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Lol. Better place = loads are already dead because we gave zero fucks, so we are now immune.
I'm fairly sure the UK has fewer excess deaths than a number of other European countries, including Italy and Spain. (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-per-million-covid?tab=chart&country=FRA~GBR~ITA~ESP~NLD~BEL~DEU~BGR~AUT~CZE~POL)
Everything I've read from actual experts reports that, hopefully, the UK will be in a relatively "better place" because the virus (and specifically delta) has been circulating amongst a population with fairly high vaccine numbers for a longer time resulting in higher levels of immunity in the population with fewer hospitalisations and deaths. This is what everyone wants to happen, right? Even NZ has given up on elimination.
This isn't to say that that the Tories should be taken as an example of how to manage a pandemic. Far, far, from it.
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I haven't looked up the stats for a few weeks, but the last I saw was that the UK had about twice as many deaths relative to population as Germany (which would have had far fewer if they hadn't made the very bad decision to 'open up' in summer 2020, which prepared a terrible winter wave), and that the UK's vaccination rates are no longer particularly special in Europe at about 2/3rds of adults.
Obviously, elimination's not an option (and hasn't been since about January 2020), and would have caused only a delay, although that would still have been useful in the vaccine race.
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Strange that excess deaths. I don't quite understand how that works if covid deaths number is higher...
Oliver Schick
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Lol. Better place = loads are already dead because we gave zero fucks, so we are now immune.