COVID complacency? Much of the world is catching up with, even exceeding, the US, in new infections

[Silent3]

I've been hearing about COVID surges in other countries recently. I remember hearing about such surges before, but a few months ago what counted as a "surge" in many other countries was only a surge relative to an infection rate that was much, much better than the US.

That appears to have only been true from about May through August.

Not so any more. The US is still way ahead for a developed nation in deaths and total cases over time, but we've got some serious competition now in the stupidity race. I see 27 countries listed as currently worse than the US in new infections reported per day. The worst in tiny Andorra, at over 2400 cases per million compared to our 212 per million.

Here's a comparison of a handful of other countries:

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I don't totally trust our Trump-politicized CDC to be reporting totally accurate numbers any more, but they probably aren't lying by factors of 5 or 10.

If you'd like to explore the numbers, and play around with the data yourself, here's a link:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&country=USA~GBR~CAN~DEU~FRA~ESP~CZE~NZL®ion=World&casesMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc

[BannonsLiver]

1. Here's the difference

Those places will do what they need to do to get it under control again. Meanwhile we are a nation of selfish, semi literate goobers who are terrified of science and vaccines.

[Silent3]

2. I'd hope so, but these numbers are already indictive of a sluggish response

Some of these countries seem to be doing a "hold my beer!" competition with us.

It's a shame we probably won't make a turn-around in the US until February, when Biden-led changes have a chance to kick in.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Trump will resign and slink off to another country after a sound defeat, and then we can get started sooner.