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Barozi on 20 July 2020
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EricHiggin said:
Conina said:

If masks don't help slowing down spreading the virus immensely... why does the USA (lax regulations, low mask acceptance thanks to mixed messages of the government and anti-mask propaganda of fox news) currently has almost 2 million known active cases (~5800 per million) while other big western countries with even higher population density have it much better under control?

I'd say Germany has a similar wealth and lifestyle (in most areas) as the USA and only ~6000 known active cases (~68 per million, so 1/85 compared to the USA).

Italy was hit pretty hard by the virus, but they took it serious and are down to ~12000 known active cases (~200 per million, so 1/29 compared to the USA).

France is still in trouble with ~65000 known active cases (~1000 per million)... but the USA numbers are 6x worse than that (~5800 per million).

And the 4th of July infections will probably make it even worse in the USA


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If two people have the same job and same hourly wage, but one works many more hours than the other, won't they likely end up with more money?

If multiple countries are dealing with the same illness, but one country does way more testing, won't they likely end up with more confirmed cases?

What kind of terrible analogy is that?

Where's the equivalent of the "same hourly wage" in your second example? There has to be something like "same positivity rate" in there, otherwise it's not even a valid analogy.

But then you'd need to realize that the country that does way more testing (US) also has a much higher positivity rate...