Posted on 03/28/2020 1:01:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The total number of Wuhan virus cases in the US surpassed the total in any other country yesterday. It is no surprise the media and their Democratic allies are using this data to cudgel the White House and mislead Americans. But anyone with fifth grade math (which apparently excludes most of the media) knows how irrelevant and misleading such a comparison is.
As we have pointed out, the only way to compare the status of the pandemic across countries is to analyze the number of deaths and cases on a per capita basis. The number of deaths per capita is most important, but per capita case rates provide a leading indicator that is also important to watch.
Despite what the media would like everyone to believe, this past week continues to bring good news for Americans. The number of per capita deaths reported in the United States remains amongst the lowest in the world. As of today, the US has recorded 5 deaths per million from the Wuhan virus, one-fifth of the total in Western European countries as a whole. Only Germany and Norway are recording lower deaths per capita, and that is only by a small fraction.
case numbers is that they largely reflect the amount of testing that has been done. Brian continues:
With the significant ramp in US testing (526,000 tests were run this past week), it is also reasonable to start comparing relative per capita case rates across countries. Again, the US is doing well relative to Western Europe. Except for the UK, the US has fewer reported cases per capita than every Western European country
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So, let’s make believe that all the statistics on the planet are 100% accurate. What then? Will you still wash your hands and maintain 6 feet distance from others?
I agree with you, especially considering how old most of us are, how much we’ve seen in our lifetimes, and how close we are to the finish line anyway.
Has anyone seen one new cast going into hospitals and giving a live report of what’s going on.. nope.. not one.
And where is all the ambulances and emt trucks in the street... I live in the big city and have not heard one all damn day.
This is all a ruse, theater.. for what purpose.. I don’t know.
Maybe our lockdowns are a good thing?
If we go shut things down and ends up overblown then people will accuse the Feds of overreach.
Do nothing, maybe we resemble a large scale Italy.
It’s a damn you do and damn you don’t scenario.
How about this one from Brooklyn? This is from today and is a very large hospital in downtown Brooklyn. Destroys media narrative.
https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1243948364695298050?s=21
Yup. the Free Republic computer-bound snowflakes are in hiding, quivering and shaking as their obsession causes them to conjure up fear and hysteria. These people would explode if the had lived in the WWII era.
The Deep State and the MSM are working to get Trump to act like a globalist poodle. That is the goal; to separate Trump from his constituency..
It’s not going to work. Trump is America first. Now that Kushner fella, always behind him, gotta watch out for guy.
“....and how close we are to the finish line anyway.”
What? What? What? I figure I’ve got another good three of four laps left in me.
Might have to walk the last one but .......
Some of us are self employed - so we don’t get unemployment.
That’s what I have been thinking as well. Some people with COVID may have been mistaken for flu patients. Although wouldn’t the flu test not necessarily be positive for CV
Thanks, tatown.
This is the video I mentioned that is all over Twitter.
#45.
That’s so ignorant. Most of the cases haven’t resolved, yet. They don’t die or recover on the first day.
The damned LIES that this CHINESE FLU has engendered ALL OVER THE WORLD, is disgusting! And sadly, I doubt that we’ll EVER know the truth/facts about this pandemic.
Why does America now have more cases than China, which has 3x our population?
If we’re going to play that game, let’s just compare deaths to recoveries. 1,993 / 3,229 = ~62% death rate. There. ;D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology
United States
Cases 120,059
Deaths 1,993
Recoveries 3,229
Because no one has been welded into their apartments. And because the Chinese numbers are bullshit.
Someone should ask Trump what the NSA’s estimate of Chinese dead was. You know their Satellites we’re watching and listening. He knows. I am not sure why he doesn’t call them out.
He knows. I am not sure why he doesn’t call them out.
I agree. If he knows something, why not say so to the American people?
Because the damned COMMIE CHINESE have lied and lied and L-I-E-D!
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