The rough beast just claimed the US has tested more people in 8 days

[yonder]

than South Korea has tested in 8 weeks. Seems typically trumpish to me and I want to call bullshit.

All I have is that South Korea tested +/-250k in one month since the first case compared to the US testing +/-1000 in our first month.

Any help?

On edit: I fixed the 3 too many zeros or 1 too many k's in the US number (>1000k)

[brewens]

1. I'd say a fair stat would percentage of population tested by day, starting from the first case

diagnosed. That was the same day in both countries. I doubt that looks good.

[Botany]

2. He also said that US Auto plants are now making medical gear too .... which is 100% false.

Trump can and will say anything. He is either a pathological liar and/or completely
batshit crazy.

He needs to be removed now.

[defacto7]

3. A person can be both.

[Laelth]

4. Pathological liar.

Fits the narcissist Cluster B personality disorder that he definitely has.

-Laelth

[Botany]

6. I have spent my life in the midwest and the idea that auto makers can just switch from ....

... stamping out auto bodies, bumpers, hoods, doors, and so on and then start
making ventilators or a production line that put together engines can now start
making surgical grade face shields is just fucking nuts.

BTW if you had given the engineers, machinists, tool and die folk, line workers,
the job to make something you can be sure that they could have done it but the
pure horse shit from Trump about the auto plants making medical gear now is
just fuckin' nuts.

[Laelth]

9. Magical Thinking

It’s a trademark feature of the Cluster B personality disorders, and Trump is an obvious narcissist. In his mind, if he believes it, then it can come true (or, it is ALREADY true). In this case, however, I think he knows that our automakers are NOT re-tooling to create ventilators, so I chalk this Trump insanity up to his pathological lying and not his magical thinking.

-Laelth

[DrToast]

5. It's accurate, but irrelevant

The US is more than 5 times the population of SK.

But yes, testing has ramped up considerably recently. It's still not enough though.

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2020/03/march-23-update-us-covid-19-tests-per_24.html

[yonder]

7. Thanks

Agreed. The total number worked for illustration purposes in the smaller samples of a few weeks ago. The percentages or per capita numbers are more useful now. thanks for the link.

[eleny]

8. Weasel words because he doesn't compare % of population tested

He might as well have compared our #s to Lichtenstein.