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This is an emotionally charged political comment. If you only watch CNN and read the NYT, you might think this. But if you look at the curve, and per-capita de
by TechBro8615 7y ago
This is an emotionally charged political comment. If you only watch CNN and read the NYT, you might think this.
But if you look at the curve, and per-capita death numbers, the US seems to be doing a good job managing the crisis relative to its size.
Has anyone in the US died because they didn’t have a ventilator? Not that I’m aware of. Washington State is already on the downslope.
The history books will be very kind to Trump for his response, much to the chagrin of an inexplicably biased literati class rooting against him.
- andbberger 7y agoYes indeed yours is an emotionally charged political comment, thanks for prefacing it with the warning. NY has started splitting ventilators.
- TechBro8615 7y agoThe implication of your assertions is that the market is irrational right now. You could make a lot of money buying some puts in July. (And I hoped you’d appreciate the ambiguity in the opening sentence :-) Ultimately we’re all in this together and we all want what’s best for the country and world.)
- Retric 7y agoIf the US had does as well as South Korea it would have 1,300 deaths and ~200 new infections per day. Instead we have 10x as many deaths per capita and at least 150x as many new infections per capita today. 50m people, 208 deaths, 27 new infections yesterday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_South_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S... 330m people, 14,696 deaths (cdc), 32,039 new infections yesterday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t... They are a poorer country with a higher population density, yet somehow we failed.