On official per capita statistics, we are 4th worst in the world counting countries worthy of the name. (I am excluding Andorra, San Marino and Genovia.) Of the three apparently above us: - One (Belg… (View Post)

Trying to model the relative incidence of coronavirus based on population density alone is the equivalent in terms of predictive statistical modelling of trying to play a round of golf with one club.… (View Post)

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 within 2 w… (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)