Originally Posted by
ATNotts
Incorrect, when last seen the German population was in excess of 80m, so some 20% greater than UK. France and Italy are the closest to the UK population figure and so they ought really be the benchmark.
Germany has done a phenomenal job, but the French and Italians are still in the same bracket as us in terms of Greece and Cyprus entry for example, ours is worse than both but not massively worse. Spain has much less population wise and has been badly hit so its difficult to judge and compare especially when countries are working differently in terms of how they compile the stats and how they record deaths.
Ours for instance include people who died when testing positive for Covid 19, this doesn't always mean that was the actual cause of death. I guess we will only learn the true picture once its all over.