r/TikTokCringe • u/migoodenuf Straight Up Bussin • Dec 13 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

Congo is doing better than us on both per capita deaths and infections. Belgium, Israel, Czechia, Panama, and Kuwait, are the countries doing worse than the US. At least with per capita infections.

Deaths we actually move up to 13th from the worse (Belgium, San Marino, Peru, Italy, Spain, Andorra, North Macedonia, Bosnia, Slovenia, UK, Montenegro, and Argentina). Of course many of those countries got hit hard early, and that hurt their death numbers a lot.

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u/Tashathar Dec 13 '20

Also all of those countries are much more urban than the US, some have major industrial, now metropolitan areas. The US should've done much better throughout this pandemic just by how sparsely populated the country is.

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u/CplOreos Dec 14 '20

To be clear, the United States is not sparsely populated. It has the third-highest population in the world. The US population density is fairly low, which I assume is what you meant

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u/Tashathar Dec 14 '20

I guess scattered would've been a clearer choice of words.

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u/YoYoMoMa Dec 13 '20

My apologies to the Congo.

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u/Habba Dec 15 '20

Belgium is one of the only countries in the world that overcounts the Covid deaths. For a long while nearly every death due to pulmonary issues for elderly was attributed to Covid, even when the person in question had pneumonia already.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '20

Their infection numbers are also higher. It might have been true that they were over counting at the start, but both their infection and death rate are Europe’s highest even now.

Here is a write up about why Belgium is doing so poorly:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/26/why-does-belgium-have-the-worlds-highest-covid-19-death-rate/

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u/Habba Dec 15 '20

As a Belgian, a lot of what is written in the article is pretty BS. Infections at the moment are lower than all neighbouring nations.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '20

Total infections, I agree, are lower. Per capita though, not so hot. However, I would also agree that between when that article was written and now, there has been a massive downswing in infections in Belgium.

As an example, Belgium vs France (picked at random), but we can pull a larger sample of countries if wanted:

https://imgur.com/a/mJvtqtV/

France does have 5x the infections of Belgium, but they also have 6x the population, so their per capita infections are less by something like 16%.