fake numbers

built a coalition within the GOP based partially on daily death counts from Iraq/Afghanistan that were a TINY fraction of Covid daily deaths.

its not about death, life, etc. never has been.

Maybe we can all come together with:
Bush is still a much worse president and the middle east will never recover from his administrations crimes against humanity.
Trump is real bad on the whole democracy thing, but Bush takes the fucking cake when it comes to death count civilian and otherwise.

Oh Thought this was the corruption thread because its basically the same talking points over there lol.

This post was edited by Mangix on Oct 30 2020 09:43am

Bush got conned by the deep state

By the time he realized it was too late. Admission of error was politically untenable

Breaking records everyday boys

100k new today in the U S of A

Numbers are catastrophic all across the northern hemisphere.

49k in France (pop: 67m)
31k in Italy (60m)
25k in Spain (47m)
24k in the UK (67m)
24k in Belgium (11.5m)
19k in Germany (83m)
11k in the Netherlands (17m)
21k in Poland (38m)
13k in the Czech Republic (10.7m)
9200 in Switzerland (8.6m)
5600 in Austria (8.9m)


So with the exception of Germany (which is close), all those major European countries have a higher incidence than the U.S. (pop: 329m) at the moment. Belgium, in particular, is a complete disaster zone. Their numbers would be equivalent to 688k daily cases in the U.S.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 30 2020 07:02pm

hey usa can legit say 1# in something again

All Trump's fault because REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Oct 30 2020 07:16pm

Well, to be fair, the US seem to be 1-2 weeks behind Europe in the current surge. I wouldnt be surprised if you see daily numbers in excess of 200k per day by the end of November.
What's interesting, however, is that there are big surges in Illinois and Michigan at the moment - Whitmer's strict course on the pandemic seems unable to stop the tide.


My personal, preliminary takeaway from all those various observations is that seasonality/weather and spatial effects play a bigger role than initially thought, while the impact of political decisions on the general course of the pandemic seems overrated.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 30 2020 07:23pm

Another issue is the PCR tests themselves

Expert biologists recommend running ~25 threshold cycles of PCR but depending on the manufacturer some tests use ~35 threshold cycles, in which a piece of fruit cpuld test positive.

The tests dont detect viral load either. Cases below a certain viral load are noncontagious.

The drop in death rate is support for all of this.



7000 people die every day. It is significant but not worthy of destroying our civilization.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Oct 30 2020 07:31pm