Brits don’t have hvac, furnaces or central air. The climate does not justify the expense.
Not to mention their wretched health system.
I wonder how many of these victims died whilst waiting to see a practitioner? Or, flat put off the dreaded days long wait to be seen in an “E”R?
On a visit to Amsterdam at beginning of winter, I was shocked and appalled by the number of people with hacking coughs all around me. My Belgian doc friend explained the Netherlands health system is much worse so many cross into Belgium for medicine. It was an object lesson in socialized medicine that people don't bother to see the doctor, what's the point? and suffer through bronchitis and sinus infections.