isaac_newton wrote:doug941 wrote:
Not even going to try arguing one way or the other, but you asked for specifics. http://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries as of April 2 2020 23:04 GMT lists Sweden with 5,568 total cases and 308 total deaths. This equates to a death rate of 5.532% of persons infected. The same time frame for the US lists cases/deaths as 243,298/5,883 or 2.418%.
Just for fits and shiggles to name a few, Italy is 115,242/13,915 or 12.075%; Spain with 112,065/10,348 or 9.234%; Germany with 84,794/1,107 or 1.306%; France with 59,105/5,387 or 9.115%; Iran with 50,468/3,160 or 6.261%; The UK with 33,718/2,921 or 8.662%.
Of European NON-microstates, Montenegro comes out near the top with 144/2 or 1.389%.
so you are happy - giggling - about deaths in other countries. nice.
one factor that you omit that makes country by country comparison v difficult is the way that C19 deaths are actually 'registered' in each country. So its a bit like saying 2 feet is more than 1 meter.
So who exactly is "Giggling" about deaths or even simply infections? It sure as hell isn't me. I wouldn't be giggling even if Comrade Vladimir or Kim Jung-Un tested positive. The ONLY humor I found in this string, to the point I found anything humorous, was Joat saying looking at the time. Every country's infection data I've seen as posted on a 2D graph shows a slow rising ramp followed by a steep rise. Italy, Spain and Sweden are 1 1/2 to 2 weeks behind the US in infections, so their numbers of infections and deaths should likewise fall behind. Problem is they are not.
As to comparing apples and oranges in country by country data? Since the numbers I quoted were supplied by the WHO, they should have had much of the national idiosyncrasies ironed out.