[Exile on Spencer St]

For the first time ever I took up the offer of a flu jab last autumn.
Over Xmess, again for the first time, I had flu, or at least something much more than just a cold (persistent dry cough, lots of snot, feeling very yucky for a week).
If it happened now, I’m sure I’d be told I had the symptoms of Covid-19.

An epidemiology team from Oxford University, in contradiction to the one at Imperial College London that has ‘captured’ the Government and media with its doomsday predictions of 500,000 deaths in this country, suggests this virus has been in the UK since November. So maybe I did have Covid-19, or maybe it was just one of many flu viruses flying around.

The puzzle to me is that, in the first week of January this year 2141 people died of or with respiratory diseases. For the next ten weeks the figure slowly declined to 1557. But no-one was looking or testing for Covid-19, so not one of these deaths was attributed to that virus in that period.
However, by the week ending 27th March, there were still 1534 deaths, but suddenly 539 are down to Covid-19.
So hundreds of deaths are now being attributed to Covid-19, and yet the total number of monthly deaths has not massively increased!

It may yet, of course, but, for now, I remain unconvinced that the ‘cure’ being enforced on everyone will not be as bad or even worse in the long run than the disease.