This is a nitpick, but to me it seems to overstate things to say:
and the United States once again has a far worse Covid problem than Europe
According to worldometers, the United States has so far had ~903 covid deaths for every 1M people, while in Europe, the UK has had 912 deaths/1M; Italy has had 1,036; Spain 1,012; Germany 253; France 871; Greece 324; etc. The US has a far worse problem than Germany or Greece or Finland, but a comparably bad problem to the UK or Italy or Spain or France. I guess I feel a bit picky on this point because I’ve seen a lot of news articles that assume the US is worse because they fail to do “per capita”, and because there seems to be a general attempt to discredit our institutions so that they’ll collapse, which doesn’t obviously seem crazy or misguided to me, but doesn’t obviously seem right either given the downside risk.
I meant cases going forward, not cumulative deaths. Was pointing to europe having higher infection rates a few weeks ago by a lot, but getting it relatively under control.
This is a nitpick, but to me it seems to overstate things to say:
According to worldometers, the United States has so far had ~903 covid deaths for every 1M people, while in Europe, the UK has had 912 deaths/1M; Italy has had 1,036; Spain 1,012; Germany 253; France 871; Greece 324; etc. The US has a far worse problem than Germany or Greece or Finland, but a comparably bad problem to the UK or Italy or Spain or France. I guess I feel a bit picky on this point because I’ve seen a lot of news articles that assume the US is worse because they fail to do “per capita”, and because there seems to be a general attempt to discredit our institutions so that they’ll collapse, which doesn’t obviously seem crazy or misguided to me, but doesn’t obviously seem right either given the downside risk.
(Or do you think the death estimates are wrong?)
I meant cases going forward, not cumulative deaths. Was pointing to europe having higher infection rates a few weeks ago by a lot, but getting it relatively under control.
Oh; sorry. I thought your “again” was referring to the earlier covid wave.