More Texans are now Dead Than Californians

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Using that same logic, should nations seek punishment against nations which have not managed to contain the disease? If a nation becomes another hotspot, then it's not just the disease's nation of origin that's relevant from a contagion perspective.

In China, government officials who failed to protect the public from the ravages of the virus have been punished. For more serious offenses some have been shot.

Should not the USA do the same? Let us look at the governor of FL for example, and even TX and GA.

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

Here are today's numbers

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The "Mortality Rate" is calculated from CLOSED cases only. That means that it only looks at "Deaths" and "Recovered". The overall world "Mortality Rate" is 3.89%

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[LowDown]

Trust me when I tell you that Trump's ardent acolytes don't give a damn about facts, statistics or Trump's breathtaking lies. They simply don't care and hang on Trump's every pronouncement as if he were the Second Coming and the ultimate truth. Just hang out here for a while and all will be made crystal clear if it already isn't.
They don't care that he contradicts medical experts albeit his being totally unqualified in pretty much everything; they don't care that he lies to them on a daily basis; they don't care about the well-being of their fellow citizens either.
It's almost like they've been infected en masse with Trump's clearly sociopathic 'personality'.
Welcome to the forum.

Edit; regarding the "supposedly" best healthcare system. According to the WHO healthcare ratings the US currently languishes in 37th place, globally, for overall quality of healthcare, neatly sandwiched between Slovenia and Costa Rica. It's no coincidence that the entire top ten enjoy universal healthcare with France leading the world. Naturally to Trump fans UHC is simply communism. They really are that stupid.

It's pretty stupid to turn the pandemic into a morality play. Thinking that you know all the answers where the pandemic is concerned is especially stupid. We don't really know what works and what doesn't. Some states with strict lockdowns have been hit very hard, others with lax lockdowns have not. From the beginning the idea was to try things and see what worked. That's what states have been doing.

Remove the COVID-19 deaths in three states, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, and the death rate in the US is lower than most of Europe.

In Texas the goal was to keep the hospitals from being overrun, and that goal was neatly accomplished. The goal was never to save as many people from dying of COVID as possible, because a trade off was going to be necessary. Pressing harder for a stricter lockdown may have just increased death from other causes, like suicide, a factor that the OP doesn't consider. It also would certainly have harmed the economy far more, and that would have led to all sorts of other problems, including death.

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

It's pretty stupid to turn the pandemic into a morality play. Thinking that you know all the answers where the pandemic is concerned is especially stupid. We don't really know what works and what doesn't. Some states with strict lockdowns have been hit very hard, others with lax lockdowns have not. From the beginning the idea was to try things and see what worked. That's what states have been doing.

And protesting against having to do things that worked because those things were personally inconvenient is what "Claque Trump" has been doing.

Remove the COVID-19 deaths in three states, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, and the death rate in the US is lower than most of Europe.

Quite right, and if you remove France, Italy, and the UK from consideration then Europe is doing better than most of the US.

How many levels of "cherry picking" do you want to engage in?

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If you take a look at ALL (except for France, Italy, and the UK) of the European countries, you will find that (for those where it is possible to calculate it) that 31 of the 41 countries (that's around 75.61% [which would give the US 24.69% or a letter grade of "F"]) have lower mortality rates than the US does. If you include France, Italy, and the UK AND if you postulate that the countries where you can't calculate the mortality rate have higher mortality rates than the US does, then that means that 31 of 46 countries (that's around 67.39% [which would give the US 32.61% or a letter grade of "F"]) have lower mortality rates than the US does.

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In Texas the goal was to keep the hospitals from being overrun, and that goal was neatly accomplished. The goal was never to save as many people from dying of COVID as possible, because a trade off was going to be necessary. Pressing harder for a stricter lockdown may have just increased death from other causes, like suicide, a factor that the OP doesn't consider. It also would certainly have harmed the economy far more, and that would have led to all sorts of other problems, including death

Thank you for your tacit admission that the government of Texas considered "preservation of profits" to be more important than "preservation of people".