I know it’s become a tribal signal, I know it’s been said so many times it becomes wallpaper and boilerplate, but the quality of media in this country is an unsalvageable disaster and one of our biggest problems. It makes it almost impossible to deal with anything else.
had to double-check the data here because it's so at odds with the tenor of our media coverage that i legitimately did not believe it was possible. it checks out. we've done a better job with COVID than most of western europe.https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1268980407015550977 …
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Easy to look OK when compared only to failed states. Harder when compared to competent states: Taiwan: 0.3 per million (7 deaths) Hong Kong: 0.6 per million (4 deaths) China: 3 per million (4,634 deaths) Singapore: 4 per million (23 deaths) South Korea: 5 per million (269 deaths)
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2 island nations, 2 (relatively) small peninsulas, and an authoritarian prison state with a history of lying about coronaviruses that now spans two decades. we didn't do as well as we should have, but this story is much more complicated than i believed.
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Population density in the US is far lower than western Europe
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Manhattan is the most densely populated area on planet earth
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Inconceivable!
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This is important info, but we also need to raise our expectations from “least stupid”. You would know better, but this seems to be the entire thesis behind Founder’s Fund: America should be leading the world, not struggling to stay out of the “worst countries” list.
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Honestly don’t see it. Media screws up all the time and sells clicks but I missed the we’re worse than Europe takes
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