UK Covid death toll

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Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan are countries that have had pandemics so there may be some immunity & certainly experience in dealing with this.

Australia & New Zealand have been lucky but benefit from extra land mass and less of a population.

India are only just getting this like the UK did in April and i expect the figures to be bigger than us


We report the deaths better then others & others do indeed report differently

I'm thinking there's a bit more to our unfavourable comparisons with other countries than their dumb luck and our better reporting.

Things like the delayed and inadequate initial response; the failure to lock down the borders and quarantine at the points of entry; the lack of adequate supplies of PPE - made worse by the failure to source them in the early stages of the outbreak; all symptomatic of inadequate funding, poor preparation, worse response.

The responsibility for all of the above lies in one place and one place only; when a government has been in office for a full decade everything's down to them, no point looking elsewhere, much though they will try. The unsatisfactory, half-baked situation we still find ourselves in as of today is the legacy of this appallingly useless government.

I've tried to stay way from this part of the board of late because, to be honest, I was bored with listening to myself repeating the same few points ad nauseam. Today I snapped.

Bleeding echo chamber