Let's be honest, if our civil servants and health officials were truely excellent they'd be working for a private company. There is ALWAYS at least a moderate level of incompetence in government.Applauds. Only you and bill speak sense. Wisdom.
To be fair, someone made the good point that in something like this, it's quantity not quality that matters. Hence why countries with poorer health systems aren't necessarily going to cope less well as long as they have the capacity. And on Italy, it's worth mentioning that their average age is 5 years older than ours, so you would expect more people to die there anyway (although so it Germany, and they've done fine).
This is true, but it's hard to celebrate not ending up as the worst in Europe when you are still the second worst or third. Just 2 or 3 days ago on here, someone said that we're not going to overtake Italy because they usually post massive numbers on the 5th. Well now it's the 5th and we've just overtaken them. Assuming they are a couple of weeks ahead of us, we can expect our numbers to continue to climb at a higher rate than theirs for some time. Of course there's always the risk of a second wave, so we'll have to wait and see. I think it's safe to say however, that the UK haven't dealt with this first wave as well as some other countries.
Just so I haven’t misinterpreted, are you saying we shouldn’t have locked down?
lolLet's be honest, if our civil servants and health officials were truely excellent they'd be working for a private company. There is ALWAYS at least a moderate level of incompetence in government.
That would be me and ISTAT (Italy's ONS) did post massive 11,600 excess death numbers for MARCH - (in addition to the 13,710 already posted an increase of 84% on recorded figures) you have to wait till June to see the numbers for April!To be fair, someone made the good point that in something like this, it's quantity not quality that matters. Hence why countries with poorer health systems aren't necessarily going to cope less well as long as they have the capacity. And on Italy, it's worth mentioning that their average age is 5 years older than ours, so you would expect more people to die there anyway (although so it Germany, and they've done fine).
This is true, but it's hard to celebrate not ending up as the worst in Europe when you are still the second worst or third. Just 2 or 3 days ago on here, someone said that we're not going to overtake Italy because they usually post massive numbers on the 5th. Well now it's the 5th and we've just overtaken them. Assuming they are a couple of weeks ahead of us, we can expect our numbers to continue to climb at a higher rate than theirs for some time. Of course there's always the risk of a second wave, so we'll have to wait and see. I think it's safe to say however, that the UK haven't dealt with this first wave as well as some other countries.
The purpose of the lockdown is so we don’t overwhelm our healthcare system. Do we really need to go over this?
the deaths today going to the top in Europe and now this is really bad.
however it’s nothing compared to the absolutely disgraceful policy on flights into this country that has continued throughout,
Too many fingers in too many pies.Are you insinuating the measures we put in place are wrong because Ferguson was out shagging?