Originally Posted by
Gordomac
WhiteKnight : Mmmmmm, see your point but Africa, vast, hot, not showing the rates expected even though Social Distancing in Soweto must be the larf of the day. Interesting view here is possibly the hackneyed phrase "Underlying health issues". Middle East is also vast & hot but. oh dear, lots of enderlying issues I venture to suggest. I only did 17 years in Bahrain & I suggest that very poor diet choices and widespread obesity combined with the consequential Type 2 Diabetes would have had an impact on the "many cases" you suggest.
I wonder if the same applies in Germany v UK. A lot more chubby chaps and chapettes in UK than in Germany. Plus although there are plenty of people from Arab/Turkish/Iranian backgrounds in Germany, there are nothing like as many of South Asian or Afro-Caribbean descent - and it seems, reading between the statistical lines, that being chubby, diabetic, 50+ and of south Asian or Afro-Caribbean ancestry puts one right smack in the cross hairs of this one.