the death toll

[bordering]

Worldwide it's 0.024% and how many have poor sanitation and living conditions?

In UK it is 0.113% with an average age of death of 82 years old

[WBA1955]

It's no consolation to those who have and lost loved ones to the virus.
The facts are that the NHS has been criminally neglected by successive governments, of both parties, while a modern progressive country like Germany has low death rates.
You get what you pay for, if our health service was a football club it would be West Bromwich Albion.
That's taking nothing away from our wonderful, doctors, nurses and other NHS staff who have been ignored for decades until something like this comes along.
Things have a habit of biting you on the arse.
Once this is over i hope the service is properly funded and our worker's get more than a round of applause, but i won't hold my breath.
I know the point you are making bordering about the low death rates, especially now that far more people are testing positive, but the whole issue is we have a health service that cannot cope.

[soulman101]

Found out today one of my old workmates has died from it. Aged 67
Apart from being exposed to a lot of asbestos like me, he was in good health.

[westcountryvillain]

There's a 35-year old fit as a fiddle man also dead from it, no underlying health conditions and no lack of access to NHS care - as with everything there are going to be exceptions to the rule, just like the 40 a day smoker that lived to a ripe old age. I agree with the point that the NHS has been under-funded as in most years there have been front page headlines citing a winter pressures crisis, however I have more of an issue with how the money is being spent within the NHS to the benefit of private contractors.

The death rate in the UK is not because of the now parlous state of affairs with hospitals, up until now the service has coped - it's because Germany's test and trace was up & running very early on.

[WBA1955]

You make a good point WCV. The only time I have been tracked and traced has been in the local.
I can go to supermarkets,hospitals, or virtually anywhere else and nobody would know i have been there or who i have met.

[mickd1961]

You make a good point WCV. The only time I have been tracked and traced has been in the local.
I can go to supermarkets,hospitals, or virtually anywhere else and nobody would know i have been there or who i have met.

We all need chipping like cats and dogs Des 😏

[phild]

We all need chipping like cats and dogs Des ��

The vaccines have lipid nanoparticles as an ingredient, i'm sure them 5g masts could do that when you've had the jab

[WBA1955]

We all need chipping like cats and dogs Des 😏

Don't give them ideas Mick.😉