Quote Originally Posted by Wetherby whaler View Post
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.
But remember, prior to Covid, the average 80 year old, with the average number of medical problems that an 80 year old has, would live for another 9 years if a man, and 10 years if a woman. I don't think we can attribute the high number of deaths in the UK to the NHS having left low hanging fruit - the pandemic has just been badly managed in the UK full stop.