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Europe surpasses US on Covid cases

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Europe is seeing an increase in COVID cases and now per capita has surpassed the US. Will the US also see an increase in cases as temperatures cool and more activities are held inside? Has the world become COVID weary and no longer paying attention to recommendations as they once did? Will liberals still point to Europe as an example of how Trump should of handeld the pandemic now that they have higher per capita numbers?
 
Europe had handled COVID way better than US, clearly. However, whether they will continue to handle it better remains to be seen. Either way though, US was one of the worst in the industrialized world so far.
 
BOOYA!

USA! USA!
 
Slavister said:
Europe had handled COVID way better than US, clearly. However, whether they will continue to handle it better remains to be seen. Either way though, US was one of the worst in the industrialized world so far.
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Only if you are silly enough to believe that all other nations in the industrialized world publish their numbers honestly.
 
ObamacareFail said:
Only if you are silly enough to believe that all other nations in the industrialized world publish their numbers honestly.
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I am sure it is silly in your world of alternative facts where facts and fiction are the same thing and conspiracies are everywhere.
 
Slavister said:
Europe had handled COVID way better than US, clearly. However, whether they will continue to handle it better remains to be seen. Either way though, US was one of the worst in the industrialized world so far.
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The Germans handled it better, even though Im not sure how. The rest of Europe is basically in the same boat we are.
 


we are in for true hell on earth here in the USA
 
This is about as interesting as a Rasmussen Poll. We will catch up and surpass them AGAIN.....unless we throw BOZO the President out of office. That is the only shot we have at staying below Europe's per capita case loads.
 
jnug said:
This is about as interesting as a Rasmussen Poll. We will catch up and surpass them AGAIN.....unless we throw BOZO the President out of office. That is the only shot we have at staying below Europe's per capita case loads.
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And you think a Biden presidency will do what, exactly, to stop this virus?
 
Fletch said:
The Germans handled it better, even though Im not sure how. The rest of Europe is basically in the same boat we are.
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Our death rate per capita is higher than all European countries, except for Spain and Belgium. (Same for cases). In fact, aside from few South American countries and those two, we are higher than rest of the world.

Fletch said:
And you think a Biden presidency will do what, exactly, to stop this virus?
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For one thing, people will start hearing a consistent message that's aligned with science. For another, it will probably bring back the pandemic playbook that Trump threw away and have a national strategy.
 
Fletch said:
And you think a Biden presidency will do what, exactly, to stop this virus?
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Biden will mobilize what is left of what were the best public heath agencies in the world, something Donnie did not do. Donnie just used them as political pawns for his own purposes. Hopefully there will still be enough left of them once Donnie is done with them. Hahn has begun to show some backbone and Fauci is basically telling Trump to sit on a flagpole and rotate. Even Redfield has been exhibiting some backbone. So I have hope.
 
The U.S. strategy of downplaying it--"just the flu, honest!"--and being dismissive of wearing masks--"they're just libs causing a panic"--is truly working wonderfully.

Trump has literally saved two million, I mean six billion, lives.

Only a true leader can be so heroic while doing almost nothing.
 
noonereal said:
we are in for true hell on earth here in the USA
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The "grandpa was going to die anyway" faction are just telling us the truth. I always thought my grandparents were great people deserving of love, but I guess old people are worthless after all.
 

We probably will see an increase with all them stick fingered COVID spreaders going door to door begging for candy.
 
Ooh, mobilize doctors lol. That will do exactly nothing.
 
And what would this national strategy look like? States are already dealing with this just fine
 
Yakshi said:
The "grandpa was going to die anyway" faction are just telling us the truth. I always thought my grandparents were great people deserving of love, but I guess old people are worthless after all.
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You might be right about your grandparents but no one else has made that sort of claim so you can quit lying about it.
 
Fletch said:
You might be right about your grandparents but no one else has made that sort of claim so you can quit lying about it.
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Far too many Trump supporters have dismissed our 210,000+ dead as being mostly old people anyway, clearly communicating that the lives of elderly people have less value than younger people.

Once their code is translated, it makes you uncomfortable. I get it. But if a group takes a moral stance that says, "Old people are worth less than the rest of us," then it will be easy for them simply to lie about it when their message is repeated back to them.

Once one argues that grandpa is expendable, then it is easy to lie about grandpa not being expendable.

Other cultures I've experienced give more respect to their elders. It turns out that respecting the elderly is a good thing.

You should try it sometime. It feels good.
 
Fletch said:
And what would this national strategy look like? States are already dealing with this just fine
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No they are not. Cases rising again. Hospitalizations rising again. Some are starting to run out of room and require national guard make shift hospitals without sufficiently trained staff. Deaths will follow later.
 
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