Congratulations America on becoming the first country to have half a million +COVID-19 cases

[icymist]

https://ncov2019.live/data

This accounts for almost one third of all confirmed cases in the world!

In spite of the Trump administration deliberately trying to control testing and the numbers reported.

Something to think about.

[sop]

1. I'm tired of winning.

[jimfields33]

9. We're third most populated country on earth

I don’t trust China like you nor do I think India is doing anything.

[customerserviceguy]

13. Exactly

How many tests were done in China? I don't think we'll ever know. And India is just getting started with C-19.

[jimfields33]

14. So frustrating

Someone said we’ll have more then Italy soon which makes us number 1! Really? Italy has 60 million. We’re 5 times the population size.

[ZZenith]

2. And soon to be the leader in total deaths!

No way Italy can beat us now!

USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!USA!

[qwlauren35]

12. Tomorrow.

We will probably "beat" Italy.

[SheltieLover]

3. International disgrace

Not to mention all the untold suffering & death.

[Skittles]

4. those Texas "stats" are BULLSHIT

that's just plain Trump ass kissing

[KatyMan]

19. Do you have anything to back up that claim?

We are a lot less densely populated, even in our big cities. We don't have mass transit. Schools in our area (Houston metropolitan) have been closed since March 9 or March 16. My daughter works at a daycare and she was furloughed March 17 due to no kids in the facility. Many of us have been working from home since March 16. But basically, we are spread out. Our hospitals are at 65% capacity (and we are very lucky to have a world class med center).

[Skittles]

34. I know people who cannot get tested

the stats would be higher if they were TESTED

[Stallion]

24. 11th in Total Cases-2nd to the last in Testing (Per Million)

[KatyMan]

31. Deaths/cases

Deaths per million=9
Cases per million=437

Agreed cases don't really tell the story, but deaths do.
TX is the 2nd most populous state with almost 29 million. You have to compare apples to apples.

And right now, everyone in TX is more concerned about Louisiana

[Stallion]

32. Louisiana is Already Past Its Apex-Texas is 16 days Away

[Newest Reality]

5. Nonstop Winning!

Well, it wasn't defined, actually. We are winning at losing.

[Totally Tunsie]

6. Go to work!

Hold that party!

Rock that concert!

Attend that church ceremony!

What could possibly go wrong?

[0rganism]

7. worst olympic event ever

Tangeranus should get a gold medal with a toilet insignia on a field of golf clubs for his role in leading us to this ... victory.

[bronxiteforever]

8. Decades later he finally won another trophy

[qwlauren35]

10. I have a feeling

That we will hit either 20,000 or 25,000 deaths on Easter Sunday.

It is going to be a very sad holiday for a lot of people.

According to the chart, 2,000 people died of COVID-19 today in America.

[jimfields33]

15. I swear trump doesn't mind.

The top six states with the most deaths are blue!!!!!! The only red state that’s rather bad is Louisiana.

[qwlauren35]

35. Hmm...

the phrase "heartless son-of-a-bitch" comes to mind.

[Hoyt]

11. Not going to like answer, but USA has done far more tests than anyone else (not per capita, though)

It takes a test to confirm CV19 cases, and we have run more tests.

[smirkymonkey]

16. But Trump said that we're in "great shape" and that we are doing "wonderfully" and that we are

"the envy of the world" with all our respirators and hospital beds. Everyone is calling him up to tell him what a great job he is doing, even thought he said only a few days ago that getting vital supplies and PPE to hospitals was the responsibility of the states and that the Federal government was only supposed to act as "backup".

But now suddenly, he's the savior of the entire country and everything is going just swimmingly, even though we have more cases and deaths than any other nation in the world. God, he just makes me absolutely sick!

[KatyMan]

17. This site will give a better perspective

worldometers.info/coronavirus

It lists cases/deaths per million.

[whathehell]

18. Um, but America's population is more than 320 Million

so you might want to think in terms of'proportions.

[icymist]

23. Okay. What is the population of Europe? Google search says 513.5 million.

That Continent has over 804,000 COVID-19 cases. I guess that's kind of similar. Still, isn't it amazing that approximately 850 million people account for over two thirds of the world's COVID-19 confirmed cases; a world population of app. 7.5 billion?

[whathehell]

25. Confirmed cases comes from test results.

The entire world is not scaled up for corona virus testing. Comparing the number of confirmed cases in, say Poland, with the number in Egypt or Nigeria makes no sense, since the level of testing is not comparable.

We can compare countries within Europe, much of Asia, or North America. But there is no basis for comparison over the whole world.

[icymist]

28. Yeah I agree with you. The USA is the world's third populated country.

Comparing our little country isn't the same as with Europe. We don't know how the individual countries are conducting their tests and therefore the accuracy is in question. Then again, we don't know how our individual states are tallying their numbers, eh?

When I see a number of confirmed cases in America I usually think the real number is ten times that amount.

[whathehell]

20. You'd be more on target 'congratulating' Trump

rather than America, since most of used did NOT vote for him.

[icymist]

29. Yeah, I could congratulate Trump.

But, there are around thirty percent of dimwits that actually believe his lies. A lot of them simply because they hate the same people he hates.

[whathehell]

30. Yeah, you could and should

because dimwits included, 30 percent hardly represents "America".

[icymist]

33. I would except Trump isn't acting alone in this.

Unfortunately, these are the people that the whole world sees as the face of America.

[whathehell]

36. Of course he's not

nor would would anyone else in his position anywhere in the world.
Heads of state rarely operate 'alone', after all.

I would hope that "the whole world" isn't dumb enough to imagine
one highly unpopular person representing a minority party for one term is "the face of America".

We could help educate them to that fact by not acting as if we ourselves believe it..

[icymist]

37. Then, how to answer the inevitable question "Why haven't you Yanks got rid of him"?

The answer has to be more than "We tried but the big bad Republicans stop us". Maybe we should all just yell "Help! Help! I'm being oppressed"! Meanwhile our country is being changed forever.

[whathehell]

38. Lol..By educating Brits on the United States Constitution?

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They'd learn that it's not NEARLY as easy to get rid of an American president as it is a British Prime Minister.. There's no "vote of no confidence" in our congress as there is in their parliament.

Short of a violent revolution, there are only two ways to remove a US president -- a guilty verdict in an Impeachment trial, or the invocation of the Constitution's 25th Amendment. We tried the first, but unlike impeachment, the second option can not start in Congress, it must be declared by a joint action of the vice-president and a majority of the president's cabinet. The cabinet is hand picked by the president, and so is largely, if not completely, of his own party. With that as the case, I think you can imagine the likelihood of "success" there.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. And that's with much of the country trying to test as few as possible.

And test shortages everywhere. I'd guess our real numbers are in the millions.

Quite an accomplishment.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Winning Trump style

And I'm tired of this kind of winning

[onecaliberal]

26. Yay stock market!!! Go America, home of the stupid

Land of the body bags.

[whathehell]

27. Um, no, "the stupid" currently seem to.be finding a home in Sweden.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/04/09/after-rejecting-a-coronavirus-lockdown-sweden-sees-rise-in-deaths/