Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter’s chart shows your chances of dying of corona virus covid19 vs normal risk of dying is the same. That means all the death statistics being reported are deaths that would have happened anyway. It can’t be made any clearer.
Neil Ferguson advised Boris Johnson to put the UK in lockdown because there’d be ‘a half a million extra deaths’, and he gave this advice based on the chart above. Which means he lied. Which begs the question: WHY ARE WE REALLY IN LOCKDOWN?
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