Arbitrary Covid-19 policy questionable

A PUBLIC Health England report, Excess Mortality in England, week ending July 3, 2020, raises the possibility that Covid-19 deaths have been over-reported, thereby inflating the death-toll from the virus while masking the fatal consequences of the lockdown policy.

Every excess death not attributed to Covid-19 between March and July is a step closer to the conclusion that the virus is no more lethal than a bad year of flu, which would generally pass without any comment .

The policies introduced to tackle the virus have left a wake of devastation that is hard to comprehend whatsoever; they may have killed thousands.

Given the unprecedented use of “if”, “could” and “might” in almost every piece of information relating to coronavirus, I’d like to ask a speculative question, too: if we remove the people killed by the lockdown from the excess death figures for March-july, likewise the people who died with, but not of, the virus, is it possible the virus has killed fewer people than either the lockdown, or influenza, this year?

Between 42,000-48,000 excess deaths can routinely pass without comment in a bad flu year.

Why have we killed thousands of people, smashed the economy to smithereens and torn the social fabric of a continent to shreds over coronavirus?

It may be time to contact our local MP to discover the extent of the over-reporting and how much more of this arbitrary Covid-19 policy we have to take.

GARY RAMSDEN By email