Some people get wishful out of understandable fatigue (I know I have looked at things and thought, surely it will start to get better from here). Other people try to make the world understandable by dismissing everything that does not fit in with their theories. Neither wishful thinking nor the broken-record of “everything you see and hear is a lie!” is helpful - both attitudes have probably contributed to the deaths of many thousands.
We know that the statistics for, say, the U.S.A. or France are likely to reflect reality much better than whatever China releases. Most of us know enough about the world to make reasonable distinctions like that. Some (not you) seem to think that since China’s statistics are fake that means that all statistics are lies.
An odd assertion, if you think it is I who thinks "all statistics are lies." Rather I think that data collection and reporting tells something of the data collection and reporting.
Since worldometer, Johns Hopkins, statista and the University of Washington IMHE all agree on Chinese data, more or less and good or bad, one may still ignore the Communist Chinese as an outlier.
Here are three which all might agree are accurate and quasi-first world, and from which one may make a consistent conclusion.
Worldometer data as of 26 January 2022,
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
USA --- First and WORST in overall deaths, and in dealing with the pandemic over twenty-five months
( 898,680 Covid deaths of Americans / 331,002,651 Americans ) x 100 = 0.27% of Americans "officially" Covid dead over twenty-five months.
Switzerland - 34th in total cases and 56th in total deaths
( 12,751 Covod deaths of Swiss / 8,654,622 Swiss ) x 100 = 0.15% of Swiss "officially" Covid dead over twenty-five months.
Japan - 30th in cases and 42nd in total deaths compared to the US
( 18,599 Covid deaths of Japanese / 126,476,461 Japanese ( x 100 = 0.015% of Japanese "officially Covid dead over the same twenty-five months.
No lies in the above as I can find, if one trusts the data and trusts the website.
Conclusion:
The US is the world's worst in terms of the pandemic response, as led by Fauci, the CDC and FDA, almost double the lethality based on the response of Switzerland, which is about half as lethal, and the Fauci-led pandemic response is enormously more lethal per capita than Japan's.
Trust the data. Trust the site.
You have this dead right.
China is the data we choose to ignore. I suspected they found a difference in Asian lung cells and designed accordingly.
All of Asia was largely spared in 2020. But as variants appeared Thailand and Vietnam got hit. Hard.
But not China. Gotta be lying. If not, that is cause for serious research.
Excellent post.
I’d also add as I have in other threads that a number of Asian countries, in addition to other likely advantages, have populace’ surveillance and tracking capacities far, far beyond anything the US could put into place in a few years. We might dismiss China with good reason, but, the example I like to use, South Korea, cannot be dismissed. They simply have means of slowing COVID we don’t have and (most of us, even many libs*) would never accept long enough to be successfully implemented.
*We are seeing more of that as time passes.
Some of these countries’ populations simply have a far different attitude toward disease control, not to mention either better educational efforts and / or a population willing to listen, than we do. Even my friend in Norway said “everyone follows the rules”. Sweden issued fewer mandates, but judging by results, the population mitigated better than we did, mostly on their own.