Over the last 7 days, the UK has recorded 2,169 more deaths than Italy. Should something close to that difference be maintained, our official per capita death rate will also exceed Italy's withi… (View Post)

Likewise, Portugal also saw the situation was out of control in Spain, and the inevitability of it spreading without action, and took the decision to lock down at the same time as Spain did when thei… (View Post)

I think the point is that the UK is right up there with less than a handful of other countries that have also done a lousy job to date. Spain (and Italy) at least have the excuse that they were in th… (View Post)

No comment on that. The statistics that ultimately matter in terms of health outcomes are deaths, or the lack of them. The ones the government would like you to focus on instead are tests, and they&#… (View Post)

The recognition of the need to expand testing and the subsequent achievement of that expansion was far too late, that's the point. The announcement of the expansion was only made 3 weeks after t… (View Post)