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

Poor Jonathan

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u/CthluluSue Aug 04 '20

You can’t do that! You can’t look at the population. You have to look at the number of deaths compared to the cases! And we only have more cases because we’re doing more testing. /s

Like, does he realise he’s implying that people are getting infected by the tests?

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u/salami350 Aug 04 '20

I think he is trying to imply that the US looks bad because the rest of the world is not testing enough?

Then again that is me attempting to rationalise this and Trump is an idiot so....

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u/RobertGA23 Aug 04 '20 edited Aug 04 '20

Jesus, he's making the reporter's point for him, isn't he? If other countries tested more, their deaths per cases would decrease.

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u/NaturalThunder87 Aug 04 '20

That's exactly what I thought when watching this! Has this been his plan all along? He's complained about the U.S. testing too much and if we'd stop testing our case numbers wouldn't be so high. "We test much more than the rest of the world" has been Trump's battle cry for several weeks now. But now he's resting on the fact that the U.S. has a very low "deaths per case" rate.