This thread makes the assumption that you can directly compare numbers from two countries when one had their first case a month later. I& #39;m so tired of all of this poorly done statistics going viral recently.

Day of first case matters a whole lot when it& #39;s exponential growth. https://twitter.com/laineydoyle/status/1249127908876128259">https://twitter.com/laineydoy...

Secondly, it doesn& #39;t take any account of density. While yes she did do per capita, she did not account for the fact that UK is much more dense. I get it, everyone loves to shit on the UK because it& #39;s led by the Boogeyman government, but please be reasonable and check your numbers

Considering that Ireland is about a month behind the UK (UK had first case 2 months,1 week and 5 days ago and Ireland had our first case 1 month and 2 weeks ago), the UK had only 11 deaths back then. Seems very low? Well, that is how exponential growth works.