Have I Entered A Time Warp?

[New Judge]

On 1st July the published number (cumulative) of Covid cases in the UK was 313,483. I could not find yesterday's figures. Today the total number of cases up to yesterday is 283,757 - a figure that by my records was achieved on 6th June. So 30,000 cases have disappeared. Looking at the source of my figures it seems all the numbers have been re-cast:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk

Wos 'appening?

[Peter Pedant]

the lost 30 000 ?
they ahve all gone to sweden

talking of which NJ you have gone very quiet about how Sweden wasnt locking down and it was MUCH better. Why cdnt we have such wise advisers sweden had instead of the bonking dead losses we DID have ?

yeah remember that?I do and now sweden are having an inquiry why they followed such crook advice - which was not only wrong but a lot of people said was crazy at the outset

covid - what goes around - comes around

[jno]

insofar as things have gone wrong for Sweden, it's taken quite a while; perhaps if it had done so earlier they might have rethought it quicker. I don't know if anyone predicted this pattern, or has explained it.

[SteveD]

At the end of this year, it will be interesting to see the figures for total deaths (all causes) for 2020 compared with the same figures for 2019.

[Gromit]

Sweden followed a different route, and it is too early to say it was wrong, and our way was right.
The population of Sweden is 10 Million, our is 60 Million.

If you multiply their death toll by 6, you get 32 Million
Our actual death toll is considerably higher at 44 Million.

[douglas9401]

Ahem! Are you sure, Gromit?

[aelmpvw]

//Our actual death toll is considerably higher at 44 Million//
blimey, they've kept that quiet

[gulliver1]

08.57 Gromit. UK Population stands at 66.65 million + 3, million Hong Kongers on the way, courtesy of Boris Johnson.

[Gromit]

Sorry, 44,000.

Uk population is just short of 68 Million, so Sweden’s death toll would be 36,000 compared to the UK 44,000.

[gulliver1]

Heck Gromit ,with a death rate of 44, million there would not be enough people to elect Keir Starmer as P/M at the next G/E.

[New Judge]

//...talking of which NJ you have gone very quiet about how Sweden wasnt locking down and it was MUCH better.//

I haven't gone quiet, Peter. It's just that all that there was to be said (on both sides of the argument) has been said. At present Sweden has 7,060 confirmed infections per million of the population. The UK has about 4,200 (following the latest "adjustment" to the infection figures). Sweden has around 540 deaths per million and the UK has around 650. What isn't known (and won't be known for some time) is the "collateral damage" associated with the two strategies. At present the UK is agonising (in four separate ways) over whether/how/when to ease various aspects of the lockdown and how to reimpose it when infections begin to rise again (which in my view is probably inevitable but I'll be more than happy if I'm wrong). Sweden has no such deliberations to fret over because it has never really had a lockdown.