Quote Originally Posted by NickRally View Post
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/trans...from1990to2020

Not the most enjoyable of statistics, but it would appear here in England we have been in a state of constant pandemic up until 2010 with steady decline in the subsequent years till 2020 when we went back to 2009 levels.
Same source:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...ding2april2021

(large increase in weekly deaths correlated with reported number of covid cases).

What your long term numbers show is that UK had a remarkable reduction in number of deaths after 2009...but not much about Covid.

To support what Mirek writes this is the same graph for CZ:
https://www.czso.cz/csu/czso/obypz_cr

As you know these increases in number of deaths happened even though there were various levels of lockdown/restrictions in these countries.

How many lockdowns were there in UK in 2009???
(to compare with "same" situation)

How do you think the numbers would look without lockdowns?

(Btw. Sweden is not an argument here as they actually had much more strict restrictions than rest of Europe for most of last year, the main difference is they didn't lock down completely during the peaks. Also compare Sweden with their neigbours).