Pants-of-dog wrote:I see.
You want me to find the right numbers for you.
No, thank you.
No surprise there.
If you can’t provide better numbers, I’ll stick to the ones I have.
Godstud wrote:@Rich I refer to all people from the USA as "Yanks" or "Yankees". To call them American is incorrect, as that would include people from South America and Latin America, Canada, etc. as well. The Americas are a very big region.
These people are also Americans and it has nothing to do with a political geography from 150 years ago.
I also prefer to avoid using “American” for the same reason, though the “Norteamericano” that was standard in Guatemala a few decades ago wasn’t much better. But we just don’t have a pithy label for “United States citizen” in English. It’s too bad that we can’t just adopt Esperanto’s Usonano (which seems to have replaced the standard “Amerikano” when I first looked at Esperanto decades ago).
Mind, I also prefer “Amerind” to “Native American” for the same reason—my family can trace ancestors here in what became the US back almost 400 years, I’m definitely a native American.
Godstud wrote:Yanks are what people from USA have been called for a long time. Ask any Brit what they call people from USA. It's either that or "ceptics".
Your Civil War has been over for a 150 years and so pretending that there is regional significance is only significant to racist cunts who still consider themselves traitors(Sorry... Confederates).
And I’m sure everyone from Wales and Scotland have no trouble being called British, much less English.
quetzalcoatl wrote:The idea that Covid 19 is no worse than the flu is not supported by medical evidence.
I’ve never claimed it was. Though the Wuhan virus is clearly not as lethal as eventually projected (once we got something resembling true information from the CCP), it is also clearly more lethal than the flu. But that isn’t the real question, rather the question is whether the complete nationwide shutdown of our economy was really necessary, and what level of restrictions are needed going forward—and for that, a comparison to the number of deaths from the flu we are not only willing to tolerate but not even really notice is useful.
Stormsmith wrote:With a few exceptions, Canada continues to block the US. A 14 day quarantine will be -or continue to be imposed.
That’s just because Canada doesn’t feel like dealing with the bureaucratic hassle of differentiating based on state. If they did I’m sure they’d have no problem admitting people from Montana with a “deaths per million” about a tenth of Canada’s. Can’t say I blame them, really, it would be as much a hassle as, say, requiring online vendors to pay the local sales tax of every locale they ship to.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke