Yup.Is it just my perception or are we getting almost no news now about how other countries are coping, apart from Canada and America perhaps. It seems that way to me. Just had a call with someone in Guatemala, she was saying every week now someone in her immediate circle family or work dies of covid, curfews still in place schools still shut all year, very very low take up of vaccines. Tourists are back & mostly maskless. She looked so exhausted.
News from India went from hysteria to nothing.
Iran? Indonesia? Other?
Is it just my perception or are we getting almost no news now about how other countries are coping, apart from Canada and America perhaps. It seems that way to me. Just had a call with someone in Guatemala, she was saying every week now someone in her immediate circle family or work dies of covid, curfews still in place schools still shut all year, very very low take up of vaccines. Tourists are back & mostly maskless. She looked so exhausted.
Some of it (lack of coverage in the news) will just be that it’s not clickworthy, everyone’s bored of covid news. But I wonder if it’s also a concern that if we know too much about the global situation we might not all want our booster jabs, idk. Very strong “sod it we’ve got ours” feel to it all.
Is it just my perception or are we getting almost no news now about how other countries are coping, apart from Canada and America perhaps. It seems that way to me. Just had a call with someone in Guatemala, she was saying every week now someone in her immediate circle family or work dies of covid, curfews still in place schools still shut all year, very very low take up of vaccines. Tourists are back & mostly maskless. She looked so exhausted.
It's nuts to think that the UK's best case scenario could have been anything like New Zealand. Maybe the UK could have done as well as somewhere like Denmark. Maybe.What things might look like in an alternate universe, with a government that isn't 100% cunt
It's nuts to think that the UK's best case scenario could have been anything like New Zealand. Maybe the UK could have done as well as somewhere like Denmark. Maybe.
I don't really think it's a can't do mentality to believe we could have had something like a quarter of the deaths we've had - by looking at the best performing out of reasonably comparable countries. I simply think that New Zealand has so many significant differences from the UK, that it's not really useful as a comparison. And factored into my judgement of how much better we could have done, is what I reckon would have been politically acceptable to most people in the UK.Its that sort of cant do mentality that ensured we didnt come within a hundred thousand deaths of finding out just how well we could have done.
Assumptions about what would have been politically acceptable were a self-fulfilling pandemic prophecy.
Japan would be better, as a densely populated island with close links to its neighbours.NZ is a crap comparison tbh, its way away from everyone. Would France not be a more similar country to compare with?
Tfb, single men won't have had the opportunity to give anyone a black eye for eighteen months.Celebrations in Norway, following the lifting of restrictions
Mass brawls reported in Norway as country celebrates lifting of Covid restrictions