Good News!

To only 7,000!

In the last twenty-four hours 260 have died. If there’s a slow down then it will show in the figures next weekend.

The lockdown must be helping to reduce cases of coronavirus but the escalation is very alarming. There are still too many people ignoring the STAY AT HOME rule

We need "normal" spring pneumonia death rates to compair.

No we don’t. It’s not a competition. This is about Coronavirus on top of ‘normal’ deaths. Are you saying Coronavirus is not a public health emergency?

The total number of deaths are doubling every three days. That means there will almost certainly have been over 6,000 deaths by the end of next weekend … and it won't stop there, although it will hopefully begin to slow down once the restrictions start to take effect (provided everybody sticks to them).

These are far higher than normal Spring pneumonia rates, which will be in addition.

There is no way that the total number of deaths will be 7,000 or less.

It is worth trying to see things positively. Stay indoors. Don't break isolation. Yes, it's bad. BUT it could be worse.

Our mental health needs every slight hint of things improving.

Birmingham Airport has been commissioned as a make shift mortuary. It has a capacity of 12,000.

Sorry Gaga x posts.

There were many less deaths than you would normally expect over this winter - according to "More of Less" on radio 4.