Scotland has recorded its lowest March death rate since 2014. The rate was also among the lowest in 50 years, but the country’s National Clinical Director insists it is too soon to lift lockdown. The Times has the story.
Deaths in March were among the lowest in the past 50 years due to a dramatic decline in Covid and other illnesses linked to old age.
There were 5,529 deaths between March 1st and April 4th – the lowest for this period since 2014 and among the lowest in five decades.
Last week alone there were 969 deaths from all causes – 149 below the five-year average and the lowest number of deaths of any month since the last week of September 2020.
There were 38 deaths linked to Covid last week – including 27 where the virus was the underlying cause – the lowest since October 5th. …
A total of 9,997 deaths have been linked to Covid since the pandemic hit Scotland in March 2020.
There have been 2,784 deaths directly attributed to coronavirus in 2021 but a huge drop in other illnesses that primarily affect the elderly – particularly other respiratory illnesses such as flu which are 1,123 below average.
There have been 148 fewer cancer deaths, 348 fewer deaths linked to Alzheimer’s and dementia and 183 fewer deaths linked to heart disease and stroke.
Despite this positive news on the country’s falling death rate, Scotland’s National Clinical Director said it is still too soon to unlock.
It is fantastic and testament to the work of 5.5 million people as well as the health and social care service.
Is it still worth doing what we are doing now? I would say yes – but we are opening so we are now taking into account the other harms as we have done the whole way through.
That balance is now tipping to opening the economy to allow people to have more of a social life, whereas before the balance was tipped the other way.
Soon we will no longer be able to call it lockdown anymore. Can you call it lockdown now that the barbers are open and you don’t have to stay at home quite so much? Maybe – but on April 26th I think you can probably stop calling it lockdown because non-essential retail, hospitality, schools, universities and colleges are open.
The health advisers, the chief economist, the chief social policy researcher have tried to strike a balance over the past 14 months – and you can judge whether we have got that balance right or wrong.
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More deaths from Covvie.
Fewer deaths from everything else.
Doesn’t that strike you as a bit … odd?
Covvie cures everything, except death.
Fewer deaths = proof that lockdowns work; More deaths = proof that lockdowns are necessary; Same number of deaths = Keep the lockdown going to stop the surge.
Yes, that’s called ‘superstition’.
…. a huge drop in other illnesses that primarily affect the elderly – particularly other respiratory illnesses such as flu which are 1,123 below average.
Don’t they normally drop at this time of year?
There have been 148 fewer cancer deaths, 348 fewer deaths linked to Alzheimer’s and dementia and 183 fewer deaths linked to heart disease and stroke.
Because they’d already bumped off the vulnerable?
Because COVID-19 was the cause of death on the death certificate.
The part about striking the right balance over the past 14 months is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve read for a while. The government and it’s advised have never given a damn about the lives or general wellbeing of anyone who doesn’t have Covid. It makes me mad that they can even claim that they have. F***ing lying bastards is the phrase that springs to mind. The only thing that suprises me is that they don’t thank people with severe mental health problems/old people lock in their care homes etc, say that their suffering was for the greater good, and make them modern day martyrs to the cause.
That would be to admit that those poor people were murdered, which they were.
Love the “can you really still call it lockdown…”
Yes, yes I can. When I cannot enter shops without a mask. When museums remain closed. Theatre.
The scientific community created the outline of lockdown. Until people have the same freedoms they had February 2020, it’s lockdown.
Absolutely right.
The worst lockdown is on zombie minds, They have ceased to be human in any meaningful sense. Face-knickered, bowed, shuffling and subservient, they don’t even look human.
I think that’s one of the most depressing things – the way they crawl around supermarkets, deliberately avoiding eye contact, unless it’s to glare at an unmuzzled face. I make a point of beaming and chatting at every opportunity, just to remind them what it was like to be human.
A suitable retribution on those who imposed and enforced this on us would be to make them follow the strictest rules and (even informal) guidance by law for the rest of their lives, making them unable to leave home without a reasonable excuse and only once a day, require them to socially distance, wear face coverings except when drinking/eating, always wash their hands whilst singing ‘Happy Birthday’ twice, etc., all enforced by constant video surveillance in their homes.
I have long thought this & it must all be done from a care home.
Without the comfort of family visitors.
I read her title, the National Clinical Disaster.
Soon we will no longer be able to call it lockdown any more….
Can you call it a lockdown when you can go to the barbers…
You psychopathic, self serving, evil evil man…
If there is a God in heaven I pray you get what you deserve, just feel one little iota of the pain, despair and anguish you have inflicted on people over the last year…
They’ll just say it was due to their draconian lockdown.
The people are to blame for not rising up and filling the jails and halls of power with civil disobedience and defiance.