Overall EU vs USA. All Trumpists should be forced to look at this:
This graph is also misleading because it ignores the dramatically higher case fatality rate in Europe.
The UK yesterday reported 921 new cases and 280 new deaths. (CFR=30%)
The US yesterday reported 36,000 new case and 863 new deaths. (CFR=2%)
Today, UK reported 652 cases and 154 deaths. (CFR=24%)
So far today, the US has reported almost 17,000 cases and 365 deaths. (CFR=2%)
Across the whole pandemic, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK all have overall CFRs in the 10-15% range, while the US is right now at 5% and falling.
The UK is consistently still reporting per capita death tolls much higher than the US.
And this is all despite the UK having done more per capita testing!
Cases is the absolute wrong stat to look at. People are going to get infected at some point regardless of what we do. It's how we respond to infections that's going to make a difference.
I do agree that those statistics are far from a perfect measure.
However, I do have a few objections to your objections. ;-)
The UK is not part of the EU anymore hence not part of my graph. And yeah, the UK is a sh*tshow with a leader almost as incompetent as Trump.
Countries like Italy, Spain and France suffer from being hit really hard early on when little testing was available. Comparing overall mortality rates is almost certainly premature and may never yield a comparative picture.
I strongly disagree that "everybody is going to be infected at some point". Here in Denmark we were hit VERY hard early on and was at one point #4 in the entire world when it came to total registrered cases per capita. These days we test around 15k people a day and register around 50 new cases a day (total cases is now roughly 12600). We are down to a mere 33 people who are hospitalized and only 4 of those are currently in ventilators. At this current rate of infection it would take around 312 years to infect the entire population of Denmark. I suspect that we will have found a vaccine well before the year 2332 comes around. ;-)
