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
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
Jun 24, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
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
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 