Quote Originally Posted by The Bloop View Post
The UK will be up to around 110k+ deaths by the middle of next month, once the effects of Christmas mixing and England's later lockdown get through the system.
When you think back to the reaction to that model last spring which predicted 66,000 deaths in the UK, that's a shocking number and yet people seem to be resigned to it now. Over 1,500 died on Wednesday and yet we have a lockdown that is less strict than the one for he first wave. There can be no doubt that, even if the vaccine programme goes as well as hoped (and, there appears to be good news on that front in the link below), the official UK response to the pandemic has been found seriously wanting.

https://www.fxstreet.com/news/corona...k-202101150515