I share this, not to claim that the UK is doing well at controlling COVID-19—my position remains that that it's too early, the data are too poor, the regions are too different to draw any solid conclusions—but to note that the usual suspects *aren't* sharing this. https://twitter.com/BristOliver/status/1297988372653387784

In related news, the government of the Netherlands is currently spending money on an ad campaign to persuade businesses not to migrate to the UK because of Brexit—as it currently seems Shell and Unilever are likely to do. #DespiteBrexit

As with the movements of migrants, there's one version of the UK that lives in the troubled minds of the Smart People, and there's another version of the UK that exists in the world where people have to bet their own lives and their own money. Revealed preferences are brutal.