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Per today's RealClearPolitics chart: US 260 deaths per million UK 499 France 404 Netherlands 322 Germany (Kudos!) 94.8 The US is not doing badly at all.
by RickJWagner 7y ago
Per today's RealClearPolitics chart:
US 260 deaths per million
UK 499
France 404
Netherlands 322
Germany (Kudos!) 94.8
The US is not doing badly at all.
- xienze 7y ago> The US is not doing badly at all. Sadly people can’t look past the big absolute number of deaths and attach proper context to it. Like deaths per million, or ignoring that ~half of cases and deaths are restricted to a single metropolitan area.
- wonderwonder 7y agoSouth Korea: 5.07 deaths per million Population of ~51 million First case on the same day as us. Democratic government. This is who we should be comparing ourselves too, not just choosing some random countries that are doing worse than us.
- threeseed 7y agoMost of those countries are seeing their death rate decline. US is plateauing. https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america Which means the US is on track to at minimum 500+ within the next few months making it the worst country in the world.
- MisterBastahrd 7y agoYes, yes it is. Because a large number of those cases are NYC, which is already on the downside of its curve by a considerable degree, while the US as a whole is still trending upward, meaning that the country outside of NYC is doing pretty poorly.