| Lafiel said: Which is also the "normal state of things" if you look at the last centuries. Only really in the short time window after WW2 science enjoyed a pretty broad basis of trust, which at this point has been slowly erroded again largely for political gains/reasons. |
Maybe I was lucky with the period I grew up in. Apart from some white washing and political flavor in history classes (skipping the bad things my country had done and favoring one historical/current party over others) religion, social studies, science, chemistry and biology all co-existed together and allowed to have opposing views. Religion classes teaching the opposite story of evolution and it was up to us to make up our own minds. Religion classes even taught other religions in a fair way as far as I can tell (I went to a catholic school, but not religious myself) while social studies did a good job to compensate for the political flavor in history classes. It all depends on good and bad teachers of course. The high school I went to had great teachers. So good, it was a shock when I went to university and was met with a bunch of disinterested 'teachers' that were only there because of an hours requirement to keep their cozy university seat.
That was in the eighties, still close enough after WW2 I guess. Evolution theory later came under fire in the country I grew up in as well.
Back on topic, updates
Europe and the USA are swapping places regularly, closely following each other.
Europe would be declining much more if Russia wasn't a still growing hot spot, currently responsible for 40% of Europe's daily reported cases, followed by the UK and Spain with 17.5% and 11.2% of the daily reported cases.
The USA is now 10.00 days behind Europe in total reported cases, very slowly outpacing Europe, was 10.25 days a week ago.
Europe is actually climbing back up atm, 4.2% increase (104.2%) week over week while the USA is still declining 13.1% (86.9%) week over week.
I started tracking the continents in a new graph
North America leads with 34.2% of worldwide daily cases.
Europe 28.7%, South America and Asia both 16.9%, Africa 3.3%, Oceania 0%.
Reporting is very spotty in Africa, Asia has some dodgy reporters as well as South America. Reporting enough though to push the world total to record heights. The last peak was May 7th with a 3 day average of 96.2K new cases per day.
Random comparisons
Slight up tick in South Korea while Australia is going down again from their slight up tick. The amounts are too low to determine any trends, both doing great. China dropped off the chart only reporting 1 or 2 new cases a day.
Japan heading down in general, Brazil keeps rising.
Canada and Iran are close together, however reported deaths in Canada are 3x that of Iran (154 vs 57 daily average) I guess different age demographics (median 40.8 years vs 30.8 in Iran) and difference in reporting play a role.
Weekly change graph
Iran rising week over week, Japan decreasing again after a couple days stagnation.
USA and Canada are both on a slight decline week over week.
Canada should see some good decline next week after this bitter cold last week. We were back to -4c at night (I had to keep the pool pump running not to have things freeze up, ice on the bird baths etc), snow the last couple days (up to 10cm in Barrie), and freezing winds. We're set for record low temperatures for May. The snow here didn't stay luckily, but first time I've had the pool 'open' while seeing snow on the solar cover... Who wants to go for a swim lol.
It's going to warm up today to +13, yet overcast with some rain and still a chance for some snow tomorrow morning :/
