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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Europe has taken CV serious. That IS a strategy.
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I've seen you say this a couple of times, and I'm interested in how you're arriving at this whole "Europe is taking CV seriously" notion (where I guess you mean we're not).
I used two sources - populationof.net and the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus stats map as of today to tally up some numbers related to Covid-19 in the US and in Europe.
For Europe, I had to use countries whose populations when added together are quite close to the US population. So, I chose:
UK
France
Germany
Spain
Sweden
Italy
The population of those six countries when added are just about what they are for the US: between 333 million (US) and about 334.4 million for those countries (assuming I used the calculator correctly, lol).
Then, I added up the Johns Hopkins COVID death tallies as of today for all the countries mentioned above.
The US came in at 156801.
The European countries came in at 155171, in total.
I don't know about your reckoning, but that's pretty darn close. Now, are the trend lines different as of today? I'm not sure. There's been some flare ups in Europe recently, but the US might have a higher daily death rate today. That said, though, I'm not seeing a demonstrative difference in the death tallies by population right now - at least not so much so as to say one group is taking things more seriously than this country is.