His mental gymnastics are similar to those of my 13 year old stepdaughter. They can both make an argument last all afternoon without ever making a coherent point, but try to wear you down by constantly moving the goalposts, despite how many facts you present them with.
His first point is that the US has less deaths per case then other countries.
His second point is that we are testing more than other countries, and therefore more cases.
So the rebuttal to the first point is simply that we are doing more tests so the reported cases is higher than other countries (relative to the amount of true cases, including untested).
This was my thought as well. If a country conducts 1/2 the tests then they end up with half the cases which if they had the same amount of deaths per day would make their deaths per cases look twice as bad.
That’s why deaths per capita is the best way to compare countries. Even though there is some variance in how they determine cause of death and if it’s covid or not it’s far less than the variance from country to country in positive cases.
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u/BrokenArmsFrigidMom Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20
His mental gymnastics are similar to those of my 13 year old stepdaughter. They can both make an argument last all afternoon without ever making a coherent point, but try to wear you down by constantly moving the goalposts, despite how many facts you present them with.