Big Upset in the race to be the worst

Big upset today as Qatar finally passes San Marino to be the first country in the world to 2%! Despite having 2 orders of magnitude more people. That eclipses any individual state in the US.  Still, they have managed to keep their death rate down.

Kuwait has easily pulled away from the US from yesterday. With 3 orders of magnitude less people, it's easy for them to grow their numbers. We still have to wait to see the effect of the Memorial Day holiday on the US cases, but it'll almost certainly be too late for them to win the race to 0.6% or even 0.8%. Bahrain, Singapore, and Kuwait have a great potential to continue pulling away in the next few days.

Can the US even hold on to its 9th place spot for the next few days? Chili, Peru, and Belarus are all growing quickly, and are only at 0.4%

Time will only tell in this slow, morbid race to the bottom. It takes persistence in ignoring reality, and we all know how good the US is at this skill. They are certainly the country to beat.

COVID race May 29

A little cynicism about Corona virus. Since I live in the United States, the dying Imperial Empire of the world in the early 21st century.

Truly, the winners in the CoronaVirus outbreak is currently a dozen small countries and African nations, a few in Southeast Asia which reportedly have NO cases. NO deaths. They're doing fine.

But the "race" is between who is going to crack that 1% mark earliest. 

The small country of San Marino passed the line long ago, followed by Qatar. A few days ago, the USA was in 8th place in terms of cases per person, only to get passed by Kuwait. Whose small population means it's a lot easier for them to raise their rate. A few people get sick, and up it goes. Whereas the USA has to infect several thousand of its people to make a dent in the percentage.

But we've managed it. Trying desperately to be the worst affected nation to the disease, we slowed our recovery in Mid-May, engaged in several revelries during Memorial Day, which have yet to show up in our caseload (and wont for a week or two yet), we might be able to ramp up our toll and skate through 0.6% and 0.7%.

We're going to be hard pressed to pass all the countries that are ahead of us. For we have 3 Orders of Magnitude more cases for a lower percentage of people affected.

And yet, still, there are many who think The Don Drumpf is doing just fine.