Monday, March 30, 2020

THEY WANT A STAMPEDE: Distortion and fear...

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THEY WANT A STAMPEDE:  
  • The US is nowhere near having the highest number of cases per capita.
Comparing absolute numbers in different countries without correcting for population means nothing, and one doesn’t need advanced math to realize that. 
Look at the cases per million numbers here, and you’ll see that the US has one of the world’s lowest rates (at the moment, anyway), not the highest at all. (currently 21st in the world)
That will change and go up, of course, as testing continues. 
But it’s the more important statistic than sheer number of cases, although neither tells us very much right now.
  • Then there’s deaths per million.
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