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Accepting 100x as high US fatality rate as correct, and factoring out aging population, obesity, I’d like to see a real estimate of “cost of freedom” fatalities vs “cost of trump” fatalities. We’ll never know for sure. I’d guess Trumpism added 20% on top of basic Americanism.
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I do believe the India numbers, currently at 133k. More like China in size and culture, more like US in governance. Accounting for much younger population, I’d say the better performance is entirely a result of the early strict lockdown that they couldn’t keep going long enough.
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The US really seems like a case of “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” What’s the game what’s the prize
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Though authoritarian control and its strong incentives against raising alarms / looking bad to superiors also contributes to outbreaks like this happening in the first place
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