You can’t make this stuff up!! Right next to it: “Holiday bookings jump as Covid travel tests axed” (so it’s business as usual?)

As a side note, today I learned that my nephew had tested positive. He’s first in my family that I know of.

This past week (deaths registered by date):

25-01-2022: 439
24-01-2022: 56
23-01-2022: 75
22-01-2022: 297
21-01-2022: 288
20-01-2022: 330
19-01-2022: 359
18-01-2022: 438

For perspective, here’s what 20,000 people look like in a stadium:

Example of Turf Moor (shown above; Capacity: 21,944) or Vale Park (Capacity: 20,552); see more here or here.

s long as actual facts still matter, I won’t hesitate to explain them out of fear (from Twitter). The media here in the UK has become a prominent source of misinformation and distraction, so let’s instead focus on the actual facts.

According to official NHS figures, “deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate” are now at 175,256 and the Tories’ new “Plan B” is basically just insisting that coronavirus is no longer a big deal. We’re meant to just ignore those 676,081 Brits who got hospitalised with it, mostly because Tories lost control of it with their publicity stunts (like so-called “freedom day”). Next week it’ll officially be 1% of the British population hospitalised with coronavirus (a quarter of them did not survive). Here’s a reminder that this week is the deadliest in 11 months (worst since February 2021):

The excess mortality report, which was released yesterday (I’ve just made a local copy for the sake of long-term preservation), says that “[i]n week 1 2022, an estimated 12,262 all-cause deaths were registered in England and Wales (source: Office for National Statistics (ONS)). This is an increase compared to the 8,477 deaths registered in week 52 2021.”

Excess mortality was detected earlier this month. Pretending this is all normal — as if deaths don’t count and we should go clubbing — when there are 20,000 COVID-19 patients in hospitals (the number more than doubled over the Christmas period) is worse than neglectful. it’s worse than disrespectful too and Tories do this only for (big) “business reasons”…

Related: BBC is Not on the Same Planet as Us | Bill BC (Bill Gates-Bribed BBC) Lies About COVID-19 Data, Again…

This weekend (deaths are 45 percent up in the past week alone):

BBC’s face-saving propaganda for Tories (and evidence of vaccination strategy being insufficient, necessitating another wintertime lockdown):

Excess mortality is already confirmed in England for the last week of the year 2021 and hospitalisations have soared. BBC is COVID denier.

Update: BBC right now is something along the lines of, we don’t like the numbers, so please disregard the numbers.

BBC gone “full Borisnaro”. Next to it right now is a story which normalises “herd immunity”, a.k.a. defeatism.

Update (15/1/2022): Under “top stories” right now, some cherry-picked weekend data for manufactured optimism — all this while death toll soars to worst in nearly a year:

Also this morning:

So the headline (from today, top story) speaks of “Endemic Covid” (downgrading it). “Is the pandemic entering its endgame?” Endgame? Seriously??? It’s no chess, deaths have peaked again. This sort of optimism-themed propaganda helps nobody. It gives false expectations.

We’re at a similar point now to December 17^th of last winter while the government — in its latest face-saving move — underplays the severity and urgency of the latest variants:

You can see January 2022 on the far right (above). First few days shown.

As per the official figures^*:

06-01-2022	18,454
05-01-2022	18,015
04-01-2022	17,311
03-01-2022	16,325
02-01-2022	15,140
01-01-2022	14,508
31-12-2021	14,187
30-12-2021	13,170
29-12-2021	11,985
28-12-2021	10,942
27-12-2021	9,788
26-12-2021	8,770

Compare to last winter:

18-12-2020	19,117
17-12-2020	18,970
16-12-2020	18,671
15-12-2020	18,216
14-12-2020	18,246
13-12-2020	17,538
12-12-2020	16,909

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^* Daily count of confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital at 8am, and 7-day rolling average. Data from England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland may not be directly comparable as data about COVID-19 patients in hospitals are collected differently. Data are not reported by each nation every day. The UK figure is the sum of the 4 nations’ figures and can only be calculated when all nations’ data are available.

Update: Belatedly, NHS just caught up with the missing dates (about an hour ago, adding about 3 missing days). Here are the latest numbers:

10-01-2022	19,828
09-01-2022	19,056
08-01-2022	18,619
07-01-2022	18,697
06-01-2022	18,527
05-01-2022	18,064
04-01-2022	17,345
03-01-2022	16,356
02-01-2022	15,167
01-01-2022	14,533
31-12-2021	14,207
30-12-2021	13,184
29-12-2021	11,998
28-12-2021	10,952
27-12-2021	9,795
26-12-2021	8,776

So in two weeks or in 15 days, the UK’s COVID-19 hospital occupancy increased from 8,776 patients to 19,828 patients.