563 dead today so rates are increasing rapidly. 15 days ago in Italy the death rate (17th March) was at 345. This puts us in a worse position and frankly the forecasted figures for the next 14days look horrendous.
This was my concern as if you look at the US and the stupid decision they made (or didn't!) in Louisiana to let the Mardi Gras go ahead was nonsensical. Half the world was in lock-down or social distancing and you let 1.4m people mass gather in very close proximity. Makes little sense. Now Louisiana is spiking......no sh1t!
We should have not allowed so many people to travel like they had to on tubes with reduced carriages and service. Makes no sense.
However the numbers still in the bigger picture are not huge. Our natural UK mortality rate is circa 9.2 per 1k or 0.92%. Currently VC stats to date are:
UK Population = 66.44 million
Coronavirus Cases: 29474 = 0.0444% of population
Deaths: 2352= 0.00354% of population
Recovered: 135 = 0.0002% of population
In the grand scheme of natural mortality we are still taking massive mitigation steps for quite a small number......at the moment. We don't do this every year for the standard Flu.