Sally Vix wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
So yesterday I caught a bit of Tiny's news conference and he was bragging about our low death rate. He even got the statistic sort of right when he said it was death rate per population. He said:
Of course, we know this is a statistic he won't be able to brag about for very long if our infection rate is high. The reason for our lower death rate at the moment is because our outbreaks started later than in most major countries.
So I took a quick stab to try to see if I could tell what will happen. Here are the major nations with a worse death rate than ours (deaths/1M population):
Ireland
Sweden
Switzerland
Netherlands
UK
France
Italy
Spain
Belgium
Notice that they are all in Europe where things started getting bad a few weeks before the US.
Now lets look at the major nations with a worse infection rate than ours (infections/1M population):
France
Italy
Ireland
Switzerland
Belgium
Spain
The UK, Netherlands, and Sweden are now gone from the list. Our death rate will at least surpass those three because more infections means more deaths.
Will our infection rate catch up with those six that are left? If it does, our death rate will follow. It looks like our death rate will end up worse than any major nation except maybe Spain, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Should we feel good about the American response when we are worse than all but a handful of countries?
America overall did a damnn good job. It was the Democrat states like NY, NJ, and other liberal states which dropped the ball. If I am a governor of a state, I am sure as hell not waiting on the federal government to bail me out. I am making the masks, I am making the ventilators and I am doing everything else necessary to combat the pandemic. I am sure as heck not waiting on the federal government and and I am sure as heck not whining about it after-the-fact when it was I, the governor, who dropped the ball Cuomo was told years ago he would need 15,000 ventilators. He did nothing. He effed up. Trump did not eff up the nY response. It was the whining gov Cuomo.
Oh look, the dumb@ss is back. America did not do a good job. The tone of a response always comes from the President, and he dismissed it from the beginning. You called it a hoax. How do you even have the nerve to respond here after getting that so wrong? You remain the dumbest person I have ever encountered, and that is surely the case for others here too.