Hull Protest for Gaza

A small protest outside Hull Uni, in excess of 16,000 Gaza deaths now. 7.12.23

Israeli military dead, Oct 7, 2023

On Oct 7, Hamas attackers killed about 800 civilians in Israel. Now Palestinian deaths are over 20 times that! The Israeli military dead on the Oct 7 attack are over one third of the total. Haaretz, lists 1217 dead from Oct 7. Hundreds of these were soldiers or police. (Wiki lists 368 IDF soldiers, 10

UK Excess deaths

A poor start to 2023, already over 5300 excess deaths. This time last year we were -2100 on expected deaths. Jan 2004, 3377… Jul Feb Aug Mar Sep Apr Oct May Nov Jun Dec Excess deaths 2022, by week Jan -1255, -859, -1352, -1428 Jul 1278, 928+, 1223, 1839, 1895 Feb -1280, -1045, -875, -736

Who’d have thought?!

The ONS shows a spike in deaths in the week to Dec 23 2022 – an extra 2495 deaths in England & Wales (only c. 65 extra in Scotland). Above the black line are EXTRA deaths (compared to previous years). The blue tip is covid-related, so most of these extra deaths aren’t that. Deaths, for

Covid deaths comparison: Gov v. ONS

2022 actual Covid deaths , estimate: First, let’s table govt announced deaths (28-day measure). Then each week, the ONS gives us Covid-Involved (CI) deaths via death certificates. The ONS now also gives the figure for Covid-Caused deaths (CC) for E&W, also from death certs, and provides the percentage of CC out of CI for E&W

Deep dive: The recent spike in covid deaths (UK)

Q: How are covid deaths going? Should we be worried? A: It all depends. If you’re an ordinary human being then yes. Continued, avoidable covid deaths should be a concern, and also the state of the NHS which can’t return to normal functioning, maybe for a long while. Q: Is the govt worried? A: No.