I am agreeing with you..
I have no idea what Ghot is even attempting.
First he thinks cities are getting effected based on political alignment.
now basic math is eluding him. He IS better off at copy+paste silly memes that only he understands

Oh I know you're agreeing with me, I just hope it gets through Ghot's fucking skull.

I think the difference between South Korea and here is they have ramped upped testing to levels we haven’t even touched. Mortality will decrease over time as our testing methods improve because guarantee there are more in the community that are positive who haven’t been tested (who will never need formal medical treatment). In contrast SK has been very aggressive in terms of their testing. As testing improves worldwide I think we will see numbers closer to S. Korea’s 0.6% and likely better

In Iowa (Des Moines) we won’t even get kits to test for 2 weeks. University of Iowa also has reportedly run out of the initial kits they were sent

This post was edited by Bazi on Mar 7 2020 07:22pm

'Socialist' Vietnam has done even better because their healthcare system is fucking A grade and they actually work to stop illness rather than profit from it.

Vietnam is a good case study in what happens when you put the wellbeing of your citizens ahead of profit.

This post was edited by MxVivianWulf on Mar 7 2020 07:26pm

If doctors can't tell the difference between various upper respiratory infections I sure as hell can't, so yeah I'd say < 1% odds

There are so many other variables at play skewing your numbers.... The average US citizen is already more unhealthy than the average south korean or european. US is the most obese nation on the planet, large swaths of elderly. I'm curious how the virus will impact cities/suburbs vs rural. The rural hospital and clinics around me would not be able to handle large % of the small town population being infected, and the 'expertise' of the doctors/nurses there is questionable.

This is EXACTLY why infections/death doesn't work. For example, were all those counted as infected with CV by the French... actually infected IN France?
It's pretty hard to be factually inaccurate about where someone dies.

I'm sorry that the results from deaths/population doesn't fit well with your... "theories". When we are discussing how FAST an infection spreads we need numbers that are particular to a certain country. The only two datum that are provably particular to a certain country would be deaths from CV and population.

No, it does not, lol.

Deaths per diagnosed infection is not a viable metric for inter-country comparisons as long as testing rates and diagnostic methods vary wildly between countries.
A country that does almost no testing will only see the most severe cases pop up in its "number of infected people"-part of the statistic, leading to a very inflated mortality rate.

Yes, the American healthcare system does suck, it is worse than that of France or South Korea, and elderly people have a better chance of surviving the coronavirus epidemic in these countries than in the U.S. - but this assessment has to come from past experience with these countries' healthcare systems. Such a conclusion cannot credibly be based on data which is as compromised and unreliable as the coronavirus mortality rates.






Not true. Going by percentage of obese people, there are 15 more obese countries than the U.S., most of them Pacific islands. But even among major countries with a population in the millions, Kuwait is ahead of the U.S.:
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/most-obese-countries/

Slightly older (2016) data from the CIA has the U.S. in 12th place:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2228rank.html

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 8 2020 12:39am

In what countries, if any, is it appropriate to seriously talk about shutting down schools?

This post was edited by Kayeto on Mar 8 2020 01:46am