Originally Posted by
Plastic787
Spain has a higher death rate per head of population, you know the country that’s opening its borders right now? We’re also broadly in line with Italy. (And that’s even using the official government figures, the same ones it has been shown are distorted by misreporting deaths). Please don’t make statements that aren’t in line with the actual facts, that’s one reason we’re in the mess we are right now.
Whatever the facts about death rates, they are largely irrelevant to the question of whether or not to open up. The dead reflect what happened 2, 3, 4 perhaps more weeks ago. What is important today is new infection rates, and irrespective of what Spain, Greece or Italy are doing, the UK rates of new infections is far too high, and those countries ought not to be considering letting UK visitors arrive without quarantine unless and until the UK gets the epidemic under control, and new infections down to the hundreds, not thousands.