Re:Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools
by zozin on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:27PM
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"Hey Internet Stranger, here's a bunch of non-sequiturs that get to the crux of my real belief that AMERICA BAD!!! Try to prove me wrong, haha"
Re:Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools
by dang on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:39AM
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Could you please stop posting flamewar or political battle-style comments to HN? This is unsubstantive, baity stuff, and not what HN is for.
The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do. That goes regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.
But, in reality, they're dying in their homes because Americans are too afraid of surprise hospital fees ruining their entire life.
> Our response was better than Europe's
Americans had the brunt of the European and Chinese outbreaks to observe, learn, and listen, but none of these things come easy to us, so we instead decided to sacrifice our non-remote workers.
Also, according to the ECDC, there have so far been 179,793 total deaths in the EU [1] vs 169,870 in the US [2]. In terms of cases 1 946 748 for the EU, 5,422,242 for the US. Keep in mind the population of the EU is roughly 40% larger than the US.
We could also probably start looking into food insecurity rates increasing, eviction rates increasing, widespread civil unrest, but, hey, why throw more tinder onto the fire? The response has been exceptional, but in a brutally American way.
[1] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea [2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...