Taking nominal fatality estimates as true, the naive per capita fatality rates, without adjusting for time or reporting accuracy, are Spain: 0.031% Italy: 0.029% France: 0.016% Iran: 0.0049% USA: 0.0045% Germany: 0.0027% China: 0.00024 I just don’t believe China numbers
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There’s an entire order of magnitude separating China and Germany. And another order of magnitude separating Germany and Spain. I don’t think this is explainable by political system. It’s underreporting + demographics + incidence of lifestyle diseases (diabetes etc)
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How is underreporting not explainable by the political system?
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It could just be incompetence and poor tracking infrastructure though that doesn’t seem to have been the case at least in Wuhan itself
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I’m still a bit grey on this. I mean politics would explain this as well. I wonder how we would separate this factor into its politically driven and non-politically driven factors
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The model in dictators handbook would work to compare across systems
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