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This seems like a perfect place to post today's installation of the proper relative comparison of deaths across the world. Below is today's update with April 8th totals for the US and other countries that started their round of golf on March 26. While the US' time series ends on Day 15 (which is April 8 - and is basis of the order, i.e., I sorted the data by Day 15 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 in this group of countries hasn't changed much at all since Day 8. I also want to re-iterate what I said yesterday, that reporting in NYC (and probably elsewhere) suffer from reporting lags.

As noted previously, the 'hands-off' countries like Sweden and the Netherlands are higher (which isn't a good thing) though the US is pretty close to Sweden which hasn't vaporized its service sector. Time will tell if their approach is prudent. And, in line with this article, Austria and Luxembourg have much lower population-adjusted fatalities; while not shown, Norway and her 5MM citizens had about 6M adjusted fatalities a few days ago. At the other end of the spectrum, Spain and the UK continue to look like hell on this adjusted basis. As noted earlier, Europe is on avg about 8 holes, erm, 8 days ahead of the US.

Someone asked me what all this means. I approach this answer the same way I approach the query of comparing gun control in other countries vs the US: ours is a nation of individuals with a strong distrust of authority but a willingness to do the right thing. We tend to go our own way, which works best for us but on a comparative basis may look good or bad (depending upon who gets to define 'good' and 'bad'). In the end, other countries and their homogenized population of obedient peoples may take an approach with lower 'costs.' America with her 329MM individuals may use a more harsh, 'social distancing' approach that seems to have vaporized a good chunk of the economy, but we're also not like the UK, Spain and Belgium.

In the long run, I'm betting on America.

Country	Date of Day 1/1,000 population-adjusted deaths	Day 11	Day 12	Day 13	Day 14	Day 15	Day 16	Day 17
Andorra	3/21/20	51,000	59,500	63,750	68,000	72,250	76,500	89,250
San Marino	3/3/20	49,079	49,079	49,079	68,711	68,711	107,974	107,974
United Kingdom	3/15/20	15,528	19,326	25,357	34,021	41,018	47,016	59,744
Spain	3/13/20	16,170	19,647	25,518	30,541	35,950	41,855	47,600
Belgium	3/19/20	12,325	14,670	20,160	23,678	28,911	32,686	36,689
West Bank and Gaza	3/25/20	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	-	-
France	3/18/20	11,384	12,828	14,887	17,353	19,864	26,521	32,034
Netherlands	3/17/20	10,330	12,086	14,579	16,335	19,640	22,189	25,324
Italy	3/5/20	9,896	11,805	13,692	16,291	18,627	22,057	26,395
Ireland	3/25/20	9,174	10,580	11,651	14,062	15,736	-	-
Sweden	3/23/20	9,823	11,417	11,896	12,789	15,213	18,848	21,910
United States	3/25/20	8,407	9,619	10,783	12,722	14,695	-	-
Switzerland	3/16/20	7,331	8,866	10,132	11,514	13,779	16,619	18,730
Macedonia	3/24/20	5,819	8,244	8,729	11,153	12,608	14,063	-
Luxembourg	3/17/20	8,052	9,663	11,273	11,810	12,347	15,568	16,105
Denmark	3/22/20	5,886	6,962	7,867	9,112	10,131	10,584	11,489
Portugal	3/23/20	6,702	7,889	8,530	9,460	9,973	11,064	12,186
Germany	3/25/20	5,723	6,278	7,174	7,990	9,310	-	-
Austria	3/23/20	5,849	6,219	6,885	7,552	8,144	8,995	10,106
Iran	3/9/20	5,078	5,667	6,154	6,664	7,166	7,649	8,214
Iceland	3/23/20	3,619	3,619	3,619	3,619	5,428	5,428	5,428
Cyprus	3/23/20	3,762	4,139	4,139	3,386	3,386	3,386	3,386