comment by PhendomBALLER (U20037)
posted 11 minutes ago
100

thousand deaths
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So far.

comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 3 hours, 18 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People (U21889)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 1 minute ago
Just to play devils advocate, has anyone considered the possibility that we are the highest death toll because we are testing at a higher magnification, and reporting deaths differently than other countries?
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No, it’s because we have a criminally incompetent government who have got it wrong every step of the way, and continue to do so.
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Certainly part of it, but I fail to believe we are doing things so drastically different in policy ....I mean look at Sweden who didn’t even lockdown. And Japan
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It's easy to compare us with any other country in the world and say we have a crap government bla bla bla but there are a multitude of reasons we are so badly affected, importantly the fact that the new Kent variant (we can't call it the China flu why?) has been incredibly infectious meaning we've had different challenges to others, we also don't exactly have the most law abiding public and live in an exceptionally dense country in southern England especially with cold damp winters.

comment by #nerfthedmr (U3979)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 3 hours, 18 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People (U21889)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 1 minute ago
Just to play devils advocate, has anyone considered the possibility that we are the highest death toll because we are testing at a higher magnification, and reporting deaths differently than other countries?
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No, it’s because we have a criminally incompetent government who have got it wrong every step of the way, and continue to do so.
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Certainly part of it, but I fail to believe we are doing things so drastically different in policy ....I mean look at Sweden who didn’t even lockdown. And Japan
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It's easy to compare us with any other country in the world and say we have a crap government bla bla bla but there are a multitude of reasons we are so badly affected, importantly the fact that the new Kent variant (we can't call it the China flu why?) has been incredibly infectious meaning we've had different challenges to others, we also don't exactly have the most law abiding public and live in an exceptionally dense country in southern England especially with cold damp winters.
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This. It's no use saying 'New Zealand are better', it's meaningless without context.

Sweden have done terribly compared to their neighbours in Scandinavia.

comment by Bãles left boot (U22081)
posted 14 seconds ago
comment by #nerfthedmr (U3979)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 3 hours, 18 minutes ago
comment by Automatic For The People (U21889)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 1 minute ago
Just to play devils advocate, has anyone considered the possibility that we are the highest death toll because we are testing at a higher magnification, and reporting deaths differently than other countries?
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No, it’s because we have a criminally incompetent government who have got it wrong every step of the way, and continue to do so.
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Certainly part of it, but I fail to believe we are doing things so drastically different in policy ....I mean look at Sweden who didn’t even lockdown. And Japan
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It's easy to compare us with any other country in the world and say we have a crap government bla bla bla but there are a multitude of reasons we are so badly affected, importantly the fact that the new Kent variant (we can't call it the China flu why?) has been incredibly infectious meaning we've had different challenges to others, we also don't exactly have the most law abiding public and live in an exceptionally dense country in southern England especially with cold damp winters.
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This. It's no use saying 'New Zealand are better', it's meaningless without context.

Sweden have done terribly compared to their neighbours in Scandinavia.
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New Zealand has about a 20th of our population.

comment by Sir Tottenham of Hotspur (U17379)
posted 3 hours, 35 minutes ago
Just to play devils advocate, has anyone considered the possibility that we are the highest death toll because we are testing at a higher magnification, and reporting deaths differently than other countries?
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I get what you're saying, and I totally agree the test numbers are inflated. You're not ending up in hospital because of a false positive, though.

Obviously there will be a certain percentage of deaths wrongly attributed to Covid, but I don't think it's to an extent that it's misrepresenting how bad it is. I know a couple of people who have physical jobs that struggle these days because of 'long covid'.

https://twitter.com/Okeating/status/1354172502826741760