Well, the implicit point you brought up with the initial troll post had some merit to it: why do I oppose socialism, but support a socialist-looking approach here? I wanted to address that, trolling notwithstanding.

US Population: 331 million
Italy Population: 60 million



This post was edited by pwb3 on Mar 20 2020 05:43pm

The exponential growth is the same in both sambles. Were about a week and a half behind them with exact symmetry.

Thankfully we had a lot more heads up than Italy and have been implementing preemptiv measures

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

cases - deaths

Italy: 47k - 4k
China: 81k - 3.2k
Spain: 21.5k - 1.1k
France: 12.6k - 450
USA: 19.3k - 256
Germany: 19.8k - 68


The death rates vary wildly between countries, even between Western countries where we can expect reporting with integrity. I gotta agree with saucy though, those Chinese numbers are fishy.

Italy has a different age distribution as well. 66% more old people than us per capita.

Your guys should only trust 1 thing : deads. Western world countries can hardly hide their amount from c19. The cases otherwise...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/20/biden-coronavirus-plannings-139629

Joe Biden will now be holding shadow coronavirus press briefings with his own livestream, in which he will contradict and oppose the official government messaging.
Its important in a crisis like this that our government has no single authoritative command structure or unified leadership and instead allows grandstanding opposition politicians to deliver conflicting directives to the public.

This is good because you can't get a straight answer out of this administration. This administration is trying to cut social security spending by allowing the disease to spread. A "boomer remover" if you will.

Intentionally letting a pandemic decimate your own voters would be beyond stupid. And let's not forget that big chunks of this geriatric Congress are themselves part of the risk group.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 20 2020 07:07pm