Of course we have. And this has more or less been true from the very beginning. Starting with those fucking moronic FT plots....
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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