China lies

[AtW]

2010 in UK -

“ In 2009, however, this revenue growth stalled. Revenue from mobile services, particularly from voice and messaging, declined sharply, the first decrease since mobile telephony became a mass-market service in the late 1990s, falling by 3.5% to £14.9bn”

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/asse...k-telecoms.pdf

Even tho here fixed lines reduced by 1 mln (all dead!) mobile subscribers grown a bit (it was period of big mobile growth tho)

[quackhandle]

I dont think the figures from any of those countries can be 100% trusted or compared due to different levels/types of:

Counting criteria
Testing regimes
Incompetence
Truthfulness

All about the C-TIT factors then? Plenty of them on here.

qh

[Hobosapien]

What motive would German state have to either hide deaths completely or fake death certificates?

Same as any other country. The sooner they can be seen to having it under control the sooner they can attempt to unfreeze their economy. The UK is already massaging the figures by not including those dying outside of hospital so people think the lockdown is only weeks away from being relaxed.

There is a difficult decision ahead to not kill the economy and the negative impact a prolonged lockdown will have on the vast majority in terms of mental/physical/economical health to save a small percentage of the population that will experience the more severe symptoms and risk death.

Without mass testing and contract tracing of any outbreaks to isolate them early there will be a price to pay in human lives to save the economy for the rest, which is why they're still building those temp nightingale hospitals to give more capacity when they start relaxing the lockdown in coming weeks. By then people will be used to the death stats and will be desperate enough to return to normal (such as it will be) to earn money and get their kids back in school that they will tolerate it even as it rises as it inevitably will until a vaccine is found.

Maybe they'll have the mass testing and isolation in place by summer so new normal can return without just letting it run through the population knocking over the vulnerable, then lockdown will end.

[sasguru]

Same as any other country. The sooner they can be seen to having it under control the sooner they can attempt to unfreeze their economy. The UK is already massaging the figures by not including those dying outside of hospital so people think the lockdown is only weeks away from being relaxed.

There is a difficult decision ahead to not kill the economy and the negative impact a prolonged lockdown will have on the vast majority in terms of mental/physical/economical health to save a small percentage of the population that will experience the more severe symptoms and risk death.

Without mass testing and contract tracing of any outbreaks to isolate them early there will be a price to pay in human lives to save the economy for the rest, which is why they're still building those temp nightingale hospitals to give more capacity when they start relaxing the lockdown in coming weeks. By then people will be used to the death stats and will be desperate enough to return to normal (such as it will be) to earn money and get their kids back in school that they will tolerate it even as it rises as it inevitably will until a vaccine is found.

Maybe they'll have the mass testing and isolation in place by summer so new normal can return without just letting it run through the population knocking over the vulnerable, then lockdown will end.

Weren't you the cretin who a few weeks ago was happy that Covid would wipe out the Chinese?
The amount of idiots in the Uk is truly astonishing.

[Hobosapien]

Weren't you the cretin who a few weeks ago was happy that Covid would wipe out the Chinese?
The amount of idiots in the Uk is truly astonishing.

Don't know, can you check my post history and let me know, I can't be arsed.

Anyone happy with how China have gone about things in recent decades is a moron. I wouldn't shed a tear if the dog eating ***** were wiped out economically. They'll use this pandemic to strengthen their grip on the limp wristed world though.

[AtW]

Same as any other country. The sooner they can be seen to having it under control the sooner they can attempt to unfreeze their economy. The UK is already massaging the figures by not including those dying outside of hospital so people think the lockdown is only weeks away from being relaxed.

There is a difficult decision ahead to not kill the economy and the negative impact a prolonged lockdown will have on the vast majority in terms of mental/physical/economical health to save a small percentage of the population that will experience the more severe symptoms and risk death.

Without mass testing and contract tracing of any outbreaks to isolate them early there will be a price to pay in human lives to save the economy for the rest, which is why they're still building those temp nightingale hospitals to give more capacity when they start relaxing the lockdown in coming weeks. By then people will be used to the death stats and will be desperate enough to return to normal (such as it will be) to earn money and get their kids back in school that they will tolerate it even as it rises as it inevitably will until a vaccine is found.

Maybe they'll have the mass testing and isolation in place by summer so new normal can return without just letting it run through the population knocking over the vulnerable, then lockdown will end.

So all the countries in EU got same motive but only Germany is faking it ?

[sasguru]

Don't know, can you check my post history and let me know, I can't be arsed.

Anyone happy with how China have gone about things in recent decades is a moron. I wouldn't shed a tear if the dog eating ***** were wiped out economically. They'll use this pandemic to strengthen their grip on the limp wristed world though.

Whether you're "happy with how China have gone about things in recent decades" is irrelevant.
China has transformed itself into a premier world power, you live on a small island that is determined to make itself irrelevant.

HTH, BIDI.

[DoctorStrangelove]

The amount of idiots in the Uk is truly astonishing.

I'm one.

you live on a small island that is determined to make itself irrelevant.

What goes around comes around.

Now get on with the "Kow Towing for Dummies" like the rest of us s

[Hobosapien]

So all the countries in EU got same motive but only Germany is faking it ?

All of the numbers are fake in that they are not accurate. That can only change by widespread testing of both those with the virus and those that have had it. Seeing as there is lack of capacity of the former and so far no accurate test for the latter then yes all the EU countries are doing same as Germany and the UK and every other country in the world, putting up some numbers that may or may not be a true reflection of the situation. No one can be certain of that without the aforementioned comprehensive testing, and perhaps even autopsies to check cause of death is 'due to virus' and not 'with virus'.

The only accurate number (if published) is the total percentage of deaths (from any cause) against population, and how that compares to historical averages for this time of year to see how much of an impact the virus is really having in terms of death rate.

[Hobosapien]

Whether you're "happy with how China have gone about things in recent decades" is irrelevant.
China has transformed itself into a premier world power, you live on a small island that is determined to make itself irrelevant.

HTH, BIDI.

We'll see how irrelevant it is if the inept governments in the West look to divert attention to China when blame over the trashing of the global economy starts squeezing normal people harder. Wars have started over less.