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In 2020, the age-standardised mortality rate for England and Wales, adjusted for both the increase and ageing of the population, was the 13th lowest in the 79 years since records began, having being surpassed in 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and every other year back to 1942.
It’s no surprise that mortality rates throughout 2020 have been consistently compared to the average over the last five years, 2015-2019, when those years have seen ‘historically low mortality rates’, with 2019 having the lowest rate ever recorded. https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/01/12/counting-deaths-involving-coronavirus-a-year-in-review/
2020 has been a badder-than-usual year compared to mortality rates over the last decade, but it is by no definition of the term ‘unprecedented’, as we are constantly told by the Government, its medical spokesmen and the media.
In fact, when compared to the history of the UK, at least since the Second World War, these figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the year 2020 has had a historically low mortality rate. So where does that leave the COVID-19 ‘epidemic’?
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/12735annualdeathsandmortalityrates1938to2020provisional
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/12735annualdeathsandmortalityrates1938to2020provisional
