COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

It just amazes me that covidiots like Martin and O'Leary can hold so much store amongst some of our population!

Also the "British" variant / mutation is not quiet so advanced in Europe yet.

Conquering this awful pandemic is not a competition and throughout this discussion I have focused solely on what is happening in the UK.

We have been told, that, per head of population the UK is doing better than anywhere else in Europe.

So, out of interest, 3336 out of the UK population against 6355 for the combined population of Germany, Italy, France and Spain. Which works out "best" per head of population?  

We have been told, that, per head of population the UK is doing better than anywhere else in Europe.

What was that in relation to?

If it was related to vaccinations then The UK is ahead of the rest of Europe. But without knowing what it is otherwise related to I have no idea.

Seemed like an enquiry not a judgement. Similar in some ways to my question asking what we are supposed to be doing better than the rest of Europe.

The figures were correct at the time I posted but since then Germany has increased their figures. 

I always use the following website: 

 https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

By population the UK is 17th in the world, by deaths 5th in the world.

Nothing to be proud of.

It has been ever since Marketing and Accountants began running eveything  .   they could make those who would listen   arrange figures to suit the occassions

Statistics do not always show the whole truth. Lots of other countries have vast areas of uninhabited land with few people which distort the real picture.

Take the UK and Australia for example:

UK is approx 32 times smaller than Australia

Population of UK is  68 million, Australia is 25 million.

However if you list the city populations in order of size:

London  9.3 million, Manchester, 2.73, Birmingham, 2.6, Glasgow 1.67

Melbourne 4.97, Sydney 4.92, Brisbane 2.4, Perth 2.1

So you can see that the majority of the population of Oz lives in just 4 cities so the fact that the area of Australia is almost 3 million square miles is irrelevant.

Both countries are islands but quick and decisive action by the Australian government has restricted the number of deaths to less than a thousand.

It is certainly true that we are way ahead as far as the vaccine production and roll out is concerned and we should rightly praise all the scientific effort that went into this - not to mention those who volunteered for the trials along the way. Similarly we can be proud of the heroic efforts of NHS staff who have responded so uncomplainingly to the demands being put upon them. 

 Our political masters? Little to be proud of there. 

And how far apart are those "large?"populations 

When in this little island many commute  daily between our many large populated cities

the one major thing that should have  IMHO been done in the early stages of the pandemic would have been to test those entering the country which i can understand with so many entry points to the UK , would have been far harder than the likes of Australia and New Zealand

I have to disagree with you again David, I'm probably one of the majority who takes no comfort at all from the spread of this disease in any country. Neither will I run our country down in it's efforts to suppress and control the disease, mistakes have been made. Politicians receive no training for their job, they are the same as us, they get voted in and out and they're not as Moulesy says "our masters" they could more likely be called our servants and in the face of a crisis like this one they will be called to task when the crisis is over.