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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by golem14 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:44PM (#22580433)
How does the UK have an extra month, exactly ?

It did not take Italy 1 month to to go from 1,143 (today's UK number) positives to 21,157 (today's Italy number, per https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...), did it ?

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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by andy_ppp on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:23AM (#22582154)
Testing in Italy was far less, the totals for there need to be inferred from the deaths and cases and the amount of testing!
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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by tigershark on Sunday March 15, 2020 @08:10AM (#22582996)
Italy had 21 deaths on the 28th feb, so 2 weeks ago.
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Re:Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius? by andy_ppp on Sunday March 15, 2020 @09:22AM (#22583335)
But the response will be less pronounced here with knowledge, self isolation and a lack of kissing when greeting. A month is probably a better guess than 2 weeks, but not a single person knows is rather the point...
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