[esja]

I did not "redefine" or "reframe" anything. From the beginning I chose to use recent daily deaths per capita as my measure of how badly a country is being hit by COVID "right now". It is true that my first response did not make this explicit, and in retrospect I should have done so. Please read all my comments charitably, as I have done with yours.

I have already agreed that the measures you are using are also valid and that the trends are bad. However your points 1-4 are entirely about cases, trends, and the future, which has nothing to do with the point I made.

Accusing me of "laughing at Europe" is the sort of toxic rhetoric which doesn't belong on HN and frankly says more about you than it does about my argument. I live in one of the worst-hit yet most-developed countries, and some of our ICUs have run out of beds.

[dredmorbius]

From the beginning...

If by "beginning" you mean two replies into the discussion.

I have already agreed that the measures you are using...

Then why continue to argue against them?

[esja]

"Beginning" means from the moment I conceived the idea in my mind. Again, please try interpreting things charitably, otherwise you will make poor assumptions and end up arguing against your own imagination.

If you re-read this thread you will see that I am not arguing against the points you made, at all. I'm saying (over and over) that you have failed to address the extremely simple point that I made. I've replied to your other comment, so let's leave it there. All the best.