30 facts you NEED to know: Your Covid Cribsheet

The link above is a great summary of information. There is too much to repeat here. It is definitely worth your time to click over and read it, even if you only get part way through. It shows how media hype and government decisions do not match the risk posed by the disease. Early on in the disease progression, mistakes can be attributed to caution and the desire to prevent many deaths. Now, with much more data available, many governments have not adapted their response to changing data. Many media outlets are still reporting on the disease in a hysterical fashion and attempting to pit vaccinated versus unvaccinated. Much of the information and the way the information is presented on cable news seems more directed at maintaining fear and division than reporting actual facts.

Anyway, even a quick perusal of the linked site may reduce your anxiety related to the disease.

Maybe the most important graph and an explanation is below:

There has been NO unusual excess mortality. The press has called 2020 the UK’s “deadliest year since world war two”, but this is misleading because it ignores the massive increase in the population since that time. A more reasonable statistical measure of mortality is Age-Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR). By this measure, 2020 isn’t even the worst year for mortality since 2000, In fact since 1943 only 9 years have been better than 2020.

Similarly, in the US the ASMR for 2020 is only at 2004 levels. These figures refer to all-cause excess mortality and may include non-covid excess deaths. Official data from the US and the UK indicate that in some countries, up to one third of all excess deaths may not be due to covid, but due to indirect effects of the pandemic and lockdowns.

United Kingdom

United States