You are right about he death rates - I do hope there is gold in the data somewhere - but then again, maybe it will take time in finding it - the fact is, that the death rates are higher - as we know, with released gov data - so there is a massive rise - will see what is in this new data though (which I hope is legit). Also about the nursing homes - it seems far higher than I would have thought as well. But who knows.
And you are right - Winston is not a statistician. It might be a case of he thought it was good, but it had holes. I believe, that the gov was trying to cloud all the data anyway - we know they hardly recorded side effects - put wall after wall in front of people to stop them recording them.
Thanks!