This is actually incorrect on a few points. Firstly given the population distribution you would expect Italy to fare much worse than us, especially as we had two weeks extra time to prepare.
Secondly it is clear that how well a country comes through this is a function of how early it takes action in the exponential rise of cases.
Our deaths would be an order of magnitude lower if we had locked down 10 days earlier as many were screaming at the time. This can be proven very easily mathematically.
Thirdly,if the report I read was accurate, Britains are actually complying with the rules better than most countries.
I have some sympathy with politicians struggling to sort things out now - but there is no excuse for the laissez faire attitude at the start of the pandemic. Their strategy has directly lead to thousands of extra deaths.
