15-01-2021, 01:07
Population density does not capture the finer points of how people gather together though. Take Hong Kong,Seoul or Taipei which are all high pop density areas but they have all limited covid 19 cases because their governments have successfully protected people.... but also because they take into consideration the connections between communities, healthcare access etc etc. Rather than just looking at crowding. Nor has density particularly predicted the diseases course in the US.
Of course population matters to a degree but not when you are using it to lump together nations in the manner that you have there. I'd look more at the effects on mortality during the pandemic and it shows you Britain and Spain have suffered the most, but drill down and Spain has a significantly older population and a culture of generations sharing accommodation (like Italy in that respect) . So adjusting for age structure is important too.
When you remove the nations we shouldn't be getting compared with, and look more at the detail the UK is clearly suffering catastrophically from COVID. If you seriously think we are genuinely 9th in Europe then I don't know what else I can say.
Of course population matters to a degree but not when you are using it to lump together nations in the manner that you have there. I'd look more at the effects on mortality during the pandemic and it shows you Britain and Spain have suffered the most, but drill down and Spain has a significantly older population and a culture of generations sharing accommodation (like Italy in that respect) . So adjusting for age structure is important too.
When you remove the nations we shouldn't be getting compared with, and look more at the detail the UK is clearly suffering catastrophically from COVID. If you seriously think we are genuinely 9th in Europe then I don't know what else I can say.