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(52,126 posts) Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:20 PM Jul 2020

once again: if the u.s. had the same covid-19 death rate as the rest of the world,

as of yesterday according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

world: 528,409 deaths out of 7.795 billion people
u.s.: 132,101 deaths out of 331,018,157 million people

world minus u.s.: 396,308 deaths out of 7,463,981,843 people = .0053096%

u.s. at the world minus u.s. death rate: 17,576 deaths

so far, 114,525, or 86.7% of all u.s. covid-19 deaths are due to something about the american response to covid-19 that's different than the rest of the world (i.e., donnie and the idiot republicans).

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once again: if the u.s. had the same covid-19 death rate as the rest of the world, (Original Post) unblock Jul 2020 OP

Math don't lie. nt leftieNanner Jul 2020 #1

But bogus twisting of statistics does lie. The pandemic is not over in world or USA Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #2

Good Points leftieNanner Jul 2020 #3

The overarching point is that trump's bungled response is responsible... brush Jul 2020 #4

tRump failed to defend US lives. Agree 100% most of US deaths did not have to happen. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #5

leftieNanner

(15,070 posts)

1. Math don't lie. nt

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Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:22 PM

Jul 2020

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,967 posts)

2. But bogus twisting of statistics does lie. The pandemic is not over in world or USA

Reply to leftieNanner (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:38 PM

Jul 2020

Technique OP uses is not applicable, so it is bogus. Cases currently are under-reported and under-tested and under-confirmed. Even more so with deaths, as in Florida and Texas and especially regimes like Russia.

US had until a month ago done a medium-fair job of flattening the curve. And US death rate as a percent of known infections was fair, not great like Germany and not terrible like Spain or Italy. Russian death rate is artificially very low because they only write down "Covid" if there is a positive test and no underlying conditions and no other specific cause they can use like "pneumonia" or "organ failure".