With the US having just 4.25% of the world's population but we now have 32% of the known cases in..

[Botany]

.. in the world. So come on Fox News, Trump, and the Republican governors let's open it all back up. Because 50% of
the total # of the cases in the world is very doable.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

1. The Dumpster needs to be first at something, anything. n/t

[Botany]

2. So much winning.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. My first thought, as well.

[Squinch]

4. "It'll be like a miracle."

[MH1]

5. Probably a good point, BUT - and a big one -

you can't have known cases if you don't test.

Even if you have known cases, if you have a more authoritarian regime than we currently have (despite the orange one's wishes), you can be massively under-reporting.

Oh, in no sense do I think the U.S. is handling this well, and I am sure we do have a disproportionate number of cases due to how badly fucked up is our response.

I'm just saying this might not be a very accurate statistic to show that.

[enid602]

6. Europe

But Western Europe, with a population similar to the US, has twice as many deaths.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. We have 25% of all the world's prisoners too.

Just another example of a ridiculous statistic given our population.

[virgogal]

8. We have more crime therefore more prisoners.

[thesquanderer]

9. In part because we criminalized things like possession of pot,

and used a 3-strike rule where minor offenses can still result in mandatory jail time.

And created a for-profit private prison system, where there are financial incentives to maximize rather than minimize incarceration.