Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Visualising 150,000 UK coronavirus deaths - BBC News" video.

So what? Does that diminish the tragedy of 150,000 needless deaths?
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@nathankent9048 That's as irrational as it is untrue. People take vaccines within a few years of birth, all manner of medications throughout their lives, extra stuff when travelling to hot countries, and we do our best to prevent "mother nature" from having her way with us - or do you still live out in the wild because mother nature is unstoppable? Some countries dealt with covid intelligently, many, including Britain had an appalling response that cost thousands more lives than necessary - hence "needless deaths."
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@vitorfernandes651 Global populations are likely to start declining within 10 years. Population SHORTAGE is likely to be the greatest problem facing western nations.
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Well said.
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@fullofhope2222 Yes, I agree with that. That's why you need to comprehend how the statistics are assembled, normalised and represented. But sometimes statistics are complicated. The number of covid deaths is undoubtedly far less than 150,000. The number of deaths due to covid's presence are probably very significant, but hard to quantify.
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@ritecomment2098 Stow the sarcasm, and try again.
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@ritecomment2098 1. The deaths were needless because Boris Johnson's response was woeful. He was way too late shutting the border, even allowing superspreader events at the start, way too late locking down the country, he reopened too early, and then again in christmas simply to pander, the government messaging was appalling, he made repeated excuses for rule breakers among his inner circle, and has shot himself in the foot by continuously flouting the guidleines that he imposed. Kids were treated as though they could not pass it on. I could continue, but the point is, the way Johnson managed the virus at every possible point, lead to a worse outcome for the country. 2. Don't put words into my mouth. People die all the time. That's part of life. However, easily preventable deaths from a wholly new source should be prevented if possible and reasonable. If it costs a million pounds each to save a 98 year old, then that is clearly not reasonable. Mankind has successully worked for millennia to increase our life expctancy, and it is outrageous that anyone would argue that now we suddenly write off savable elderly by virtue of their age. And you know full well that it is not just people in their 90s who are dying - plenty of people in their 30s and 40s are also dying prematurely, and who would be alive now without covid. 3. More hyperbolic straw manning. I never for a second suggested that we "imprison the UK population in their homes against all sorts of 'risk'." For starters, other risks are not contagious. But IF the entire UK population HAD been "imprisoned" for just two weeks, and then the borders closed, this would have been over almost two years ago, which would have been massively cheaper than what we did instead. 4. Covid is not flu. It's caused by a different virus. Flu does not leave the same long lasting after effects in many cases, such loss of taste and extreme fatuigue. But even if covid WAS flu, I would remind you that 100 million people died of Spanish flu in 1918. Your dismissal makes as much sense as saying WW2 was "just another war."
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