The USA has a little over 4% of the world population and almost 22% of the Covid-19 deaths worldwide
Today from The Huffington Post;In response to:
Mitt Romney Slams Trump Administration On COVID-19: There's No Way To Spin Death Toll
Mary Papenfuss
HuffPostAugust 17, 2020, 3:40 AM EDT
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) lashed the Trump administration’s poor record on handling COVID-19, saying there was no way to spin the high number of deaths.
“I don’t think we really distinguished ourselves in a very positive way by how we responded to the crisis when it was upon us,” Romney said Friday in an interview with the Sutherland Institute think tank.
President Donald Trump has said that the death toll “is what it is” — and repeatedly insisted that America’s COVID-19 statistics were impressive.
“It’s been amazing what we’ve been able to do,” Trump said during a press conference last week about his record fighting the pandemic.
Romney took issue with the U.S. death toll, which currently stands at over 170,000.
“We have 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s deaths due to COVID-19, and there’s no way to spin that in a positive light,” he said.
(The U.S. has just over 4% of the world’s population and nearly 22% of the world’s reported COVID-19 deaths, according to data.)
“From the outset, there was a tendency on the part of the administration to dismiss COVID-19 as a threat not to consider how serious it could become,” said Romney. “There was no immediate action to, if you will, ring all the alarm bells.”
Romney said the federal government should have quickly taken charge by setting safety guidelines, arranging the manufacture of essential supplies and equipment and providing much-needed protective gear.
Mitt Romney Slams Trump Administration On COVID-19: There's No Way To Spin Death Toll
Mary Papenfuss
HuffPostAugust 17, 2020, 3:40 AM EDT
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) lashed the Trump administration’s poor record on handling COVID-19, saying there was no way to spin the high number of deaths.
“I don’t think we really distinguished ourselves in a very positive way by how we responded to the crisis when it was upon us,” Romney said Friday in an interview with the Sutherland Institute think tank.
President Donald Trump has said that the death toll “is what it is” — and repeatedly insisted that America’s COVID-19 statistics were impressive.
“It’s been amazing what we’ve been able to do,” Trump said during a press conference last week about his record fighting the pandemic.
Romney took issue with the U.S. death toll, which currently stands at over 170,000.
“We have 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s deaths due to COVID-19, and there’s no way to spin that in a positive light,” he said.
(The U.S. has just over 4% of the world’s population and nearly 22% of the world’s reported COVID-19 deaths, according to data.)
“From the outset, there was a tendency on the part of the administration to dismiss COVID-19 as a threat not to consider how serious it could become,” said Romney. “There was no immediate action to, if you will, ring all the alarm bells.”
Romney said the federal government should have quickly taken charge by setting safety guidelines, arranging the manufacture of essential supplies and equipment and providing much-needed protective gear.
Thank goodness the Trump administration will likely finally be replaced with a more competent, caring, fiscally responsible, and people centric administration. Lets help make that happen.
Comments (23)
j - Trump promised to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it.
However, no wall was built. Some sections were replaced and a tiny amount was constructed. Most recently Bannon and others were arrested for pirating $$$ donated
from private citizens for a wall, instead being used for personal expenses.
While Trump finally limited some travel from China, it was far less than complete.
Regardless, a lot of the virus actually came from Europe. In general Trump has done
a horrible job of defending the USA from infection with the virus. He has frequently misled the public.
Scroll down to the graph timeline.
Covid numbers climbed Dramatically in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing on May 25. It's arguable that the ensuing protests caused a Major Covid outbreak.
By comparison, the national impacts of Trump Rallies & the Sturgis Event appear to be imperceptible - a mini-spike in early September Might be Sturgis related.
Actually, it was closed travel FROM China.
Construction of building a border wall between Mexico and the United States wasn't/isn't related to the virus travel ban.
However, that does not excuse the inadequate & inaccurate response here in the USA.
Since the US does not have universal healthcare, some of the world views us as having
relatively less healthcare.
Every death is a tragedy but 2.8 million Americans die every year. You're only going to need about 15 more of these pandemics to equal the risk of dying from anything else this year.
A lot more US citizens have died from Covid-19 this year, than all the years of the Vietnam War. That's significant. It would be nice if there was at least as much of an investigation into the horrible response to Covid-19 by Trump as there was for the few who died on the other side of the planet in Benghazi.
That's one way to look at it or you could say we've lost nearly 4 times as many to Covid as we did fighting in Vietnam.
However, there's no reliable way to determine if investigations are worthless, before the investigation takes place. Look how much money was wasted on the Benghazi situation. I think it is good to keep politicians accountable.
Then there's the common sense factor. The virus hit the whole globe. IF IT were truly that deadly, the count should be in the tens to hundreds of millions dead. Instead, it all looks like another severe flu season with bloated politics blowing every thing up. That includes the hot air coming from people that think it's so horrible. I don't see any one mentioning how many might have died from assisted living facilities alone, thanks to demonrat policies.