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crissindahouse on 09 March 2020
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numberwang said:
John2290 said:
I'd be so fucking worried right now if I was an American. Trump is on the "It's only the flu" shit. Here's his tweet from a half hour ago...

So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

Trump vs Merkel

Trump's early travel restrictions vs. EU open borders

Just because it hit the USA later than especially Italy doesn't mean USA won't get the same problems nor do the numbers from USA mean that they are real numbers. 

Test as many people as Italy or other countries do and we will see how many infected USA really has.

But I guess some people will never learn until they are infected and even then they will say everything is fine because...Trump

Just look back some weeks ago. China had 10000x as many cases as the EU even with open borders!

BTW there are many countries without "open borders" which have a much higher infection rate per 1m population than most countries in the EU have. But I'm sure you won't care about that.  

I hope you also realize that a big chunk of that comes only from Italy and that has nothing to do with open borders in the first EU country where it all really began, Ohh and it's also not true that there are around 23,000 infected in the EU. It's more like 14,000 right now if I look at the full list of countries. Or where do you get the other 9k from? South Korea, Japan and Diamond Princess or what? 

You can't be that illogical not to see that there is only one country in the EU right now (Italy) which looks much worse as the already confirmed 650+ cases in the USA and countries like Germany test many more to also find more.  

Last edited by crissindahouse - on 09 March 2020