Re: The Blame Game
Originally Posted by
Tedc
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And which Countries did have this foresight?
Were there some major countries who didn't have deaths?
That's me done!
Every other country in Europe, apart from Belgium (86/1000), has a lower COVID-19 death-rate than the UK (68/1000).
Every other country in Europe has fewer cases than the UK (296,377) - some countries, like Hungary, Albania and Greece have only 4,000 or so - Greece has had only 197 deaths from COVID-19.
Whichever "worst" COVID league-table is chosen, the UK is near the top - worldwide, the UK is only slipping down because North and South America, Russia and India are climbing.
Just a month ago:
Coronavirus: UK hardest hit by virus among leading G7 nations
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53222182
The UK was the hardest hit of all the G7 major industrialised nations in the weeks leading up to early June, according to BBC analysis of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Analysis also showed that England fared the worst in Europe, just above Spain. The research compared 11-week periods for each nation as the virus hit its peak in each country.
The analysis of Covid-19 deaths and excess deaths - which compared countries in three different ways - showed
the UK worse off than the US, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, and Japan.
A separate analysis of European nations, by Oxford University economists, has England just above Spain in terms of the proportion of deaths over and above what would be normal.
It's an appalling indictment of the UK government's response to COVID-19 .....