review the per capita data from other advanced Western democracies and it is obvious that something went wrong in the US's response to the pandemic...
look at the world's total cases and deaths:
we have less than 5% of the world's population, yet have about 25% of the world's cases and 25% of the world's deaths...more than five times higher than our population would suggest.
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I see you and Nancy Pelosi are among those who like to quote that set of statistics.
The funny thing about statistics is you can slice and dice them and spin them around depending on the metric used and come up with something misleading to conveniently push your political agenda. If you want to induce fear in the population or make the current political administration look bad, inflate them numbers anyway you can to justify your draconian lockdowns and other mandates or to whine that the gubment hasn't done enough.
It's bad enough to try to make sense out of statistics within a single country, especially a big one like the U.S. with 50 states, but to try to compare them within the world where each country may be diagnosing and recording data differently is crazy.
The truth is we may never know an accurate count of the pandemic's final toll with any certainty, as Andrew Noymer, demographer at University of California, Irvine said, "We haven't even settled on how many people died in the 1918 flu. And we've had 100 years to sort out the numbers."
I know what you're going to say, we are so much smarter nowadays because of progressivism. Our testing procedures are nearly infallible.(At least in a controlled laboratory setting) In the field, not so much...even a person who had a common cold caused by a known coronavirus strain can test positive for COVID-19.
One thing is for sure, they've got more ways these days to fudge the numbers.
Hospitals want to get in on the big COVID Medicare/Medicaid money grab? Every death is a suspected COVID death, write it down on the death certificate, no testing needed, 100% Gubment work approved!
