Surprise Surprise. Not mentioned on mainstream media.

[zouzounaki]

The number 17000 obviously doesn't tell the whole story of Covid deaths but it is a perfectly valid statistic that wasn't being reported and Dr Campbell simply pointed it out.
The BBC say...
"Covid myths that spread on social media very often have a kernel of fact at their heart - a real statistic that gets misused - to tell a story which ends up far from reality."

But it's not just Social Media that does this, does it Mr/Mrs BBC?

I think Dr Campbell has done a good job of reporting and explaining the stats and facts. Not perfect, but a lot better than most including the BBC.

it’s think it was the way he bugged it up as some kind of massive story that wasn’t being reported. i didn’t find the figure surprising, and didn’t see how it was really a big story. clearly many more people have died of covid than 17000. that 17000 of those didn’t have underlying health issues is interesting, but not really all that consequential, surely?

 

[zouzounaki]

The issue is misinterpretation of the comments on Social Media.
But in this case it's Javid's comments so we don't care as he's a Tory wanker.

and he’s brother’s beefin helen.

 

[Crewella]

it’s think it was the way he bugged it up as some kind of massive story that wasn’t being reported. i didn’t find the figure surprising, and didn’t see how it was really a big story. clearly many more people have died of covid than 17000. that 17000 of those didn’t have underlying health issues is interesting, but not really all that consequential, surely?

.............. and it was reported, by the Telegraph.

 

[knome]

it’s think it was the way he bugged it up as some kind of massive story that wasn’t being reported. i didn’t find the figure surprising, and didn’t see how it was really a big story. clearly many more people have died of covid than 17000. that 17000 of those didn’t have underlying health issues is interesting, but not really all that consequential, surely?

He also stuck an extra "N" in Omicron for a while so obviously a terrible person.
I think I'm making the mistake of considering him angelic in comparison to the turdfest of the BBC.

 

[zouzounaki]

He also stuck an extra "N" in Omicron for a while so obviously a terrible person.
I think I'm making the mistake of considering him angelic in comparison to the turdfest of the BBC.

omnicron?

 

[Crewella]

Nomicron?

Nom nom??

 

[andipandi]

I dont mind Dr Campbell, he does though have a vested interest in uploading regular vids, he knows 100's of 1000s will watch them and he will get a nice pay packet from the monetisation of his uploads.

 

[Crewella]

More here:

ONS debunks ‘spurious’ Covid deaths claim shared by David Davis
Suggestion true number of deaths in England and Wales could be as low as 17,000 is factually incorrect, says ONS

Claims shared on social media, including by the former Brexit secretary David Davis, that the true number of deaths in England and Wales caused by Covid could be 17,000 have been debunked as “spurious” and factually incorrect by the Office for National Statistics.

The ONS responded after tweets by Davis suggesting that the figure 17,371 represented the death toll in people with no other underlying causes. Davis tweeted: “Up to the end of September 2021, the official count of the deaths of people with Covid was 137,133.” He added a freedom of information (FoI) request indicated only 17,371 of those deaths occurred in people with no underlying causes.

The FoI request to the ONS asked for all deaths in which Covid had been given as the sole cause on the death certificate, which is about a tenth of the generally stated toll.

James Tucker, an analyst at the ONS, said that to suggest the lower figure “represents the real extent of deaths from the virus is both factually incorrect and highly misleading”. It was common for Covid victims to have had a pre-existing health condition, but that did not mean they were at “imminent risk of dying from that condition, or even considered to have reduced life expectancy”, he wrote in a blog.

Diabetes was the most common pre-existing condition for those dying from Covid, but, he wrote, “this does not mean they were at risk of dying from it”.

There was a huge range of pre-existing conditions that could be listed on the death certificate, from heart disease and cancers to obesity and heart arrhythmias, he wrote.

The ONS distinguished “between deaths that are ‘due to Covid-19’ and those ‘involving Covid-19’ to provide the most comprehensive information on the impact of the disease on mortality”.

“More than 140,000 deaths have been due to Covid-19, meaning that it has been determined as the underlying cause. To exclude individuals with any pre-existing conditions from this figure greatly understates the number of people who died from Covid-19 and who might well still be alive had the pandemic not occurred,” he wrote.

Davis appeared to have come across the statistic after watching a video he described as an “excellent summation” made by the YouTube blogger Dr John Campbell. Davis did not say that the figure represented the true pandemic toll, but described the video as “disentangling the statistics”.​

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ious-covid-deaths-claim-shared-by-david-davis