{"id":43876,"date":"2020-08-05T00:35:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43876"},"modified":"2020-08-05T00:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:35:56","slug":"the-numbers-dont-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43876","title":{"rendered":"The numbers don&#8217;t lie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23COVID19&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43577\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/don-and-mask.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we watch Donald Trump try to short-sell the catastrophe that is killing Americans every single day, I want to remind everyone of a set of numbers that tell me one thing only.<\/p>\n<p>The United States&#8217; response to the coronavirus pandemic is pitiful.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that the U.S. population of 330 million people comprises less than 5 percent of the world total. Now, consider that 4 million confirmed infections from the coronavirus in the United States comprises about 25 percent of the world infection.<\/p>\n<p><em>Five percent vs. 25 percent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does that suggest we are beating the virus? No. It does nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>Fatalities, anyone? More than 157,000 Americans have died from the virus &#8230; that we know about! India and China, two countries with more than 1 billion residents each, report far fewer deaths from the pandemic. Hmm. How come? I&#8217;ll concede that China, in particular, is capable of hiding those numbers from the world.<\/p>\n<p>More Americans are dying daily in many states in this country than are dying in entire nations.<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t winning this fight. Yet Donald Trump tells us that <em>&#8220;It is what it is&#8221;<\/em> when asked to comment on the death toll. Jumpin&#8217; ever-loving jehosaphat, Mr. President!<\/p>\n<p>He has no clue what he is doing. None!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23COVID19&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we watch Donald Trump try to short-sell the catastrophe that is killing Americans every single day, I want to remind everyone of a set of numbers that tell me one thing only. The United States&#8217; response to the coronavirus pandemic is pitiful. Consider that the U.S. population of 330 million people comprises less than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The numbers don&#8217;t lie<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9236,9257,9261],"class_list":["post-43876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43877,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43876\/revisions\/43877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}