I think we should try to avoid citing developing countries against developed for this sort of precision of comparison, because the likelihood is that they do not have systems adequate to report reliable estimates. Chances are many may be dying of covid mostly without meaningful documentation. On the other hand Vietnam clearly does seem to be handling covid-19 well compared to the USA in a general sense.
This is a terrible resource. I checked through a few, and when you click "source", they just end up linking to YouTube videos like Matt Braynard or other unverified claims. Not actual material evidence. Yes, even the ones listed as "material".
You can filter by material, statistical, document, photo-audio-video, and more
Or, hear me out, nature tries to push people off the cliff, and society tries in all different ways to avoid that, and some gratitude for people's efforts is justified, rather than everyone blaming the party they don't like for natural disasters.
You're currently actively blaming capitalism for a pandemic, and then projecting your own fanaticism onto me.
Back at you: imagine you're part of a team, and for ease of analogy I'll make it a school project. Like a semester long senior project. And there's one part of your assigned group who really sucks. He just does nothing and is an anchor on the group. But in the end, the rest of you manage to put together a good project despite being effectively down a person. And then the professor doesn't even look at your work and fails you preemptively because he knows that one guy sucks and figures there's no way the final submission is worth reading.
Ok, but subtract from that 300k the at least 100k additional deaths from solitude, overdoses, suicides, delayed healthcare... the secondary effects of the lockdowns have been as harsh as the pandemic itself. And most of those lockdown policies were done against federal guidance. Despite the ridiculous caricature people have made of it, the US in many places locked down harsher than the rest of the world, and in frankly stupid ways. Speaking of which:
LOL, no. Those freaking governors killed thousands of people by ignoring the CDC, whose guidance was much closer to what other countries have done, and was ignored because harsher restrictions were good optics apparently.
Lack of meaningful documentation is huge, but so is circumstance. Obesity, heart disease, diabetes are all contributing factors that the US has problems with. Vitamin D deficiency is a problem in the US moreso than Vietnam. Vietnam has a dramatically younger population than the US. Like, I could plan a country to have perfect covid response by slaughtering everyone over 65 before the pandemic begins and we wouldn't exactly count that as a win.
Not sure why you think it is 'fanaticism' to note that an organization of society that requires most people to move around and interact with people every day or else lose their livelihood would facilitate the spread of a virus.
this analysis wow
oh, look, it's capitalism.
A pandemic happens and people end up secluded in their homes and get depressed and you think that's because of capitalism? And you think I'm the one with blind devotion to a certain economic system?
The pandemic was an avoidable natural disaster. Everyone who had the power to make decisions and influence said decisions did a horrible job, I don't care about parties. I fucking knew the virus was here in February and I barely did much research into it at the time. I'm sure with the reach, intelligence, and power of the US government at your disposal, you'd be able to know far more than I did at the time. Our reaction in mid-March was at least a month too late. Fauci did a horrible job and he doesn't have any party affiliation. Has Fauci ever said "vitamin d" in his hours and hours of TV during the pandemic (yet he takes 6,000 IUs of it a day)? The media has also done a horrible job on both sides with completely inept journalism. Those daily press conferences were a joke and just the media trying to ask Trump "gotcha" questions the whole time instead of actually doing their job, which is journalism. Remember when the media blew up over Trump telling that Asian reporter to "ask China" and claimed racism when you should damn well know what he meant by that unless you're just that stupid, either way you shouldn't be a journalist.
Did you see? Braynard publicized a portion of his data, the "invalid addresses" stuff. I'd say that's solid material evidence, when you can look up the address and see that it's a kroger or whatever.
A friend of mine worked as an editor until earlier this month. His work didn't require use of specialist software or sensitive information-- which is to say, it could be done from home quite easily.
I've seen a small curated list of addresses he published from a wider dataset we haven't seen. Which really tells us quite little.
If you're referring to this, thats not the defence at all. The defence is that he's not qualified in any relevant field to interpret the results, and hasn't utilised any accepted methodology.
Trump affects the government. The government would be a lot better off without him - not only because of the guy at the top, but the agenda he can set (or lack of it), and that he then hires the B-team (or even C-team) as well. Why do people like Javanka or Peter Navarro have White House advisor positions to pull levers and make things happen, except sheer nepotism and ability to flatter Trump? It's the facilitation of corruption: overruling security concerns for his favoured friends and family, replacing inspectors of the executive function with yes-men. Why did Rudy Giuliani have a hotline to Trump ahead of the State Dept. on Ukraine? This is also what I mean by the ever-changing cabinet: appointing either the wrong people, or the right people he then doesn't want or trust. It goes beyond that - and harder to see - with the exodus of experienced civil servants vacating the shitshow, and the loss of their institutional knowledge and expertise. Loads of senior State Dept. posts went unfilled throughout the four years. Maybe they were useless and inefficient bureacracy so good riddance - but maybe what's happened is there's a load of foreign affairs not being processed which means the State Dept. is increasingly ineffectual.
No, you don't just get to arbitrarily delete any number you feel like from official estimates and have it hold credibility.
You're forgetting that the baseline is that the White House has been a clusterfuck on covid-19. Some governors have done much better, others have not. And where they have not, in some part that rests on the failure of the WH. Part of the problem here is that Trump has influence, often over voters. The president played for cheap popularity with his base, indulged bullshit, poor practice and conspiracy theories, and swayed a lot of individuals. At that point many governors potentially followed his line simply because they didn't want to annoy their voters. For instance, it's only been the last month or two with covid running rampant that some Republican governors have suddenly performed a volte-face and begged their people to mask up: but that's hard to get much traction on having spent months deriding it. People dead for posturing and stupidity, with the nation's leading example set by the president himself.
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If they were really deficit hawks, they wouldn't have gleefully passed those large tax cuts a few years back.
The internet as we know it is a propaganda machine where tech giants manipulate what views are seen and what views aren't, so... good.
Oh yeah, the rise in suicide isn't because people are laid off and getting evicted or such things that are often associated with suicide; they're just lonely.
en.wikipedia.org
I think its funny. When Trump thinks his enemies are undermining investigations they simply must be hiding something. But Trump doing every single thing in his power to obstruct investigations against him somehow wasn't a sign he had a ton to hide?
