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Some thoughts on…The Big Lie

Republicans and right wing media normally do soundbites and branding better than anyone but this might one of the best of them all.

#IANWAE

The Fake News Media, working in close conjunction with Big Tech and the Radical Left Democrats, is doing everything they can to perpetuate the term โ€œThe Big Lieโ€ when speaking of 2020 Presidential Election Fraud. They are right in that the 2020 Presidential Election was a Big Lie, but not in the way they mean. The 2020 Election, which didnโ€™t even have Legislative approvals from many States (which is required under the U.S. Constitution), and was also otherwise corrupt, was indeed The Big Lie. So when they try to sell the American people the term The Big Lie, which they do in unison and coordination, think of it instead as the greatest Fraud in the history of our Country! An even greater Hoax than Russia, Russia, Russia, Mueller, Mueller, Mueller, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, or any of the other many scams the Democrats pulled!

“From The Desk of Donald J Trump”, May 6, 2021

Also available as podcast

What Trump actually said about disinfectant curing #COVID19 and why itโ€™s important whatever the context

Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful, light and I think you said that hasn’t been checked and you’re going to test it.ย  and then I said suppose you bring the light inside the body which you can do either through the skin or in some other way and I think you said you’re going to test that too. sounds interesting (doctor says something). then I see the disinfectant knocks out in a minute and there is a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because as you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs it would be interesting to check that use medical doctors but it sounds interesting to me….

…ย I once mentioned that maybe it does go away with heat and light and people don’t like that statement very much because the fake news didn’t like it at all I just threw it out as a suggestion and it seems like that’s the case

President Donald Trump

Ireland ranked 10th, USA 11th among countries (with 1000+ reported #COVID19 cases) by deaths per 1 million population

There is loads of data available and I know by posting what I have below, I’m open to accusations of “cherry picking”, but these are metrics I consider to be significant. If we must insist on comparing countries on handling of the COVID19 crisis then IMO, morbid a task though it may be, the most important thing to do is level off the death figures by population of country.

First of all I felt it important to exclude the teeny tiny countries like San Marino and Andorra so I drew the line at countries with a minimum of 1000 reported cases.

As you can see, among over 200 countries, Spain and Italy, the most notorious for their handling of the situation, are at or near the top, though it is interesting to see Belgium between them. France and UK round out the top 5 and the entire top 10 are all in Europe.

The reason I included population density (people per square km) on the chart is that many have claimed it to be a factor in relative growth among nations. For me, this theory is disproved by the numbers since so many in the top 20 in the world are ranked 100th or lower on the planet in density.

Finally the second graphic shows a statistic I feel isn’t being highlighted anywhere near enough. Apparently there have been over half a million reported cases of COVID19 around the world which have reached a conclusion, and of these, 79% have recovered. This number has remained steady over the past couple of weeks. For me this gives us a general (if extremely basic) idea of what kind of outcome to expect from a diagnosis.

Of course I appreciate the caveats involved with this information, not least of which is the fact that most countries vary in the way they report their data. For example, apparently the US has only been reporting deaths from hospitals, Ireland is well behind on testing so there may be COVID deaths left out, and as for China’s figures, well, who knows.

But it’s important we remain engaged with information as much as we can, if not too much throughout the day as we try to get through the lockdown. JLP

CountryTotal deaths*Deaths per 1m pop*Density rank**
1Spain18,255390118
2Belgium4,15735933
3Italy21,06734870
4France15,72924194
5UK12,10717849
6Netherlands2,94517232
7Switzerland1,17413668
8Luxembourg6710757
9Sweden1,033102193
10Ireland40682139
11USA26,06479174
12Iran4,68356156
13Portugal56756101
14Denmark2995288
15Austria39344104
16Germany3,4954260
17Slovenia5627108
18Norway13926203
19Canada90324222
20Iceland823227

* = source = https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries (note – countries have been excluded with less than 1000 reported cases, eg San Marino, Andorra, etc)
** = source = https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-density/
ALL STATS WERE TAKEN AT 10AM ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15