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I wouldn't say it was 'ruined' for 'nothing.' After all, there are about 9600 dead Americans who were alive 2 months ago, who'd still be alive otherwise. I'm not discounting the ensuring economic carnage and vaporization of many service businesses. But a little balance is in order.

As such, and in line with my prior post on a proper relative comparison of deaths across the world, below is today's update with April 5th totals for the US and other countries that started their round of golf on March 25. While the US' time series ends on Day 12 (which is April 5 - and is basis of the order, i.e., I sorted the data by Day 12 values), I am publishing other countries future totals/'golfer's scores' who are on hole 8 while we're at hole 4.

The US' ranking in this group of countries hasn't changed in the past few days. But the relative ranking of other countries is moving around; the 'hands-off' countries like Sweden and the Netherlands are rising in the ranks (which isn't a good thing). It's also worth noting the Spain AND the UK don't look good at all on this adjusted basis.

As I said previously, I'd prefer to be lower in this bodies-on-the-cart analysis, but for now it is what it is.

Country	Date of Day 1/1,000 population-adjusted deaths	Day 8	Day 9	Day 10	Day 11	Day 12	Day 13	Day 14
Andorra	3/21/20	12,750	25,500	34,000	51,000	59,500	63,750	68,000
San Marino	3/3/20	19,632	19,632	29,447	49,079	49,079	49,079	68,711
West Bank and Gaza	3/25/20	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	28,167	-	-
Spain	3/13/20	7,298	9,621	12,287	16,170	19,647	25,518	30,541
United Kingdom	3/15/20	9,396	11,196	14,095	15,528	19,326	25,357	34,021
Belgium	3/19/20	6,291	8,264	10,094	12,325	14,670	20,160	23,678
France	3/18/20	6,549	8,343	9,812	11,384	12,828	14,887	17,353
Netherlands	3/17/20	5,231	6,742	8,215	10,330	12,086	14,579	16,335
Italy	3/5/20	4,524	6,926	7,883	9,896	11,805	13,692	16,291
Sweden	3/23/20	4,656	5,741	7,622	9,823	11,417	11,896	12,789
Ireland	3/25/20	5,692	6,562	8,036	9,174	10,580	-	-
Luxembourg	3/17/20	4,295	4,295	4,831	8,052	9,663	11,273	11,810
United States	3/25/20	4,757	5,926	7,087	8,407	9,619	-	-
Switzerland	3/16/20	4,606	4,682	5,872	7,331	8,866	10,132	11,514
Macedonia	3/24/20	4,364	5,334	5,334	5,819	8,244	8,729	-
Portugal	3/23/20	4,490	5,131	5,997	6,702	7,889	8,530	9,460
Denmark	3/22/20	4,075	4,358	5,094	5,886	6,962	7,867	9,112
Germany	3/25/20	3,646	4,388	5,053	5,723	6,278	-	-
Austria	3/23/20	3,998	4,738	5,405	5,849	6,219	6,885	7,552
Iran	3/9/20	3,373	3,907	4,489	5,078	5,667	6,154	6,664
Cyprus	3/23/20	2,634	3,010	3,386	3,762	4,139	4,139	3,386
Iceland	3/23/20	1,809	1,809	1,809	3,619	3,619	3,619	3,619

Pray for the sick and people hurting mentally, spiritually, and financially. And for Mrs. Kitner and Tom Dempsey.

What about South Korea?

Are those numbers for Andorra correct?
They have a small population to begin with, that is horrendous.

wouldn't say it was 'ruined' for 'nothing.' After all, there are about 9600 dead Americans who were alive 2 months ago, who'd still be alive otherwise

That is not exactly true. More accurate to say that 9600 Americans died a few days, weeks, or months before they were going to die anyway... Do you know about 8,000 Americans die every day? EVERY day? These 9600 are included in that number. Don't believe me? Go to your local morgue. Count the bodies. Ask the mortician how this compares to last year. OMG! What a surprise ! Same as last year. Hmmmm? Now ask yourself why this is so around the world. There is a huge difference between dying with a virus or by a virus.