Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
If a foreign country has a lot of deaths it's because they've massaged the figures upwards to get bailouts. If they have low figures it's because they're massaging the figures downwards to look better.

The only country telling the truth is good old blighty, and probably some of the ex colonies because they also inherited the Anglo-Saxon honesty gene.
Yep, that's the argument. Good old British exceptionalism - partly why we have one of the highest tolls in the world.

As the bodies were piling up in Italy and Spain they were easily dismissed as just being poorly managed backwaters.