I'm not sure if you recall, but when the Blackburn spike was identified back in July, around 80% were said to be of South Asian ethnicity and that followed on from some local paper reports, even the BBC of mass funerals locall and even a cricket tournament.Originally Posted by Fellbeast
This chart is worrying too, especially if you're Asian. Presumably its down to Asians often living at the poorer end of the spectrum, doing a higher proportion of jobs where working from home isn't an option and mixing with others more of a necessity and culturally thinking of the 'family' as a much wider thing incorporating grandparents, aunts, uncles etc
There's been other stories from around the M65 area since such as 250 at a wedding do.
Some say it's lack of understanding, some say it's a defiant attitude from some sections, but they received a lot of flack locally.
I tend to think that was unfair now.
Sir Patrick yessterday set out that 50k positive tests in October would have a knock on effect of 200 deaths in November.
Using that ratio and looking at the stats for East Lancashire Healthcare Trust we should have been getting getting fatalities by mid-end August.
We have had one on 23rd August - now 30 days without.
Something doesn't add up. Maybe these people were unfairly judged as spreaders. Maybe they were viral frgaments from earlier infections.
