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JRPGfan on 05 June 2020
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EnricoPallazzo said:
Pemalite said:

Ultimately the US only has itself to blame for the loss of life and the current situation.

As they say... You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

There was nothing really big US could do. even if 100% of people stayed home, still you would get a huge number of infections and people dying.

Of course several governors and the president not supporting lockdown just made things worse, but based on what we can read from other countries, there is not much you can do except prepare to have the least number of deaths. Still death per 1M in US is half of several other european countries affected. Could this be less? Definitely, but I cant imagine it being less than 50% of what it is right now, if the number of deaths in US is correct.

The protests now though will impact people a lot in US specially poor people.

US is at 333 pr million atm.
Only countries over 600 atm in europe is basically Belgium.

UK, Sweden, Spain, Italy  are all in the 450-590 ish range though.
However apart from Sweden + UK, most other places in "europe" have beat down the coronavirus to very small numbers.
(ei. not so many new cases or deaths, pr capital)

Meanwhile the US never managed to get the virus down to these levels.
Also europe was hit like a month before the US with the virus outbreak.

So basically a month or two from now, things will look much worse in the US than basically most places in europe.
(in terms of cases pr million, and deaths pr million)

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 05 June 2020