A report from the
UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows that
since at least June 19th, more people in the UK have been dying of influenza than Covid19.
This, of course, is despite the fact that "Covid19 deaths" are incredibly vaguely defined.
Under UK law a person only has to test positive for the Sars-Cov-2 virus
at any point in the 28 days prior to their death for "Covid19" to be on their death certificate, a policy which totally ignores the fact the majority of Sars-Cov-2 infections are completely symptomless (and has already
resulted in huge over-counts).
Meanwhile boring old influenza is lumbered with
having to actually contribute to the death before being added to the death certificate.
And nevertheless, for three straight months, the UK has recorded more flu deaths than Covid deaths.See this graph:
"Ah", some of your may be saying,
"this is just evidence that the lockdown, social distancing and masks have worked."But that is obviously not the case.
Clearly, if these measures did anything to halt viral transmission, the flu deaths would have gone down as well. They have not. They are right in line with the five-year average.
Despite social distancing and wearing masks and hand sanitizer on every corner...the spread of the flu virus has not halted one bit in its usual annual progress through society.Ergo - the "emergency measures" have little to no impact on viral transmission.
Comment: While it looks like Israel is proving itself (yet again) to be the Authoritarian State par excellence, it's interesting to see that even its own are refusing to have any part of another stultifying and ridiculous lockdown.