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The UK has suffered more deaths—controlled for population—than almost any other country. Overall, management of the pandemic was extremely poorly handled – we h
by matthewmacleod 6y ago
The UK has suffered more deaths—controlled for population—than almost any other country. Overall, management of the pandemic was extremely poorly handled – we had multiple ridiculous decisions, taken purely for political reasons, that resulted in thousands of unnecessary deaths and caused further economic damage. In my area, I was personally under four different sets of restrictions in a 12-day period and nobody had a fucking clue what was happening.
Given this, I think there is widespread surprise that the vaccine rollout in the UK has been well-handled – because it has. Many of us were genuinely expecting the other shoe to drop, but fortunately good decisions have been taken and this should be celebrated.
- macspoofing 6y ago>The UK has suffered more deaths—controlled for population—than almost any other country. Are there any confounding factors that need to be controlled for? Like different viral strains, climates, population densities and centers, testing strategies, data gathering methodologies (e.g. how the dead are counted as 'COVID' cases), population age distributions. Are you sure you're doing apples-to-apples comparison?
- matthewmacleod 6y agoAre there any confounding factors that need to be controlled for? Yes, definitely. Are they likely to knock the UK from "almost worst in the whole world" to "did a good job"? Nae chance.