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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Oct-2020 17:51:02 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   https://nu.federati.net/url/276711 [www theguardian com]
   
   Looking at the map, it seems that the highest per capita death zones are in the Northeast and a sweep across the South from #TX eastward. @clacke recently posted some graphics with similar statistics for European nations and their subdivisions. I’ll link his posts into this thread.
   
   Remember, raw numbers are deceptive. The United States is the 3rd most populous nation on the planet. If we don’t look at some population-adjusted numbers, we’ll believe the country is doing far worse relative to other nations than it actually is.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Oct-2020 18:07:04 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     Not that over 200K deaths this year attributable to #COVID-19 in the US is anything to celebrate. A small number of those deaths are people related to me, so I don’t celebrate it at all.
     
     However, I think that we look at the 200K deaths for a nation with 330M people in it and compare it with nations that have a fraction of the number of people. Of course we’re going to have more infections and more deaths than they are.
     
     The only way I can see for our numbers to be significantly lower would have been for all 50 state governors plus territorial governors and the DC mayor to have simultaneous “no leaving your home for any reason on pain of gunshot” and “no inbound or outbound travel allowed” policies for a month or so. As soon as you have variations in the time period and strictness, or as soon as you allow travel between regions and nations, you make the lockdowns less effective.
     
     I say this because the federal authorities used require state and territorial governors to take charge of the efforts and limit the feds to assisting them.
     
     I don’t mean to say that Trump is not an idiot, nor that his administration couldn’t have done a better job. They could and should have, but even if we had another president, state-level decisions and disobedience by “freedumb” people are the primary reasons that so many people in the US have been infected and so many have died.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Oct-2020 18:26:44 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
     @clacke's posts: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-205f-8bb3-0429-8ea082544553 and https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-195f-8bb4-9fc9-f1c363359323
     
     He links the map sources in his posts.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 00:06:49 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > There are currently 219,452 deaths confirmed to be caused by Covid-19 in the US. With an estimated population of 322m, that equals to about 68 deaths per 100,000 Americans.

     Sweden, which has been criticized as having too lax a policy and has had an order of magnitude more deaths than the other Nordics, is at 50.
     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} repeated this.