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Excess deaths in 2023 confirmed (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

John Lorimer Campbell is an English YouTuber and retired nurse educator known for his videos about the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the videos received praise, but they later veered into misinformation.[2] He has been criticised for suggesting COVID-19 deaths have been over-counted, repeating false claims about the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, and providing misleading commentary about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.[3][4][5]

[–] PrincessLeiasCat 14 points 1 year ago

Note: OP is now PM’ing me about this because I commented. I am blocking them if anyone else wants to do the same.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

someone's peepaw out here "doing his own research"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

pretty lame video I skipped through because of reports. what do they do on lemmy.today? I'd delete but my mouse has a scroll wheel. downvotes must do something

[+] [email protected] -11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well reports are boring, but science is based on data and data is official

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so you think the vid is good?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see what is wrong with the video, just comparing data, expected and current

Is this better?

Excess mortality during heat-periods: 1 June to 31 August 2022

During the five heat-periods between June and August 2022, 56,303 deaths occurred in England and Wales and were registered by 7 September; this is 3,271 deaths (6.2%) above the five-year average.

The 2022 heat-period with the largest number of excess deaths was the second heat-period (10 to 25 July), with 2,227 excess deaths (10.4% above average). ...

here excess deaths are around 10% and it is been looked into

in video, it doesn't say why there is excess deaths, but numbers are 20-30% in some cases, so it is worth to look into

every data signal should be looked into

5 - 10% of excess deaths is already a signal, why 20 - 30% is not?___

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

youtube is not known for doing good science. this video, while maybe he believes he is on to something important, does not pass basic tests for scientific theory and looks, as mentioned by another commenter, like misinformation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)

I understand you believe his conclusions which is fine if we we were discussing religion or fantasy. we aren't. If you'd like to hang around here and maybe learn something, good, welcome. if you keep posting garbage and annoying people I'll wish you luck elsewhere. behave.

while I'm at it, anyone who cares about this little backwater science forum can PM me about becoming a moderator. I'm not spending a lot of time here and could use another set of eyes. TIA

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

maybe, let me know why you think it is not