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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Of course we have. And this has more or less been true from the very beginning. Starting with those fucking moronic FT plots....
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This is not a very numerate take. The US was blessed with a small initial outbreak - lagged by many weeks behind Western Europe as a warning, with a sparse geography bonus. And we are still racking up bodies like no one’s business.pic.twitter.com/bE4iCSp6eI
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It's also instructive to look at the deltas in those same numbers over the last week. Sweden is up by 24 deaths per million (again, just in that one week); the USA by 17. Everyone else is single digits, some of them very small single digits. Extrapolate into the future, and...
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“We’ve done so much better than Western Europe.”https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1294588580808085505?s=20 …
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here let me google that for you https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ …
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this seems to align with "the tenor of our media coverage" no?
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not at all
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