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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!
If I mind right it's usually between 1600 and 1700 per day that die though this maybe just eng/Wales and that's spreading out the deaths over the year.

Remember as well the lockdown will cause some death as well ( non virus related) especially going forward through missed tests, screening and treatments for other illnesses.

The wealth taxes may well be pretty brutal as the really wealthy tend to avoid.

The other thing that annoys me is the press keep saying wealth is generally not earned but handed down. This is probably the 1st time in history working classes have began to hand down wealth to the next generation, I see nothing wrong with that and not something to be almost sneered at.