"Variants Projected to Climb in May, Tighter Measures Urged," reads the Page 4 headline in today's (Victoria) TimesColonist.
And, as the article so headlined reports, British Columbia now has 102 Covid patients in intensive care.
Wow, that sure is scary.
Um, well maybe not, though sure it's tough on the unfortunate 102.
One hundred and two ICU patients equals zero point six naughts two percent of British Columbia's population of five million.
So how unusual is it to have that many ICU patients with a respiratory disease?
Perhaps not very. Respiratory disease, mainly flu or pneumonia, is a major cause of death, and those deaths usually come in a bunch at the peak of the flu season. So to have half of British Columbia's ICU beds occupied by Covid patients at what is supposed to be a new peak in Covid infections, is neither surprising, nor especially alarming.
What is, if not alarming, certainly remarkable is the change in the ratio of reported Covid cases to deaths over the course of the epidemic.
On May 6, 2020, which was the peak of the epidemic in British Columbia, as measured by deaths, 1450 new Covid cases were reported together with 189 Covid deaths.
Now, as we are reported to be battling a massive covid second wave, something surprising has happened:
While cases as reported the day before yesterday (April 8, 2021) are up more than five-fold from the May 6, 2020 peak, deaths are down five-fold, to a daily total of 38. So the ratio of deaths to cases has dropped from one in 7.7 to one in 210.
How to account for this?
Almost certainly it is the result of increased use of the PCR Covid test which has a huge false positive rate.
Because of the use of the highly misleading test, both cases and deaths are almost certainly being greatly exaggerated, but as the actual number of Covid deaths is declining, whereas the number being tested for Covid is increasing, the number of false positive cases inevitably grows faster than the number of false positive deaths.
But hear it from Dr. Yeadon, with reference to the UK, in this conversation with James Delingpole.
According to Yeadon, the Covid epidemic in Britain would be long over except that SAGE, the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies says it is not.
Further, he asserts that Britain achieved Covid19 herd immunity by the summer of last year, due largely to the existence in the population of pre-existent T-Cell immunity resulting from infection from other corona viruses, including several common cold viruses.
For similar reasons,it is likely that, in Canada, the Covid19 epidemic continues because the Government of Canada and Provincial premiers prefer to mess with peoples' lives and piss away billions for unnecessary Covid relief measures than acknowledge reality.
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