Were Tuesday and Wednesday Fridays too?
Want to unlike that. But like the explanationThat's why you need to look at the 7-day average more than the individual daily numbers. The average smooths out these fluctuations caused by administrative processes.
For information, the 7-day average went up today - again. In fact, it's pretty much identical to where it was 11 days ago, so the decline in new deaths has plateaued at best.
Lockdown was about flattening the curve. It was never once stated that it was to kill the virus (which it will probably kill itself off).I think it is too early to end lockdown too. I know there are some people sufferring during lockdown, and I feel for them. For me, by far the lesser of the two evils is lockdown. Unfortunately our lockdown was too slow and not hard enough.
That's why you need to look at the 7-day average more than the individual daily numbers. The average smooths out these fluctuations caused by administrative processes.
For information, the 7-day average went up today - again. In fact, it's pretty much identical to where it was 11 days ago, so the decline in new deaths has plateaued at best.
You explained why today's figure was so high. You didn't explain why the figures for Tuesday and Wednesday were equally high.Lockdown was about flattening the curve. It was never once stated that it was to kill the virus (which it will probably kill itself off).
Which we were told would happen by the Whitty and Valance if you remember back to the start.Which is correct. 14 days ago the 7-day average was 342 and today it is 236, which is a decrease of 30.9%.
So good news, yes? Well, 10 days ago the average was 244 and today it is 236, which is a decrease of 3.3%.
So, it fell by 28.7% over the course of the first 4 days and then it's only fallen by 3.3% in the 10 days since.
No it was ultimately about protecting the NHS.You explained why today's figure was so high. You didn't explain why the figures for Tuesday and Wednesday were equally high.
Also yes lockdown was never about killing the virus but easing it has stalled the recovery, and stalled it at a point where many peoole are still dying. As someone pointed out on twitter today the death rate in this country is the equivalent of an Airbus A320 crashing and killing everyone on board EVERY 12 HOURS.
We weren't even close to being ready to ease lockdown. In fact it should have been tightened.
So you're happy for over 300 people to keep dying of it every day? When we've seen from almost every other country that if you exit lockdown correctly you can virtually kill the virus? You're happy that we, as a single country, are killing more people than the rest of the EU put together?No it was ultimately about protecting the NHS.
I'd say that has been accomplished wouldn't you seen as though lots of hospital wards around the country are empty?
You've also seen from other countries like Sweden, Japan, Iceland, Belarus, Taiwan, South Korea is that lockdown isn't necessarily the be all and end all.
At what point have I written that I am happy about people dying? Please directly quote me.I'm appalled at the death rate, utterly appalled. Also appalled that the lockdown is being eased when the death rate is so hi and not going down. You might be happy for a plane full of British citizens dying every 12 hours but I'm not. I find it disgraceful.
I'm not sure I did say I haven't had COVID-19 but I never had the symptoms that's for sure. And yes it is obvious that deaths would go up as measures have been loosened off. So why? Why are you pushing for them to be loosened if you yourself admit it's more deadly?At what point have I written that I am happy about people dying? Please directly quote me.
People die every day from many different things
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/how-many-people-die-each-day-covid-19-coronavirus/
150,000 on average every day worldwide. But it seems you (and many others) are only bothered about the ones who are unlucky enough to die from covid-19 related causes. People die and it's a sad fact if life, infact it's the only thing we are promised. You are born, you live, you die. People have suddenly developed this misconception that we live forever, we do not. Constantly fearing death every day is not healthy and is liable to cause more damage to your health than covid-19.
You live in the London area yes or have I confused you with someone else? Why do you think you haven't caught covid-19 yet? Have you left your house at all since the time Johnson shut the country down?
Herd immunity was the government's goal from the start and they cocked up by changing their plan after they had already started it.
But instead of locking down the elderly and most vulnerable of society they locked everybody down. It's fairly bloody obvious that cases and deaths would go up as measures have been loosened off.
I'm not sure I did say I haven't had COVID-19 but I never had the symptoms that's for sure. And yes it is obvious that deaths would go up as measures have been loosened off. So why? Why are you pushing for them to be loosened if you yourself admit it's more deadly?