It did NOT wipe out everyone. Jeez .
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I don't know of anything that's effective in treating mild cases of Covid (non hospitalized cases), but they clearly have improved the treatment for people requiring hospitalization. Remdesivir appears to be a big reason for that, though I'm sure there are other factors involved. But the fact that death rates have gone down tells me that they've made significant strides in treating hospitalized cases if nothing else.
Let me rephrase. Not everyone did become infected although infection rate was really high. And if I recall correctly the mortality rate of people in their 20s and 30s was very high ... estimated to be like 20 to 30 percent if I recall correctly. So yea ... my statement wasn't accurate. However, the mortality rate for any demographic during Covid has not been nowhere near that high. So I would stand by my belief that pandemic was much worse.
This sums it up pretty well.
Although, I don't know if there is anyone on Earth who could've made the right call on any of this. I'm not sure what anyone would consider "passing" for any set of leaders or govt.
If you believed the gov't had your interest before any of this, or still believe any reports about the pandemic numbers that are coming out to be accurate, that is just being naive. Whether there is an agenda or not behind a particular report doesn't change anything. It pollutes stuff but ultimately there isn't one ultimate source that has it all right and is at the center of it all. People's expectations with response and reaction to this are off the charts how unattainable that really was. And that's their own fault.
It's going to run its course. Vaccine or not. 100% of people will never take that vaccine. Masks won't be worn forever (but may slow the spread). It will become a part of life. Just like the flu has. We adapt, and learn how to handle it and work against it. It's being a human.
If Trump was totalitarian, he would have moved into Minneapolis, Chicago, ATL, NY, and Seattle CHAZ (or CHOP) with Federal troops. Instead, he sat back and watched them sadly burn and self-destruct with no law enforcement and deaths abound. The Govs and Mayors didn't want his help just because of who he is and the party he represents.
Bingo. And Trump has not oppressed the people in any way. He's made life better for them in numerous ways most significantly by shutting down drug trade from below the border (reason for the Wall), shutting down sex trafficking and pedos, and bringing jobs back to America ... jobs Obama/Biden said "would never return".
On the flip side, he has used laws THEY CREATED (to be used against the people) to go after some high-level, extremely corrupt folks. These are laws that were created before Trump and were not supposed to be used against the elite or the creators of the corrupt law, but to be used against the people.
Folks seem to forget about The Homeland Security Act, Wikileaks, Snowden & NSA, etc. Talk about Totalitarianism. And also the wake of dead bodies associated with those leaders (especially Clinton).
Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, ****in' China, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Poland, Switzerland, Ireland, Japan, Austria, South Korea, Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Thailand, Uruguay, Paraguay, Slovakia, Iceland, Australia, Cambodia, Lithuania, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Vietnam seem to have figured it out
Are you arguing that the way to figure it out is to let it burn through your population? Because it looks like you've got the 1st (Belgium), third (Spain), 4th (Italy), and 6th (France) worst performing countries on your list of countries that have figured it out as far as deaths per capita goes.
I don't think we're going to have a good idea of who has done well until we get through this winter. I suspect USA will move up on that list (currently we're 7th) through the summer and then look a lot better after the winter. But even then, we'll need a lot more time to really figure out how we did because the results will be skewed by population makeup just like they are with things like life expectancy.
Thought on TX?
The State of Texas today had to remove 3,484 cases from its Covid-19 positive case count, because the San Antonio Health Department was reporting ?probable? cases for people never actually tested, as ?confirmed? positive cases.- TDHS
https://i.imgur.com/pFYxwb5.png
Maybe we'll figure it out by the end of the year, but I'd rather be headed into the fall in one of those 4 countries' positions.
I think some of the issue comparing european countries to the US is the size difference. The virus seems to be just getting prevalent in parts of the US. Hell, isn't Texas bigger than most the European countries we're comparing to?