Originally Posted by
Jet II
But not all those excess deaths are due to Covid19. I'd be very wary of making sweeping assertions about who has done this or that better based on published mortality rates given that there is no standardised system of reporting and even when a Covid19 death is reported in many cases it is not based on confirmed testing.
The excess deaths may not be due to Covid19 it’s true and I can’t say so any more than you or anyone (although the FT report the c55k figure from ONS figures does involve Covid), but it would be a massive coincidence for us to have an unrelated astronomical rise in deaths above what is normal just at the time of a global pandemic.