I'm not sure what Trump is bitching about; since he paid no attention to the WHO's advice on closing the border--he did it anyway. So how did the WHO's advice affect us?From your article, Trump gives his reasons for why the WHO was wrong. You didn't give any rationale' or facts why Trump was wrong. Hint: Trump is right, the WHO screwed-up, so this is just one of your daily TDS troll threads.
"They did give us some pretty bad play calling ... with regard to us, they’re taking a lot of heat because they didn’t want the borders closed, they called it wrong. They really called, I would say, every aspect of it wrong,” Trump said at a White House press conference Tuesday.
Trump doesn't like anyone that doesn't bow down and kiss our ass, so it doesn't surprise me. HE made a mistake of his own, though, by not taking the WHO's test kits. Was that pettiness because he doesn't like their parent, the UN?
The problem he has that if he compared to EU he looks really bad...
On the day of the EU - US travel ban
Europe had 23,506 cases
US had 1,205 cases
Europe has over twice the population of US. (746 m v 327m)
So on that day EU had 10 times the case of US per Captia.
Today:
Europe has 742,908 cases with 6% daily growth
US has 393,602 cases with 8.5% daily growth
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So Cases per Million:
Europe : 995
US: 1201
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States - Wikipedia
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That is absolute failure when compared.
Also take into account the UK shambles of herd immunity, Spain and Italy caught off guard... It looks even worse...
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Going Forward.
Testing: US is way behind. They are half what Europe has done.
At this rate of growth it will double in 9 days in the US and that is with the lack of testing which is not catching this.
We are not testing asymptomatic people which could tell us a lot more about the spread of the virus.
Very good post! But your words don't add up to the truth when you do the math. Here is a plot of the EU v US "active cases" comparing equal populations. The EU countries are GER, FRA, ITA, SWI, UK. Their populations added up roughly equal the US population. Here is a plot of the active cases from this link:
COVID Live - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer
Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...www.worldometers.info
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From the plot Trump gave the US a good 2-week lag on the EU to develop test capacity and get medical supply train developed. The EU did not stop flights from China when Trump did, and thats the difference in graphs. The US may not be doing the social distancing as well as the EU, but that isn't Trump's fault, its the undisciplined spoiled kids.
So in conclusion, the US looks really good compared to the EU for the initial infection rate, after that its how the population follows the "social distancing" protocols.
Lets start with country selection... This is slicing and dicing to get the result... You are taking the worst areas in Europe and comparing it to all of US... Europe v US (one just double the size of the other seems a lot fairer and give more spread over time, Eastern European countries are more isolated and rural like midwest. They also have less public healthcare as well).
By the way daily growth in these countries are Italy(2.8%), Germany(4.8%), Spain(2.9%) & Switzerland(4%) are way ahead... Testing in all these countries are over double US except UK and Spain and both of them are paying heavily for that... US had time but it seems to have been unused...
I won't be mad at you and I will say nice try, but you are cherrypicking your data by picking countries. (I personally wanted to pick just EU because I know in long run they have the resources to beat this)
And then we get to the graph...
It is simple EU is obviously ahead of US in timeline but also has a more flattened graph. US is coming later but steeper.. The US are turning that down considerably right now but they are still kicking around 9% daily growth compared to US.