It’s a tricky one to compare, if you look in March it was chaos in Italy, people dying in hospital corridors etc, it was never that bad here (in fact the nightingales were either barely or not used at all in most cases) so have we lost more to it than Italy? It’s down to different recording methods and plenty of reports that Covid has been suspected and included or people who’ve died of other sources but tested positive have had it included regardless of it being the actual cause.
In terms of going forward where does it end? Do we stop and keep locking down, destroying economies and livelihoods until there’s a vaccine which may never come?
Ultimately we know we can’t lock down again, even with a second wave, many nations have said they won’t do it again so we have to learn to live with it and try and risk manage it the best we can, and that’s going to be an international effort.