Coronavirus

[anthonykay]

Italy’s own statistics unit says they expect the real death toll is at least half as big again.

Countries are clearly different.

Portugal did the same as us. Sweden did less. Both have faired better.

Actually, Sweden has done very badly, compared to their low population density (and you have been consistently telling us that high numbers of Covid deaths correlate to high population density). When Sweden decided on a policy of very light restrictions, I was hoping that this would work well; but the death rate statistics show that it hasn't.

Portugal is an interesting case; why the huge difference between death rates in Spain and Portugal, neighbouring countries with similar population densities (Portugal slightly higher than Spain)?

So populations are different.

And as for what we did it was guided by alarmist doctors and medical academics whose most consistent quality is wide disagreement with each other. Ferguson made it impossible by telling Boris unless he locked down we would have 250000 dead, and Sweden’s lax approach would cost them 50000 lives. His predictions have been consistent only in that they were consistently wrong.

With only Belgium close 380 England is by far the highest population density in the EU with 400
London is bigger than Berlin and Paris put together. That I suspect is what made the difference.

And can you please stop spouting this rubbish about England having the highest population density in Europe. Netherlands is significantly higher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_a...pean_countries