An important thread posing important questions- BBC source: Coronavirus: France's first known case 'was in December' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52526554 1/x

So if that’s the case, especially in the tourism hotspot that is Paris, Covid would have spread and ravaged europe in Jan and Feb of 2020 and we therefore should have seen high numbers of “excess deaths” in this period should we not? 2/x

So therefore, I looked at ONS death data for around q1 2020 and lo and behold: (Source- ONS data on deaths England and Wales)

Cumulative variance between each week’s deaths is 30k down on the 5 year average, with only three weeks exceeding (week 1,2 and 12). Then we entered lockdown around the 20th of March and suddenly...