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originally posted by: 5StarOracle
a reply to: Spider879
China has major business ventures that are highly profitable there...
Are you surprised?
Never mind ppl waking up, it’s time for all to open their eyes...
originally posted by: CrazeeWorld777
a reply to: Graysen
I saw on Worldometers that Equador had 11k new cases on Friday/Saturday and then over the next 3/4 days hardly anything showed up which I thought a little weird.
originally posted by: Kromlech
Because there aren't large droves of people flocking to 3rd world countries.
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: Trueman
a reply to: Spider879
This could be the result of letting experts do their jobs without political interference.
Well... maybe their experts actually have their people's best interests at heart?
You use the word 'experts' as if it is is something static...
What if our 'experts' don't actually have our best interests at heart? Which, in fact, ours don't.
a reply to: AaarghZombies
The same people would turn their noses up at a typical African restaurant as well, or a train, or anything.
originally posted by: jjkenobi
It's interesting too because news has been saying lately the virus is more dangerous to men, and even more dangerous to black men. At least in the USA. You'd think Africa would be worse off.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: Trueman
a reply to: Spider879
This could be the result of letting experts do their jobs without political interference.
The same "experts" who were all over television predicting 60,000,000 hospitalizations in the U.S., only a month ago?
originally posted by: queenofswords
According to this NYT article, ten African countries don't even have a single ventilator, and others have just a few to service tens of millions of people.
What has the W.H.O. been doing with the tens of billions of dollars it receives year after year? Also, where is the oversight of the distribution of all this W.H.O. $$$?
And not all African countries want it known how few ventilators they have. For some, this information could have “a lot of political implications,” including criticism of their management of health systems, according to Benjamin Djoudalbaye, head of health diplomacy and communication for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: ketsuko
Here is what I am saying. Take the country of Djibouti. Their population is under 1 million. They are reporting 98 cases per 100,000 "but" they have only tested just over 10,000 people.
Do you see the problem with that?
Now think about this. Ethiopia, which has more than 100 million people has tested almost the same amount of people as Djibouti.
I don't believe for a second that it has not spread like wildfire there with over 1.3 billion people. Many countries there barely have the ability to even track the virus or its death toll. South Africa has the highest number of cases and they also have the highest testing rate at tens of thousands a day.
originally posted by: Justoneman
So are you saying then, that the total deaths per country don't matter? or deaths per million citizens?
How many died in that country from CV19 that stat is the one we need to have.
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: ketsuko
Here is what I am saying. Take the country of Djibouti. Their population is under 1 million. They are reporting 98 cases per 100,000 "but" they have only tested just over 10,000 people.
Do you see the problem with that?
Now think about this. Ethiopia, which has more than 100 million people has tested almost the same amount of people as Djibouti.
I don't believe for a second that it has not spread like wildfire there with over 1.3 billion people. Many countries there barely have the ability to even track the virus or its death toll. South Africa has the highest number of cases and they also have the highest testing rate at tens of thousands a day.