This Is The Biggest Scandal: So Why the Silence?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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This is a matter of life and death - nothing is more important. So why the silence? We know we lost a huge number of people because of Covid. But right now there is a surge in deaths happening not because of Covid. This is the biggest scandal all of us should be talking about.
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| 0:00.0 | this is the biggest scandal in the country right now and so few people are talking about it and |
| 0:06.3 | when I say this is the biggest scandal in the country this is a matter of life and death and |
| 0:11.6 | actually it turns out death on a mass scale. Now bear with me here because it's really important I |
| 0:19.5 | just talk through the situation so you can see the context because what we're talking about the |
| 0:25.3 | moment is mass death I'm going to talk about COVID but this isn't all about COVID it's not all |
| 0:30.9 | about what happened the pandemic by any means it's about mass death taking place now which isn't |
| 0:36.8 | directly linked to COVID so just bear with me so what I'm going to rely on when I'm talking |
| 0:42.1 | throughout this video is a term called excess deaths now for most of the video what I'm doing is |
| 0:46.9 | talking about excess deaths above a five-year average so that's a baseline if you like you take a five-year |
| 0:54.4 | period you average the deaths and then the excess deaths are all those deaths which are above that |
| 1:01.6 | baseline so they're kind of unexpected deaths if you like they're deaths above the norm the norm |
| 1:07.5 | that you would expect in that particular period half a decade which is obviously quite a lengthy |
| 1:12.1 | period of time that's an unusual increase if that happens which needs some form of explanation now |
| 1:19.0 | we know that the pandemic caused a massive loss of life in this country in fact the biggest |
| 1:24.4 | number of excess deaths since the blitz when this country was pounded by Nazi bombs and in peacetime |
| 1:30.8 | since the Spanish flu now the reason it's important to talk about excess deaths with COVID rather |
| 1:37.2 | rather than just relying on the absolute numbers of people who died from COVID is this COVID deniers |
| 1:45.4 | those who went to great lengths to minimize the risk that COVID presented to the population |
| 1:53.2 | of this country and elsewhere one of the arguments they would push forward is that most of those |
| 2:00.4 | who died of COVID were a deaths or anyway they would have died of other reasons if they weren't |
| 2:06.8 | infected with COVID they'd often focus on the fact that they might have COVID on the death certificate |
| 2:11.6 | with COVID as they died but they had another illness which is actually what caused them to die now |
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