skidemin wrote:cardiff 74 wrote:We where to slow responding I think Boris thought it was just going to pass us by what saddens me is I thought our country could always cope And stamp this problem out but we have been way left behind
personally I have huge reservations about the figures including ours...
do you personally know anyone who has died ? I know OF a few elderly relatives of people im acquainted with who had covid on the death certificate..
I'm not sure about that. Figures are going to be a bit inconsistent but this is still quickly evolving and it'll take just about every country to get their figures closer to being more accurate. Whatever we'll still look pretty bad and Germany will have faired relatively better.
I don't fully agree with the criticism on the lockdown being late to be honest. With hindsight we should of, it would have likely saved a lot of lives. On the 9th March two weeks before lockdown infections had reached 43 per day. On the 16th March a week before lockdown infections were up to 152 per day. Now with most of Europe heading towards a complete relaxation of restrictions we have infections running yesterday at Spain 318, Italy 518, Germany 491, Turkey 930, France 611, Belgium 140, Netherlands 210, Sweden 1016, Portugal 377 and Greece still wearing very well on 15. So the countries that are about to fling open their doors to people from wherever are in a significantly worse place in terms of infections than we were just one week before we locked down. The entire strategy that kept infection rates low in these places is being binned.