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Britain
UK reels from biggest Covid hit of ANY major economy with GDP slumping a FIFTH as the country officially plunges into recession and Rishi Sunak warns of jobs bloodbath - but glimmer of hope as growth rebounded by 8.7% in June
2020-08-13
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The UK economy has officially entered recession after figures showed a second quarter of contraction
    That’s what happens when you lock everyone down. It reverses when its opened up again, people being what they are.
  • GDP was down a shocking 20.4 per cent in the three month to June at height of the coronavirus crisis
    Not shocking at all, under the circumstances.
  • UK's hit in the first six months of 2020 was the worst in the G7 with slump set to be the biggest in 100 years
    Never before has much of the world deliberately closed up shop for the duration. In 1918-1920 the Spanish flu rampaged round the world in four waves, infecting 500 million and killing 17-50 million. Current COVID-19 world statistics are 20.8 million infections and 747,258 deaths since January, where the death rate started flattening in April.
  • The economy did recover to an extent in the month of June with the ONS finding 8.7 per cent growth
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  Aint that the truth; around here flies are living like COVID patients.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-08-13 16:46  

#5  I wish flies would die. I am tired of chasing them around the house.
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-13 07:00  

#4  "Dying like flies" in the same places they did before Covid.
Posted by: Frank G   2020-08-13 06:16  

#3  Sorry, but COVID is just not that excessively dangerous for the VAST majority of people. So your hyperbole that people are dropping like flies is frankly BULLSHIT. Most people need to be tested to even find out if they have had the virus, it's that insignificant.

The 99.95% of the population locked up to save the 0.05%.

The economics of madness from the mad medic touting an expensive "cure" to what wouldn't even be noticed as a problem but the vast majority of those afflicted.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-08-13 06:07  

#2  Thanks Prof Lockdown... You killed hundreds of thousands more than COVID killed.

Since July FLU has killed 5 times more than COVID.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-08-13 03:02  

#1  But, certain sectors of economy will never recover. And a good thing too - because middle classes should stop trying to imitate the leisure class.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-08-13 02:12  

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