Joshua is a 57 year old who has done a variety of jobs ranging from court reporter, photojournalist, civil servant and assorted filler manual jobs. He currently runs the fahrenheit211.net site where he writes about politics, religion, Islamic extremism, and culture. Anybody who has a modicum of intelligence and who can understand basic data and […]
Hector Drummond Magazine reader and contributor Christopher Bowyer has done some more graphs using data from coronavirus.data.gov.uk. (Graphs can be clicked to enlarge.) The first one looks at Covid-19 positive tests (blue), Covid hospital admissions (green), and Covid deaths (red) for England. You can see that there’s been a slight increase in hospital admissions since […]
I’ve noticed an increase in the misleading use of log graphs. This is a graph where the numbers on the vertical y-axis follow a logarithmic rather than a linear scale. To cut a long story short, the numbers on this axis go up far more rapidly than they do on a normal graph. This is […]
New Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here. NHS England data here. (The ONS data is up to the end of week 36, 4 Sep. The NHS data is generally more recent, see each graph for the date.) All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or […]
For a bit of Friday night fun, let us take a look at John and Edward Grimes, who are back in the news for calling out various celebrities for being ‘Covidiots’. (I was almost going to say ‘fellow celebrities’, until I remembered it’s not 2010 any more.) Now, I am not for one minute suggesting […]
Mark Ashby is an independent researcher interested in upland and farmland ecology, and evidence synthesis. A couple of weeks ago, you may have noticed the stream of headlines suggesting that the refusal to wear a face mask is linked to sociopathy or sociopathic tendencies1-8. These headlines were written in response to the findings of a […]
Christopher has sent me another graph, this one looks at Covid-19 positive tests (blue), Covid hospital admissions (green), and Covid deaths (red) for England. Data from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ If you can see the black plague in there you have better eyesight than me. (“But wait two weeks!” is the endless-loop response this sort of graph gets […]
Much has been made of WHO’s change of mind on the use of masks in June, which is said by many to have been a game-changer. However, the relevant WHO document, ‘Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19 Interim guidance’, is anything but decisive. It says (on p. 6): There is […]
New Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here. NHS England data here. (The ONS data is up to the end of week 35, 28 August. The NHS data is generally more recent, see each graph for the date.) All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or […]
This is an article by John Church. John is an oil and gas professional and has spent some 30 years working for one of the biggest oil companies in the world. There is a lot of consternation right now about the increased restrictions related to limiting gatherings to six people or less. This has come […]
Hector Drummond Magazine reader and contributor Christopher Bowyer has done some more Covid-19 test result graphs. All data from coronavirus.data.gov.uk. (All graphs can be clicked to enlarge.) First up we have the graph of daily Covid-19 positive tests (by specimen date), for England, with a 7-day average trendline (the thick line). The data shown in […]
An article by Daphne Havercroft. In 2015 Daphne retired from a career as a senior project and service delivery manager for a global IT services corporation. She has seen and experienced the very best of NHS care, delivered by skilled and caring health professionals, and also the worst of the NHS, particularly its leaders’ callous […]
Some more graphs from David Clark, up to week 34 (week ending 21st August). ONS data is here. (All graphs can be clicked to enlarge.) England and Wales all-cause mortality. All-cause mortality for England and Wales, with the trend for the ten-year average in there for context. All-cause mortality for England and Wales […]
New Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here. NHS England data here. Other Covid data here. (The ONS data is up to the end of week 34, the week ending 21 August. The other data is generally more recent, see each graph for the date.) All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England […]
This is the second week in a row where the England and Wales all-cause mortality figure has been well over the five-year average, despite Covid deaths being miniscule (139 and 138). In week 33 it was 307 more than the five-year average, and in week 34 it was 474. Is this an indication that lockdown […]
An article by Daphne Havercroft. In 2015 Daphne retired from a career as a senior project and service delivery manager for a global IT services corporation. She has seen and experienced the very best of NHS care, delivered by skilled and caring health professionals, and also the worst of the NHS, particularly its leaders’ callous […]
This is an article about an influential BLM-supporting mask fanatic. It is written by Dr No, a medical doctor. It was originally published on Dr No’s own excellent blog, Bad Medicine, which will provide you with much amusement and enlightenment should you to care to venture over there. (If you happen to be a medical […]
David Clark sent me some graphs in July (up to week 25), which in all the chaos of the times I’ve only just now got around to sorting. ONS data is here. Here are the graphs with David’s comments on them. (All graphs can be clicked to enlarge.) “This year in the context of […]
Emma Holland is the pen name of a married mum of two children living in the North West. She has had enough of lockdown. She tweets at @Emma_Holland_ This morning I tried to use our local, council-run library with my two children (one primary aged, one at high school). Both kids are enthusiastic readers and […]
This is an article by John Church. John is an oil and gas professional and has spent some 30 years working for one of the biggest oil companies in the world. I have always smiled when I used to hear people laugh at the folly of previous generations and those who lived a long time […]