I wonder if the general health in those countries had anything to do with the low numbers since we know that more underlying health issues equals more deaths and maybe those people just weren't obese and riddled with diabetes like Americans are. And I wonder if they did a better job of separating actual COVID deaths from flu, you know, that other virus that kills thousands of Americans. I'm hearing a lot of talk about revising down the number of deaths due to actual COVID. Maybe the MSM in those countries didn't feel the need to hype deaths due to COVID in hopes of making the President look bad. Just a thought. And maybe those countries didn't demand that COVID patients be put back into nursing homes full of old, sick people. Just a thought.
Originally Posted by HedonistForever
Read up on it. The Asian countries on the list did a good job of testing and tracing. You might not stand for some of the high tech measures they use to track people to combat the virus, although I would.
The head of the CDC explains this:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...turn-to-normal
You have a good point about people in the USA suffering from more pre-existing conditions. I don't think you're right about America overcounting Covid deaths. We've undercounted them. A lot of people have died from Covid 19 and were assumed to have died from other causes.
So what numbers do we need from these tests to prove we can go back to work and can we stay locked down for the rest of the year if "necessary"?
Originally Posted by HedonistForever
The testing and tracing is what enables you to avoid the lockdown. The non-Asian country on the list, New Zealand, has done well because it put an extreme lockdown into place. That's not the way to go. America needs to get back to work. And stay at work. And if this gets out of control again we'll be going home again.