When the COVID War began in February, the Trends Journal was the only magazine to forecast the numerous socioeconomic and geopolitical effects of the draconian measures promoted by so-called “health officials” and politicians.
Beyond the economic devastation and increased levels of drug addiction, murder rates, and violence, a study published last week sounded the alarm about one of the unintended side effects of the widespread virus lockdown in the U.K. The study said since last March, there have been 30,000 “excess deaths” in people’s homes since the start of the pandemic.
The Daily Mail reported that a study published last week in the Heart medical journal projects a total of 75,000 deaths directly as a result of lockdown orders.
“These are deaths that should not have happened. We were in full lockdown and the message to stay at home was taken literally. People were not seeking care and many died as a result,” Chris Gale, a research professor and cardiologist at the University of Leeds, said, according to the report.
The CDC defines “excess deaths” as “deaths [that] could represent misclassified COVID-19 deaths or potentially could be indirectly related to the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., deaths from other causes occurring in the context of health care shortages or overburdened health care systems).”
The Daily Mail’s report said doctors have been warning since the beginning of the outbreak that fewer people have been seeking medical attention at hospitals. As a result, people have died from heart issues inside private homes by an increase of one-third from March to June.
Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said in August that the country’s health-care system should not be a “coronavirus-only service.”
“We have to deal first with the most clinically urgent patients, and then as soon as possible with those who have been waiting the longest,” he told The Telegraph.
David Leon, Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told the Guardian he does not consider the coronavirus itself driving the number in excess deaths but rather the hesitation to seek medical care for many patients who are sick with other ailments.
The paper reported the 30,000 excess deaths at home mark a 43 percent jump from 2019. The Guardian’s report pointed out that fewer than one in ten of those deaths were the result of COVID.
“So what we see is probably more to do with decisions that are being taken by families, by individuals, their GPs and also hospitals’ willingness to admit,” he said, according to the paper.
