So, the US CDC just revamped their: CDC COVID Data Tracker. And I hate it....What do you guys think of it? I blame the changes on Trump. ;)

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fcases-updates%2Fcases-in-us.html#cases

Australia's first recession in almost 30 years... All thanks to COVID. 7% hit.
Wonder how much more that would have been if the Government didn't inject 300~ billion back into the economy...



The bright side is... We have taken a significantly less hit than say the United States who didn't bother to lock down like we did. - So we saved lives and took less of an economic hit... Makes you wonder how American conservatives can place economic output above lives when they have blatantly failed at both.

This video outlines the knowledge won by autopsies on COVID_19-deaths:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nqgZn9Izv8

Korea did also pretty well with handling the outbreak and is hit much less economically than other OECD-countries: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200811000764

China had very restrictive lockdown, possibly the most restrictive worldwide. This helped that China could contain the outbreak mostly on Wuhan and the region. And their economy wasn't hit harder than the countries you list here and was already growing again in Q2: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/china-economy-beijing-reports-q2-2020-gdp.html

So it seems that you can indeed save lives and have mild economical effects. That is nothing mutual exclusive.

This chart should include Sweden as well (-8.6% in Q2).

For comparison: Denmark -7.4%.
Norway has a slightly different reporting period but they seem to be below Sweden as well.

the UK still has brexit comeing 1st of jan 2021, when the transition periode ends.
Its gonna have another 5-10% drop, caused by that as well, at a time when other countries economies will be recovering and growing again.

Plus the UK seems opposed to the methode of spending your way out of it.
Ie. borrow money, spend it on projects = creates jobs = pays taxes = returns on that borrowed money (which in turn lesses the impact of all these crisis).

Conservative thinking, isnt good for dealing with situations like this.
Cutting spending to the bone, as a means of dealing with things, just doesn't do the job well, and often comes with suffering ontop of it.
Its painfull and slow, for recovery.

Thing is, people will then just claim that Brexit had zero impact on the economy and that everything stems from the Coronavirus. It's the perfect excuse.

https://apnews.com/869738c0741058ee12baaa1d946f3294?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

Democrats are hypocrites, rules for thee but not for me

Yep, and yet they are still the far better choice to rule. Isn't that kinda sad?

I would bet the people who have had their business destroyed and now unable to feed their family, people like Gary from Nerdrotic and his wife  disagrees with you