Show me the data!

That New Zealand is back to normal with a V shaped recovery.

You don’t live in New Zealand.

Countries were thrown into the mix.

New Zealand is the size of Colorado with the population of Louisiana.

So?

It had one of the most restrictive responses in the Western World and they had 26 deaths and are Covid free.

Back to normal.

New Zealand has the population density of Colorado.

And?

They handled the pandemic extremely well.

They should be applauded.

New Zealand is an archipelago.

Can’t just applaud them for having a great response. One of the best in the world.

They did it right.

They did it right for them. You can applaud them, what you can’t do is compare them.

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Of course a comparison can be made.

I understand why people don’t want to.

It is embarrassing

No, it can’t. And you know it.

Yes it can and it is embarrassing

No, it can’t. I can’t compare Colorado with New York either. Or Loving County to Harris County.

Also you are assuming the indigenous are reporting and being counted - do you know that for sure?

You should be embarrassed for trying it.

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I understand.

The US is incapable of having a competent response.

That is for other countries.

It’s our form of exceptionalism.

Some states did it your way. Some did it another. There was no major difference in results.

You should be embarrassed.

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No state did all that well.

I guess we could grade on a curve but that curve would just be different levels of failure.

Trump should have made the US a small group of islands in the middle of the Pacific.

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Or… taken it seriously.

That would have been nice.