-NY governor personally caused 3,000 elderly to die in nursing homes by forcing them to accept “recovered” Wuhan Flu from China patients
-no one took it seriously when, IN HINDSIGHT, they should have
-were not allowed to use hydroxychloroquine+zinc in early stages but many countries have been for weeks
The US has many more total people. So if we assume (just spitballing for the sake of argument) that the death rate is exactly 1% of those infected, the US could expected a maximum of 3 million dead. But a country like China would have 14 million dead.
But the US is a huge country (the lower 48 stretch out about as much as most of Europe), so it's population density is low.
Other countries with low population density, just aren't very populated. So the total number of infections isn't as big (there aren't as many people to get infected), so the number of deaths is lower.
Two other points are that the US is reporting as a COVID-19 death, all cases of death, where the person had any Coronavirus in their system, even if they died of something else.
So what they're measuring is "deaths of people with the virus (somewhere in their body)" but they're calling it "deaths of people FROM the virus". This inflates the US numbers.
And then the last point is a lot of the other densely populated countries are in places with malaria, and some malaria drugs protect against getting sick from this virus.
POTUS states this in most press briefings...the US is doing the most testing and Dr. Birx has told us a couple of times that the way the deaths are listed and recorded here is if the person had the virus and died, it's listed as death by the virus, not by their underlying issue.
In Europe and other countries, the death is listed by the underlying condition the person had (cancer, diabetes, heart disease) even with them getting the virus.
This kind of averaging destroys data. You can't take the population density of the United States as a whole and get a clear picture. We have massive tracts of empty land that other, smaller countries just don't have, and we also have some of the biggest cities in the world. Bad viral outbreaks are almost exclusively happening in the most densely populated areas, but when you average those few mega citi s together with all of Montana, Alaska, the Nevada desert.... It gives a false impression.
I think it's a combination of hospitals over-counting covid patients for more gov money ($39,000 a head, if memory serves) and our badass healthcare industry keeping mostly 'should-be' dead people alive well past their expiration date, in general, because theres a lot of money in it.
That last bit probably sounds harsh, but just as an example: my mother --who was concentrated evil-- was morbidly obese. She was diabetic, never took her inculin, ate whatever garbage she wanted, never checked her levels, smoked 2 packs a day since she was 17, never exercised, never took care of herself. Never went outside. Never cleaned up after her 6 dogs. She also had copd and chf and whatever hospice that comes with. She died a month ago at the age of 92.
Ninety-fucking-TWO. The american health industry kept this pretend-broke, out of shape, sickly, disgusting, hate-filled, tax-leech, clusterfuck up alive for 40 ENTIRE YEARS!
I mean, shit, there are millions just like her that could be taken out by a stray cat hair in America. Hell, how many times do you here about folks having there 103rd birthday now?
America may be running in short supply on a number of things, but people at deaths door isnt one of them.
Number of deaths because of many reasons
-NY governor personally caused 3,000 elderly to die in nursing homes by forcing them to accept “recovered” Wuhan Flu from China patients -no one took it seriously when, IN HINDSIGHT, they should have -were not allowed to use hydroxychloroquine+zinc in early stages but many countries have been for weeks
Those are just the three I could think of quickly
The US has many more total people. So if we assume (just spitballing for the sake of argument) that the death rate is exactly 1% of those infected, the US could expected a maximum of 3 million dead. But a country like China would have 14 million dead.
But the US is a huge country (the lower 48 stretch out about as much as most of Europe), so it's population density is low.
Other countries with low population density, just aren't very populated. So the total number of infections isn't as big (there aren't as many people to get infected), so the number of deaths is lower.
Two other points are that the US is reporting as a COVID-19 death, all cases of death, where the person had any Coronavirus in their system, even if they died of something else. So what they're measuring is "deaths of people with the virus (somewhere in their body)" but they're calling it "deaths of people FROM the virus". This inflates the US numbers.
And then the last point is a lot of the other densely populated countries are in places with malaria, and some malaria drugs protect against getting sick from this virus.
We have 10x times the testing going on, which leads to more that tested positive.
New York, and California make up the most deaths, and a large majority are untested, but counted as Corona related deaths.
POTUS states this in most press briefings...the US is doing the most testing and Dr. Birx has told us a couple of times that the way the deaths are listed and recorded here is if the person had the virus and died, it's listed as death by the virus, not by their underlying issue.
In Europe and other countries, the death is listed by the underlying condition the person had (cancer, diabetes, heart disease) even with them getting the virus.
This kind of averaging destroys data. You can't take the population density of the United States as a whole and get a clear picture. We have massive tracts of empty land that other, smaller countries just don't have, and we also have some of the biggest cities in the world. Bad viral outbreaks are almost exclusively happening in the most densely populated areas, but when you average those few mega citi s together with all of Montana, Alaska, the Nevada desert.... It gives a false impression.
I think it's a combination of hospitals over-counting covid patients for more gov money ($39,000 a head, if memory serves) and our badass healthcare industry keeping mostly 'should-be' dead people alive well past their expiration date, in general, because theres a lot of money in it.
That last bit probably sounds harsh, but just as an example: my mother --who was concentrated evil-- was morbidly obese. She was diabetic, never took her inculin, ate whatever garbage she wanted, never checked her levels, smoked 2 packs a day since she was 17, never exercised, never took care of herself. Never went outside. Never cleaned up after her 6 dogs. She also had copd and chf and whatever hospice that comes with. She died a month ago at the age of 92.
Ninety-fucking-TWO. The american health industry kept this pretend-broke, out of shape, sickly, disgusting, hate-filled, tax-leech, clusterfuck up alive for 40 ENTIRE YEARS!
I mean, shit, there are millions just like her that could be taken out by a stray cat hair in America. Hell, how many times do you here about folks having there 103rd birthday now?
America may be running in short supply on a number of things, but people at deaths door isnt one of them.