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Hector Drummond

Author of The Face Mask Cult, and Days of Wine and Cheese

Category: Covid-19

Wednesday 22nd April 2020Thursday 23rd April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Do the ONS numbers show that the lockdown is killing people?

Note: If you’re a new reader to my blog and you’re finding these long stats-based posts not your style, take […]

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Tuesday 21st April 2020Thursday 23rd April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

More week 14 Covid-19 graphs

A reader of this blog, Christopher Bowyer, sent me some more interesting graphs. First of all we have the age […]

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Monday 20th April 2020Monday 20th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Winter 2019-20 graph, and a Covid-19 place of death graph

Laurence Hodge has done us this graph of deaths this winter up to week 14 (click to enlarge): You can […]

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Monday 20th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Graph: number of deaths involving Covid-19, registered, occurring and reported

David Clark has sent me a new graph, again based on the ONS stats (click to enlarge): This one is […]

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Monday 20th April 2020Thursday 23rd April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Avoiding deaths cannot be the be-all and end-all of public policy

Here’s a thought experiment. Consider two possible worlds, A and B. World A has more freedom, higher levels of happiness, […]

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Sunday 19th April 2020Thursday 23rd April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Is the lockdown killing people?

As I said in an earlier post, there were 6082 deaths more than the five-year average for week 14, yet […]

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Saturday 18th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Respiratory deaths graphs

Here’s a graph of weekly respiratory deaths for England and Wales up to the end of week 14 (3 April), […]

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Friday 17th April 2020Thursday 23rd April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Some digging into the week 14 death numbers

If you download the latest ONS death stats spreadsheet, and look at the page entitled ‘Covid-19 – E&W comparisons’, you […]

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Thursday 16th April 2020Thursday 23rd April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

More week 14 graphs

Here are some more graphs for week 14 of 2020, which have been done by an academic reader of my […]

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Thursday 16th April 2020Thursday 23rd April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Week 14 line graphs

Here are some more graphs for week 14 of 2020, which have been done by a reader of this blog, […]

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Tuesday 14th April 2020Tuesday 14th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

6082 extra week 14 deaths, yet only 3475 Covid-19 deaths

We had 6082 more deaths in week 14 than the five-year average, yet only 3475 deaths that week were Covid-19 […]

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Tuesday 14th April 2020Tuesday 14th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

ONS week 14 figures out

The ONS figures for week 14 (England and Wales) are now out. Finally we can see a rise in deaths, […]

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Monday 13th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Week 13 bar graphs 2010-20

Another academic reader of this blog sent me some bar graphs based on ONS data. The first one is all […]

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Monday 13th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

A weekly death chart colour-coded for deviations from the mean

Another blog reader send me this chart, which provides another way of looking at current and recent UK death figures […]

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Monday 13th April 2020Monday 13th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

A historical perspective on winter deaths

Blog reader Laurence Hodge has sent me some graphs, all done with ONS excess winter deaths data. First, here’s a […]

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Monday 13th April 2020Monday 13th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Taking probability seriously on Covid-19

Here’s another way to think about the probability issue. Suppose you think Neil Ferguson is right, and 250 000 people […]

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Sunday 12th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

More on Covid-19 and decision theory: the assumption that the lockdown will help

One other thing to say about my Covid-19 and decision theory post is that I have assumed in my toy […]

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Saturday 11th April 2020Saturday 11th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Covid-19 and decision theory: some general morals to draw

The UK government (and various other governments around the world) have decided, at least in effect, that the expected utility […]

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Saturday 11th April 2020Saturday 11th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism, Philosophy

A risk-benefit analysis primer

People are asking me on Twitter what my ‘core thesis’ is on Covid-19. I don’t really have one, but the […]

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Friday 10th April 2020Covid-19, Government, Health, Health fascism

Ferguson speaks

In case you can’t read it, here’s the text off the Financial Times’ recent story on Neil Ferguson, including quotes […]

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