Thread by @1goodtern

Seriously.
What the heck is happening to boys aged 10-14 in England and Wales?
I mean it would be great if someone in the media even acknowledged this, let alone asked questions about it.

Maybe something like "the mysterious and silent tragedy of the near doubling in the numbers of 10-14 year old males dying in England and Wales".

Girls v Boys

Girls' deaths have risen... but boys' deaths have leapt.

Here's the cumulative difference between boys and girls deaths in that age bracket since the start of 2020.
Do you see how it goes ballistic in August 2022?

This is the ratio between the three month rolling average of weekly deaths of boys and girls.
That scale on the left is *how many times as many deaths of boys are being registered than deaths of girls*.

You can see that at one point nearly THREE TIMES as many boys deaths were being registered.

The red line is when the same number are happening.

And remember, this is *how many more* are happening - girls has risen too.

I don't know if it's caused by anything.
It may just be one of those random fluctuations.
I'm not suggesting it's caused by any specific thing.
But don't you think someone should be looking at it?

Why isn't anyone from the government or opposition talking about what they think is happening and what they're going to do about it?

And, *AS ALWAYS*, if increased deaths are occurring in any non-elderly population, they'll almost certainly be linked to increased disability across that age group.

If ten kids are dying in a week, how many are being disabled?

Let's put it another way.
On any day, you can look back and see how many 10-14 year old boys died in the previous 365 days, right?
Here's that rolling graph.
Three years ago, it was 138.
Now it's 231.
Do you understand yet?