Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashi...ngden-18212057

My uncle was one of the 9 (it's probably more now) at Haslingden Hall. 7 of us attended his funeral last Thursday. He was in Blackburn infirmary for less than 24 hours at the end of April.
He counts in the ONS figures, but my mother told me yesterday that his test from hospital came back negative, so he isn't on the hospital Covid figures, or at least he shouldn't be.

So excuse me for any scepticism of the ONS figures, and even the hospital ones. I think it best to wait until we get in to next year and have some properly analysed excess death figures, and not ones modelled by the press either.

In East Lancs the daily figures for new cases yesterday were:
Blackburn with Darwen 3
Burnley 2
Hyndburn 0
Pendle 1
Rossendale 2

It's almost gone in the community here. I wouldn't be at all surprised if these were sadly all care home related.
My sister-in-laws grandad (not sure what relation he would be to me), was his funeral on monday evening... only immediate family were allowed due to restrictions. However tens and tens of old work colleagues, relatives, and rather amazingly, NHS workers who'd looked after him over the past few years, all congregated in their street around the car to see him off.

Not that i'm against that, but does make you wonder why bother putting restrictions on funerals...