Quote Originally Posted by Vindec View Post
Given that Germany were considered to be a paragon of virtue that country has declared a third lockdown, described as a third pandemic, by Merkel today. Perhaps we are not doing so badly going forward after all.
UK Covid figures v Germany (in brackets)

taken from here;-

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

deaths 126,284 (75,708)
cases per million 63,208 (32,023)
deaths per million 1,853 (902)

Things have got to change an awful lot before we can look upon Germany as being inferior to us when it comes to tackling the pandemic.

Maybe a reason why our death rate is more than double Germany's is that we had a policy whereby your chances of receiving intensive care treatment, or even being admitted to hospital decreased if you were over 60 and suffered from either hypertension or diabetes?

I've got that information from this book that I'm currently two thirds of the way through;-

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Failures-St...s&pageNumber=2

As yet, the test and trace shambles and the cronyism charges have barely got a mention, but I've just finished a couple of heart wrenching chapters about how older patients were, essentially, left to die after being refused the ventilator treatment they would have received in pre pandemic times.

I should emphasise that the two journalists who wrote the book do not work for the Mirror or the Guardian, but for the Sunday Times and former Minister for exiting Europe, David Davis, is quoted on the subject of refusing treatment to the oldest patients as follows;-

It had "fatal consequences for thousands whose lives could have been rescued"

"The policy appears to have given the least care to those who needed it most. It is profoundly wrong that the government did not come clean to the public about this tragedy.".