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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Look up confirmation bias. I don't believe all, even capitalized, is strictly accurate.
Other possible reasons for the large percentage in the US:
- Not the highest ratio in the world (top 10? maybe)
- Higher population density in areas of the US that are spiking
- Mis-steps in the beginning (NY nursing homes among others)
- No lockdowns (I don't want to live in a country with police on every corner asking for my papers if I leave my house)
- Poor counting in some countries
- Generally obstinate
- Too many "experts" demanding something today then something different tomorrow
- Fake news (from all sides) driving a lack of compliance (and common sense)
- US love of freedom - Don't Tread on Me - Just leave me the h**l alone
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And even more can be added. You probably realize how easily one can manipulate stats without changing any FACT (just sorting on different variables of the study, etc. etc.) and publish them to reinforce your original hypothesis (learned that little trick in grad school research, without ever lying, you can publish your data in the most advantageous way to support your hypothesis. Give me your data, I'll show you how to display it without being nefarious or unprincipled. Also, have you noticed how (some) people on here seem to actually believe statements such as "ALL experts agree that......." and so on. Most certainly they do not (example resent research on the use of NON medical cotton masks in marine corps basic training barracks, the Danish research (one of the largest projects thus far) that showed NO protection to the person wearing the little cotton fabric mask and inconclusive if it protects OTHER from the virus, "possibly" from wet droplets of a sneeze, possibly for a bacteria, but not evidence of protection from covid ! Greatest benefit, gives frightened individuals a SLIGHT reduction of psychological anxiety, even from just the act of donning the mask before going out, but, it does not come close to the damage from the LONG STANDING stress and anxiety of living in an environment, such as a big city in India or Nepal where masks are required to for "normal" breathing due to the pollution. Not "against" masks, but this false sense of doing something as "protection" can be very harmful in a number of ways.