Sure, there’s more to it. But fundamentally it’s that simple. And that horrifying.
Source: Johns Hopkins University, via @OurWorldInData. To 10 August 2021.
Here’s a version of the chart to include Brazil, which is appalling ….
Some questions on India raised in replies. Official death rates (per million) very low. But not included here because it’s reported the true figures may be 10x (more like Sweden or UK).
Another version of the chart, by popular demand, with Brazil, plus Belgium & Italy. And SA. Also India - but great caution there as the figures are almost certainly far too low.
Peru is way off the chart (around 6,000 per million. In UK terms, about 400,000 deaths). Terrible.
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@SteveBakerHW is a well-known British Twitter parody account. ‘MP’ should not be misinterpreted to mean he’s a real member of the UK legislature. (‘FRSA’’? … well, don’t worry about that. Not important).
Oh … wait. What?
Good grief.
P.S. Dear non-UK world, turns out @SteveBakerHW is not only a genuine member of the governing party in the UK parliament, but he’s an ardent supporter of the ‘political fiasco’ (his words) called ‘Brexit’. He also thinks carbon ‘net zero’ is bad, because it’ll make us ‘colder’.
P.P.S. Those not closely following UK politics may not know how far @SteveBakerHW has come on Brexit.
From falsely accusing officials of faking evidence it’d be a fiasco, to crying from the (Twitter) rooftops that it is one.
This tweet supposedly originates from @AllegraCOP26, a top comms pro working for @BorisJohnson, the Prime Minister of the UK, leading his messaging to the world on the most important crisis facing humanity.
Pretending individuals can make any real difference in a system driving them toward climate catastrophe is dishonest & dangerous.
The massive systems change required needs clarity, competence & courage. Not patronising claptrap.
17 years ago the Cabinet agreed & published an international energy & climate strategy for the UK. The first ever.
It wasn’t perfect. But it was clear, & right, about the central challenges, the massive change needed to address them & (at least some) of how to achieve that.
Along with approaching 6 million others, a Holocaust survivor’s citizenship rights in the UK were revoked on 1 January 2021, to be replaced with an inferior status.
And for no other reason than she (& they) belong to a disfavoured group (EU citizens).
A Holocaust survivor. /2.
She, along with countless others, faces the prospect that she may be denied even that lesser status. /3.