Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Very scary words, but let's put that all in perspective. 9/11 happened in one day. This has already taken probably over 3 months. Second, there weren't 331,000,000 million people in the Twin Towers at ground zero. There is no ground zero in this case and all of us are exposed and vulnerable, yet it is only approximate same number. It will go higher but there are a lot more people directly involved.
I'm not downplaying the actual tragedy, in either case, but numbers with the emphasis put in the wrong place is as dangerous as the problem itself. It's like making a jaded statement that the US has exceeded the number of people with the illness then the current hot spot of Italy. Well, duh, Italy 59 million people vs. USA 331 million, of course there is going to be more. I'm also sure that we have not received truthful numbers from China either nor do we have reliable statistics. Paraphrasing Rudyard Kipling — 'If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs, you will be the winner'.
I just thought it was an interesting benchmark on lives lost in volume.
on the topic you introduced
I do not believe China # are likely accurate
I do not believe USA # are anymore accurate
Summary. We have a history of fudging numbers now. We have a history now of squashing numbers. Do I anticipate the accuracy of the numbers being more accurate down the road? Nope.