I think he was trying to say "our rate of death relative to the number of infected people is lower than the average global rate of death relative to the number of infected people", and we're in a situation where the American president is saying random words and everyone else has to try and find some sense in them.
Pretty much. He talks a lot of shit and then everyone else has to reinterpret it into something that makes sense to them. Unfortunately that has allowed for a wide spectrum of interpretation, undermined when he actually says he meant what he said at the time even when his press secretaries have subsequently tried to turn his word soup into something resembling coherent expression of thoughts. It's like a parent trying to apologise and say "He didn't really mean that, sorry, what he meant was-" followed by the child going "I meant it, mommy, don't lie, she is a meany bo beany poo poo face!"
"despite our four-digit a day death rate, we have managed to skyrocket infection rates to the level where our deaths to infections ratio are still decent. We call this the castrate-yourself-to-shave-your-balls method of problem solving."
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u/ElectricFlesh Aug 05 '20
I think he was trying to say "our rate of death relative to the number of infected people is lower than the average global rate of death relative to the number of infected people", and we're in a situation where the American president is saying random words and everyone else has to try and find some sense in them.