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   >over a third of the total Covid-19 deaths, and approximately another   
   >5,000 care home residents have died with Covid-19 after being   
   >transferred to hospital. Another 746in hospices. However, there is   
   >growing uncertainty about some care home deaths.   
   >   
   >I spoke to a care home worker in the north of England about this   
   >problem. They have had cases where Covid-19 has been inaccurately put on   
   >the death certificate as the cause of death or an underlying cause of   
   >death. One resident, well into her 80s, tested positive for coronavirus   
   >at the end of March, when she had mild symptoms. She recovered but went   
   >on to die in August. A covering doctor who had never met the resident or   
   >seen the body, insisted that Covid-19 must have been a cause of death.   
   >The care home worker says, “She actually died of old age, quite   
   >peacefully and contentedly. Old age isn’t supposed to be used on death   
   >certificates, but sometimes it’s what it is.” How many times has this   
   >happened in care homes across the country?   
   >   
   >There are a number of dangers. The Covid-19 death total is probably   
   >inflated as it has been liberally applied on death certificates. But a   
   >positive test doesn’t mean Covid-19 was necessarily a contributing cause   
   >of death. As all of my interviewees said, we have no idea how often this   
   >has happened, and now we never will.   
   >   
   >Lockdown itself has caused a horrifying number of excess deaths, just as   
   >Easthope warned. By the end of July, one report attributed 21,000 of the   
   >excess deaths to lockdown, as a result of delays to treatment. There is   
   >an “epidemic” of people needlessly dying at home because they are   
   >reluctant, or unable, to seek medical help.   
   >   
   >Frontline mental health professionals are concerned about the impact of   
   >lockdown. One ONS study showed that the number of people experiencing   
   >some sort of depression increased from one in ten to one in five during   
   >lockdown. Suicide is the biggest killer of young people in the UK. Some   
   >children remain on lengthy waiting lists for mental health treatment.   
   >Ged Flynn, CEO of suicide charity Papyrus says, “This is scandalous.   
   >Saving young lives is no longer a national priority and we must change   
   >that.” Nine out of ten calls to Papyrus during lockdown reflected the   
   >impact of Covid-19 and lockdown, with many concerned about a loss of   
   >income, reduction in service provision, domestic violence and abuse, and   
   >the potential to become infected with Covid-19. Ged warns of the   
   >“longer-term problem of emotional distress” for young people as the   
   >impact of lockdown continues and mental health services are stretched.   
   >   
   >We have never recorded and announced the deaths of one disease with such   
   >dedication. Was this in the spirit of public information or was there an   
   >intention to use the metrics designed to create fear? At the outset the   
   >British public was informed how many people had died every day. As the   
   >numbers started decreasing, the focus moved to the “R” number – the rate   
   >of transmission, seemingly generated by a mysterious alchemy – and then   
   >to new cases, where we are now. Increasing cases are, of course, also a   
   >result of increased testing. Crucially, this means the number of cases   
   >can be as large or as small as public policy determines, rather than   
   >indicative of the spread or danger of the virus.   
   >   
   >It’s just been announced that positive results will be repeatedly   
   >tested, hopefully eliminating some false positives. It’s interesting   
   >that this coincides with the lockdown screws tightening, as gatherings   
   >are reduced from 30 to six, and the first curfew since the Second World   
   >War is threatened. Ministers will be able to proclaim the success of   
   >these restrictions when “cases” can be influenced depending on   
   >sensitivity and volume of testing. We cannot leave the counting to them.   
   >   
   >Public Health England death totals had to be revised down after their   
   >counting fiasco was exposed by Carl Heneghan. If you tested positive for   
   >Covid-19, your death at any time would have been counted as a Covid-19   
   >death. Professor John Newton, Director of Health Improvement at Public   
   >Health England, said, “The way we count deaths in people with Covid-19   
   >in England was originally chosen to avoid underestimating deaths caused   
   >by the virus in the early stages of the pandemic.” Did the statistics   
   >become politicised?   
   >   
   >“Death endures as a metric. Even if the death tolls are revised down, as   
   >with PHE’s count, the numbers endure,” said Easthope. “In the UK and the   
   >US, death is the metric that we have to come to measure catastrophe by.”   
   >   
   >The anonymous scientific advisor wonders if the choice of metrics   
   >reported and the way we count deaths might be part of a plan to increase   
   >fear. After all, we know that SAGE recommended that people’s sense of   
   >personal threat needed to be increased to encourage compliance with   
   >rules. Even now we have passed the peak of the pandemic, government   
   >messaging still centres on fear.   
   >   
   >Easthope is worried that “we’ve done something incredibly traumatising   
   >to the families that is potentially bigger than the bereavement itself.   
   >In any disaster you should still allow people to see the dead. It is a   
   >gross inhumanity of bad planning that people couldn’t visit the sick,   
   >view the deceased’s bodies, or attend funerals. Had we had a more   
   >liberal PPE stockpile we could have done this. PPE is about accessing   
   >your loved ones and dead ones, it is not just about medical professionals.”   
   >   
   >Good planning was cast aside. We were not equipped to process the Covid   
   >dead, and we’ll never be able to properly count them. In decades to   
   >come, when the inevitable reports and studies are published they will be   
   >littered with asterisks and freighted with footnotes. Or worse, taken   
   >dangerously at face value.   
   >   
   >Beyond counting the dead, how do we count the cost to ourselves? Dying   
   >alone in a hospice, last rites delivered in full PPE, no family beside   
   >the bed. People unable to visit elderly relatives in care homes for   
   >months. Funerals limited to ten people. The young calling suicide   
   >helplines, bewildered and traumatised. The uncertainty over cause of   
   >deaths, the lack of closure. For this, we need the ultimate inquest and   
   >then the birth of better ways to count the dead.   
      
   In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of   
   GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's   
   secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps   
   us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne   
   pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being   
   100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**   
   appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).   
      
   Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the   
   COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by   
   rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given   
   moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly   
   contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to   
   "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and   
   self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.   
   Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case   
   scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,   
   Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations   
      
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