| First of all why the strawman? I was responding to a post that claimed there were no argument against. You can't compare the entire US with a country. The EU have had roughly as many deaths as the US per capita. That's the correct comparison. Some countries like some states did well other didn't some areas in states did well others didn't. To claim that the tactics are working for NYC is absurd. NYC have had the highest amount of dead, we are still mostly on lockdown here and very few things are open. I have had two melanomas and so I get checked 4-6 times a year. So far I have been tested in january and not since. I am not sure what data you are talking about and I am pretty sure this aint over yet. Furthermore I would challenge you to find single country who would do lockdowns again if this happened. They locked down because they were unprepared (it's their job to be prepared) not because it was the right thing to do. |
I don't believe this is true, and probably hasn't been for a while. Talking points tend to outlive changing conditions.
Europe has had 270-310 per million, depending on whether you include Russia, while the US is up to 433. And the gap continues to widen because every day twice the number of people are dying in the US compared to all of Europe.
Conversely whatever is being done clearly is working for NYC and has been long enough for the death rate to follow the new case rate down. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to say that because of all the people who died, the efforts that stopped people dying didn't work. There were ten deaths yesterday in Manhattan+Brooklyn+Bronx+Staten Island+Queens. Miami-Dade county had almost triple. But that underestimates what's coming, because new cases were over 3200 (in a day) compared to about 300 in NYC. People have steadfastly refused to believe that new cases become new deaths over time, but you can see the numbers going up.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/