User talk:ImprovedWikiImprovment/UK COVID-19 deaths surpass 100,000

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Thank you for taking the time to compose these remarks, I appreciate it. I agree that too much time has now elapsed for us to publish this as "news". In terms of the significance, the fact about the country being the fifth is something several sources mentioned when the country passed the milestone. All of the countries have higher populations than the United Kingdom: India has 1.3bn, US 328m, Mexico 127m, Brazil 211m. I guess the significance is that the UK, with just under 70m, has had a large increase with the highest death rate in the world at one point. I heard on the news that about a quarter of the 100,000 deaths have happened within the last few months. Countries with very close populations to the UK include Thailand (77 total deaths) and France (75,000 deaths). No country with a similar population has had a higher number of deaths than the UK, which is probably because of the UK variant of the disease. With the Boris Johnson quote, I think my thought process was the "threshold for originality", and that any alternative way to word that would have looked strange. If this is a problem with the guidelines here, I will be sure to avoid it in the future. Best, --IWI (talk) 15:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC)