No. Jeremy faced with Covid-19 would have dithered and still be dithering with no decisions. That is what he does when faced with a choice between two bad options, so he sensibly does nothing, leaving it to fate.
So we'd have effectively ended up like Sweden at doing as little as possible about the pandemic.
After all this time their death rate is 24% below ours, their kids haven't lost education or missed exams and they haven't added countless billions to their national debt, a huge win, win. Against our lose, lose of the world's highest death rate, crippling debt and kids education in chaos.
Just as I told you all would happen last year when I praised Sweden's approach, but as usual you wouldn't accept it.
And please don't once again try to tell me Sweden is different because that is bunkum. They are directly comparable.
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Sweden population density is 24. 5 people per square km.
England's population density is 275 people per square km.
Swedes historically follow government advice, don't have massive travel hubs like Heathrow etc. Don't have mass congregations for sport (every major town in UK has at least one 50k seater ground)
Swedes tend not to meet in massive groups (ie like drinkers in Newcastle and every where else)
And probably more importantly a great deal of Swede's live alone.(by memory 30% but could be wrong)
You don't have to think about it much to realise Sweden in any pandemic will fare batter than Belgium... However, compared to their neighbours with pretty similar socio economic groups, geographical situation (Denmark and Norway) they have done far far worse.
Suspect had we taken Swede's approach we, d be hitting 200k deaths.
As I, ve said all along we need to put politics, hate and argument away and search for the real objective reasons various countries have apparently coped better.
Why is San Marino the worst?
I wasn't making a link to Mexico and Who. Just mentioned in same post.
My point was Who knew about the potential of this last January. Why wasn't international travel stopped immediately. What did Who do in early stages. Blamed countries. There needs to be a world wide authority capable of stopping whatever it sees fit immediately it thinks it would be beneficial. As far as I can see Who are toothless and simply offer advice after the horse has bolted. They should have been bolting the stable door and didn't.