So, let me explain this to you in context.henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:01 am Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases
Total Confirmed: 1,341,907
Total Deaths: 74,476
Total Recovered: 276,259
Heart disease has been with us, humans, since humans had hearts. Hundreds of thousands of years.
Heart disease is uniformly distributed across the human population of 8 billion people on the planet.
Heart disease is the world's No.1 killer.
Heart disease has held the "gold medal" for killing humans for a few decades, maybe centuries.
Heart disease is also uniformly distributed across citizens of the USA.
Heart disease also holds the "gold medal' for killing humans in the USA with a "high score" of ± 1700 corpses a day.
COVID-19 is not uniformly distributed across the USA. It's the new kid on the block -it only arrived in the USA a month ago.
In that month it has "only" infected 0.1% of the USA population, but it's "high score" is already at ±1300 bodies a day - that's a "bronze medal".
By the end of the week it's going to claim the "gold medal" all while having infected less than 1% of the USA population.
Imagine what the body count would be like if when it infects 20%; or 50%; or 85% of the USA population.
To aggregate the data globally is a level of obscurantism that's either incredibly ignorant or outright immoral.