The United States is blowing the world away for new COVID cases.
Cases yes. Notice deaths are not following along with that. That is why the press now talks cases and not deaths.
Plus Italy (along with Spain) has something like 80% of people wearing masks now
Spain is now starting to shut down Barcelona and the surrounding areas again as of yesterday or today.
Have you seen pictures of Italy now? They have absolutely very close to normal life and almost no COVID.
So does Sweden
The US didn't lock down hard enough or long enough (except maybe NY/NJ/CT).
Except NY/NJ/CT? You mean the states where about 40% off all deaths were? So if your argument is they locked down hard enough and the rest of the US didn't, why did they experience so many deaths? And the rest of the US really hasn't experienced that?
They have absolutely very close to normal life and almost no COVID.
By the way they are not back to a normal life yet. They rely heavily on tourism. Much of their tourism infrastructure is not fully open. They are attempting to phase stuff back in over the month of August. Yes they have started to let people in the Schengen zone in. But they are not for much of the rest of the world. And they are staggering tourism openings. They have a long way to go.
And they will see covid cases rise again. As they move around more, more cases will rise again. As travelers start coming in, cases will rise again.
Back to Spain who you seem happy about. Barcelona just recorded over 1k cases again yesterday.
What is interesting about what is happening now is despite the rather large rise is positives in the West and South of the US, we are not seeing anything like the number of corresponding deaths that we saw up in the NE. NY has something like 420k cases and with that 32k deaths. Cal has 370K cases and only about 7k deaths.
NY/NJ/CT/MA/PA are close to half of all deaths in USA.
The press has been hyperventilating about AZ/TX/FL/GA for some time. Those states have about 10% of all deaths.
Now how many cases does NY/NJ/CT/MA/PA have? 880k confirmed cases.
AZ/TX/FL/GA have 921k cases.
Why is that despite more cases, those states have fewer deaths? And by a long shot. Did the lockdowns help the NE? It seems hard to argue that lockdowns in NY were the way to go, but somehow AZ has it wrong? Has the virus changed? What has changed? Is the virus less lethal? Have we already lost the most vulnerable?