“Seems like a sentence like the following ought to have been in this piece, just for context:”
babble-on: Without citing the culpable math-ignorant such as yourself (I’ve pinged all who replied to your ignorant statement above)...
...here’s a math lesson for you:
567 x 330 = 187,110
I’m not going to outline the significance of those numbers other than the following:
As I predicted months ago now, the US and many other countries will meet or exceed Sweden’s death rate when all is said & done. All “flattening the curve” has accomplished - as predicted by me and many others, including FReepers - is extended the term of the epidemic. Thus all who adhere to the line of thinking you espouse are culpable in tarnishing Trump’s reelection chances, playing right along with the Dems.
Way to go.
As an aside, some dumb liberal b$tch at The Atlantic wrote a piece entitled Beware The Fact Man.
I’d say she was describing you and others here at FR.
Please send my your address so that I may submit my expenses - AND FUTURE TAXES - for which you are partly responsible. /s
As for the cogent responders to your comment, keep up the pressure: The stupid among us cannot prevail.
Your calculation works for the United States, where we only flattened the curve for a few weeks, and then suddenly re-opened everything. We got all the pain of the shutdown, but none of the benefit.
The OTHER countries that flattened the curve, however, did so thoroughly and have now more or less returned to normal life and economic growth.
Only one country performed so badly, both destroying the economy, but having a high death rate: US.