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Comment Re:Before all the downplayers pile in (Score -1) 305

From the same article:

"But it is difficult to compare death rates among countries. Neither per capita death rate nor case fatality ratio "fully reflect the effectiveness of a country's response," said Nilanjan Chatterjee, a professor of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University."

But lets ignore the scientists in this case because rsilvergun has a political point to make. Biden is going get him a house!

Comment Cases are mostly meaningless (Score 0, Informative) 305

You find more "cases" the more you test. Trump explained this, but people pretended they didn't understand what he was saying. You know why Kenya doesn't have many cases? Because they don't test. They don't have the infrastructure to do it. Europe largely halted their testing, and now that they are testing again the number of "cases" are shooting up. The US has been testing the most (I know, it can't be true, because "Orange Man Bad") so it has one of the highest case numbers per capita.

The CDC in JUNE said the US likely had 20 million infected, while there were 2 million "cases" reported.
Proof: https://www.npr.org/sections/c...

  I am not sure why people ignore this basic fact, but people have been ignoring the science on this forever. The real story is the true infection numbers are 10 TO 40 TIMES more than the "case" numbers.
 
And if you believe the numbers out of China/Taiwan I have a bridge to sell you.

Comment Re:Of course they are (Score 0) 351

Oh really? Who do they represent? Certainly not you. You guys will never get it: the more layers of "representatives" you add the further away they represent their actual constituents. But it isn't worth arguing about. You guys are already dead in the water over there and are irrelevant. The people that drafted our Articles of Confederation were much smarter than you. They knew what would happen in Europe eventually.

Comment Re:What's the plan? (Score -1) 402

People like you are a joke. Viruses happen. Welcome to planet Earth. You guys are anti-Science. There is no "hiding" from a virus and the Government can't save you from a virus. IT IS A VIRUS. You guys want a solution to everything. Sometimes there isn't one, even in the "1st world". But at least you European fucks aren't gloating now about how much "better" you are than the US.

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