Will need to add hypothermia as a result of fuel price rises / as well as deaths due to heat stroke in the next few weeks/ to the mix as well..<derail>
I'm pretty sure Elbows has posted a lot about this in the covid forum, but yes the viable definition is called "excess mortality" and is used in insurance as well as medical reporting e.g.
UK suffers record period of 'excess' mortality
UK mortality has been above 2019 levels for 22 consecutive weeks, which is the longest continuous period of 'excess' deaths recorded in the country since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.www.theactuary.com
</derail>Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)
Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis above and beyond what we would have expected to see under ‘normal’ conditions.1 In this case, we’re interested in how the number of deaths during the COVID-19...ourworldindata.org
As you say though there's not been a huge comparison to other countries - as it's often difficult to correlate differences across geographical populations even within the same country. MD in Private Eye has done a series of excellent articles on the difference, as well as excoriating the government's handling of it (esp. cronyism in track and trace and PPE contracts).
Also as you say, it seems many people don't really care about it though.
We can only pray he heads over there to lead the resistance from the front.A friend of mine is working in Ukraine (Kyiv) and just send me this photo. Not sure what to make of it.
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Dont you think the Ukrainians have suffered enoughWe can only pray he heads over there to lead the resistance from the front.
Lest we forget he's also the cunt who stated "New age travellers? Not in this age, not in any age!" and promptly introduced some of the most repressive domestic legislation of the final years of the 20th century.hmm
won't argue about the 'dull'
not an outright liar on the same scale as johnson, but hmm
and wasn't he shagging edwina currie at the time of his 'back to basics' moralising?
More likely that a bunch of people got flown out there whilst we were all looking at the unfolding chaos...I wonder if this all means that the Rwanda nonsense might be quietly shelved
Naah. It's completely the wrong people, bar Sunak and Gove.Johnson would hang this on his wall
Naah. It's completely the wrong people, bar Sunak and Gove.
Moggy?? Dont be daft. Why is Javid on the backbench? He should be the Patel character.
And it looks like Iain Duncan Smith leering behind Govey. wtf?
Clearly one of the brightest and best this country can produce.
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So they deserve an entertaining blood sacrifice.Dont you think the Ukrainians have suffered enough
The problem with that picture isn't just that it's poorly executed with some of the wrong people. The problem is the idea it conveys: that Johnson has been betrayed, like Ceasar.Naah. It's completely the wrong people, bar Sunak and Gove.
Moggy?? Dont be daft. Why is Javid on the backbench? He should be the Patel character.
And it looks like Iain Duncan Smith leering behind Govey. wtf?
Yeh he wouldnt know the senatorial stripe was purple not redJohnson would hang this on his wall
A modern lambton wormHe's still doing great work. Proving the conservatives lack of ability to organise dropping him without turning it into a me me me circus. The sticky turd that wont flush
He made that himself didn’t he.