I was kind of excited updating this thread early on because, at least by the IHME estimates, it looked like we were going to lick this with less than 100,000 deaths. It doesn't look like that now.
You or I will probably get the closest, although I hope Dilbert is the winner.
Originally Posted by Tiny
Global COVID-19 Deaths Top 500,000
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...18&f=884419951
Initially hard-hit countries such as Italy, Germany and Spain are lifting restrictions as case numbers decrease, while cases surge in places like India and Mexico. Latin America became a new epicenter of the pandemic in early June, according to the World Health Organization.
The U.S. set a daily record for new coronavirus cases this past week, reporting more than 45,000 on Friday — its highest single-day increase.
Just keeping this wonderful thread alive for you sir. I think it will be about a month before the real number comes out for that time period.
Following is just for the laughs.
Trump is ‘undeniably’ the worst criminal in history, Noam Chomsky says
Political activist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky has escalated his criticism of Donald Trumpas “undeniably” the worst criminal in history.
In his latest comments on the president, Mr Chomsky told the socialist quarterly Jacobin magazine that Mr Trump was a “tin-pot dictator” and that Republicans were “worse than the old Communist Party”.
“This sounds strong, but it’s true: Trump is the worst criminal in history, undeniably.
There has never been a figure in political history who was so passionately dedicated to destroying the projects for organised human life on earth in the near future,” he said.
“That is not an exaggeration.”
That apex of criminal history would place Mr Trump ahead of notorious figures like Ponzi fraudster Bernie Madoff, presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, gangster Al Capone, drug lord Pablo Escobar, paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, outlaw Jesse James, the “extremely wicked” Ted Bundy, bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde, and serial killer Jack the Ripper.
The comments come after Mr Chomsky said in an interview with The Guardianin May that the president is culpable in the deaths of “thousands” for cuts to healthcare funding and off loading his leadership responsibilities to state governors during the coronavirus pandemic.
“It’s a great strategy for killing a lot of people and improving his electoral politics,” Mr Chomsky said.
Mr Chomsky has been critical of the global response to coronavirus, condemning the US reaction and the European leaders’ “very sad dereliction of duty”, he said during an April interview with Democracy Now!.
In his latest interview, Mr Chomsky said the world would emerge from the pandemic at a terrible cost, but would not emerge from Mr Trump’s crime of climate change.
“The cost is greatly amplified by the gangster in the White House, who has killed tens of thousands of Americans, making this the worst place in the world [for the coronavirus],” Mr Chomsky said.
“We will emerge [from the pandemic, but] we’re not going to emerge from another crime that Trump has committed, the heating of the globe. The worst of it is coming -- we’re not going to emerge from that.”
The professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology continued that Republicans had disappeared as a party and remained silent during some of Mr Trump’s actions, like firing inspectors general in place to monitor corruption.
“It’s worse than the old Communist Party. The leader gives an order; we [fall] on our knees,” Mr Chomsky said.
I got your bandwidth.
Right here!
