Whatr this doesn't account for though is the vast differences in how deaths are accounted for.
In some parts of Europe, they're only counting people who die, in a hospital, with a confirmed diagnosis. Here it's a wide net - people who die with a positive, regardless of where and with what other problems they had - or victims who never made it to a hospital, or who died with the telltale symptoms but without a test.
It's a wild west.
There's a great thread of it on twitter here
Some countries are overreporting - others are underreporting - and sorting out the melange leads to very different results.
It doesn't help that of the thousand fatalities we've had - the majority have been the elderly in nursing homes. It's been oddly asymptomatic here so it caught like fire in places ill-equipped to handle an infectious disease. The vast majority of fatalities are over 80 years old. Somehow about 40% of nursing homes were infested with it.
In some parts of Europe, they're only counting people who die, in a hospital, with a confirmed diagnosis. Here it's a wide net - people who die with a positive, regardless of where and with what other problems they had - or victims who never made it to a hospital, or who died with the telltale symptoms but without a test.
It's a wild west.
There's a great thread of it on twitter here
Some countries are overreporting - others are underreporting - and sorting out the melange leads to very different results.
It doesn't help that of the thousand fatalities we've had - the majority have been the elderly in nursing homes. It's been oddly asymptomatic here so it caught like fire in places ill-equipped to handle an infectious disease. The vast majority of fatalities are over 80 years old. Somehow about 40% of nursing homes were infested with it.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.