No football this year

[Returnofrros]

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Given the news coming out of Sweden I don’t think their approach is one that has worked any better than anyone else’s and looks to have backfired.

On the modelling advice the UK received, ie do nothing and this is how many will die, they should have had circa 40k deaths by now, they haven't they have had 2 and a bit.

They have had more than Finland, Denmark and Norway but Sweden counts every death I don't think Denmark does.

The big thing for me is 95% of those that have died in the UK had serious underlying and that's not including care homes where I'd assume 100% or as near as dammit had underlying so I'd say around 97% of those that have died in the UK had serious underlying conditions........I can't understand the locking down of the healthy and obliterating your tax base when the chances of dying of this when healthy is very slim.

But as you say I can count and yap em no em not an expert on viruses.......just saying though.

[BCram]

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On the modelling advice the UK received, ie do nothing and this is how many will die, they should have had circa 40k deaths by now, they haven't they have had 2 and a bit.

They have had more than Finland, Denmark and Norway but Sweden counts every death I don't think Denmark does.

The big thing for me is 95% of those that have died in the UK had serious underlying and that's not including care homes where I'd assume 100% or as near as dammit had underlying so I'd say around 97% of those that have died in the UK had serious underlying conditions........I can't understand the locking down of the healthy and obliterating your tax base when the chances of dying of this when healthy is very slim.

But as you say I can count and yap em no em not an expert on viruses.......just saying though.

Just finished watching Piers again. Very good guy from the FT on who was saying the deaths, total for GB is about 46k. That's the full number of all deaths. Am I being naive in thinking that the normal deaths for this time of year could be about 25k so maybe the difference is the 20k that seem to be covid related? Have to say thanks to you guys who are using this thread. It's like old times on here, just that the topic is very worrying.

I think that the economic future may revolve around tax increases. The difficulty will come if pursuit of supporting London as a world financial centre comes into conflict higher taxes for financial wizards. Think that's why we got austerity in 2008. It played into the mindset of the financial markets and kept them sweet. Need to have a gentle touch on the tiller going forward to avoid the Rross prognosis!