{"id":70597,"date":"2023-06-28T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T06:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=70597"},"modified":"2023-06-28T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T06:57:32","slug":"covid-is-still-a-mass-killer-but-the-govermment-is-pretending-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/06\/28\/covid-is-still-a-mass-killer-but-the-govermment-is-pretending-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid is still a mass killer &#8211; but the government is pretending otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a popular narrative that Covid has gone away. Except it has not:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">25,700 excess deaths in the UK in half a yr (on average ~1000 excess deaths\/wk). To me, it&#39;s amazing this isn&#39;t a scandal. If this trend continues, it would be &gt;50K excess deaths for 2023. Being largely ignored in the media - with nothing being done as people continue to die. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q3XYYiOwjJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/q3XYYiOwjJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dgurdasani1\/status\/1673784127525621761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And we are not alone:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-70598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-28-at-07.49.16-550x383.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-28-at-07.49.16-550x383.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-28-at-07.49.16-431x300.png 431w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-28-at-07.49.16-768x535.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-28-at-07.49.16-574x400.png 574w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-28-at-07.49.16.png 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, we are living through a staggering public health crisis where exceptional numbers of people are dying whilst many more are routinely suffering with a quite serious illness and we are told to just pretend otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>If the first job of a government is to protect its population then ours is very clearly failing.<\/p>\n<p>Why have they chosen to do that? Why do most people acquiesce?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a popular narrative that Covid has gone away. Except it has not: 25,700 excess deaths in the UK in half a yr (on<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/06\/28\/covid-is-still-a-mass-killer-but-the-govermment-is-pretending-otherwise\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,181,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-coronavirus","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70601,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70597\/revisions\/70601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}