Quote Originally Posted by Mike T View Post
Because for every bus death there will be a Covid death that was missed as the test was a false negative - and letting us see the results using the old method of working out the figures means there is no sudden jump in the numbers, and we can compare the results from the start of the pandemic up to the present.
The 88% of Covid deaths within 28 days, as I said, depends on how you define a Covid death, and how accurately the death certificate is filled out. I am very suspicious that many of the deaths said to be from pneumonia and flu are in fact "missed" Covid deaths. And imagine the pressures on a doctor filling out a death certificate where the Covid was hospital acquired.
If someone cannot have their curative cancer operation because there would not be an ICU bed for them post op because of Covid, then that is a Covid death as far as I am concerned. Many such operations, and the investigations preceding them, have been delayed. Hence my enthusiasm for excess deaths, not just deaths said to be from a specific cause.
I take my mother to hospital on a regular basis for treatment. Pre-covid the waiting room used to be "packed".

Yesterday there was no-one there when we arrived and in the hour and a half we were there I saw two/three other patients in the same department. I conclude that patients who had not started their treatment last March are being deferred. But for whose benefit?