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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScary covid comparison: FLA, pop. 21,000,000 vs. other countries with total pop. 2.6 billion:
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ProfessorGAC
(65,060 posts)China, Malaysia, Indonesia?
Are the numbers from there really accurate?
Besides, the comparison is unnecessary.
The object of attention is Florida, alone.
china's already admitted they do not count Covid posititive among their cases unless they actually get sick. Nothing nefarious, just the way the account for Covid cases.
ProfessorGAC
(65,060 posts)They're still reporting only 4,640 deaths.
They shut down 3 major cities for extended periods for 3.5 deaths per million people?
I don't believe it.
That death rate wouldn't even dent in the "unanticipated event" factor/guestimate in the actuarial models, insurance companies use.
That would be like 1,100 deaths in the US.
So improbable that I can't accept it.
enid602
(8,620 posts)And yet there are thousands of expats living in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Shanghai, which are among the worlds largest and most densely populated cities. If anything even closely resembling an NYC hotspot occurred in one of those cities, we would have known about it. When they discovered some new cases in Wuhan about a month ago, they tested the entire citys population of 11 million people in 10 days. Theyre serious about Covid, and weve given up.
ProfessorGAC
(65,060 posts)I think you underestimate the governmental control of information.
I've been there a few times.
Information control is a big priority as they liberalized the economy.
"You can buy a car, but don't think too much!". An operating philosophy for the state.
enid602
(8,620 posts)It would be hard to hide NYC style hotspots. We'll see who had success in controlling the virus when we see which economy suffers the most. I don't think it will be theirs.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)CNN keeps airing charts that show total number of cases by state. I think that's pretty meaningless. Per capita should be the standard.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)former9thward
(32,017 posts)uponit7771
(90,346 posts)tblue37
(65,393 posts)Nevilledog
(51,113 posts)Is it a nightmare?
tblue37
(65,393 posts)that virtually all their ER patients now are covid, because others are scared to come to the ER because of covid.
Nevilledog
(51,113 posts)tblue37
(65,393 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)figures coming from China, but red states in America are killing people on purpose (has to be on purpose at this point) and all the attention in the world on ASSHOLE FUCKS like DeSatan and others is not enough!