We Seem to Have Abandoned Science and Replaced Sound Policy With Private Patent Shareholders and College Dropouts Like Bill Epsteingate
Yesterday ONS (i.e. UK government) released the latest data on 2025 deaths in England and Wales. Now it's attributed to "Population Health Monitoring Group" (they keep changing that over the years) and it's only available in proprietary Microsoft formats, so you know those people basically outsourced everything to a foreign and hostile company which manipulates data, gets caught, then lies or makes excuses for it. I write about this regularly in my personal site (for several years already) as it's more about health, not tech.
According to ONS and its own data, the average number of deaths for Week 18 (latest on this year's record) in 2014-2019 was 9,804. This year it's 12,485:
In the past 5-10 years the population size grew by about 2%. Health tech generally improved. So why did deaths grow by 2,681 in that one week? That's an increase by a humongous 27.35%, based on a very large and homogeneous dataset.
If one adds up the prior weeks in 2025 and compares these to pre-COVID-19 numbers, then it still looks rather grim.
In recent weeks (albeit below the surface) the EU came under scrutiny for its handling of contracts and the pandemic. The media doesn't want to talk about it, or to mention that "too much".
Will anyone ever be held accountable?
Because of what they did there are now many people out there who reject all vaccines; as a result, once-near-extinct diseases (in the Western world) are making a comeback. In less than a year they killed trust (it takes many decades - or entire generations - to earn trust; it can, however, be dissipated and lost immediately). They've shattered confidence in public media, government officials, health professionals, and even medical technology.
This is very bad, but sociopaths could not care less about collective harm.
Maybe stop taking advice from people like Bill Epsteingate, who stood to profit from pandemics. It's not a secret; it's in his financial portfolio and track records.
The solution isn't more secrecy and more media censorship/self-censorship. The root causes of mistrust are bare for all to see. Data geeks want more data, not less of it (or changes to what data gets shared, in order to obscure stuff or obstruct comparisons).
This isn't a matter of whether you're "left" or "right" or "middle" or "apolitical"; the data itself is what matters and the data does not have ideology. █
