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Because pretty much all of Europe did the same so it isn't exclusive to USA? NY did almost as many tests in a day as some european countries have done total. O
by odshoifsdhfs 7y ago
Because pretty much all of Europe did the same so it isn't exclusive to USA?
NY did almost as many tests in a day as some european countries have done total. Of course they are going to have a spike in cases. No-one believe (in Europe at least) that the number of cases are the truth, and we pretty much know that a lot of people aren't being tests. Portugal until 2 days ago was rejecting tests still of people that had no 'known' chain of contagion. (Source, ex-wife works in the frontline of this crisis)
- bawolff 7y agoI don't see how "other people screwed up too" is a counter argument to my argument that "usa is different from every country in the world and thus its impossible to do things right" is bullshit. They're two completely different claims. It is difficult to compare reported cases across countries, and certainly there are many countries that have dropped the ball (Iran especially comes to mind). At the risk of sounding unfeeling, a clearer picture will probably emerge once the deaths start rolling in, since dying is a very binary state and less subject to measurement bias due to gov (in)action.
- odshoifsdhfs 7y agoI agree. But even with deaths will be tricky. Some countries define any death that tests positive as a COVID death, while others only mark it as so if no other more pressing co-morbilities are found.