Jules72 The chart for London hospitalisations is in this article.. get your data right before bleating like a sheep eh
If you saw my post to LT42 just above yours you’ll see that I already addressed the data in that BBC chart - the overall level being at 1,534 vs a peak of 8k in Jan’21, does not count as, your words “spiking big time”! It’s a molehill.
You claim I start with a bias then work backwards, but ask yourself why the charts in the BBC article you posted only start from April, rather than providing a comparison with the hospitalisations last winter and makes zero reference to those figures in the article either?
That article does at least provide a semblance of balance in at least acknowledging the lower-bound estimate of 600 deaths per day, as opposed to the nonsensical 6,000 which is getting repeated in a lot of other articles. But as I’ve shown above in the charts in the Spectator link, in every wave even the lowest-case Sage estimates have exceeded the reality.
You also claim that the Telegraph start with their opinion but then work backwards, and doesn’t “put forward a balanced view” but having actually been reading it during the pandemic it’s not been true at all - the majority of the time it has been supportive of government lockdown measures, while giving some space to a minority of journalists who have been generally more sceptical, eg Ross Clark. It has only been in the last few weeks whereby the overwhelming tone has shifted from supporting government measures to questioning them. Meanwhile, while also reading the Guardian there has never been anything other than an assumption that we should always be locking down faster and harder.
I have been following the Guardian’s coverage as much as the Spectator’s for “balance” but the difference is as the data and reality has shown, one set has generally been far more correct than the other.
Finally, if you’d bothered to read the Fraser Nelson article I posted above where he talks to the Sage advisor, there is rather the implication there that it has been the Government that has been acting on the first principle of already deciding that we must lockdown, and then been asking Sage for analysis which would justify it.
