symptoms that users of the ZOE app send in each day, prior to any PCR tests being carried out. Like the other symptom-based data, these are largely flat since spring.
Much is being made of the current pressure on the NHS, but in reality there is a winter beds crisis in the NHS almost every year, and hospital occupancy rates this winter are similar to previous years. Some areas like London are currently under pressure, but that is mainly due to staff shortages - up to a third are off sick or self-isolating - and additional Covid constraints that have reduced the availability of beds and increased staff workloads.
Lockdown Sceptics regular Dr Clare Craig has gathered all this data together in one place and added a commentary explaining what it means. She says:
One thing that Public Health England has been world beating for before and during this pandemic has been the sharing of data. Data is collected from every aspect of the healthcare system and we now have the full dataset for 2020. The beginning of the graphs therefore give an indication of the levels expected at this time of year.Well worth reading and sharing.
A selection of this data is presented that tells the story of a Spring pandemic. However, what this data reveals about Autumn and Winter does not fit the hypothesis that there has been a second wave. PCR testing results are an outlier in the data and only data related to PCR test results has led to the impression that there is currently a Covid problem.
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Cultists this engrossed can NOT be simply shown their plaster God is hollow. It wouldn't matter.
Let the needle cull the herd. Do not administer the needle but let nature follow its course.
R.C.
Current conspiracy is as follows:
Dr. Kary Mullis gets 'disappeared' so he can't complain about the misuse of his PCR test, which has been used to inflate the numbers to the point where everyone is convinced there's a pandemic. (PCR is a clinical analysis tool and can't be used to diagnose disease).
As there isn't any evidence of a pandemic, the WHO re-define what a pandemic is, to include the nothing burger of Covid19.
The WHO also re-define the meaning of herd immunity to make it seem that we all need Big Pharma's vaccine or else we'll all die.
Our immune systems that have served us for the past 200,000 years apparently stopped working in early 2020.
The WEF founder Klaus Schwab literally writes a book called 'Covid19, The Great Reset' and sends it to all governments worldwide.
Rather than dismissing this as the rantings of some deluded old nazi world domination lunatic, they actually think it's a good idea and start to implement it worldwide. (They were already sold on Agenda 21).
Include shadowy secret societies and very rich 'foundations' into this toxic mix and we have the situation we now find ourselves in.
You're welcome.