[ExI] Even India and Haiti do it better

Dylan Distasio interzone at gmail.com
Thu May 7 13:14:52 UTC 2020


John-

This type of post from you tells me you clearly only use the scientific
method when it suits your TDS.  Do you honestly think the numbers coming
out of India and Haiti have anything to do with them having a better
national response to the virus than the US?

Also, out of curiosity, are you still opposed to the Swedish approach?

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 8:34 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> India is not a country that usually springs to mind when you think of good
> hygiene practices but even India has handled the COVID-19 pandemic better
> than the USA has. Much better. India reported its first case of the virus
> about the same time the US did and its first death occurred just 2 weeks
> after the first in the US, but as of May 7 at 12:05 GMT India has only had
> 1,787 deaths, but the USA has had 74,810 deaths. And yet India's population
> is 3.9 times as large as the US population.
>
> And Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere but in the
> entire population of 10.7 million people there has only been 12 deaths, if
> Haiti had the same population as the US it would have had 368 deaths. I
> remind you that the US has had 74,810.
>
>  John K Clark
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