Trump repeats his bizarre claim that the USA has one of the world’s best COVID mortality rates

UncleScoopy

There are at least two possible definitions of the ambiguous term “mortality rate”:

1. The percentage of people who die after contracting the disease.

2. The percentage of all people in a country who die from the disease.

The USA does poorly on both scales.

The worldometers.info data lists 218 countries and territories.

  • The USA ranks 150th in “percentage of people with the disease who die.”
  • The USA ranks 209th in “deaths per million population.”

The USA does beat several European countries in both criteria: Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden, but it will pass most of those in “deaths per million population” in time, because they have brought their numbers way down, while the USA is soaring ever upward.

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have ZERO fatalities, while the USA has more than 140,000. (Vietnam has nearly 100 million people, a long border with China, and NO fatalities.) Because of the brilliant job Eastern Asia has done in controlling the pandemic, anybody with a reasonable grasp of the international numbers, or even the slightest lick of common sense, would know without actually running the numbers that the USA can’t be anywhere near the best in any mortality calculation. Needless to say, Trump has neither of those qualifications.

5 thoughts on “Trump repeats his bizarre claim that the USA has one of the world’s best COVID mortality rates”

  1. It’s pointless to provide “facts” to counter the incoherent ramblings of a man clearly in the later stages of dementia.

  2. His definition of “mortality rate” is probably “people I personally know who have died of Covid.”

    Unfortunately he’s not the only person who works off this definition. Not by a long shot.

  3. Honestly, is there anything Trump *doesn’t* lie about? It’s so weird that lying, regardless of whether the issue is consequential or completely trivial, his his default response. I have never seen anyone who is more the textbook definition of “pathological liar” than this guy.

    The really pathetic part is that he’s really, really bad at it — his lies are completely and utterly transparent.

    More pathetically, his cult members — and make no mistake, that’s what it’s come to — will, as Grouch Marx put it, fall on the wrong side of “who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”

    1. No. Trump’s followers lack even the hint of critical thinking skills. Trump understands that.

    2. Lying has ALWAYS benefited Trump in the past, but then what he was doing not national news, of concern to all, with many people doing their best to find out the truth. He is too old and mentally fossilized to change, or perhaps even to realize this.

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