Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, on Monday said the U.S. has done “worse than most” other countries as the nation nears 500,000 deaths amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Well, it is just a hoax…
500,000 fake deaths.
Freedumb
They all died because their heart stopped beating! COVID, ha! What a scam!
The U.S. did far worse than other advanced countries for one reason: Trump and his creepy cultish party literally did the opposite of what sane people recommended. And these insane fools haven’t learned a thing.
In other advanced countries the equivalent to the GQP weren’t running the government because they are considered fringe wackos. Only in the U.S. were enough voters dumb enough to let these fools gain power for 4 years.
It’s “disparate” not “dispirit”
It is past time to end this bullshit.
Our U.S. has not done worse, Trump and his Republican Party, all UnAmericans, have done “worse than most”.
Place the fucking blame where it belongs.
Trump was adverse to masking because he was afraid it would make him look weak. It was just his personal vanity and for that thousands died.
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The United States has not done appreciably worse than a number of our Western European peers, including France and the U.K. Even Germany’s winter case spike was slightly worse than our own.
The UK is concentrating on getting at least one shot into everyone and putting off delivering the second shot to twelve weeks instead of 3-4, apparently, to take pressure off hospitals.
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Shape of things to come? Glad I’d scheduled for my second shot early next week.
No question about it.
And batshit crazy GQP members in Kentucky are so furious over the election that they’re trying to Impeach the Democratic Governor for his Pandemic measure- which led to KY being the the 42 stae with the least number of cases/deaths per million in the entire country.
“dispirit” - no it’s disparate. Carry on.
I presume you would count the United Kingdom and Belgium to be “advanced countries.” Both of them have significantly higher rates of COVID deaths than the United States. Italy and Portugal are both higher than the U.S. as well. France, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland aren’t too far behind. Even the vaunted Germans let it get way out of hand this winter.
Yes, our response was pretty shitty. But it was not uniquely shitty.
People are resistant and stupid the world over. But at least the governments tried over there.
We’re fifth from the top in per capita mortality.
Tried, and failed just as badly as we did in many instances. Germany’s winter spike was worse than our own.
Not so. Even after discarding low-sample-size places like Gibraltar and San Mateo, we are still behind Belgium (191 deaths per 100,000 population), the U.K. (181), Slovenia (181), the Czech Republic (181), Italy (159), and Portugal (156). At 152/100,000, the United States is pretty much on par with, or at least not too much worse than, Spain (143), France (125), Sweden (125), and Switzerland (115). And there are a bunch of other countries whose numbers are comparable to the United States but whose case reporting seems pretty likely to be unreliable, like Mexico (141, officially), Hungary (147), and Brazil (117).
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Now do Canada, our neighbor to the North, and the country most like us.
Canada’s done relatively well! Good on the Nucks for finding something that worked for them.