4/24/20: A quick check shows that the U.S. has 887,622 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 50,283 Americans are dead.
We have four times as many cases as Spain, the next country
on the list, and twice as many dead as Italy, the next worst, and 32.2% of all
cases worldwide.
Russia, where Putin has spent weeks denying his country has a
problem (does that sound familiar?) reported 5,849 new cases in just one day.
Putin is Putin. That means if Russia has nearly 69,000 confirmed cases …
Sure…only 615 people have died. Because in Russia, the “Enemies of the People” say what Putin wants.
Leaders listened to scientists, not cable news talk show hosts.
Finally, if you scrolled down to 32nd place,
sandwiched in between Poland and Romania, you had:
We keep citing this example. South Korea (which has a population one-sixth the size of the United States) discovered it had its first case of COVID-19 on the same day authorities in this country discovered ours, a man who showed up at an urgent care facility in Snohomish County, Washington.
And here we have the fatal difference. In South Korea, leaders listened to scientists, not cable news talk show hosts. They took the threat seriously and ramped up testing and quarantining at once.
President Trump and the
loudest voices in the Windmill Party (see: April 23, 2020) down-played
the danger and let the virus explode.
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