Nearing politics

Excess deaths, week by week, every week back to March 2015  England & Wales This uses the data back to March 2010

As documented in the  Joint Biosecurity Centre Note on Joint Biosecurity Centre and potential flows, 20 May 2020 It has obviously been policy to tolerate a level of New Cases. Now we know that level was 15 new cases per day, per million people, if a UK figure, or 18 cases a day if it was a figure for England We also can see from the graphs that policies were altered to allow the case rate to start rising again - when the UK new case rate hit 15 per day

Belgium only produced a set of figures where all care home deaths were presumed to be Covid-related To compare like-for-like, this equates most closely to the UK Excess deaths figures. So I have added the "Belgium scale" to the comparison of Covid Deaths per million people across European nations  As before, the X-axis is not meaningful - the datapoints are spread out only to prevent the labels from overlapping

Confirmed deaths per million people Please note, the X-axis is not meaningful - the datapoints are spread to make room for the label text

A claim often made is that it is not possible to compare Scotland and England because London has a much denser population London;s populationi s larger, and it's population denisty is higher, but not incomparably. Population Area (sq km) Population Density Year Greater Glasgow 1,209,143 368.5 3,281 2011 Greater London 8,908,000 1,572 5,667 2018 Greater London 8,982,000 1,572 5,714 2019 It's worth noting that the City of Glasgow on its own had 1.089 million inhabitants last century, and there has been a concerted effort to lower Glasgow's population density, decade after decade. It's also interesting to note that the City of London only has 8,910 residents. (I used to be one of them.  It was the shortest commute I ever had).  But over 1 million poeople work there each weekday.