I also remember at the time (it seems so long ago), we had the ONS statistics to guide us that the death toll .. at least in the UK, was extremely unusual. Probably something to do with the UK government's laissez-faire approach in dumping the old people into old peoples homes where covid was rife, a typical administrative f*ck up, in addition to other mistaken, as well as corrupt, policies. In addition, I was never comfortable with mrna vaccine in general, especially in the young population cohort. We were also lucky to have had Dan to report from the covid frontline what was going on in the hospitals. In that sense I think that Darren was not in touch with factual evidence since he hasn't touched on these in his essay. Yes, Rhis, poor sod, didn't make it, despite being convinced he could get through using extraordinarily large doses of vitamin C : / rip etc.