Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
If anyone is interested, this is a pretty detailed breakdown of the situation in Wales with regard to the stats by area and it's dated yesterday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52380643

Overall, I'd say they definitely tell the tale of an improving situation and it's good to see that the very high infection rates in this country compared to the rest of the country are not being reflected in positions right at the top of the deaths by area figures. However, the analysis strikes me as a bit vague when it comes to the concerning infection rates which has Welsh regions dominating at the top end of the cases per 100,000 figures - my guess is that, while places like RCT and Merthyr have plenty of wide open spaces, the populations tend to be very tightly packed into rows and rows of small, terraced houses making spreading the virus so much easier.
Also without trying to generalise too much, the concept of social distancing is more alien to someone in the valleys in my experience.
Lived in a leafy cardiff suburb for 15 years and can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I went into a neighbours house, been living in a valleys town for a couple of years and everyone here is related to at least 2 other people on the same street, and they are all in and out of each other people's houses all of the time.