Five Wake Up Facts with Useful Context
Comparing annual death rates over the last 30 years, 2020 only ranks 19th highest for England and Wales, why is a pandemic being declared?.
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Research shows lockdown could cost more lives than Covid-19, claiming the equivalent of over 500,000 lives overall due to economic damage.
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The common swab test (PCR test) does not detect a living, infectious and transmissible virus, only fragments of its genetic material which can remain in the body from a past dead infection.
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Labs process swab tests differently, research in the Oxford Academic shows a number of these configurations can produce nearly 100% false positives.
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It is unlikely the first lockdown caused the decline of the first wave, according to a study. Fatal infections seem to have already been falling before lockdown came into effect, when the lag between infection and death is accounted for..
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Covid, Tango and The Lagom Way - by York film maker Claudia Nye
A 45-minute documentary made by Claudia Nye, an Argentinian film maker who now lives just across the river from me in York (UK). It compares her experiences of the ongoing crisis - and the responses to it - in both the UK and Sweden.
Claudia manages to interweave her love of tango dancing and her experience as a relationship therapist with excerpts of an interview she was granted with Anders Tegnell (Sweden's Chief Medical Officer) to produce a fascinating - and very engaging - piece of work. She filmed it all on practically zero budget, too!