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Re:US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing by Tarsul on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:21PM (#26280558)
Germany has 80 million people, 70.000 died through covid. US has 320 million (so roundabout 4 times as much), 500k died of covid (so roundabout 7 times as much). Thus, more people per capita died in the US than in Germany. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
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Re:US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing by perl4ever on Friday February 26, 2021 @05:50PM (#26280803)
Germany, and Europe as a whole, have lower rates, but over 160 million people live in European countries with higher per capita death rates than the US, specifically:

  Gibraltar
  San Marino
  Belgium
  Czechia
  Slovenia
  UK
  Italy
  Portugal
  Montenegro
(from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/)

And, do you really think that Belgium has all of whatever bad characteristics you like to apply to the US government? Or is it maybe more a consequence of being a small and densely populated area that people travel a lot to and from, like NYC? It's not as simple as good policy response meaning lower deaths.

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