Some people take this "Thatch" hatred too far

[sasguru]

In the 90's I witnessed Britain getting wealthy my home town in the North of England was a lot better, it was absolutely booming compared to Germany.

Germany has now gone through a pretty painful transition and it's getting on it's feet again, but slow.

Check out your home town in a couple of years when the debts that fuelled the artificial boom have to be paid off.
At least the Germans don't borrow and so face up to reality.

Looking at some cold hard numbers, here's the sad truth about the UK economy - this is from the height of the boom but even then we see how piss poor we are. FFS the Netherlands export more than us:

Exports (most recent) by country

And don't tell me we make up for it with our added-value service industries - because no one believes that bollux anymore.

[SupremeSpod]

Like it or not, we're in a global market. Nobody ever survived by sticking their heads in the sand and denying reality.

You'll learn.

Still simplistic. There is more than Black and White.

[sasguru]

I As for infection rates in Germany, wild horses wouldn't get me into a German hospital, their record on infection is absolutely abysmal. In Holland they had the same problem but tackled it.

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Got any data for this is this just another one of your non-evidence-based random thoughts?

[BlasterBates]

Got any data for this is this just another one of your non-evidence-based random thoughts?

This has been constantly in the news in Germany because it is a big problem. The hospitals up until very recently just ignored it, they didn't have an infections expert. I don't have the exact figures you can look em up, but there's a huge number of deaths in German hospitals due to infection and giving the wrong medicine.

[BlasterBates]

There you go:

Todesfalle Krankenhaus: Der mühsame Kampf gegen Krankenhauskeime | IQ - Wissenschaft und Forschung | Bayern 2 | BR

600,000 infections a year in German hospitals.

I don't know about you, but I ain't going there.

[sasguru]

This has been constantly in the news in Germany because it is a big problem. The hospitals up until very recently just ignored it, they didn't have an infections expert. I don't have the exact figures you can look em up, but there's a huge number of deaths in German hospitals due to infection and giving the wrong medicine.

I thought not. If you are claiming Germany has more deaths than the UK its up to you to provide evidence. I refer you to my sig.

[GreenLabel]

Still simplistic. There is more than Black and White.

Feel free to debate any of the points raised.

Anytime now.

[sasguru]

600,000 infections a year in German hospitals.

I don't know about you, but I ain't going there.

If you knew anything about anything you'd know the absoulte number doesn't matter its the rate per population.
Germany has a higher population and number of hosipitals than Britain.

Here's some other evidence:

British hospitals 'among worst for superbugs' - Telegraph

[BlasterBates]

I thought not. If you are claiming Germany has more deaths than the UK its up to you to provide evidence. I refer you to my sig.

Why didn't you look it up?

You really need to get some basic IT skills.

600,000 infections a year.

[BlasterBates]

50,000 deaths per year in German hospitals from bacterial infections.

As usual Sasguru spouts complete tripe.

You should stick to climate change Sasguru, you know very little about it but you're not quite completely ignorant on that topic.