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originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
It just doesn't make any sense. I can post some of the sources I used to compile some of this data if people want, but you can find just gobs and gobs of slicing and dicing every possible way on the net with simple searches. You can find data so simply, and not one single bit of it makes any sense if you look at it.
What's going on? I mean, what's really going on?
Other perplexing questions - Why do covid deaths seem to be the highest in the most developed and advanced countries, and countries in Africa, Asia and South America seem to be largely spared?
China? - I know, China Jao Bai Dan, right? Listen, China isn't going to walk in here and take over; that just won't happen. It's not going to happen because Russia will never let it happen. Period. Putin would blast China back into the Ice Age if they even tried. And China would simply cease to exist if they ever tried to take on Russia AND the US at the same time...even with Biden and his pants down around his ankles, drooling on the spittle towel. Furthermore, China might appear to be dictating some things to the US, but they damn sure aren't dictating any rules to Putin, you can rest assured of that fact! And Putin certainly doesn't have any plans to start learning how to speak Chinese anytime soon!!
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
I'm not looking at just deaths. I'm looking at total cases, ratios of cases to deaths, cases by lockdown strictness, deaths by lockdown status, developmental status by cases, population density vs. cases/deaths, total population, geographic location vs. cases/deaths. Looking for any possible trend...and there isn't one.
Only trend I can see is the US leads everyone, with India and Brazil (but only Brazil) in not too distant 2nd and 3rd place. And, not even that makes any sense! Just compare those (3) countries on their approach, case/death numbers and and nothing computes. The rest of the world are distant followers.
Now, obviously the physical size of the country plays into this, so for example, if I take the whole EU as one 'country' that would put them in 2nd place. Still makes no sense though. Because, if I then scale the EU up to the physical size of the US (through extrapolation) the EU would then DWARF the rest of the world in cases/deaths...by like a factor of nearly 3x.
originally posted by: MDDoxs
I am not surprised that the less developed countries compared to North America and Europe, or those with more authoritarian control, are potentially underreporting the number of cases and deaths. Take india for example, I think the amount of cases and deaths from covid are significantly higher than what is reported. They just dont have the same amount of resources or infrastructure that NAM or EU have.
originally posted by: ketsuko
You forgot that it continues to be a political cudgel too.
Most of the states now that are inching back toward normal are red states, and the blue states cannot abide that because they have the clout in DC, so to them, inching back toward normal means flouting their author-i-tie which must not be done even though they made it an art form for the past 4 years.
They really do not care. They just want complete and total submission, compliance and admission that they were always and ever right like any overbearing spouse.
originally posted by: nonspecific
Well Mr trump himself did say that the us had the most cases becuase they were the greatest at testing.
I think this might have something to do with it.
I know that a lot of boffins were saying that covid mortality in India was likely to be between two and five times higher than the official number purely because in a population of about 1.3 billion where many areas are very rural a lot of what goes on isn't even officially registered or reported.
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk
originally posted by: Thoughtcrime
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk
All good points! But I think you left one possibility out: the Antichrist and the launch of his Beast system. Yeah, yeah, I know…you were looking for a LOGICAL explanation.