15 Aug: UK Express: Half a million Covid deaths was ABSURD we are being DUPED, says RICHARD MADELEY
By Richard and Judy
THIS week a friend told me about an elderly relative who died a few weeks ago from emphysema. The poor man, a lifelong smoker, had been slowly suffocating for a year or more. He wasn’t expected to make it past May. Sure enough, he died before the month was out. Of emphysema.
But his death certificate recorded that he’d been carried off by Covid-19.
A blood test a few days before his death showed the patient had the virus, although he wasn’t displaying symptoms of anything other than the lung condition about to kill him.
On Wednesday Public Health England - surely the most useless, unfit-for-purpose organisation in the land - finally admitted what many of us have long suspected: large numbers of deaths attributed to the coronavirus were in fact completely unrelated to the disease.
A whopping great 10 percent, in fact. So down goes the death toll from the virus at a stroke, from 46,526 to 41,874.
It’s also emerged that England’s death rate has been falling a lot faster than official figures showed. In fact it looks now as if the country had its first completely death-free day on Thursday August 6...
The trashing of the economy, the worst recession in our history, avoidable deaths at home with people too frightened to go to hospital for fear of catching the virus, chaos in education, the explosion in domestic violence, steep rises in anxiety, depression, and heavy drinking?
Lockdown will come to be seen as one of the most catastrophic misjudgments a British government has ever made.
In Sweden, which kept schools open, businesses running and the economy in top gear, there have been fewer deaths per capita than in Britain...
You don’t need to drive your economy into a brick wall and put the fear of God into the public.
A great reckoning is coming.
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/richard-and-judy/1323175/coronavirus-lockdown-figures-covid-19-death-toll
15 Aug: AAP Australia: Latest snapshot of the coronavirus impact
By Andi Yu
* About 70 per cent of Australia’s coronavirus deaths are among aged care residents.
* NSW recorded nine new cases on Friday.
* The national death toll as of Wednesday is 375: Victoria 289, NSW 53...
https://www.aap.com.au/latest-snapshot-of-the-coronavirus-impact-122/
NSW (State of New South Wales) - according to Health Dept figures, has 16 covid patients in hospital at present.
at 1m53s: ABC’s Green: should masks be mandatory in NSW? McMullen: Premier may be left with no alternative but to mandate masks INDOORS.
AUDIO: 4m: 16 Aug: ABC Australia: AMA issues mask warning for NSW
While Victorian health authorities are confident the state has hit the peak of the second wave of the coronavirus, there are fears about the situation in NSW.
The NSW Government recommends people wear face masks on public transport and when they can’t physically distance to help prevent the spread of the virus.
The President of the NSW branch of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Danielle McMullen, is encouraging people to wear masks INDOORS, and says people need to take the threat of Covid-19 seriously. She’s been speaking to ABC NewsRadio’s Cameron Green.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/newsradio/ama-issues-mask-warning-for-nsw/12563240