Coronavirus UK Daily Statistics

[Rickster]

Not really arguing, but I still think the number for deaths per 1M of the population is a clearer picture (order below from worldometers)?

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Of course you do, thought you would have had more likes for that post by now....time yet I suppose.....and here was me just counting a death as a death, ffs it really is that simple and tragic.

 

[zouzounaki]

Not really arguing, but I still think the number for deaths per 1M of the population is a clearer picture (order below from worldometers)?

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Even that isn’t very accurate, there are big differences in how deaths are counted. I believe belgium have been counting care homes deaths from the start for example, and most countries have better testing strategies. The figure here i have no doubt is much higher than what they are recording.
This is non partisan, mind. Just a comment.

 

[Crewella]

Quite

I also think population density plays a massive part.

Hence San Marino and Andorra?

 

[Rickster]

Quite

I also think population density plays a massive part.

Ffs so everyone's a stat expert on death now.....honestly , really

 

[ZT]

Ffs so everyone's a stat expert on death now.....honestly , really

No man not at all - not even a defensive thing but it makes sense - a smaller island or place with a higher amount of people (therefore closer together) is going to have a bigger infection and therefore death toll to a larger place with people spaced out more - hence why london was the major hit spot - that place is rammed!

and as crew says - San Marino and Andorra are small places

and we are a small place with a high pop density

I have not looked at the figures but I would guess the highlands of Scotland are fairing better than say - Birmingham

 

[Crewella]

Of course you do, thought you would have had more likes for that post by now....time yet I suppose.....and here was me just counting a death as a death, ffs it really is that simple and tragic.

Why of course I do? Because it's a sensible way to look at it?

Of course a death is tragic, but there's no point in trying to compare death rates from countries with wildly different population sizes and scoring political points with it?

 

[Crewella]

Even that isn’t very accurate, there are big differences in how deaths are counted. I believe belgium have been counting care homes deaths from the start for example, and most countries have better testing strategies. The figure here i have no doubt is much higher than what they are recording.
This is non partisan, mind. Just a comment.

I agree - I've read Belgium has been doing that too.

 

[Rickster]

Why of course I do? Because it's a sensible way to look at it?

Of course a death is tragic, but there's no point in trying to compare death rates from countries with wildly different population sizes and scoring political points with it?

Was that what you were doing scoring political points...cos I wasn't

 

[zouzounaki]

@Crewella do you really think anybody is trying to score political points?

 

[ZT]

Spain’s quite interesting actually it’s a pretty big place with a lot of open space and rural communities.

my experience of the city’s in Spain is a lot of crowded tenements - I wonder if that accounts for the high number there ?