Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Yep. Give us deaths per 100K and you've got something.

 

I haven't seen a chart of such, so . . .

What did they shut down that we considered "essential?" A 45% difference is a pretty big spread.

Germany's economy declined 10.1% in 2Q. Ours declined 9.5%. That ain't a 45% difference. Somebody in that country was doing business.

 

UK 1 COVID death for every 1,442 people
Italy 1 COVID death for every 1,717 people
Spain 1 COVID death for every 1,652 people
United States of Trump 1 COVID death for every 2,088 people

If our death rate equaled the UK we'd have 228,848 dead right now.

 

You've sold me: Let's stop all efforts to contain this and praise Trump for allowing us to suffer, but only a little bit.

 

It doesn't mean our testing is plentiful enough we're detecting most (let alone all) cases right now and that we had more cases in March and April than we did in July but just didn't know because of previous testing limitations.

 

I'm asking this again. So what? President Trump has done plenty of unpopular things. That is actually part of his job, to make unpopular decisions for the good of the country. That it would have been unpopular does not justify his failure to take such action.

 

‘This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail’

 

You’re right, but I don’t much care for the Monday morning quarterbacking from those quarters re: the oversight of the FDA.

 

There is plenty of evidence from the US states and around the world that aggressive actions to combat the virus are popular, not unpopular. Also should be noted that there's a lot more government-business cooperation in Germany than here.

 

When compared to the other countries most affected by the pandemic, the U.S. has the fourth-highest COVID-19 mortality rate, with 46.48 deaths per 100,000 people in the population, according to a July 31 analysis by Johns Hopkins University.

https://www.foxtv.com/news/calculat...fficult-but-us-doesnt-have-lowest-experts-say

 

What does it say about, e.g., Spain and Italy that: a) they don’t even make the “most affected” list but; b) they have more deaths per 100K than many on that list do?

 

Because the virus has been more suppressed in those countries, especially Italy, than here. Worth studying how two countries renowned for dysfunctional governance, Italy and Greece, did well in their reactions to the virus, Greece from the jump, Italy after a horrendous initial outbreak.