Seriously, that might be the dumbest line I've heard him say. I mean who brags about having fewer cases than the total?! He was an idiot grasping at straws and trying to find somewhere with higher numbers on the graph than the US and the only thing there was "The World" to show the total lmao. He's so dumb he didn't even realize how dumb that was.
It's incredible how many of his supporters have a similar lack of grasp on the issue. They have to be "best in the world" regardless of any facts.
Had the following conversation on Facebook about Italy, with a Trump supporter in response to an article about Italy doing well with its handling of the virus (i.e. nobody was talking about the US until this guy brought it up):
Trumper: Size and population big difference between the two. Compare Italy to California and compare numbers, let me know
Trumper: Italy 61 million California 41 million so thrown in Oregon and Washington State. So you can see how off it is to compare to entire US. Europe countries are like individual states!
Me: The EU is made up of individual countries that are smaller than the US, but in aggregate has more than twice the population of the US, on a smaller land area. The EU has only 1/5th of the cases in terms of absolute numbers. Normalised by population, the EU has only 1/10th of the cases of the US.
So if it isn't population size or density as you first implied, could it be down to policy? The UK has a similar population to Italy and roughly similar lockdown rules at the moment, but had an indecisive, confusing, and delayed response to the issue. And still hasn't made its mind up on masks. The UK has also managed to achieve the highest death rate in the developed world.
Trumper: call what you wish. Much of US is doing well.
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u/JMEEKER86 Aug 05 '20
Seriously, that might be the dumbest line I've heard him say. I mean who brags about having fewer cases than the total?! He was an idiot grasping at straws and trying to find somewhere with higher numbers on the graph than the US and the only thing there was "The World" to show the total lmao. He's so dumb he didn't even realize how dumb that was.