Quote (thesnipa @ 15 May 2020 13:57)
we have done more tests, and likely still have a lower infection rate than many places. we also have a high death count due to probably covid deaths not getting tested and just getting flagged as covid. both of these are understandable and neither is an issue. the cases dont matter as much as the number by percent change day over day and week over week.
lack of testing results in
covid cases bein UNDERreported, not OVERreported. just look at your excess death numbers.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total.htmltrump has repeatedly suggested (and even outright stated, because he's an idiot who regularly says the quiet part out loud) that he doesn't like testing because it will 'increase his numbers', even though experts agree that testing, tracking, and tracing is the only safe way to properly 'restart' our economies right now.
Quote (cambovenzi @ 15 May 2020 12:11)
The US has done the most tests
About as many as Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK combined.
I have called in the experts and they have diagnosed you with TDS.
Prognosis TBD
not even YOU can be stupid enough to genuinely think that's a good point. not only because that talking point includes all the unreliable and outright broken 'tests' that were performed, but mainly because it's just the absolute number, not tests per capita, which is something a 5th grader would be ashamed to sell as a serious 'argument'.
genuinely thinking the US are not only in a good spot when it comes to testing, but actually the leading country in the world, is the REAL derangement here, and you have a full blown case of it, WNA.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52493073