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Agree. If you think of a country that can dethrone the US, its really only one player, China. The other countries (Germany, Japan, Russia) are very far behind i

Agree. If you think of a country that can dethrone the US, its really only one player, China. The other countries (Germany, Japan, Russia) are very far behind in terms of military might, commerce, and also population. Given the US also has considerable amounts of land/resources(oil, minerals, timber, farming land) and a lions share of the worlds largest companies(Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Chevron, Wal-Mart, Google, Intel, P&G, Exxon to name some) its hard to say the US is going anywhere anytime soon. I feel like a lot of this negativity right now is based on the covid-19 pandemic which btw the whole world is suffering not just the US. Think things are bad in the US? at least it didn't suffer a 20% drop in GDP like the UK did [1], sure the US has the most cases, but looking at mortality the US is roughly middle of the pack at 3.2% [2] [1] - https://www.ft.com/content/c8b172e2-8f70-4118-9e81-423e9a4b6839 https://www.ft.com/content/c8b172e2-8f70-4118-9e81-423e9a4b6... [2] - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

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Mortality as a % of diagnosed cases is a number that is easily increased or decreased by the whims of the leadership team. Ironically, the sounds coming from the President indicate that he wants to push that number up (by reducing testing). Instead, the deaths per 100k of population is a more meaningful number. Also, don't look at the pretty graphs at the top of the page on https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality, as there are a bunch of countries excluded from that (e.g. Italy, Spain, Belgium, which are all near the top of the list but not featured in the graphs). Instead, look at the table below. There's nothing 'middle of the pack' about the USA's performance. Like the UK govt likes to refer to everything they do as being 'world leading' or 'world beating', UK and USA continue to be 'world leaders' in killing off their own populations through ineffective leadership. (I've been stuck in the UK since March, unable to get back to better led lands, watching this train wreck unfold)

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oarsinsync 6y ago

Mortality as a % of diagnosed cases is a number that is easily increased or decreased by the whims of the leadership team. Ironically, the sounds coming from the President indicate that he wants to push that number up (by reducing testing). Instead, the deaths per 100k of population is a more meaningful number. Also, don't look at the pretty graphs at the top of the page on https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality, as there are a bunch of countries excluded from that (e.g. Italy, Spain, Belgium, which are all near the top of the list but not featured in the graphs). Instead, look at the table below. There's nothing 'middle of the pack' about the USA's performance. Like the UK govt likes to refer to everything they do as being 'world leading' or 'world beating', UK and USA continue to be 'world leaders' in killing off their own populations through ineffective leadership. (I've been stuck in the UK since March, unable to get back to better led lands, watching this train wreck unfold)