In England the lockdown may be killing almost as many people as the China virus is

The Office for National Statistics in England says that there have been 38,500 excess deaths in England connected to COVID19.

But of those deaths 16,000, or 41%, weren't due to the virus but due to people not getting medical care because of the lockdown.

Since that toll only counts deaths it isn't counting all the people who will die long term because they skipped cancer screenings or other early testing.

However the study did estimate that impact and concluded that there could be 81,500 excess deaths over the next 50 years due to the response to the China virus.

So 38,500 - 16,000 = 22,500 deaths in England are due to actual COVID19 infections and 81,500 deaths due to the response to the virus.

One doesn't need to be a mathematician or epidemiologist to know that that's not a winning approach.

And as far as I can tell that those figures don't count people who commit suicide or die from drug overdoses though I could be wrong.