I agree completely with everything you say Joe. The death toll in this country is truly dreadful.
Back I early-mid March around the time the crisis began to develop in this country, I can clearly recall at least one member here in one of the early coronavirus threads predicting that the UK would end up with a similar number of deaths from Covid-19 as Italy by the time the outbreak reached its peak here. Sadly, it seems that their words have been borne out.
As well as NZ, it seems that Germany has generally done a better job of controlling the spread of the disease and keeping the number of deaths to a rather lower level than the UK has seen and they have at least as big a population as the UK does. For me, the fact that both Germany and NZ acted much quicker in terms of taking the necessary steps to protect their people from the worst of the virus as much as they could is likely a major factor in why their respective fatality tolls have been so much lower than that of the UK.
Originally Posted by: David M Porter