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Some things make you go Hmmm….are these stats even valid ?
Is everybody on the same page ?
Is everybody playing by the same Wholes ?
Looking at Woldometer stats ( which I obviously do way too much ) I see Canada in 20th place ( 20th most cases)
Canada with a population of 38 million has had 107 Thousand cases and 9 Thousand Deaths >> CRF Rate = 8%
Just below Canada in 21st Place is a place no one really ever heard of..A Small Country in the Arabian Peninsula
Qatar ( pronounced like Welcome Back Qatar )
Qatar with a population of 3 Million has just about as many cases as Canada , 103 Thousand
BUT …get this… 150 total deaths ! >> CFR Rate = .1%
How is that even possible ?
In Canada 1000 identified cases yields 80 deaths
In Qatar 1000 identified cases yields 1 death.
Makes you wonder
1…Are there any old people in Qatar ?
2…Do they live in care homes ?
3…Are they even counting the same disease in these 2 Countries ?
4…Why is the Case count in Qatar the same as in Canada but the population is less than 10% ?
5…Is Qatar’s health care system 100 times better than Canada’s ?
6…Maybe Qatar did not get the memo to pad the deaths WITH Covid ?
7…Did Qatar Lock Down ? Can You Lock Down a Bedouin ?
This is NOT the only such “divergence” in these weird statistics.
Just taking the Raw deaths per 1 Million Population How do you splain this ?
USA.. 415
Russia 77
UK …..660
Germany 109
Brazil.. 330
Argentina 40
Spain …606
Bangladesh..14
Belgium 844
Kazakhstan 14
France 460
Ethiopia 1 ( one )
EVERYBODY USES THESE STATS FOR THEIR ANALYSES BUT….Are these stats at all based in reality or just some drivel spit out by some program ?
Check this out …Qatar is an Awesome Place ( no wonder nobody wants to die there )
In the Germany/UK comparison, Germany locked down harder and faster I think, and prevented the r number being high for long. They managed to keep it out of care homes more effectively. I think the UK should have locked down a week earlier. The r number would’ve been lower, preventing large numbers of cases and therefore deaths. You should expect huge differences if the lockdown are implemented at slightly different points on the infection curve. Societies are different too. So many variables. Flu often kills vastly differing proportions of the populations in seemingly similar European countries. It’s not at all unusual.
It’s bee shown / proven that the virus was active much earlier than first thought
it was circulating here in November ( 4 months before any lockdown)
Apparently same in Europe.
Proportion of the population below the poverty line in Qatar – Zero. Pretty amazing eh ?
That is amazing
BUT poverty has nothing to do with death numbers
Look at Africa and The Carribean Countries and Syria
It is good to entertain more than one conflicting perspective. In this situation it at least as important as in others to consider disparate theories, allowing them to evolve in one’s own mind with new appearance of new facts and theory.
One of the most difficult problems is clearly that representations of the matter are so often partisan while pretending not to be, sometimes even to the presenter.
Perhaps the most difficult problem is that entities are often ill-defined. People can use the same term to mean different things in different places and at different times allowing too much room for misunderstanding, unintended and deliberate. It is hard to know what is being described. As a basic example (there are subtler ones), does increased number of cases merely mean increased numbers of positive results of a grossly unreliable assay giving many false positives used to test many asymptomatic people (one extreme) or many deathly sick people (at another extreme) all rigorously and undeniably proven to have COVID-19 as a major causative factor of their illness.
Maybe things will get clearer, maybe.