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Re:Half a million UK workers drop out of workforce, citing l... by mixtur2021 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:29PM (#33555152)
Not sure. In the devolved administrations, Scotland in particular, my understanding is they locked down for longer with more restrictions and actually had higher death rates (other factors may be at play here to be fair) or very similar levels:

https://www.ft.com/content/0eccfeef-2913-43a7-9518-6728f15e5...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/covid-lockdown-s...

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Re:Half a million UK workers drop out of workforce, citing l... by TurkishPoptart on Thursday November 10, 2022 @07:18PM (#33555684)
Scotland and Wales took the Chinese "Zero Covid" route and are suffering the consequences.
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