Huh? How so?
I'm English. There hasn't been a single time I've gone to the super market and seen everyone wear a mask. I've been at least 100 times. Probably more. This is excluding anyone with an exception and any kids etc.
The same for taking the tube into London the few times I've been.
Multiple government ministers have been caught breaking the rules and kept their jobs. They've been caught ignoring scientific advice multiple times. They've gone out of their way to make it clear that breaking the rules is A-OK.
This is interesting, because obviously the US varies a lot, but this was normal (everyone wearing a mask) for several months where I live, at the supermarket I usually go to. I live in a smaller urban area (about 1 million people) of a larger northeastern state.
I imagine even more rural areas of the same state might have been different.
112k deaths from 4.4m cases.
I wonder how much those two even out
We have a whole bunch of figures for the death count, all around or above 112k but let's take the much lower 85k excess deaths for just 2020 [0]
85k / 0.0002 would mean 425 million people had had covid in England. England only has 55 million people.
[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1137
If you don't like my number, please suggest your own. But anyone saying 99.98% survive is being silly.
Edit : it is, my bad, added a zero. It should read 0.2%, not 0.02%.
That's not precisely the same as covid-19 deaths, nor does it represent the whole of 2020, but it's pretty staggering and suggests what would happen if it was left untreated.