Against my better judgment I am presently listening to President Trump’s briefing on the status of the “war on coronavirus”. I just wanted to comment on one thing. President Trump just said that the United States had administered tests for the virus than more people than any other country. That is true but it is quite misleading. We have administered nearly 2.5 million tests but we are a very large country.
On a tests per million population basis not only have we not administered the most tests, we aren’t even in the top 40. Who is?
Nearly all of those in the top twenty per 1M population are relatively small islands and city-states. After that are Norway, Switzerland, Slovenia, Germany, and Austria. Then other highly cohesive ethnic states including places very hard-hit by COVID-19 including Spain and Italy.
I see little correlation between raw number of tests administered and anything useful. I think we’d be better off being smarter than that but it’s hard to drum up support for that in a country like ours.
You don’t say…..
https://pjmedia.com/trending/breaking-fbi-knew-before-mueller-probe-that-hillarys-steele-dossier-was-russian-disinformation/
Let’s see how much intellectual honesty exists…..
Your Democrat bigotry is blinding you to reality. Trump is the best President since Eisenhower. He is doing everything right.
We have a federal system. There are many things the feds are not permitted to do. Most of the stuff we need in this pandemic has to be, must be, can only be done by the states.
Everything you complain about is Democrat Party policy. You remind me of my mother. She used to rant on against everything Ted Kennedy did. But she never connected to to him, and voted mindlessly for him, despite everything he did or proposed.
Trump is your friend. He is the President you want. Wake up!
The Pandemic – Where We Stand Now
Worldwide, the COVID-19 fatalities add up to just under 20% of an average flu season. In the U.S., COVID-19 fatalities to date are 26% of the number that we suffered just two flu seasons ago. I am not sure why these numbers are not more widely known. They seem relevant to me.Â
Crudely speaking, if we assume that the U.S. is around 50% of the way through the COVID-19 epidemic, we might expect something like 33,000 fatalities, equal to an average seasonal flu year. An inevitable second round of infections after our governments finally let people go back to work, and out in public, may raise that number, but no one I know of has tried to guess to what extent. Still, any way you look at it, it is hard to see how COVID-19 deaths will exceed the flu fatalities we experienced two years ago. And that was barely a news story.
In the meantime Los Angeles ‘s mayor has extended the shelter in place mandate to May 15th (from the original April 19th date), something I expect Gov. Newson to do in CA, as he always follows suit what LA does. LA is also imposing $1000 fines for not wearing a mask when outside of your “shelter.” It’s becoming more and more like a police state around here, with a local economy going down the drain…..
“n the U.S., COVID-19 fatalities to date are 26% of the number that we suffered just two flu seasons ago. I am not sure why these numbers are not more widely known. They seem relevant to me. ”
And that is with a lockdown. And that is over the course of a few weeks, while the flu deaths occur over months. You dont see hospitals renting extra morgue trucks and putting in second level racks with the flu. We have done a partial experiment by delaying a lockdown in NYC. That experiment didnt go well. If you need confirmation look at Italy or the UK.
Steve