Did London Really See a 200% Increase in Death in April 2020?
Seriously asking about the cruellest month
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the specious New York City spring 2020 death curve but I have questions about other cities too - like London.
Wilson Sy reported there was a ~200% one-month increase in deaths from all causes in April 2020.1
I’m aware of the NICE guidelines issued on April 3, 2020, which encouraged midazolam use [NG163] and discouraged antibiotics [NG165] - plus many other horrors similar to what is being documented in Scotland & has been reported all over the world (e.g., forced intubation, mis-use of oxygen, barring loved ones from bedside, unilateral DNRs, neglect & starvation, depraved indifference toward the mentally disabled).
There’s no question that testing & euthanasia protocols were used to help create the appearance of a sudden-spreading deadly novel virus and that MANY people were killed. ⬇️
But, as with NYC, I’m wondering about witnesses to the management & removal of decedents from hospitals, care homes, and personal homes. Like my friend Steve puts it, “Who did that work?”
Going from 4,140 deaths in a month to 12,200 seems like an event that would generate videos, pictures, and testimonials about handling the bodies.
What about obituaries and burial records? Do they substantiate that many Londoners dying in the timeframe?
Can hospital admissions, occupancy, and “turnover” be matched to daily deaths in hospitals? Do the care home death numbers make sense with the number of residents living in care homes?
I see London’s Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) event was significant.2
It appears people were calling for help.3 What were emergency medical services being told to do or not do? Are there copies of the directives that were issued?
I’d love to hear from anyone who was living and/or working in London back then and can speak to what they saw, or the number of people they knew/knew of who died.4
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Post-Publication:
It’s very odd that the London OHCA event starts before the city’s “lockdown” but near-simultaneous to the U.S. government saying 15 Days to Slow the Spread on March 16th - at the same time as the OHCA event in NYC.
The London ventilator census data I have are incomplete: an April 2, 2020 start date & no sense of baseline. (NYC and Chicago have the same problem with their vent-census data.) The drop between April 8 and April 9 stands out and could either be a good thing (patients improving) or bad thing (patients dying).
Placement on ventilators requires the use of heavy sedatives. Sy reported midazolam injection data for London but the “setting” of injection (hospital, care home) is not provided.
h/t for directing me to the Greater London Authority page with this graph of weekly all-cause deaths in London by date of occurrence. No spring 2020 mass casualty event ➡️ no convincing the populace a deadly disease necessitating special treatments and a “vaccine” was needed.
CORRECTION 8/1/24: It is Wilson Sy, not William Sy.
Though outmatched by (surprise!) New York’s
AMENDMENT 8/12/24: Added London ambulance service cardiac and respiratory arrest call data obtained by
via FOIDisclosure: I’ve only been to London in novels, plays, TV shows, & movies and have no sense of the geography, how the hospitals and emergency systems function, etc.
There's the question as to why London and New York City would've had such an outlying increase in reported deaths that spring. I'm not aware of any other metropolis globally that reported a similar increase.
According to this data set, up to 79% of Covid deaths in London occurred in hospitals (for 2020), compared to 44% for all cause. Both Covid and all cause deaths start to peak in March, ie in line with the pandemic declaration.
https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/coronavirus--covid-19--deaths