Long time since I’ve referenced Thomas PM Barnett
I remain a fan. Good thinker. On 28 July he posted a pithy piece: How badly US performs on COVID compared to rest of G20, here’s a quote:
Now the underperformers ranked by severity (defined as the biggest gap in percentage shares):
- EU: 27% COVID – 4% world pop = 23 percentage pt. gap
- United States: 23% – 4% = 19 pt. gap
- Brazil: 13% – 3% = 10 pt. gap
- United Kingdom: 7% – 1% = 6 pt. gap
- Mexico: 7% – 2% = 5 pt. gap
- Italy: 5% – 1% = 4 pt. gap
- France: 5% – 1% = 4 pt. gap.
If you translate that point gap into excess or preventable deaths, then it is expressed as follows:
- EU = 156,000 excess deaths
- United States = 126,000 excess deaths
- Brazil = 69,000 excess deaths
- United Kingdom = 39,000 excess deaths
- Mexico = 32,000 excess deaths
- Italy = 28,000 excess deaths
- France = 23,000 excess deaths.
And now it’s a few days later. Those numbers will keep ticking until we get our act together. Presuming we do.
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