Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t...
by paul_f on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:04PM
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COVID-19 deaths per 1M population
Belgium 857
Peru 796
Spain 612
UK 609
Italy 586
Sweden 573
USA 523
Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t...
by doctor_eval on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:52AM
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You have the highest absolute death rate and the 8th highest rate per capita. Do you realise your list is literally the list of worst hit countries in the world?
Look a bit further down... Australia 17.2, Vietnam 0.26, Thailand 0.84, New Zealand 4.5. Indonesia, with a comparable population to the USA but far more densely populated - and far poorer - is just 23.9.
The USA, richest country in the world, reserve currency of the world, has the 8th worse death rate in the whole world. That is vile. Meanwhile, your moron in chief is pointing to New Zealand and saying it’s out of control there because they had an “outbreak” of 9 cases. 9!
That’s roughly how many new cases the USA has every 18 seconds.
There is no excuse for what’s happened in the USA.
173,000 people have died in the USA this year from Covid 19 and the toll is rising.[1] that’s more than the total number of cases (22,000) in Australia. We got 10% the population of the USA and 0.2% of the deaths.
With all due respect, the USA has the worst Covid 19 rates in the entire fucking world. It is a travesty. You guys can say what you like, but your plan is literally killing people.
And specifically to your point: Do you think kids teach themselves? Kids are part of families, kids are taught by adults, kids catch busses driven by adults, kids meals are cooked by adults. The death rate of kids is irrelevant. Since kids can still spread the disease, they should be isolated like everyone else.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/