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adjl posted...

Quite simply, saying the US death toll has surpassed China's just contextualizes the number that's being presented to give it a rough sense of scale. It's not a comparison that has any useful semantic value, meaning dithering over the comparison's accuracy is foolish.

So basically you're conceding that the data is fake, but suggesting that it's important we believe a result based solely on fake data?

adjl posted...

t doesn't really matter what the exact mortality rate is. We know for certain that it's high enough that we need to keep it in check,

It could be one death and we'd try to keep it in check. Remember how strongly we responded to Ebola, SARS, and Swine Flu.

adjl posted... Nobody's going to be reopening their borders until well after the vast majority of their domestic cases are resolved, so it's not like we have to worry about people bringing new cases from China.

...however that's still going to be an issue when borders re-open because the Chinese wet-markets that started this and many other recent pandemics are going to be open for business. Until China takes measures to shut those down (which is going to take substantial pressure from the international community), this is going to be a recurring problem where every 5-7 years we'll have another international health crisis originating in China.


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