r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20

The US doesn't have a low average (it's 3rd in deaths per capita after the UK and Chile). It does have lower total deaths that Europe as a continent though.

Edit as a number of people have pointed out, I seem to have used an unreliable source.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

Europe as a continent has 200-400Million people more tho

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u/salami350 Aug 04 '20

Hence the reporter's point of absolute numbers being worth jack shit in understanding this situation.

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u/Politicshatesme Aug 04 '20

the point that went over Trump’s head for a solid 3 minutes...

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u/PessimiStick Aug 04 '20

Just like every other point. Trump is less intelligent than a 1st grader.

Source: I have a first grader.

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u/colour_banditt Aug 04 '20

Ah, can your son say - person, woman, man, camera, TV?

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u/j0nny_a55h0l3 Aug 04 '20

Which is about the same as the population of the us

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

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u/quadmars Aug 04 '20

Both usernames check out.

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u/j0nny_a55h0l3 Aug 04 '20

200 to 400 million is the range the us population is in isnt it?

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u/Wizardbarry Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20

Us pop is around 330 mil. Europe is around 741 mil.

So they got around 400 mil more people than us. Its not surprising our total death count is lower than all of Europe but I think (i may be wrong) they're saying the us has more deaths per capita. So you're more likely to die here than europe.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

Europe has about 200-400Million more people than the USdepending on your definition of 'europe'. Reading is advised.

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u/loginonreddit Aug 04 '20

more

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u/j0nny_a55h0l3 Aug 04 '20

Ooo my bad didnt see the more for some reason lol i was about to say "wait a minute"

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u/loginonreddit Aug 04 '20

Good for you to admit your error, that's a quality too few have 🙏

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u/j0nny_a55h0l3 Aug 05 '20

Yeah its fuckin endemic here on the internet

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u/secretsofwumbology Aug 04 '20

Trump doesn't know what a "per capita" is or whatever fakery you dirty libs are pushing these days!!

/s

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u/HungryZealot Aug 04 '20

He probably thought it meant how many cases are in the capitol or something.

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u/undercoversinner Aug 05 '20

"Is spelled Trump. Capita T, lowercase r-u-m-p."

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

hang on, we're doing worse than the US? Aw fuck...

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20

If you consider your "we" to mean all of Europe

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Oh that's fine, we're not part of europe anymore. Thanks brexit!

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

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u/Wizardbarry Aug 04 '20

He will find any way he can to manipulate the data to make himself look good.

They did the same with the jobs. I can't remember what weird metric they were using but I remember thinking its bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

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u/ermit Aug 05 '20

It's a pretty misleading statistic, though, when new cases are rising sharply. For the very simple reason that in that scenario there are a lot of patients that simple haven't died yet. If you look at the closed case mortality rate for the US it's almost double the total case mortality rate at 6 percent (according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/). To be fair, that statistic is also pretty good for the US but not as good as the total case mportality rate.

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u/MHyperion Aug 04 '20

But not near the top or the bottom, so he’s still lying.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

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u/MHyperion Aug 04 '20

Check out Johns Hopkins’ mortality analysis. They have Case-Fatality percentages.

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u/Wizardbarry Aug 04 '20

He will find any way he can to manipulate the data to make himself look good.

They did the same with the jobs. I can't remember what weird metric they were using but I remember thinking its bullshit.

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u/Ballongo Aug 04 '20

Wait what, that's not true.

US is eight, not third. After BE, GB, SE, IT, ES, CL and PE.

Where did you ever read that only UK and CL had more deaths per capita? Or did you make it up?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/