Japan

This morning Japan announced that they have lost a total of 1,000 lives to the coronavirus pandemic. The population of the USA is about five times that of Japan, so if we had been losing people at the same rate as Japan, we would have had about 5,000 deaths by now. Instead we have lost 141,000 lives (with no end in sight).

I'm not sure why we are so different, but one possible reason is that many of our citizens refuse to take the precautions urged on us by scientists. The Japanese are more medically compliant. Another possible reason is our system produced a President who is sociopathic and a political party too morally bankrupt to resist the President's indifference to the suffering and death of others. 

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