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Re:Americans think they are better at social distancing than... by tzs on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:36PM (#23224680)
The US is doing better than Andorra, San Marino, Belgium, Spain, the UK, Italy, Ireland, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands on per capita deaths. The rest of Europe is doing better [1].

If we expand beyond Europe, the list of countries that the US is doing better than remains the same. The list of countries doing better than the US massively expands, to around 180 or more.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

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Re:Americans think they are better at social distancing than... by pstrateman on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:56PM (#23225930)
You're just wrong man.

https://i.imgur.com/DqhlWRq.png

Reported Deaths per Capita:

  1. San Marino
  2. Belgium
  3. Andorra
  4. Spain  
  5. Italy  
  6. United Kingdom  
  7. France  
  8. Sweden  
  9. Netherlands  
  10. Ireland
Not even in the top 10.

  11. US
Unreported Deaths in the developing world are without a doubt much worse.
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Re:Americans think they are better at social distancing than... by pstrateman on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:58PM (#23225008)
Do you really think the world's poorest countries are doing better?

Or is it more likely that they just can't afford to do rt-PCR?

I'm pretty sure their numbers are just massively under reported.

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Re:Americans think they are better at social distancing than... by mnm1 on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:53PM (#23224932)
The US isn't testing enough for that conclusion to be drawn from cases per day. Looking at deaths per day, or per week, the US is number one. Perceptions are correct.
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