COVID-19: UK tops 150,000 coronavirus-related deaths since start of pandemic after recorded 313 in last 24 hours | UK News

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1. Meanwhile South Korea, close to our population size, much denser population, close to the epicentre of covid.

   *5986 deaths total, over the whole pandemic*

   150,000 deaths is a **choice** that the UK government made for you. It was always possible to properly save lives as South Korea proved beyond all doubt, but the UK being a nation governed by generations of charlatans, didn’t bother.

   And when it did lock down it was late, haphazard, constantly undermined with deliberate mixed messaging, eat out to help out and more.

2. Mental. Even more mental how long it took people to take this serious.

   Been wearing an n95 since January 2020. Nobody listened then. Obviously they still don’t. This should of ended in 2021. It’s fucking mental to think this is going on still.

   You slack, you become infected. I know everyone’s fatigued (no pun intended) but you gotta keep on top of it still. Wash your hands.

3. Where are all those confidently claiming we’d peaked and everyone who supported even the tiniest further measures was a ‘lockdown loving bedwetter’?

   Quite a lot of two week old accounts assured us we’d all be fine.

4. I love how the headline is always written to make it sound as bad as possible.

   The other figures for today are:

   – Cases 146k (although Wales never reports on Saturdays so probably ~155k in reality), the lowest for 10 days
   – Hospital admissions (from the 6th) around 2000, a similar level to the last 10 days
   – Hospital occupancy (also from the 6th) 18.4k, still rising but the rise is slowing (and in England, where you can have figures up to today, possibly peaked)
   – Ventilator bed usage going down again in the last few days