Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Boris Johnson hails 'success' in cutting deaths as UK tops excess deaths list" video.

And yet the week ending July 19 showed yet again a decline in excess deaths from ALL CAUSES (9,339) - this being less than the five year average . Furthermore the percentage of those deaths POSSIBLY related to Covid 19 (8.4%) is the lowest percentage for three months. Hmm.
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We're talking reduction, not total. Currently the number of deaths possibly related to Covid are the lowest percentage of the total for three months. The number of deaths from all causes is also below the five year average indicating that people who were reaching the end of their life anyway have simply died a few weeks earlier. You realise of course that the 45,961 figure you quote are deaths in which Covid MAY have played a role. It is impossible to say how many people have actually been killed by the virus, but it is obviously lower than that figure,
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@gambriehewert1677 More than you do it seems. Covid-related deaths are dropping rapidly.
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@finleylewis6121 I'm afraid you are wrong. The Office of National Statistics only details deaths INVOLVING Covid 19. It cannot do otherwise since it is clearly impossible for doctors to state firmly which of several conditions present was the main cause of death. Unscrupulous journalists, determined to make the worst of things, ignore this fact and say that Covid 19 was the DIRECT cause in all cases. It simply isn't so. Even once respected journals like New Scientist do this. Excess deaths are simply those deaths which exceed a five-year average. Obviously a great many of these were directly caused by Covid but others are the result of cancer and heart patients and so on failing to receive proper treatment due to the pandemic. The good news is that both the total number of deaths from all causes and Covid 19 are now declining quite rapidly. They have been BELOW the five-year average for the past five weeks. This would seem to indicate that a major result of the pandemic has been to simply kill off vulnerable people who would have died within a few weeks anyway.
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