06-11-2020, 01:05 PM
(06-10-2020, 06:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: In my ongoing debate with Warren, I note today that the USA today surpassed Spain in cases of coronavirus SARS-2 covid19 per million. It still has a ways to go to catch up in deaths per million. But it's safer to claim now that the USA is what it seems from the number of total cases: the epicenter of the virus. We see declines in daily new cases and deaths in Spain and other EU nations, because they have competent leaders, where as the USA, Brazil and the UK DO NOT.
You're ignoring the fact that US cases and deaths continue to decline as well. Total cases and deaths are still higher in the Eurozone than the US, despite lower population. Likely the only reason why Spain has fewer cases per million is that their testing has fallen behind their epidemic, unlike in the US. You still can't argue that the epicenter has moved to the US.
Now, it is possible that the BLM protests will yet drive the US to the top, especially since they will facilitate transmission in a racial group that is demographically especially vulnerable to Covid-19 due to housing patterns. That will be yet another example of Democrat policies that attempt to drive their black vote by hurting blacks.
Quote:States that reopened too early, like Florida, Texas and Georgia, have more daily new cases than those who didn't.
Massachusetts is one of the slowest states to reopen, and it still continues to have more deaths per day than Texas, and far more per million population.
Now, it is true that Covid-19 seems to be declining, slowly, in Massachusetts, while it's accelerating in large southern states like California, Texas, and Florida - but not Georgia. Whether the acceleration is because of reopening, or whether it's because of other factors such as more willingness among illegals to get tested, or just plain increased testing, is unclear. Texas in particular has an anomalously low case fatality rate, which suggests that it is doing extremely well on testing.