A couple of things have struck me in this election:
- More people have voted in this election than ever before, in numbers that do not match with any new voters coming of voting age. This says that more people are engaged in the process than ever before.
- More people are voting for President Trump than voted for him in 2016. This says that there are more Americans who think he and his policies are good for the country and good for them personally.
- The close vote counts in so any “battleground” states shows just how divided this country is.
- The fact that the US has been having more cases and more deaths from COVID-19 than almost all other parts of the world doesn’t matter to almost 50% of the US population. Another way to say this is that almost 50% of the US population thinks their lives and the lives of their fellow citizens matters less than the policies they consider to be important to them. (See the numbers below.)
- The damage done to the United States of America by the disinformation campaign launched by Russia in 2016 – and continued into this election -- may be beyond correction at this point.
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Worldwide Cases(1) |
US Cases(2) |
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In other words… |
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48,613,000 |
9,463,782 |
0.1946759509 |
Almost 19.47% of the COVID-19 cases worldwide are in the United States. |
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Worldwide Deaths(1) |
US Deaths(2) |
Ratio |
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1,231,000 |
233,129 |
0.1893818034 |
Almost 18.94% of the COVID-19 deaths worldwide are in the United States. |
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Global Population(3) |
US Population(3) |
Ratio |
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7,696,208,450 |
330,550,703 |
0.0429498116 |
The US is less than 4.29% of the world's population. |
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Why would 4.29% of the world's population have such high infection and |
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death rates compared to the other 95.71%? |
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World Infection Rate (Total Cases/Total Pop) |
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0.0063164869 |
As a human on the planet, your chances of being infected with COVID-19 are 0.0063%. |
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World Death Rate (Total Deaths/Total Pop) |
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0.0001599489 |
As a human on the planet, your chances of dying from COVID-19 are 0.0002% |
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US Infection Rate (Total Cases/Total Pop) |
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0.0286303490 |
If you are in the US, your chances of being infected with COVID-19 are 0.0286% |
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US Death Rate (Total Deaths/Total Pop) |
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0.0007052746 |
If you are in the US, your chances of dying from COVID-19 are 0.0007% |
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If you are in the United States, the odds of you being infected with COVID-19 are |
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(1) From Reuters |
4.53 times geater than the average person on the planet. |
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(2) From the CDC |
If you are in the United States, your chances of dying from COVID-19 are 4.41 |
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(3) From US Census Bureau |
times greater than the average person on the planet. Why is the United States |
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so much worse off than the rest of the world when it comes to infections and |
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deaths from COVID-19? |