| jimjamuser |
06-07-2021 07:19 PM |
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Originally Posted by Garywt
(Post 1955939)
Isn’t it wonderful that the precautions that were taken truly worked to keep the numbers down. With the way things started with people stacked in the streets to the lower numbers today everything is working that was put in place for us. Also as another benefit is the flu numbers were extremely low this year.
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That IS great HAPPY TALK and would be even greater if it held up to comparisons with other countries. The US would have about ONLY 300,000 deaths if it had reacted better early on in the pandemic. England got started later than the US but has ONLY about 20% of the DEATHS as the US on an equal population comparison. Australia was WAY better than the US early on and still has fewer deaths on a per capita basis. Finland has something like 15 total CV deaths today and all the Scandinavian countries are better than the US - even Sweden after a terrible "herd immunity " trial has become better than the US.
Part of the reason that most of the world has done better is that they have Universal Health Care. They also have societies that do NOT link public health with political issues - like US Evangelicals and males particularly do NOT accept vaccines. Now it IS TRUE that France, Germany, and Italy are hurting from CV today - much of Europe made mistakes in PURCHASING vaccines. For example, Greece has only about 13% of its people vaccinated. |
