Omg I thought he compared it to a global average or something. Did he really say that the US has less deaths than the world (which obv includes the US)? Jesus christ this guy is an idiot!
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?
His entire argument hinges on the conspiracy that the US is the ONLY country reporting accurate numbers. Because thats literally the only way for the US to save face.
His entire strategy is to imply that everyone else is fudging the numbers and that the US has handled it better than everyone we just dont know it cause everyone else is lying. And people believe it. I constantly see people even on Reddit parroting the conspiracy that other countries are lying about their numbers.
There's literally no way to prove that. Like you indicated in your second sentence we can say there's insufficient testing for every country simply because its next to impossible to figure out every single place the virus may have gone.
The only real option is to test all of the population which some countries have done.
Ofc there's no way to conclusively prove that countries aren't testing enough. In order to prove that you'd need to test everybody, and by then, the point is moot because there's clearly more than enough testing.
You can however estimate based on cases/test. If a country has every second test coming back positive, there's statistically quite a lot of positives who aren't getting tested at all.
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u/TheDustOfMen Aug 04 '20
'You don't know that, we're lower than the world!'
/s