You chaps are unbelievable. I've been pointing out for some time that the New York City figures are absolutely distorting the view of the US approach to WuFlu and you've all run a mile at the mere thought that you might have to criticise a Democrat Governor or Democrat Mayor.

But here we find you merrily scanning the scene for red states to vilify. If it wasn't for double standards they'd have no standards at all.

Just for the record: NY has about 19 million people and over 19000 deaths.

Florida has 22 million people and 1047 deaths.

Struth.

I saw this elsewhere and it reminded me of Paul...

"This Chinese virus almost killed Boris Johnson, and now he's very cross indeed. The only people who aren't glad he's okay are Chinese communists and Western leftists. But then, they're one and the same."

mhaze,

Of course New York has had far more cases and deaths: cosmopolitan centres around the world have tended to cop far more cases and deaths early on than the regions in their countries: London, Sydney, Auckland, Paris, Barcelona. More out-of-the-way countries have also got off lightly for that reason.

What happens depends on their responses to this sudden crisis. Smart countries and centres have locked-down rapidly and either banned in-coming flights or required passengers to be isolated.

So we'll see how Florida fares compared to New York State over the next month or two. And Georgia. And Arkansas, Ohio, Indiana. Nobody is forcing Republican-controlled states to open up, they're doing it voluntarily, so this will be an crucial experiment with human lives.

Joe

mhaze, I don't see the two political parties in America as dissimilar, they are both right wing parties, the one party divided into two. A change of President would only see another Trump like charterer, who appears to have the advantage of having half a brain, something the incumbent seems to lack. Who wins, is of no concern to me, with Biden it would be more of the same, but with a different captain

Dear mhaze,

You may remember this exchange between us;

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Dear mhaze,

Remember you were touting this just a couple of weeks ago;

“Virtually every day brings new reductions in projections of the severity of the virus..."By Wednesday, the projection dropped the estimated total deaths to 60,415, revised down from 81,766 deaths, which was revised from down 93,531, a revised number itself.”

And saying; “So just like a normal flu season.”

Well that projection has gone up. It is now at 67,588 for estimated total deaths. I don't think that has happened for any other country that I am aware of. What are the chances that by the time Trump has finished it will have hit 70,000 plus deaths. In fact given the protests I'm predicting possibly 100,000 plus. Yes, the man reeks of competence.
http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america

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Well as I predicted the latest projection is over 70,000 in fact over 72,000 deaths in the US and it keeps going up.

Still a normal flu?

SR,

The toll so far would be some thousands more than 67,500, given misdiagnoses of earlier deaths. And as long as the US curve isn't pulled down rapidly, two and three thousand people will still be dying each day - 60-100,000 each month. So I wouldn't be surprised if the death toll in the US hits up to 400,000-500,000 by the time of the election. And keeps going up.

As long as the HWOTUS pushes an opening-up policy, and drinking disinfectant and shining a light up your arse, and as long as a lock-down is not enforced across the US, the death toll will continue, and could easily increase. We'll see.

What interests me now is that, as states here become more-or-less virus-free, they can open up, they can join up their economies and relax restrictions. As the entire country does the same, the entire country can reduce all restrictions. As Australia and NZ both do the same, they can relax restrictions and co-operate economically. And lo and behold, what other major country may also be able to do the same, so that Aust/NZ and this other country can trade and interact freely ?

China.

Also South Korea, Taiwan, maybe Vietnam and a handful of other countries. As countries go through the necessary process of lock-downs, reduction of the virus to acceptable levels, THEN opening up their economies, we may see a strange, new constellation of economic partners.

And where will the US stand in all this ? Shut out ? Going further down an economic sink-hole. What a shame.

Joe

Hi Joe,

"And where will the US stand in all this ? Shut out ? Going further down an economic sink-hole. What a shame."

There is the other option of WAR! What are those pesky Chinese up to? Trying to invade Iceland! ScumO' is on to em.

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