George Takei tWEET TODAY ..... SAD HE IS CORRECT.

[trueblue2007]

George Takei @GeorgeTakei (Mr Sulu on STAR TREK)

Covid-19 comparison:
U.S. deaths 12,400
South Korea deaths: 192

Both had first positive case Jan 21. They had higher population density and a supercluster of cases.
But they got lots of testing and tracking going right away.

Trump called it a hoax. This is the result.

[FM123]

1. Yep!

And their capital city of Seoul has even more people than New York City - just think of those poor souls in NYC that we could have saved earlier and those that struggle to stay alive every single day still...

[cwydro]

2. Rec

[central scrutinizer]

3. Because they did so much testing

Their number of dead is guaranteed more accurate than our number (“I like the number where it is “)

[LiberalArkie]

13. What number?

Arkansas dept of health has us at 18 deaths

The Johns Hopkins site says 10

And the CDC says 0 died from Covid but a lot died in Arkansas from pneumonia

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[Meowmee]

5. Truth

None of this should be happening

[renate]

6. this is really incredible and absolutely heartbreaking

So much unnecessary anxiety, isolation, economic suffering, and death because of a catastrophic and narcissistically neglectful lack of leadership.

[riversedge]

7. remarkable.

[Midnightwalk]

8. Just to provide scale

S korea has 51M people

Us has 331M

About a 6x difference. S. Korea’s death rate would scale to about 1200.

We’re 10x higher than that.

[nsd]

10. +1 You have to scale by population. (nt)

[Lucky Luciano]

15. Not sure about that.

You can also consider scaling NYC vs Seoul where cases were concentrated. Then it’s an insanely bad look here.

[Midnightwalk]

17. That'd be an interesting comparison

10x worse for whole country is bad enough.

I complain when units get mixed or countries comparisons aren’t scaled and showed some arithmetic. I always hope I don’t mess up doing that.

Some of the websites show cases and deaths per million

Morbid but I’ve always liked numbers.

[Lucky Luciano]

19. I feel you, but not sure if tge comparison by country is correct.

Comparisons by city might be more correct.

Also comparison by population of infected locales and density seems even more sensible (Takei alluded to the density issue). Obviously a Manhattan infection is more worrisome than a Los Angeles infection with the density and all the public transportation versus travel by car.

[CaptYossarian]

9. If we could only be beamed out of here.

BTW, Mr. Takei is also a great Econ professor. Ask Tom Hanks.

[DanieRains]

11. Trump's Fault Never Forget To Say It

Whenever you talk about this nightmare.

It's all Trump's fault.

[orleans]

12. this

Link to tweet

and below that he writes:

Link to tweet

[warmfeet]

14. Campaign ad.

Competence beats incompetence every time.

[Thekaspervote]

16. November 3rd MUST be our revenge! 210 days

[Sarg]

18. South Korea has a logical political system in theory AND practice.

America's is only in theory.

South Korea's entire political structure consists of a total of 18 entities (the central government, eight provinces, one special self-governing province, six self-governing cities, one special city, and one metropolitan autonomous city.

America's political structure consists of 50 states (most of them run by dysfunctional Republicans), zillions of counties (ditto), and a huge central government infrastructure designed 230 years ago.

Organizing 18 political entities during a crisis is relatively easy.

Organizing America's thousands of political entities even in a non-crisis is impossible. The system is not designed for such a thing.

[Blue_true]

21. In our system, it has been long expected that the Federal

government would respond to all external threats. There was no need to "organize". SARS-COV-19 was at one point a 100% external threat, instead of taking charge, the president was in denial, in a world of conspiracy theories.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. And there, folks, is a politcal ad for November!

Don't let this asshole slide! Voters have a short damn memory! Like goldfish.

[BootinUp]

22. Trump wants to be the best dictator.

He wants to be in the record books.

[klook]

37. I am paranoid and cynical enough to think this scenario is desirable for him.

All those stuck-up society people in New York who laughed at me -- who's laughing now?


Millions of dead Democrats in big blue cities just before the election. This is a bad thing how?

[Demovictory9]

23. k&r

[Cha]

24. It most certainly is the Result of trump calling it a Democratic HOAX

for 70 days while he held rallies and played golf.

Thank you for the reminder, George Takei and trueblue2007

Retweeted!

Link to tweet

[hangaleft]

25. Sorry, I have to correct you

Trump never called it a Democratic hoax. He called it a “Democrat hoax”.

[Cha]

29. Oh right.. trump.. ever the

scaredy troll that he's going to associate the Democratic Party with Democracy!

[dalton99a]

26. Kick

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

28. ...and still no national policy. n/t

[Steelrolled]

38. That is a very misleading graph

as it is not per-capita.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

27. k&r

[SilasSouleII]

30. Rec.

[kag]

31. I wonder if S. Korea would mind very much...

invading us. They would be greeted as liberators.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

32. Obituary x 12,400 : "Murdered by a Grotesque Orange Pustule"

[crono]

33. "excellent mr sulu

thanks to you and bone's quick thinking we may have just saved a few lives. its a shame we were unable to share with them the cure" "but captain the prime..." "i know mr spock i know." "mr sulu set heading for the nearest star-base, engage"

[DetlefK]

34. Adjusted to per capita, the US has 10.16 times as many coronavirus-deaths as South-Korea.

[Nululu]

35. May be many more deaths than reported

New York is seeing 10x the normal number of at home deaths. Instead of 20/day it's 200/day. Only those with a prexisting positive covid19 test are counted. The rest may have it listed as "possible".

[olegramps]

36. Nero fiddled as Rome burned, Trump golfed as we sufficated.