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1/2Update with latest ONS numbers:* In the latest week of data (to 09OCT) there were 9954 deaths* In the same week in 2019, more people died (9973)* c19 deaths (green)

1/6The UK's policy response to Covid resembles a mass hallucinationFear drove Govt's to assume worst cases and make extreme decisions with grave long-term consequencesFor 80% of the elderly said to

1/8Lockdown scepticism is on the riseLockdowns are costly in money, impacts to public health and liberty. We have jumped out of the plane first and only now are we taking

1/5NHS Doctor Malcolm Kendrick:GPs often put Covid on death certificates. with no test, masking the deaths that are due to lockdownA&E visits are down by 50%, a proportion of this

1/3The head of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health:Norway could have brought the coronavirus pandemic under control without a lockdown, and called for the country to avoid such far-reaching measures

1/4Dr Lass, former Dir-Gen of the Israeli Ministry of Health:The population is brainwashed, a monstrous hysteria.Gov is afraid of people and draconian measures makes them more hysterical. They feed each

1/4Recipe for the Brave #NewNormal from @OffGuardian0:Take a poorly defined virus, add inaccurate tests, get many critically ill people tested positive.Report your high death rates while vague whether they died

1/5Important comments from statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter:* The risk of coronavirus for the young is “staggeringly low”,* the government’s handling of Covid-19 is “embarrassing” 2/5* Gov's treatment of statistics was