I'm not sure if you noticed my reply, but I have relatives in Germany and friends around Europe. Death counting is not a science but an art and at the moment I wouldn't form many views around them at the moment. Certainly my German relatives wouldn't agree with them being better off. I posted...
I thought I would raise a non British viewpoint.
I have a German uncle, and with my aunty they live mainly in Germany. Brunswick has been given circa 1000 vaccines for a population of 250,000. My aunty and uncle are now their 70's and they say that they will be unlikely to get vaccinated...