[AR] Re: ... Coronavirus

  • From: Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:25:20 -0700

The tallest midget is still the tallest midget. My point is that Germany (among others) has nothing to crow about.

On 3/26/20 10:19 AM, Derek Lyons wrote:

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:28 AM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The U.S. was more prepared for a pandemic than any other country:
https://pjmedia.com/trending/johns-hopkins-study-usa-more-prepared-for-pandemic-than-any-other-country/
The actual NTI/JHU study says something rather different.

https://www.ghsindex.org/news/inaugural-global-health-security-index-finds-no-country-is-prepared-for-epidemics-or-pandemics/

We may have been "more prepared than anyone else", but what that
actually means is "the US didn't suck quite as bad as other countries"
not "the US was actually prepared".

D.



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