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EllieBC

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13. The truth is every damn government pretended it wasn't a big deal.

Sat Apr 11, 2020, 04:21 PM

Apr 2020

Even perfect little Canada up here as late as March was saying the risk was low. We are barely even testing up here in BC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-19-government-documents-1.5528726

How did so many governments mess up so badly and not shut down the travel? How did they not gather tests and resources?

That said, I don’t think gross numbers means much unless you look at them per 1 million population.

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U.S. Now Has the World's Deadliest Coronavirus Outbreak [View all] riversedge Apr 2020 OP

.....Last Milestone: The World Just Hit 1 Million Coronavirus Infections That day, Trump said..... riversedge Apr 2020 #1

Trump always promised to put America first IronLionZion Apr 2020 #2

This is the new American Exceptionalism.... diverdownjt Apr 2020 #43

The animated horse race displayed. How we got here. ffr Apr 2020 #3

Horrific..everyone needs to be aware of this..& watch, and who is responsible? Trump Stuart G Apr 2020 #5

China has more population than America and they truly did start from scratch. keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #4

They also are lying MosheFeingold Apr 2020 #25

Cool story bro Blues Heron Apr 2020 #28

Sure thing, Brother Xiping MosheFeingold Apr 2020 #39

any estimates of the "true" numbers in China? Blues Heron Apr 2020 #40

Hard to figure MosheFeingold Apr 2020 #41

like I said - cool story bro Blues Heron Apr 2020 #42

China also has customerserviceguy Apr 2020 #29

Their numbers might be correct, but we might not like some of what they did to get there. No brewens Apr 2020 #30

I'm sure that the customerserviceguy Apr 2020 #32

It seems like if anyone would just let it wash over their country to avoid disrupting the brewens Apr 2020 #33

I actually read customerserviceguy Apr 2020 #34

The U.S. is not #1 former9thward Apr 2020 #6

Shhhh EllieBC Apr 2020 #7

People like the truth here on DU. And saying we are "far down the list" is just not true. SunSeeker Apr 2020 #11

The truth is every damn government pretended it wasn't a big deal. EllieBC Apr 2020 #13

BULL FUCKING SHIT. South Korea didn't pretend it wasn't a big deal. SunSeeker Apr 2020 #15

THANK YOU Skittles Apr 2020 #17

Trump didn't just fuck America, he fucked the whole world. SunSeeker Apr 2020 #18

"theater of the absurd" Skittles Apr 2020 #19

According to the DUer in Germany EllieBC Apr 2020 #22

here's how it works - you stack up the coffins Blues Heron Apr 2020 #31

Thanks. A huge pet peeve of mine... rictofen Apr 2020 #8

Lies are a pet peeve of mine. SunSeeker Apr 2020 #12

Post removed Post removed Apr 2020 #10

Thank You! RobinA Apr 2020 #14

Not telling the truth is Trumpian. SunSeeker Apr 2020 #16

I agree 100% - I think posting raw numbers Steelrolled Apr 2020 #20

"Move on" from 20k lives needlessly lost? SunSeeker Apr 2020 #21

I look at that statistics site multiple times a day Steelrolled Apr 2020 #24

9th among countries reporting more than 500 deaths. pat_k Apr 2020 #38

Yes. Incredibly annoying. pat_k Apr 2020 #36

Yep, total deaths or infections alone don't mean much as far as gauging the infection rate madville Apr 2020 #23

9th among countries reporting more than 500 cases. pat_k Apr 2020 #37

That's old data already. It's over 20,000 US dead now. SunSeeker Apr 2020 #9

When was the flight shut down MosheFeingold Apr 2020 #26

Yay, USA!! Oh wait... onecaliberal Apr 2020 #27

Failure to report per capital make these type of reports incredibly annoying. pat_k Apr 2020 #35