Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
"It’s hardly unfounded, Andy...and you are resorting to semantics. We do have the HIGHEST Covid related death rate in Europe...that is a fact."

Absolutely false, non factual, lie, call it what you will. Go here https://www.statista.com/statistics/...n-inhabitants/ and click on far right column to sort by deaths per million of population.

We may have the highest NUMBER of deaths, but we do not have the highest death RATE which infers it is a "per..." figure.

Perhaps we do have the highest death rates of British people in Europe, by country, if you prefer to construct a statistic to fit your model?
I’m not constructing statistics, GP... I don’t have a ‘model’ and I genuinely wish it wasn’t as it is.

We can argue about rates, per capita and what constitutes a Covid related death for ever but here are the facts.

We have the highest Covid related death figures in Europe with 157,730 deaths. The nearest to us is Italy (147,734) while France have 131,852 and Germany (which has a significantly higher population) has 118,3334.

If you want to talk ‘death rates’, a fair correction on your part, yes...we do better, with such economic giants as Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechia, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, along with Belgium and Italy all having worse per million figures.

Either way, and this is my point...it’s not a great reflection on a Government which is constantly clapping itself on the back for how well it has handled the pandemic is it?