These are the figures for ONS for England and wales from 2010 to 2020. You can see that both the number of deaths and the crude mortality rate has been stable from 2010 till 2019 with a jump of over 100,000 in 2020 and an increase in crude mortality by 123 which is about 14%.
|
Year |
N. Deaths |
Population x 1,000 |
Crude mortality per 100,000 |
|
2020 |
608,002 |
59,829 |
1,016.2 |
|
2019 |
530,841 |
59,440 |
893.1 |
|
2018 |
541,589 |
59,116 |
916.1 |
|
2017 |
533,253 |
58,745 |
907.7 |
|
2016 |
525,048 |
58,381 |
899.3 |
|
2015 |
529,655 |
57,885 |
915.0 |
|
2014 |
501,424 |
57,409 |
873.4 |
|
2013 |
506,790 |
56,568 |
889.9 |
|
2012 |
499,331 |
56,568 |
882.7 |
|
2011 |
484,367 |
56,171 |
862.3 |
|
2010 |
493,242 |
56,692 |
885.7 |
So in answer to your other questions, yes we do know how many people have tested positive for SARS cov-2, the statistics are widely available, we do know how many are in hospital with Covid-19, something like 37 thousands and the figures are published daily in the Guardian.
It is one thing to say that you or they don’t know, and another to say that nobody knows. The statistics are there but if you start with false assumptions such as that the PCR has a high false positive rate, then the other concepts will be difficult to understand.