jogills
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I find it interesting that we are always compared to Spain, Italy, Sweden, Ireland etc and lambasted about how bad we are doing but some work has been done regarding population density. This is obviously an important factor as the closer together that people are, or live, the easier it is to spread. So i did a little search and found this. I think it's interesting that not only are we doing considerably better than the countries mentioned above at one death per million per km² but are equal with Switzerland and The Netherlands.
I know this won't interest many as it would appear to indicate that actually, our government may be doing OK but interesting all the same and provides a little context.
On a website for Lib Dem supporters too
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Link to site, few weeks out if date but not sure it would be massively different now
https://www.libdemvoice.org/should-...hen-comparing-countries-on-covid19-64333.html
Figures from the end of April. Sadly we have been consistently recording more deaths than all those countries, apart from the US, since then. I can see why this theory was considered but there are some countries with very dense populations that have negotiated the virus well, Taiwan the stand out example.