It's the country with the highest absolute number of excess death, and the 2nd highest (61%) after Belgium (66%) of relative excess death. And that's while lag

It's the country with the highest absolute number of excess death, and the 2nd highest (61%) after Belgium (66%) of relative excess death. And that's while lagging behind Belgium, which had a daily number of infection reported the past few days of about 20% of the peak figure. For the UK they're only at about 60% of the peak figure. You're comparing two countries at different points in their lockdown-cycle. And this is very relevant in an exponentially developing health crisis where total-infected (correlated with total-deaths) see doubling times measured in days, meaning that comparing two countries 1-2 weeks apart can mean you're undercounting by 50% or even 75%. The UK's figures are worsening far faster than Belgium the next weeks. And Belgium, by the way, is testing at a rate of 1.75x that of the UK on a per capita basis. If the UK ramped up testing as much, they'd likely fare even worse in these comparisons. In other words, it looks like it literally is the worst managed country in Europe. I don't know about you guys but being 'part of an outlier out of control problem group' is not 'proportionate for Europe' to me, and winning the prize for worst hit of that group, definitely isn't.