Deaths to date for the year, week 15

By Hector DrummondCovid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

For England and Wales:

2020 deaths to week 15: 184 960

Five-year average to week 15: 174 718

The gap between 2020 and the five-year average will grow, yes, but there’s no sign of a once-in-a-century disaster.

Note also that up to week 15, we’ve had 32 763 flu deaths. Bear in mind that respiratory death numbers are fairly normal this year, and it appears that most Covid-19 deaths aren’t going down as respiratory deaths, so this isn’t category isn’t including many C19 deaths. (Although possibly some flu deaths from earlier in the year were actually Covid-19 deaths.)

These numbers come from the ONS bulletin (section 6, see Excel sheet).

Here’s a graph from the same bulletin (click to enlarge):

(Next ONS release is tomorrow.)

Update: Please jeep sending me graphs, I’m not always able to put them, up straight away, but I usually get them up before too long.

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7 thoughts on “Deaths to date for the year, week 15”

  1. As we look for possible reasons why Covid-19 and other diseases have such an easy time striking us down nowadays, the diet recommended by governments since the 1960s has a lot to answer for. “Healthy whole grains”, vegetable oils and excessive sugar appear to harm us in many ways, and in particular the following studies demonstrate that sugar intake directly weakens the immune system

    “Eat sugar, catch cold — and die?

    “Surely not! Colds are a fact of life — everyone gets them. They may be a nuisance but that’s all, isn’t it? You’d be surprised how dangerous the common cold can be. In 1954, the British Medical Journal published a paper showing that respiratory infections, particularly colds, were the most common irritating and aggravating factors in congestive heart failure.[7] In two studies of heart failure, more than half the patients had some form of respiratory infection and a direct correlation was found between the frequent occurrence of heart failure and ‘even minor colds’. The common cold, it seems, can be deadly.

    “The role of refined carbohydrates in respiratory problems was demonstrated dramatically in a study comparing the Kikuyu and Maasai tribes.[8] The Kikuyu, living mainly on cereals, had a death rate from bronchitis and pneumonia which was ten times higher than that of the meat-eating Maasai. A similar comparison carried out at a girls’ boarding-school found the same: researchers demonstrated that the incidence of colds among the girls was directly related to the amount of sugar each consumed. Their evidence showed that the girls who drank fizzy drinks and ate sweets and other refined carbohydrates suffered many more respiratory problems and colds than girls who did not. The advice given to reduce the likelihood of getting a cold was to cut out sugar and eat no bread or other products that contain either wheat or rye”.

    http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/why-eat-5-portions-3.html#.WhXrOTe1vDE

    That article continues and gives more useful and extremely relevant information. These are facts that were published in the BMJ in 1954! We can’t say we weren’t warned. But it’s hard for mere medical truth to prevail against the combined might of the grocery, pharmaceutical and medical industries.

  2. “As we look for possible reasons why Covid-19 and other diseases have such an easy time striking us down nowadays …”

    Hold on! If diseases have such an easy time striking us down, why has the average life span been increasing?

    This is not to detract from your point about inappropriate governmental guidance on diets. I keep returning to Michael Crichton’s proposal that before a government issues any edicts supposedly based on “science”, there should be a public adversarial trial of that “science” — with the Devil’s Advocate side getting proper funding.

  3. “These are facts that were published in the BMJ in 1954! We can’t say we weren’t warned. ”

    Yes Tom – a bit sobering isn’t it?

  4. “Hold on! If diseases have such an easy time striking us down, why has the average life span been increasing?”

    Good point Gavin – but we only have 10 years left, Greta has told us.

    The thing is that for a long time medical science has developed ways of keeping us alive and ahead of the curve, but there are signs that we need to keep looking over our shoulder.

  5. Hector,

    I had a look through the ONS link you posted and got bogged down in NOT finding what I was looking for,

    The 32,763 flu deaths surely are not all Flu, but include those dying with pneumonia.

    Is that correct?

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