Thread by @karamballes

🧵Telegraph article on excess deaths, tries to dismiss the possibility covid increases risk of cardiovascular issues to focus on lockdown harms

2/ First question, if lockdown is the cause then surely we should see huge excess numbers in China, Australia, New Zealand etc,

3/ Circulatory issues and diabetes the main cause of excess deaths

Suggests it could be alcohol and work from home

4/ NHS is struggling
Government underfunding mentioned? No
Staff absence rates, still high due to covid? No

5/ Let's see some of the experts, ah Dingwall...

6/ Dingwall...

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1387151969127653376?t=IzDvm-N6Kwmo7RGY_SMo1w&s=19

7/ Next one
When covid was killing a similar number of people there was clamouring for restrictions, cutting covid transmission would of course help cut these wait times, but the Telegraph opposes those measures

Article doesn't offer any solutions

8/ Next expert Carl Heneghan, demanding an investigation

9/ Heneghan calls for an investigation of death certificates

His CEBM is now affiliated to Pandata which is claiming vaccines are cause of excess deaths

10/ Pandata, Herd immunity lobbyists, Trump administration advisers, Republican governor candidate and a collection of prominent antivaxxers and conspiracy theorists

https://twitter.com/CDPNetworkMap/status/1553089850970095616?t=S8QIL-tTC9IzNzVnS1H5XQ&s=19

11/ Heneghan knows exactly how his comments would be interpreted by some, actually it's quite odd Knapton doesn't find time to say there's no evidence vax is responsible, almost like they want people to make that interpretation

12/ We do get one voice quoted suggesting covid as a cause but considering the rest of the article readers are led to believe this is a fringe view

13/ Then we have Jefferson, also at CEBM...

14/ Remember many of the harms of lockdown crowd in 2020 predicted we would already have 250,000 to 500,000 lockdown deaths by now,

15/ #HARTleaks show Knapton who wrote this piece is seen as a good route to getting antivax disinformation into the mainstream

16/ And what a more nuanced view on excess deaths looks like

https://twitter.com/ActuaryByDay/status/1560527181637472256?t=S8QIL-tTC9IzNzVnS1H5XQ&s=19

17/ I see Sikora is being touted in Toby Youngs Daily Sceptic today

https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1560584293986058241?t=37iPBpFHIAOynCbbbOJ0MA&s=19

18/ But it can't be lockdown harms because the talking scrotum has already concluded excess deaths are due to boosters

19/ Perhaps Sikora would like to mention his private healthcare interests that took up covid contracts to support NHS and has now gone bust?

Don't worry he got paid

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1533815988868759552?t=t1XqPy3D-ifahAtrKPRBxw&s=19