I'm having a data day, to counter the Graphs of Mass Destruction. Let's have some balance.

This is a useful collection of charts that offer a wider perspective. https://swprs.org/covid-the-big-picture-in-7-charts/

Talking of Graphs of Mass Destruction... Lockdown followed the widely debunked doom and gloom models of Imperial College. Let's see what they had to say about Sweden and what actually happened....They were wrong! And the UK government is still using Imperial models now *groan*

And this graph really gets Covid 'cases' (positive results NOT necessarily symptoms) with Covid deaths and 'all cause' deaths. Covid has taken a lot of lives, but it is not the worldwide killer that was feared.

This chart looks at US not UK unemployment but it's a very worrying picture. Can't hide the doom and gloom here. Unemployment has increased sharply following lockdown policies. Let's see what happens in the UK when furlough ends.

The UK government is mainly focussing on the volume of 'cases' (by which they mean positive test results, not people with symptoms) and not talking much about all the other metrics which are important for context. Let's stay balanced and informed.