UK Covid death toll

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@JOK - Are you suggesting that cuts weren't the reason for staff shortages and lack of equipment?

And back to covid-19, government inaction at the beginning of the pandemic, putting unqualified cronies into decision making positions, giving contracts without tender to associates businesses (in fact giving them a playbook on how to set up a business and apply for contracts), ministerial decisions on sending covid-positive patients into high risk settings, I could probably go on but you get the point - it's been a clusterfuck of bad decisions throughout.

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The real issue is how many people are still susceptible to Covid. According to SAGE this is around 90% of the population thereby ensuring their figures of doom. Other scientists believe that around 30% of the population are susceptible therefore painting a totally different threat level. Yes - there have been 61000 excess deaths of which 90% of those were prior to May. Since then the averages have levelled off. So should we be looking at 2020 as a whole or looking at the 2nd half of the year for an idea of what future months hold in store. Bit like Albion last season - loads of points in the first half of the season and mid table form in the second half.

Thye've averaged off in the summer months BB, and I would say you need to be comparing seasons rather than years. As it stand we haven't been through a winter season with this and that is why we need to take baby steps through this until we've got to March, because it really is the unknown.