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Personally I've taken comfort in reading the NHS/ONS reports as they are factual with no 'agenda', unlike politicians or the press, who will spin things according to their political allegiances. As the saying goes: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
Agreed.
On a site used by people with an interest in family history you'd think it might be well understood that the central recording of deaths is not an exact art, and expecting to have accurate figures of all the people who have died from a specific cause reported, collated, checked and published by 4pm the next day (weekends included) is an expectation beyond reasonable or practicable.
I think the people involved in gathering and processing the data have done a remarkable job in the circumstances, and articles like the one in the Guardian just denigrates the effort that has been put in to keep us informed.
So glad you explained the various processes involved when a person dies who went into hospital for one ailment but medics state death from another cause. It's then a lengthy delay whilst the Registrar contacts family and during n arranged meeting asks if they're satisfied with the reasons for the death, or would they like to take the matter "further".
For your reasons, I'm not blaming any government, even though I think a few should be replaced.
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