Testing out my newfound conjoined virology-statistics-data-Excel-html coding skills while providing a critique to this whole travesty of a mockery of a sham.
Which means here is today's installment of the proper relative comparison of deaths across the world.
Below is today's update with April 10th totals for the US and other countries that started their round of golf on March 26. While the US' time series ends on Day 17 (which is April 10 - and is basis of the order, i.e., I sorted the data by Day 17 values), I am publishing other countries future totals/'golfer's scores' who are on hole 8 while we're at hole 4.
The US' ranking doesn't look like it'll move from here on out. Since Switzerland passed us a few days ago, the nearest country is Luxembourg and the US is good 2500 or so adjusted fatalities ahead of them. Thus, in terms of Western Europe, the US will have higher adjusted fatalities than Luxembourg, Portugal, Denmark, Germany and Austria.
On the 'bright' side, We are doing better than the 'hands-off' countries like Sweden and the Netherlands who have higher adjusted fatalities but some would question if the economic carnage was worth about 3.2M-6.7M fewer fatalities. (The answer: if would, if one of those fatalities was your mum.) The rest of Western Europe is a relative disaster.
Speaking of disasters, there was a NYT article on how today, the U.S. Surpasses Italy in Total Number of Confirmed Deaths. As we all know, they're technically right but 3 paragraphs into the article, the Times noted on a population-adjusted basis Italy is still in the lead. As we can see, Italy started golfing a good 20 days before America. So we're 'winning' but it hardly feels like a win. Pray for those impacted by this entire mess.
| Country | Date of Day 1=day priot to hitting 1,000+ population-adjusted deaths | Day 14 | Day 15 | Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 | Day 19 | Day 20 |
| San Marino | 3/3/20 | 68,711 | 68,711 | 107,974 | 107,974 | 137,421 | 196,316 | 196,316 |
| Andorra | 3/21/20 | 68,000 | 72,250 | 76,500 | 89,250 | 93,500 | 97,750 | 106,250 |
| United Kingdom | 3/15/20 | 34,021 | 41,018 | 47,016 | 59,744 | 78,537 | 97,497 | 120,322 |
| West Bank and Gaza | 3/25/20 | 28,167 | 28,167 | 28,167 | 56,334 | - | - | - |
| Spain | 3/13/20 | 30,541 | 35,950 | 41,855 | 47,600 | 53,988 | 59,222 | 65,680 |
| Belgium | 3/19/20 | 23,678 | 28,911 | 32,686 | 36,689 | 41,379 | 46,669 | 58,193 |
| France | 3/18/20 | 17,353 | 19,864 | 26,521 | 32,034 | 37,212 | 39,762 | 43,855 |
| Italy | 3/5/20 | 16,291 | 18,627 | 22,057 | 26,395 | 29,956 | 33,244 | 37,308 |
| Netherlands | 3/17/20 | 16,335 | 19,640 | 22,189 | 25,324 | 28,138 | 31,273 | 33,445 |
| Sweden | 3/23/20 | 12,789 | 15,213 | 18,848 | 21,910 | 25,290 | 27,746 | - |
| Ireland | 3/25/20 | 14,062 | 15,736 | 17,611 | 19,218 | - | - | - |
| Switzerland | 3/16/20 | 11,514 | 13,779 | 16,619 | 18,730 | 20,572 | 22,683 | 25,561 |
| United States | 3/25/20 | 12,722 | 14,695 | 16,478 | 18,586 | - | - | - |
| Luxembourg | 3/17/20 | 11,810 | 12,347 | 15,568 | 16,105 | 16,642 | 16,642 | 19,326 |
| Macedonia | 3/24/20 | 11,153 | 12,608 | 14,063 | 14,548 | 15,518 | - | - |
| Portugal | 3/23/20 | 9,460 | 9,973 | 11,064 | 12,186 | 13,116 | 13,950 | - |
| Denmark | 3/22/20 | 9,112 | 10,131 | 10,584 | 11,489 | 12,338 | 13,414 | 13,980 |
| Germany | 3/25/20 | 7,990 | 9,310 | 10,333 | 10,967 | - | - | - |
| Austria | 3/23/20 | 7,552 | 8,144 | 8,995 | 10,106 | 10,920 | 11,809 | - |
| Iran | 3/9/20 | 6,664 | 7,166 | 7,649 | 8,214 | 8,835 | 9,404 | 9,954 |
| Iceland | 3/23/20 | 3,619 | 5,428 | 5,428 | 5,428 | 5,428 | 6,333 | - |
| Cyprus | 3/23/20 | 3,386 | 3,386 | 3,386 | 3,386 | 3,762 | 3,762 | - |
And, of course, I'm celebrating the Greatest Story Ever.
