{"id":29153,"date":"2020-06-24T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29153"},"modified":"2020-06-24T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T02:48:21","slug":"for-comparisons-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/24\/for-comparisons-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"For Comparison&#8217;s Sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely, if incomplete, chart, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/06\/22\/us-is-falling-behind-its-peers-americans-if-not-their-leaders-are-starting-notice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from<\/a> <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-vs-EU-CV-Infections-6-23-2020.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29155\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-vs-EU-CV-Infections-6-23-2020.jpg?resize=800%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-vs-EU-CV-Infections-6-23-2020.jpg?w=823&amp;ssl=1 823w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-vs-EU-CV-Infections-6-23-2020.jpg?resize=300%2C195&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-vs-EU-CV-Infections-6-23-2020.jpg?resize=768%2C498&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-vs-EU-CV-Infections-6-23-2020.jpg?resize=231%2C150&amp;ssl=1 231w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-vs-EU-CV-Infections-6-23-2020.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s missing? A scaling factor. Here&#8217;s what you need to know &#8211; the United States has a population of roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">330 million<\/a>, he European Union of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">444 million<\/a>. If that graph was scaled to take into account population differences, <em>the US would look even worse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Same source:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is no second wave coming,\u201d White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/06\/22\/larry-kudlow-says-a-second-wave-of-coronavirus-cases-isnt-coming.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a>\u00a0Monday, almost exactly four months and 118,000 deaths after he infamously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/02\/25\/larry-kudlow-says-us-has-contained-the-coronavirus-and-the-economy-is-holding-up-nicely.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared<\/a>\u00a0the virus \u201ccontained\u201d and \u201cpretty close to airtight.\u201d Vice President Pence made a similar declaration in a self-back-patting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/there-isnt-a-coronavirus-second-wave-11592327890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed<\/a>\u00a0last week: \u201cWhatever the media says, our whole-of-America approach has been a success.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s all. Our leadership wants us to believe in something other than reality. Do so at your own risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely, if incomplete, chart, from WaPo: What&#8217;s missing? A scaling factor. Here&#8217;s what you need to know &#8211; the United States has a population of roughly 330 million, he European Union of 444 million. If that graph was scaled to take into account population differences, the US would look \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/06\/24\/for-comparisons-sake\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29156,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29153\/revisions\/29156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}