04-13-2020, 11:30 AM
(04-13-2020, 09:19 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-13-2020, 01:49 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(04-05-2020, 07:05 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-05-2020, 05:58 PM)freivolk Wrote:(04-05-2020, 01:19 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: The evidence is that places which do have public health care systems tend to have have a lot more fatalities than the US does, though - Italy, Spain, France, basically Europe in general.
Give it a week.
People have been saying that for a month now. We show no signs of catching up.
Well, maybe NYC does.
It's been a week. The USA now has more deaths from covid19 than any other nation. Not per capita though, yet.
It has been a week and Europe still has a lot more deaths than the US has - both accumulated and ongoing.
Austria and Hungary, with their far right governments, seem to be doing fine, though. Do they know something we don't, or are they just not reporting all their cases?
At this point, people from the countries (or regions within the USA) most afflicted with COVID-19 might be as unwelcome as Syrian refugees.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.