Deaths from Flu 2014 - 2019 in England (Public Health England)

Total number of deaths (approximately) associated with influenza (observed through the FluMOMO algorithm) in England, 2014 to 2019. Never mind about Scotland, Wales and Northern Island. 

2014/2015 - 28,330 (*25,143)  

2015/2016 - 11,875 (*9,495) 

2016/2017 - 18,009 (*15,167)

2017/2018 - 26,408 (*22,237)

* Over 65

The overwhelming majority of deaths in England were in the 65 and over age group.

So why don't the medics get a sense of proportion and stop bullying the British public. The elderly are the only ones to be protected from a pandemic.

THE FIGURES FOR FLU ALONE IN 2015/2016 AND 2017/2018 ARE COMPARABLE WITH THOSE OF COVID.

The Chinese Virus Covid -19 Highlights the Dangers of Globalisation

COVID-19 was first 'discovered' in animals in a market a short distance away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology - The National Bio-safety Laboratory. Why would the Wuhan Institute just down the road from the market have had the good fortune to 'discover' this virus? Was their Bio-safety laboratory not so safe after all? Did they know exactly where this disease came from? Did they accidentaly release the virus? Or did the Institute release the virus deliberately. Why were the Chinese able to control the disease so quickly?  Why did they their send their experts around the world giving their advice?

WUHAN ARE PLAYING GOD (Wikipedia report on the Wuhan Institute of Virology)

It is hard not to believe that the source of Covid 19 was the Wuhan Institute of  Virology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. No wonder the Chinese reacted so strongly!!! 

The Institute was founded in 1956 as the Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In 1961, it became the South China Institute of Microbiology, and in 1962 was renamed Wuhan Microbiology Institute. 

In 1970, it became the Microbiology Institute of Hubei Province when the Hubei Commission of Science and Technology took over the administration. 

In June 1978, it was returned to the CAS and renamed Wuhan Institute of Virology. In 2015, the National Bio-safety Laboratory was completed at a cost of 300 million yuan ($44 million) at the Institute in collaboration with French engineers from Lyon, and was the first biosafety level 4 (BSL–4) laboratory to be built in mainland China. 

The laboratory took over a decade to complete from its conception in 2003, and scientists such as U.S. molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright expressed concern of previous escapes of the SARS virus at Chinese laboratories in Beijing, and the pace and scale of China's plans for expansion into BSL–4 laboratories. 

The Laboratory has strong ties to the Galveston National Laboratory in the University of Texas. In 2015, the lab published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect HeLa. 

In 2020, Ebright called the Institute a "world-class research institution that does world-class research in virology and immunology".

In February 2020, the New York Times reported that a team led by Shi Zhengli at the Institute were the first to identify, analyze and name the genetic sequence of the Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and upload it to public databases for scientists around the world to understand, and publishing papers in Nature. 

In February 2020, the Institute applied for a patent in China for the use of remdesivir, an experimental drug owned by Gilead Sciences, which the Institute found inhibited the virus invitro; in a move which also raised concerns regarding international intellectual property rights. 

In a statement, the Institute said it would not exercise its new Chinese patent rights "if relevant foreign companies intend to contribute to the prevention and control of China’s epidemic".

The Institute was rumored as a source for the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak as a result of allegations of bioweapon research, a concept that U.S. experts have rejected, noting that the Institute was not suitable for bioweapon research, that most countries had abandoned bioweapons as fruitless, and that there was no evidence that the virus was genetically engineered. 

In February 2020, virus expert and global lead coronavirus investigator Trevor Bedford observed that "The evidence we have is that the mutations [in the virus] are completely consistent with natural evolution".

During January and February 2020, the Institute was subject to further conspiracy theories, and concerns that it was the source of the outbreak through accidental leakage, which it publicly refuted. 

Members of the Institute's research teams were also subject to various conspiracy theories, including Shi, who made various public statements defending the Institute. While Ebright refuted several of conspiracy theories regarding the WIV, he told BBC China that this did not represent the possibility of the virus being "completely ruled out" from entering the population due to a laboratory accident.