Thanks Paul.
I wouldn’t be able to provide another reason for a cause then.
I have for some time now wondered if someone was spreading
infection by some method. I guess that is another reason,
but I’m not backing it fully.
There is talk about how viruses present in waves, and that
seems to be what is taking place here naturally, or perhaps
not.
Hi, D1,
Thanks all the more to you for these threads!
Over on the Garden Thread I’ve received a little good natured ribbing for sometimes posting questions and then coming back later and answering my own questions. :-)
Of course, sometimes simply(?) expressing the question in writing to others can assist oneself in analyzing it a little differently, point toward new sources of information, etc.
Note to anyone not familiar with my earlier posts on many threads: This is NOT a comparison with Asia. Asia, even excluding China, is a whole ‘nother ball of wax. And, again, my focus is on fatalities, not “positives”.
In this case, I have no major new insight, but I do think these are “possibles”:
1) I agree about the waves, but there still has to be a reason behind the timing and intensity, IMO. Random chance / “bad luck” could be part of the timing, I suppose, but does not explain the intensity. Granted that our wave could still undergo rapid intensification. I hope not, but, no matter how one distributes them over recent days, the GA fatalities numbers are not encouraging.
In any event, I don’t put a lot of stock in “bad luck” with something like this.
2) Despite efforts by the Left to quash it, Americans still retain a little more of a heritage of individualism than do Euros. Perhaps that shows up in subtle or not-so-subtle ways in how we interact socially, enough to affect COVID-19’s transmissibility.
3) My brother who was in parts of Europe in his military service days (multiple tours) says one really has to go about some of the Euro cities extensively to understand how packed in they are @ street level, effectively, compared to ours.
4) Mitigation fatigue.
5) Different strain(s) of the virus.
6) Less resolve / effort to protect or treat the elderly. (Fatalism?)
7) Medical system quality.
8) Sort of related to “4” and “6”: Less prayer.