I think you need to look to testing policies,demographics, and small area concentration. The problem here is that the "well it MUST be because it's a worse strain", down the pub, "commonsenseinit" logic is, as usual, based on no actual expertise or research. And is usually wrong.
As to those who are bleating that it's the economy vs lives, and that the best thing for the economy is to loosen up lockdown, no surprises for guessing it's not that simple. The economy would be tanked far more from loosening resulting in infection sky rocketing:
https://twitter.com/jdportes/status/1249728401574944774?s=19
Originally Posted by: NickR