Merkel VS Trump in the Covid arena

[RAB910]

Germany has a population of 83,783,942

The US has a population of 331,002,651

So the US has slightly less than 4 times the population


Now Covid deaths (per Worldometer)

Germany- 9,126

US - 135,869

The US has 14.9 times as many deaths than Germany or if you adjust for population the US has 3.7 times as many deaths per capita than Germany


Cases

Germany- 199,254

The US- 3,222,123

The US has 16 times the number of cases or roughly 4 times the number of cases per capita


Now Trump likes to blame the high case counts on the US doing more testing


That is true when comparing Germany

Testing per million Germany- 76,095

Testing per million USA- 121,325

So the US has 1.6 times the testing but that doesn't even begin to explain the fact that the US has 4 times the number of cases per capita


In terms of protectin the economy

German unemployment- 6.4%

US unemployment- 11.1%


So clearly the German economy is doing better than the US economy



Also, we might want to consider how each country is doing in terms of controlling the virus

JULY 9

Germany 433 new cases 10 death

USA- 61,067 960 deaths


Clearly one nation has the outbreak under control and the other one doesn't

[TubbersUK]

1. Merkel: "You cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation...."

“As we are experiencing firsthand, you cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation any more than you can fight it with hate or incitement to hatred,” Merkel told the European Parliament on Wednesday.

“Fact-denying populism is being shown its limits,” she added to applause.

[KPN]

2. Read her remarks yesterday. Perfectly concise

and to the point as well as pointed.

[RAB910]

3. In the future when public health starts teaching lessons learned

Merkel will be held up as an example of how you properly handle a deadly outbreak

Trump will be the example of what not to do

[KPN]

4. Merkel destroys Trump in any arena, but your

comparison is truly stunning. It needs wide distribution.

Germany is fortunate to have Merkel, while we have this to live (and die) with ...

“I cut off China very early. And if I didn’t, we would have a chart that you wouldn’t believe. So how would I know to do that? How would I know to cut off Europe? I cut off Europe very early. I mean, you have to make a decision. People knew that some bad things were going on, and they got off to a late start. And some others got off to a late start also. But we cut off China. If we didn’t cut off China, we would have been in some big trouble. And we cut it off.”

[RAB910]

5. Trump cut off Europe a week too late

[KPN]

6. He did nothing of value and since has only

poured gasoline on a fire that had almost been contained.

[RAB910]

7. That could describe his entire presidency