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Uk Has Highest C-19 Fatales In Europe, Second Highest In The World

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Gromit | 11:16 Mon 11th May 2020 | News
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We are a rich country, with a well funded health service.
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Just to explain: Now that the UK has the highest European number of deaths, it becomes necessary to explain how the UK's numbers are exaggeratedly high and the foreign ones fiddled too low. Any number of suggestions on how this can be achieved have been put forward - take your pick, none of them are convincing. Those who died with Covid 19 pathogens in their body...
11:49 Mon 11th May 2020
// Well, either ymb's implying mass immigration is a factor or he has no point at all.//

Jim you can model it ( NJ aaaaargh I have said this is major BS! smacks gavel convulsively)

Most of the passengers since they are alive are in the susceptible group of the SIR model and very few in the I group - infected and prepared to KILL good old John Bull !
And so with the very large indigenous group of people infecting each other in the I group - the added effect is piffle

unless the I group is on the wane and very small - in which case imports and the cases they add have a relatively large effect

Tests have shown 90% of ABers report being competely lost after the words " jim - you.... "
Although, then again, "what went wrong" is surely based on the original post, ie Covid-19 specifically rather than the NHS in general? My initial understanding was that your post was addressing two separate points, and even if this was wrong I don't think it was an unreasonable reading.

But, seriously, ymb: I've mentioned this before, but it's troubling that you still keep seeing malice where it's better to see incompetence. I make mistakes. I don't twist.
OK jim, I was a bit cross as you always seem to read my posts the wrong way.
we shouldnt have a public inquiry because they dont work
that does mot mean no review or post mortem or wash-up discussion ( wash-ups is what doctors who cut up dead people like Dr Lee have apparently)
- but it does if you subscribe to NJs view that nothing that you do before can predict at all what will occur after

The work a day firemen demanded a review after Manchester arena, and Kerslake did a good one - muslim tax drivers took all the kids to the hozzie because the police failed to vertify the area was 'clear'. and were shocked to find the firemen did nothing because their senior officers sort of went on walk-about
JIm - you are over-thinking the posts - - again
PP I think we agree.......
Excellent, well thought-out response from Karl.

Every now and again someone actually engages their brain on AB rather than blowing steam and it's thoroughly refreshing.

Gromit - point of clarity...whilst the UK may have the highest number of deaths in absolute terms, we're 'only' fourth in deaths per million, which is perhaps a better comparison.

We're still behind Belgium, Spain and Italy.
Total deaths is a ridiculous comparative measure. Deaths per set population size is vastly better. If folk wish to use a different measure, then they should justify it or keep their claims to themself.
As far as I'm concerned FF is the one who engages their brain the most when commenting on this subject.
Gromit

From what I've read, some of the problems we've faced are down to the way the Government reacted and some were totally out of their hands.

There were delays in starting the tests and a delay to the start of the lockdown.

That was the fault of the Government.

However, it's easy to 'go all Piers Morgan' - a man who apparently eats hindsight on toast every morning.

The figures were skewed by people succumbing to the illness who had underlying health conditions; or smoked; or were obese; or who were elderly; or lived in cramped conditions; or who came from ethnic minority backgrounds.

The Government can't reasonably be held accountable for the demographics of who died.
What went wrong? Nothing. We've encountered a particularly virulent Virus on a global scale. We can run, we can hide, but it will eventually infect the vast majority of us. A natural immunity will develop.
david small

Nothing went wrong?

Seriously???
// The Government can't reasonably be held accountable for the demographics of who died. //

I would venture that the public inquiry into the effects of the virus on the BAME community will find otherwise.
mushroom25

Oh dear...can open, worms all over the place

;-)
I refer of course to our response to the virus. Doh....
david small

Again, it's easy to pick fault using hindsight, but even so - saying that the response from the Government, health authorities, business, and the public was faultless...?
Can we claim that the UK's response was faultless when we can see that other countries have had apparently better success in combating the virus's spread?

Nor is this question conditional on the UK being the only country, or one of a few, to have "screwed up" by this measure. There are clear questions to be asked for example about the response in, in no particular order, the USA, Brazil, China, Iran, and plenty of others. Just because almost everybody is making a mistake doesn't mean that the mistake was unavoidable.
> What went wrong? Nothing

Wow, sounds like Monty Python's Black Knight - "'tis but a scratch"...
Also I don't share PP's cynicism over Public Enquiries. As long as it's clear what is intended to be achieved then they have their purpose, and in this case in particular I think it would be the correct way to make sure that the questions are not politically-motivated.
// Excellent, well thought-out response from Karl//

whenever I read this on AB - I know when I read the post ( Karls in this case ) I will find a mish mash of wrong ssumptions and non sequiturs
and so boys and girls having set the scene

I stopped at - exaggeration of figures or cover up of high figures and WHY
malice need not be assumed or immediately looked for

as that British Army general ( and JIm ) said - in a good going cack up - never overlook the role of sheer incompetence

counting in different ways strikes me as an obvious one - all it takes is to assess how much the contribution

as fir Jims - "I have more confidence in public enquiries" - age like passage of 50y will teach you different. [I am trying to think of inquiries which were so bad they had to do them again] = Lord Mersey Titanic -1913 he cdnt understand figures like lat and longitude so er disregarded them. Not done again tho

after 60 answers - I think we can conclude that the group on AB dont have the slightest idea.

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