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I have sometimes wondered if deaths were "encouraged" just long enough to get the ball rolling and bridge the gap to the start of the quasi-vaccination campaign.

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I'm still baffled. The figures are very odd.

It might be worth exploring the history of 'fashionable' diseases...

Everyone was alerted about Covid, but anyway, what kind of hypotheses might be within the realm of possibility?

Could there have been an undetected strain of pneumonia, sepsis or some other background bug doing the rounds in Spring 2020, which then was confused with, masked by, and/or compounded the ill-effects of Covid-19?

Could we even be looking at the wrong pathogen altogether?

In the Lancet, at least one expert called this a 'Syndemic'... thats a clue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndemic

I mean, I've had Covid-19, probably twice, and really it isn't that bad. And I have zero medical or bacteriological qualifications. But maybe it was reacting with something else - a sort of double jeopardy? Or is this just a silly amateur idea?

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Yes it is baffling. This level of regional coordination is not what we would expect to see from a virus working its way through the population. What we are looking at is artefact, though the hike in death is real. Anecdotal evidence coming to me from various folk in the care sector suggests improper and widespread use of end-of-life care pathways for elderly folk who were not suffering from COVID and not necessarily at the end of their life.

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My own experience of the elderly care sector - both as a care worker and also as a family member - would be that the very dfiverse and unconnected teams of staff in different homes - some small and family owned - some large corporate chains, some even local authority or charity run, all have different degrees of ethos and Esprit de Corps: virtually all of the ones I know would be mortally offended to hear that they were being accused of corporate homicide or failure of the sacred Duty of Care, so I think we have to be ultra-cautious with that hypotheses.

But if you have insider knowledge, so fair enough: I'm just a bit surprised that whistleblowers haven't come forwards to complain about coertion to their professional nursing and or social work bodies - and/or to Industrial tribunals in the case of resignations and unfair dismissals.

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This isn't about coercion; it is about following guidelines for best practice. Everybody was no doubt doing what they thought was best. The trouble comes when nobody questions 'best' practice. Fail to question your practice for long enough on a large enough scale and you can harm people.

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