- Blue State America - 597/million
- Sweden - 571/million
- USA (combined) - 508/million
- Red State America - 396/million
This was just a matter of time with the new "second wave" hitting many parts of the country that we actually pass up Sweden (which has not seen the same "second wave" that many countries have). My best guess is that we still have a pretty good chance of passing Sweden overall as well if things continue down this path.
The entire strategy of what Sweden was attempting to do was to create some herd immunity early on, which would help them later in the process. Sweden has not reported any days with over 500 new cases in over a month, and are down to reporting two, one, or even zero new deaths per day. Currently the United States (which did it right according to many experts here) is seeing 50,000 new cases a day and a seven day rolling average over a thousand new deaths every day.
Oh and many parts of the country are shutting down for a second time... and arresting people for being out in public without proper medical protective equipment. Fat lot of good that is doing people, huh?
Perhaps we didn't do it correctly after all?
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Red State America is racing to catch up,
thanks to the erroneous attitude of Trump
and his cronies.
As follows---
Is This a Successful School Reopening?
August 12, 2020 at 2:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
New York Times:
“In Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana and elsewhere, some schools, mainly in suburban and rural areas, have been open for almost two weeks. Their experience reveals the perils of returning to classrooms in places where the coronavirus has hardly been tamed.
“Students and teachers have immediately tested positive, sending others into two-week quarantines and creating whiplash for schools that were eager to open, only to consider closing again right away.
"All of this has only further divided communities where parents and teachers have passionately disagreed over the safety of reopening.”
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Fauci and Birz both warned of this, so now Trump is keeping them on the sidelines, unseen and unheard.
This President is going to be known as THE very worst President at handling an epidemic,
and as one of the very worst world leaders at handling one.
Quote of the Day
August 12, 2020 at 5:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Like everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground.”
— Sen. Kamala Harris, quoted by the New York Times, on President Trump taking office after the longest economic expansion in U.S. history.
"America is Crying Out For Leadership:"
Kamala Harris Gives First Speech as VP Candidate
Blasting Trump and his administration, Harris said the case against a second Trump term is "open and shut."
"In just 83 days, we have a chance to choose a better future for our country," she said.
"America is crying out for leadership," Harris added. "Yet we have a president who cares more about himself than the people who elected him, a president who is making every challenge we face more difficult to solve."
Harris blasted Trump's handling of the pandemic and resulting economic crisis, saying, "This is what happens when we elect a guy who just isn’t up to the job.
"Our country ends up in tatters," she said. "And so does our reputation around the world. But let's be clear, this election isn’t just about defeating Donald Trump and Mike Pence. It’s about building this country back better."
AMEN, FEISTY LADY!
Currently the United States (which did it right according to many experts here)
The medical experts say that dreams infected by aliens Sperm that kept you from becoming a Christian,?
It's amazing, isn't it Reverend, how the rest of the world can reopen their schools, successfully use Hydroxychloroquine to mitigate the affects of Covid, and are able to function without blaming the "bad orange man" for everything.
Oh and as a Parent of a high school student and around and speaking to other parents of students of all ages, I can assure you that nearly all parents around here want the schools to reopen for actual classes. Nobody wants to do "on-line" learning for another school year.
Now maybe that is just Minnesota, but I doubt that schools are opening right now "in spite" of opposition from those with children (ie: those who matter).
In my school district they offered students the opportunity to go remote full time. The other option is a hybrid where you are in class half the time and on-line the other half.
They originally put a limit on the amount of students that could learn fully remote and set a hard date for that commitment. But just recently reopened the sign up for remote learning because they got way less students than they believed who wanted to go full time remote.
So my experience is completely anecdotal and limited to what is happening here in Minnesota. But I suspect that parents and students are not that much different regardless of where they live.
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