Thread by @scojw

We've now had equal periods without vaccines (Mar20 until rollout complete in May21) and without vaccines (May21 until now), 63 weeks of each.
We see that despite assurances, ‘acute COVID hospitalisations’ post #sacredcows are 59% higher in the 60+, and 133% higher in under 60s

What we see is;
- More people hospitalised, both <60 (19,000 versus 8,000) and in the'vulnerable' 60 and above (27,000 versus 17,000)
- NO more 'flat' periods where there are no admissions, the rate of admissions is faster than before, and incessant, no breaks

So too ICU - PHS now note "If people test COVID-19 positive on admission to hospital, it may not be the primary reason for admission, and instead an incidental finding"
No 💩 Sherlock, been saying that forever. Look at winter 2020 - 50% of ICU was “Non-COVID19 clinical diagnosis"

Note the data in the chart above run RIGHT BACK TO THE START.
That means when government was shutting down your business in winter 2020, they KNEW - they had the data - that half of those numbers were incidental, non-COVID.
And they crushed your business anyway.

(Also frustrating that PHS seem happy with public health in Scotland - apparently oblivious to the fact that excess mortality is as bad as winter 2020 (+4 standard deviations of Z-Score), and last autumn was even worse).
If it ain’t COVID, it don’t matter?