Perhaps the UK figures are so bad because, prior to Covid, the NHS has been extraordinarily excellent in extending life for very old, very vulnerable people with lots of comorbidities, much more so than somewhere like the USA with it’s less loving health system. Then something new hits, and gets into care homes, and, oh dear. It’s why African countries have such low death rates, their average age is 15 or something. We don’t all start from the same place.