Originally Posted by
Euroboy
The best thing people can do, is IGNORE the mainstream press like the Daily Mail and the Sun. If you believe what the Mail is peddling this week, we are about to see a second wave of biblical proportions. BREAKING NEWS - Infections increase AGAIN. etc etc
There is a reason, infections are increasing, but the mainstream media wont tell you the reason as fear, sells papers and gets traffic to their website.
More and more top scientists are confirming the reason. More testing. Its really that simple. Between 1m and 2m more tests were done in the UK in July than June and we are seeing that trickle through now. If you actually look at the data properly, even though cases are rising, the number of confirmed cases to tests done, DECREASED this week. From memory, this week was 0.36% as opposed to 0.67% when we had the lowest week rolling average of new cases. Hospital admissions are at an all time low for Covid, as are deaths.
Im not saying this virus is something that should be scoffed at. Im saying the press make it out to be much worse than the data suggests. Yes, 40k people dead is awful. But how many of those actually died from Covid? We will never know but A&E admissions were down by 2million over the 3 months of lockdown compared to last year. How many deaths are attributable to that? How many deaths are attributable to cancer and heart disease treatments being stopped? I personally know of a lady who died of a heart attack and tested negative for Coronavirus TWICE but Covid-19 was put on the death certificate. Because, on her admission, the family was asked if she had any Covid symptoms. The doctors were told she had a bit of a cough (she was a smoker). Her family are challenging it but are getting nowhere.
There was a really good AMA on reddit the other day with an epidemiologist from Harvard that was really interesting. If any of you use reddit, go to r/coronavirus (which is a great sub reddit in its own right for all the covid info you need) and see if you can find it. They are really confident that a vaccine will be available by early 2021 which hopefully, will alleviate a lot of peoples fears.