Alas, Alrock, there are a couple of inconvenient truths that get in the way.....
Peak "death with conoravirus" coincided with peak lockdown.
Influenza, as a virus, like conoravirus, is spread by similar means. But yet, lockdown did little to slow the cases of flu.
Pneumonia, as a bacterial infection is a touch different from the other 2, but infection vectors are broadly similar.
Neil's focus on excess deaths seems to omit to acknowledge that for the last 7 weeks, there is a death "shortfall", in that less people are dying of everything than on (5 year) average. That shortfall existed in January to March as well, prior to any lockdown.
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