This will contain a list of the times you have downplayed Covid. Not actually denied it, but misrepresented the facts to imply it's less serious than it is:
Except that the false positive rate is far below 0.1%
Australia had literally 100s of ks of consecutive negative test results with no positives except in quarantine. UK can't be higher than min in this chart if all asymptomatic were false. They weren't
Again this implies that Covid isn't a problem - because otherwise why would you not want hospitals to test for it, when the most vulnerable would be exposed
Again downplaying the pandemic, and ignoring the exponential growth in hospitalisations tripling in 4 weeks and with healthcare numbers similar to October 2020
Again this isn't true. Generally Covid is less severe for those who are younger, but long covid kids are a concern to actual experts. People who don't keep asserting things without checking.
Again, not straight denial of Covid, but wishful thinking at best. And attacking Boris Johnson's government for being too cautious. Which is a bit of a flex.
True but misleading - it includes Jan-Mar 2020 with no Covid, and misses most of the second wave. This is a nightingale plot showing the weekly impact compared to every week from wk31, 1999
3/n Death rates continued:
This bottom right shows how much of the second wave has been due to January and it's not finished yet.
If you see the claim that this is no worse than the 1999-2000 winter flu*, with a graph like this, it's rubbish even by its own logic. I've used the same ONS data they claim, and time-shifted the peaks & 2020 is worse. Also note the effect of winter.
*The worst in >40 years
And if you look at the difference from the median death rate for those 20 years, so a type of measure of excess deaths you get this
Meanwhile this graph is simply plotting the weekly deaths against week number for every year starting wk 31 1999 to wk 24 2020. This shows the seasonal effect and how unusual April-May 2020 was