They're nice charts but I was startled at the bottom one - 'Autocrats aren’t necessarily better at dealing with coronavirus.' Whoever said they were! And where's Russia and Brazil on that chart? When the history is finally written I doubt anyone will pretend autocrats have done even a half-way good job.
This statement is also bizarre, and perhaps reflects the blame-China propaganda now circulating: 'The autocratic nature of the Chinese Government meant measures to detect a pandemic weren’t effective and the virus was allowed to spread initially.' The first recognised case was 12 December 2019. The first cluster, 27 cases of an 'unknown viral pneumonia', was reported to the WHO on 31 December. It wasn't even *identified* as a new coronavirus until 7 January, and the first death wasn't till 9 January. On 12 January China reported the genetic sequence of the virus to the world. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200121-sitrep-1-2019-ncov.pdf Eleven million people were locked down in Wuhan on 23 January, when still only 18 deaths and 581 cases had been identified. China has its faults, but its response was stunningly fast and effective. Yes, some people were reprimanded during that period of confusion - rather like the stream of US health officials who've been fired for even mentioning inconvenient facts. But even if data on a handful of people in winter with a (then) non-lethal and unidentified pneumonia had appeared a week or two earlier, would that have saved a single one of the 87 thousand now dead in the US, which casually squandered two precious months of forewarning and is now blaming the Chinese for its own breathtaking culpability? Regards, Kate Lance On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 02:00:19PM +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > These charts track how coronavirus is spreading around the world > > ABC news > > https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-13/coronavirus-numbers-worldwide-data-tracking-charts/12107500 > > Well worth looking at. > > It's not modelling, just graphical representations of data, not all of > which are consistent or accurate. > > The USA is leading the world in many categories, mostly the undesirable > ones. > > -- > > Regards > brd > > Bernard Robertson-Dunn > Canberra Australia > email: b...@iimetro.com.au > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
