How many people have died from covid? You’d think that was the most basic and most important question of the whole pandemic. But we not only don’t know, we’re not allowed to ask.
Researchers from Oxford have concluded that it is impossible to determine just how many have died because of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, because official records were a complete dog’s breakfast. But when the Daily Mail published an article documenting exactly that, Twitter immediately blocked it, as “unsafe”.
The number of people who have died from Covid in Britain during the pandemic is impossible to determine because of the inconsistent definitions of what is meant by a coronavirus death, researchers have concluded.
Experts from Oxford University discovered that public health and statistics organisations across the UK are operating under 14 different definitions to classify a death from Covid.
Even worse, the definitions were often extraordinarily generous, meaning that “covid deaths” were certainly exaggerated.
Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, collated for a new report published on Saturday, show that many people who died in the first wave never tested positive for the virus, particularly older people who died in care homes.
Instead, their deaths were registered as Covid simply based on a statement of the care home provider, and because coronavirus was rife at the time.
There has been good grounds since the beginnings of the pandemic that its death toll was exaggerated. Anecdotally, many people reported that relatives who died of other causes were later recorded as “covid deaths”.
Documentary evidence is equally suspect: some aged care homes reported that more than half of “covid deaths” were in people without any pre-existing conditions, which the Oxford researchers noted was “implausible” for people in residential aged care. It is also unlikely that a covid infection would cause death in the absence of any co-morbidities.
Even more notable was the fact that in some areas, up to 95% of “covid deaths” were in people with Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders.
At least one NHS trust responded to an FOI request, stating that it was impossible to determine the true cause of death because no post-mortems were undertaken.
As the report authors point out, deliberately-fostered panic ruled over gathering hard evidence.
Dr Tom Jefferson, of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford University, said: “Every night we were given this diet of cases, admissions and deaths. But we found that even the ONS doesn’t have a standard definition for deaths. We found 14 different ways to express the cause of death.
“There are a number of death certificates where Covid-19 is the only cause of death, and that is not possible […]
“We found some organisations coded Covid deaths even in the absence of positive Covid tests.
“All of this means that we don’t really know who has died of Covid, or how severe it is, and this continues to this day. Separating the ravages of the virus from the ravages of human stupidity is not possible.”
The Telegraph
You’d think that this would be headline news around the world. Not if Big Tech can help it.
Twitter has put a warning on an article from the UK’s Daily Mail, one of the biggest news outlets in the country, that describes the article as potentially being “unsafe” […]
“Warning: this link may be unsafe,” Twitter displays when users go to click the link to the article.
“The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe, in accordance with Twitter’s URL Policy,” it says at the time of writing.
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Twitter has since removed the block, but that’s beside the point: the damage has already been done. Or, more accurately, the damage to the narrative has been prevented. Just as it did with the Hunter Biden laptop story, Big Tech has censored the truth just long enough for public attention to move on.