Quote (Djunior @ 5 Jun 2020 23:09)
NYC and CA are pretty dense, people from there also pretty dense BTW.
Anyway you can moan about the US' handling of the crisis all you want but in the end the deciding factor will be if there's a vaccine or not. If not, all of us will get it anyways. Eventually ;)
It does matter whether there's 150k deaths of 500k by the time a vaccine becomes available.
And the comparison with France is misleading since the United States and France are at very different points of the pandemic.
The U.S. have about 5 times the population of France.
Numbers for daily cases in the U.S. are currently between 20 and 25 thousand, while they are around 300-500 in France, which differs by a factor of around 50, meaning that daily cases per capita are about 10 times higher for the U.S. compared with France.
Similarly, the U.S. currently have around 1115k active infections while France has around 53k. In other words: it is already a forgone conclusion that the per capita (!) deaths in the U.S. will soon overtake those in France.
And just for the record: France has had quite bad numbers compared with many other parts of Europe; and the handling of the pandemic by the French government was very dubious and lacking.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jun 5 2020 10:39pm