America is first but not in a good way

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CroftAlice
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/united-states-leads-coronavirus-cases-not-pandemic-response

Who's to blame?
Putinbot1
Truthfully, to a point it's the price you pay for freedom. Governments in first world countries rightly find it difficult to remove personal freedoms even in the face of threats, lock downs are almost alien in modern Europe and the USA, Canada etc. In Africa and the Middle East and India and Asia where I have lived leaders find it much easier to make decisions for the people. It is one of the things that show Boris and Trump despite being politically disgusting to me are far from dictators.
dadudemon
No one is to blame for how well the US has handled COVID-19.

We've tested the most, by far. No one comes close. smile

When models state we have anywhere from 2%-55% of the population having alaready been infected/exposed to SARS-CoV-2 (and that was 2 weeks ago), and we have fewer than .4% of the population being tested (with a significant majority of those tested being sick people presenting with COVID-19-like symptoms), yeah the US is doing great.

COVID-19 is far less deadly than WHO and CDC told us. Far far less deadly. We are not even close to figuring out how not deadly it is due to needing the anitbody tests.

Thankfully, the US is a resource and execution monster when we get our shit together. We are doing a great job collecting data and making the logistics of COVID-19 management go well. It's complicated and there are problems, but the US is handling it well.
Surtur
Originally posted by CroftAlice
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/united-states-leads-coronavirus-cases-not-pandemic-response

Who's to blame?

China is to blame.

And we are of course first only if you believe the numbers the Chinese Communist Party is providing. Do you believe the numbers the Chinese Communist Party is providing?
CroftAlice
Originally posted by Surtur
China is to blame.

And we are of course first only if you believe the numbers the Chinese Communist Party is providing. Do you believe the numbers the Chinese Communist Party is providing?

No, we ourselves lived under a communist regime until December 1989

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