> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.europeans.today/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # How dare scientists do something to prevent more deaths in the UK! - URL: https://www.europeans.today/2022/01/17/how-dare-scientists-do-something-to-prevent-more-deaths-in-the-uk/ - Published: 2022-01-17T10:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2022-11-09T12:38:49.000Z - Description: Why shouldn’t we look for ways to pursue better health care in the UK? And why wouldn’t we want “to do more” to prevent deaths? Dr Deepti Gurdasani on the scale of normalisation of excess deaths in the UK media. - Author: Dr Deepti Gurdasani - Tags: COMMENT, Daily Mail, COVID-19, Excess Deaths, Thread, United Kingdom, UK Scientists ### Why shouldn’t we look for ways to pursue better health care in the UK? And why wouldn’t we want “to do more” to prevent deaths? Dr Deepti Gurdasani on the scale of normalisation of excess deaths in the UK media. ###### First published: January 2022. --- I completely stand with [Dr Kit Yates](https://www.europeans.today/author/christian-yates/) who has been subjected to a disgusting hit piece – in the *Daily Fail*. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2022/01/daily-fail-min.png) ###### Mail on Line [Research shows](https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2021-067519?ref=europeans.today) huge reductions in flu (-95%), bronchilotis (-82%), measles (-90%), meningitis (-50%) hospital admission in children during the pandemic. Why shouldn’t we aim for this? ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2022/01/F1.large-min.jpg) ###### Childhood infections in a pandemic. | [the bmj](https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2021-067519?ref=europeans.today) Since when is *‘doing more’* to prevent flu and prevent deaths from flu a bad thing? If simple things like better ventilation and masks can do this – for all airborne pathogens, then it is worthwhile also considering these additional benefits. It is clear that much more disease is preventable. It is interesting to see the UK media culture where scientists who are talking about saving potentially thousands of lives every year with simple measures – we need anyway for SARS-CoV-2 – are targeted in this manner. While those who talk about *‘acceptable deaths’* are widely platformed. I guess giving a *sh\*t* isn’t popular. Why not embrace mass death, suffering, and let tens of thousands of people – old, vulnerable, poor – die when simple measures that are not even terribly restrictive could prevent them? According to the *Daily Fail* we should just let people die. I don’t see Kit advocating for lockdowns either as a way to prevent flu, but well that is the *Daily Fail* for you. Had anyone in government been listening to *[Independent SAGE](https://www.independentsage.org/?ref=europeans.today)* to put in pre-emptive measures, it is very likely long lockdowns would have been prevented. But strawmen are useful I guess. > I can't believe I had the audacity to advocate for reducing preventable early deaths. > How embarrassing for me. [pic.twitter.com/CztOcvVlWi](https://t.co/CztOcvVlWi?ref=europeans.today) > > — Kit Yates (@Kit\_Yates\_Maths) [January 18, 2022](https://twitter.com/Kit%5FYates%5FMaths/status/1483349691114815492?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=europeans.today) Please, do follow [@Kit\_Yates\_Maths](https://twitter.com/Kit%5FYates%5FMaths?ref=europeans.today) on *Twitter*, (if you don’t already) as he is a beacon of light in a sea of darkness that is the UK science and media. I am sure the messaging he has put out has likely allowed many to protect themselves better. We should support scientists like him. ![PMP Magazine](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2021/09/end-flat-1.png "PMP Magazine") *p.s. Also, I would love for the Daily Fail to show evidence that flu has caused 400 daily deaths!!! The numbers keep increasing without evidence – just so we can justify and normalise mass death of vulnerable people. It started with the BBC’s Nick Triggle, and it goes on now... truly, post-truth!* --- **What did you think of this article?** [🤩](https://forms.gle/tRe7igVtMPaiAPtJ8?ref=europeans.today "Great") [😀](https://forms.gle/tRe7igVtMPaiAPtJ8?ref=europeans.today "Good") [🤔](https://forms.gle/tRe7igVtMPaiAPtJ8?ref=europeans.today "Not sure") [😴](https://forms.gle/tRe7igVtMPaiAPtJ8?ref=europeans.today "Boring") [😮](https://forms.gle/tRe7igVtMPaiAPtJ8?ref=europeans.today "Surprised") [😭](https://forms.gle/tRe7igVtMPaiAPtJ8?ref=europeans.today "Sad") [🤬](https://forms.gle/tRe7igVtMPaiAPtJ8?ref=europeans.today "Angry") [🤯](https://forms.gle/tRe7igVtMPaiAPtJ8?ref=europeans.today "Gobsmacked") --- | — AUTHOR — | ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/size/w150/2021/05/deepti-gurdasani.jpg) | ▫ **[Dr Deepti Gurdasani](https://www.europeans.today/author/deepti-gurdasani)*, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Statistical Genetics, Machine Learning, Queen Mary University of London.* | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Going Further:Indirect effects of the covid-19 pandemic on childhood infection in England: population based observational study | the bmjIndependent SAGE Sources Text: This piece was first published as a Twitter thread and turned into the above article on 17 January 2022 with the purpose of reaching a larger audience. It has been minorly edited and corrected, and published with the author’s consent. | The author of the tweets writes in a personal capacity. Cover: Adobe Stock/pathdoc. |