Does the UK have more cases than those countries combined?
The death rate from confirmed cases in Germany is only 30% of the UK rate. Is it because Germany is doing something right, the UK doing something wrong, or the explanation implied on here that the UK actually has many times more cases than has been reported.
Germany has a far more rigorous testing and contact tracing regime, which started with their patient zero. Their patient zero attended a festival during their most contagious phase, yet they managed to trace everyone he'd been in contact with.
I think your right, the implication is we have far more cases than is reported, although in saying that, we don't actually report that no matter what the graph says. We report on number of people tested who are positive, which sounds picky, but probably accounts for the huge disparity, when you think Germany does 500,000 tests a day, and on Friday we performed 28k tests, 10k of which were on people already tested before with almost 5.5k positives.. If we've only been testing a small number of people working in high risk roles, and anyone that it's already thought probably has it, then naturally the % of positive results to tests performed will be dramatically bigger. In 5 days time when we are completing 100,000 test a a day that may change, but if we really are over the worst of it, as we're being told, the numbers will be dramatically different now than if we were doing 100k tests i a day when the UK outbreak is said to have been at its peak. I'ts almost as if we're being expected to swallow meaningless numbers because the reality might make someone unpopular.
The numbers would look different if we were reporting the real number of CV-19 deaths, widely accepted to be more than double those currently stated. It's a bit like saying the number of Murders in the UK are comparatively lower than the rest of Europe when only murders where the killer is found standing over the body with a bloody axe in their hands go towards the official figures. Or showing graphs representing a huge fall in the % of ICU beds currently being used when there's just been a huge rise in capacity, and a comparison between 3 different countries number of deaths with a caveat at the bottom that no one can read saying the numbers can't be compared because they're calculated differently.
The only thing more ridiculous would be presenting figures on use of transport as the first, most important thing to look at because its the only graph you've got showing a decline and saying it clearly demonstrates you're doing a great job , and then ignoring any 40% spikes that happen and the fact that when the graph does drop down it doesn't get close to it's previous low because that's an inconvenient truth. Or getting an idiot to comment on crime figures when tens of thousand of people are dying. Which you'd clearly have to be mad to do. Unless perhaps you wanted to deflect attention away from tucking a silk hanky into a false thumb.
