Re: Seems consistent with my timeline
Its not easy to directly compare any nation with any other, but it is possible to draw conclusions on who has done well and who has not, and compare the policies in place in each.
The UK still doesnt have a clue how many people have been infected, as a lot of those infected showed no or mild symptoms and were never tested. The testing regime has been largley ineffective as people might have been tested, but results took too long, with some still not comming back within 72 hours, unless they are in 24hrs or less, track and trace becomes a nigh on impossible task, as there are too many contacts and places to trace. its centralised tracing system was inefective, as they asked the wrong questions, didnt collect enough contacts, and didnt have the local knowledge to be effective, also they were only looking for who they may have infected, not who infected them, to cut off the source. its offical death figures are inaccurate as they only take into account people who have died within 28 days of a positive test, and there were people who went into ITU for longer than that, even so it has one of the highest deaths/100k in the world, which have only improved since vaccination took hold, and arguably securing a large supply of various vaccines was one thing they did right.
If the UK had exploited its advantage as an island, and its leader had not been indecicive and "according to cummings" unable to understand the data, then an outcome similar to NZ, Australia, Taiwan, Hawaii could have been achieved. Where deaths are still in the hundreds or thousands, not hundreds off thousands, and cases are under 50k not over 4.5million even with new variants, and most places with the excepetion of local lockdowns on for outbreaks are relativley restriction free internally, but most still have travel bans or restrictive neighbour bubbles.