[ExI] perspective on covid

[spike at rainier66.com]

Regarding the corona virus, I took the numbers off that Johns Hopkins site
of the number of confirmed cases, looked up the population of the 11 nations
with the most cases, then calculated the number of cases per million proles,
or a per capita times a million.  That last column is where I normalized
thru by the infection rate of the US, since we yanks tend to use this
tragedy as a political football.  We never let a good crisis go to waste.

 

That exercise gave me a new perspective.  I assumed China was the worst hit,
but viewed on a basis of cases per million, South Korea is way worse, Italy
and Iran is worse, USA is merely threatened.

 

These numbers will likely change in the next few days.  Let's watch and
wait, shall we?

 

spike

 

 

 

 


nation

confirmed cases

million proles

cases per million

times worse than USA


China

80652

1,345

60.0

49


South Korea

7041

51.26

137.4

113


Italy

5883

60.49

97.3

80


Iran

5823

84

69.3

57


France

949

65.3

14.5

12


Germany

799

83.8

9.5

8


Spain

500

46.8

10.7

9


Japan

461

126.5

3.6

3


USA

401

329

1.2

=1


Switzerland

268

8.7

30.8

25


UK

206

67.9

3.0

2

 

 

 

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