There are large sparse areas but the density argument for the UK has always felt stretched. Few cities are that dense that reasonable measures can't be enforced, it's always felt like a wriggle out excuse for a nation who has dropped measures months too early every time.
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Don't think I could agree with that - population density obviiously has an impact. Rutland is sparsely populated and it has a death rate of 0.00488% - if people were packed in like they are in NY, it'd be far higher. There is large variation between districts depending on the population density.
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It'll definitely be higher in populated areas than less densely packed ones but, this is just my feeling, that places here aren't armpit to armpit for the most part especially in the last year where varying levels of restrictions have been in place. It veers from either places are densely populated to the point contact is unavoidable which is why it's been so bad here or its avoidable and been disasterously handled.
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Latest updates: fine will double for every repeat offence; 37,892 people test positive; Northern Ireland extends lockdown until March
And Downing Street has now refused to rule out Lockdown 03 lasting till at least Summer 2021Last edited by Neon Ignition; 21-01-2021, 13:17.
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Originally posted by Neon Ignition View PostIt's stuff like this as well:
US Population - 328.2m
UK population - 66.6m
US deaths - 406,000
UK deaths - 94,745
US ratio - 0.000123%
UK ratio - 0.142229%
And any density argument pales next to major US cities let alone the last twelve months of how the US has handled the crisis. It feels like, small as those percentages look without wider context applied, something has been and is going very wrong with how UK COVID patients are handled
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I don't find that surprising - I wouldn't be surprised in the Tokyo Olympics gets cancelled too, even if every country is well into their vaccination programmes, it could be a spark that sets the whole thing off again as all different countries from across the world mix together in one place.
2020 - the first year of lockdown
Originally posted by CMcK View PostThose ratios are wrong. The US has about 5 times the population of the UK but has had about 4.3 times as many total deaths. So the UK really is plague island.
UK: 0.1422
It actually makes the US a lot closer to the UK (so the UK less bad).Last edited by MartyG; 21-01-2021, 13:24.
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Five people have died at the worlds largest manufacturer of the Oxford /AstraZeneca vaccine based in India. They say that manufacturing should remain on track however
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Delivery driver i have sometimes caught a middle aged couple just coming back from the shops with no masks naturally, their door said “nock and leave parcels in porch, isolating due to testing positive”.
When English people stop behaving like utter w*****s like this, then it may start to flatten and eventually slow.
Better get used to being in permanent lock down from now on then UK.Last edited by fishbowlhead; 21-01-2021, 15:46.
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I'm starting to get fed up. Realistically it seems that the entire year of 2021 is going to be a complete write-off, worse than 2020 probably. Summer will either be lockdown or something close to it. The government vaccination plans for autumn will probably slip into winter at least. I keep looking at my holiday photos and thinking how long away it all is. Just annoys me.
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