Remember when 20,000 deaths would have been "a good result"? Remember when "there were only more cases because we were testing more"? Well, now we are past 100,000 deaths. And Labour is still five points behind this.
Perhaps it is because Britain is a newly independent state? One of those is often run for decades on end by the same party, the same family, or even the same person. Hastings Banda was still the President of Malawi at the age of 96. Although having a similar taste in consorts, the 56-year-old Boris Johnson has a long way to go to match that.
Or perhaps Keir Starmer is just rubbish?
The official figure says “100,000 deaths: Deaths for ANY REASON within 28 days of a positive COVID test.” Given that the median age of COVID-positive deaths is 82 (while the average UK life expectancy is 81) and 90% of these people had at least one other lethal underlying health condition such as heart disease, many or even most were not killed by COVID at all.
ReplyDeleteOh, do give it up, you silly little people. With a hundred thousand dead, and anything up to another hundred thousand to come, you have already done more than enough damage. Just go away. And take Boris Johnson with you.
DeleteHalf of those “100,000 dead” were over 80, which is the average life expectancy in the UK now-that is not a damning indictment but rather a tribute to our country and the fact we’re living much longer.
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ReplyDeleteThe BBC notes: “Part of the reason for the high death toll is the UK’s ageing population, which is much larger than in many other countries. Covid is far more lethal among the elderly, with half of the deaths occurring among over 80s.””
So, as I say, it’s in fact a tribute to the fact people live longer in Britain than in many other countries.
Britain has a younger population than many other developed countries. Our "ageing population" is largely a myth, or at least it is a generation out of date. Britain also has a far worse record than any other developed country when it comes to dealing with Covid-19, which does indeed disproportionately affect the old.
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