Neanderthals vs. "Science"

[gwb-trading]

No, sorry to keep showing you how this works, but Florida has 21.48M people in 65,758 square miles.

Chile has 2.5M or so less people in about 4.5 times the area (292,260 miles). That's a hell of a population density difference.

and then there is from YOU




But somehow Florida and Chile are good comparisons. What a clown you are!

Yeah... because so many people in Chile live in the steep inaccessible mountains.

'Roughly 90% of Chile’s population live in cities and bigger towns. Chile’s capital, Santiago, is the undisputed center of the country, with almost one-third of the population settled there" The population density is clustered in just a few cities.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Yeah... because so many people in Chile live in the steep inaccessible mountains.

'Roughly 90% of Chile’s population live in cities and bigger towns. Chile’s capital, Santiago, is the undisputed center of the country, with almost one-third of the population settled there" The population density is clustered in just a few cities.

So show the statistics of Chile's cities. Pick Santiago. Where are the cases per 1M pop? Let's see the apples-to-apples. You might actually be correct, and Florida is worse off.

This still doesn't change a single thing about the chart that shows a high percentage vax country with a strong mask mandate has a massive spike in cases, showing yet again that these things don't do anything to stop COVID.

It also doesn't change that you - GWB - told us we had to compare like geographies, peoples and cultures, and then turn around to compare Chile to Florida. LOL

The Neanderthals win again.

 

[gwb-trading]

So show the statistics of Chile's cities. Pick Santiago. Where are the cases per 1M pop? Let's see the apples-to-apples. You might actually be correct, and Florida is worse off.

This still doesn't change a single thing about the chart that shows a high percentage vax country with a strong mask mandate has a massive spike in cases, showing yet again that these things don't do anything to stop COVID.

It also doesn't change that you - GWB - told us we had to compare like geographies, peoples and cultures, and then turn around to compare Chile to Florida. LOL

The Neanderthals win again.

So bottom line - Florida is overrun with Omicron because of its lack of proper public health measures and average vaccination rate in the middle of a pandemic. Yeah, we get why comparing Florida to any location with sane public health policies never pans out for you -- so you need to whine that they are no equivalent somehow.

 

[Tsing Tao]

So bottom line - Florida is overrun with Omicron because of its lack of proper public health measures and average vaccination rate in the middle of a pandemic. Yeah, we get why comparing Florida to any location with sane public health policies never pans out for you -- so you need to whine that they are no equivalent somehow.

Actually, the bottom line is that the chart posted is 100% accurate, represents the truth, and you know this. That's why you pivoted to making it about Florida, but then when asked to provide apples to apples info on Chilean cities, are unable to do so.

Sadly, the bottom line here is that you lack basic critical thinking skills and are following a narrative.

As usual.

 

[Tsing Tao]

But....Florida!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486062974372515840

 

[Tsing Tao]

But what about Florida??

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486072880941072384

 

[gwb-trading]

But what about Florida??

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486072880941072384

So South Korea currently has a mere 7200 cases per day with a population 51.8 million. Let's compare this to Florida.

Seems to any rational person who can do basic math that very crowded South Korea is doing much better in controlling Covid cases than Florida.

And South Korea peaked at a mere 60 deaths per day... How many hundreds of deaths per day did Florida peak at.

 

[Tsing Tao]

So South Korea currently has a mere 7200 cases per day with a population 51.8 million. Let's compare this to Florida.

Seems to any rational person who can do basic math that very crowded South Korea is doing much better in controlling Covid cases than Florida.

And South Korea peaked at a mere 60 deaths per day... How many hundreds of deaths per day did Florida peak at.

It's like your head is filled with concrete. You can't even tell when people are laughing at you.

Anything you want to say about Florida (and I couldn't care less, honestly) has nothing at all to do with me showing chart after chart after chart after chart of examples where highly vaccinated countries and states with extremely strong mask mandates have the exact same virus curve as states that did not.

End of story.

Oh, and this, of course:

Comparing countries with similar climates, populations, social habits, and other factors makes sense for providing the best context regarding if disease prevention measures works.

 

[piezoe]

...
Chile has 2.5M or so less people in about 4.5 times the area (292,260 miles). That's a hell of a population density difference.
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How can you explain the infection rate difference between Chile and Florida on the basis of a population density computed by dividing total area into population! You can't! People are never distributed uniformly. And if you used surface rather than geodesic area to compare Florida with Chile your result would be even more absurd. I would guess Chile has a somewhat higher population density than Florida.

What's is interesting is that Japan had, in comparison with the U.S., a low vaccination rate (though this is changing), a significantly higher population density and an almost universal conformity to mask wearing in public; far better than in the U.S. (The masks there are not all N95 by any means.) Yet Japan had, and continues to have, a significantly lower infection rate than the U.S.) I regard the lower transmission rate in Japan as due to high conformance to mask wearing. It appears that masks do, indeed, work. If they don't seem to, it is most likely due to poor conformance.

 

[piezoe]

It's like your head is filled with concrete. You can't even tell when people are laughing at you.

Anything you want to say about Florida (and I couldn't care less, honestly) has nothing at all to do with me showing chart after chart after chart after chart of examples where highly vaccinated countries and states with extremely strong mask mandates have the exact same virus curve as states that did not.

End of story.

Oh, and this, of course:

In the U.S., mandates are not the same as conformance. In Japan and Germany maybe, but not in the U.S. And, no, of course you can't do what you say you've done, not without cherry picking the time periods, States and Countries and confusing the "shape" of the virus curve with the infection rates it represents. Pay attention to the scale of the y-axis. Two of these curves can have the same general shape and one represent significantly higher infection rate than the other depending on the numbers on the y-axis.